Comments on: Fun Friday–A Room with a View on Masterpiece Classics http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/ Sat, 26 May 2012 21:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kaye Dacus http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-11014 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:56:14 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-11014 You know, six months later and I still haven’t gotten around to watching this one yet!

]]> By: Alexandra http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-11013 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:06:37 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-11013 The 1985 version of “A Room with a View” is one of my favorite movies. I haven’t seen the BBC version but hmm…don’t know if I want to. The 1985 was so full of wit and humor and romance…and the leads had such chemistry…sometimes when I see something and really like it, the “remake”, so to speak, ruins it for me. Soooo I don’t know. I always watch 1985 it when I need a laugh. It always helps lighten my mood.

And George dies????? How horrible!!!!! ;-) I think I’ll stick with the 1985 version. Who can beat Denholm Elliot as Mr. Emerson, after all?

“Here is where the sun shines! Here is where the sky is blue!”

Sigh. I love that movie!

]]> By: Ms. Place http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9188 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:29:10 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9188 The book is fabulous, and I agree with Corie: the Merchant/Ivory production is so much better. Why Andrew Davies insists on changing plots in his scripts to such a degree that he is fabricating scenes wholesale is beyond me.

I liked your descriptions of the characters and actors. Thanks for the info!

]]> By: Corie Martin http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9168 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:54:03 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9168 TOTALLY.HATED.IT. The ending here simply DID NOT HAPPEN. George DID NOT die in the war; in fact, he never even WENT to the war. Here are a couple of substantiating links, first, the final chapter of E.M. Forster’s novel and second, the New York Times review of the new film, which pretty much sums up my feelings in the first paragraph.

http://www.readprint.com/chapter-4604/E-M–Forster

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/television/11mast.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Take my advice, Netflix the 1986 version of A Room With a View for a much more compelling, romantic, visually stunning and heart wrenching version that pretty much mirrors the beauty of the book itself. Boo hiss Boo hiss!

]]> By: Ruth http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9167 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:07:39 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9167 Okay…this was okay but I’m not nuts about it. I do want to read the book though.

]]> By: Corie Martin http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9163 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:26:11 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9163 I love it Kaye! I just learned some fun facts about actors I too have seen many times but knew nothing of! Thanks for the enlightenment.

Ok, so I’m going to date myself here, but the 1985 film version of ‘A Room With a View’ was what initially sparked my life-long love of period romance/dramas, both written and in film. It starred Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch and Julian Sands as George Emerson and also starred Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Daniel Day Lewis! Julian Sands alone was pretty enough to make my 11-year-old knees wobble and my little heart skip a beat. I immediately went out and bought the book, and then ‘Howard’s End,’ and then the rest of the Forster collection. I believe Austen fans who have not read this collection would love them, although it has been many years since I read them myself, so my literary palette is much more refined today than it was (OMG!) 23 years ago when I first read the book! Looking forward to the movie! Great blog!

]]> By: Kaye Dacus http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9150 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:21:57 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9150 One of my closest friends is British—though she’s lived in the U.S. since 1989. We always laugh about how I know more about British TV and movies than she does—and she’s over there at least once a year. But that’s okay, because she knows more about American pop culture than I do. (She has a 12-year-old daughter.)

]]> By: Sally Bradley http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9149 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:58:20 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9149 Kaye, you’re becoming known for being the expert on these British period pieces. And since I’m clueless but enjoy them, please keep posting! I wasn’t going to watch this one, but now I’ll have to record it.

]]> By: Ruth http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9148 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:22 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9148 I’m really looking forward to this. Leticia told me this morning that there was about a page write-up in this month’s Vanity Fair about it!

I’m really looking forward to seeing Timothy Spall…it will be interesting if I can forget that he’s Peter Pettigrew! (His son is rather hot…just thought I’d throw that randomly out there… :P )

I’m also really looking forward to seeing Sinead Cusack now! I didn’t realize she was in this!

]]> By: Georgiana Daniels http://kayedacus.com/2008/04/11/fun-friday-a-room-with-a-view-on-masterpiece-classics/#comment-9145 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:21:37 +0000 http://kayedacus.wordpress.com/?p=652#comment-9145 I’m not familiar with this one at all, but you can be sure I’ll be watching. You’re really educating me on British actors.

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