Is anyone else watching the new Room with a View?

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I am loving it. Love Lawrence fox, he is excellent.

Why were the clothes different in the two versions???

I found the ITV George's smile a bit off putting.

Did EM Forster write Maurice?

Yes he did, dros, but IIRC he refused to have it published in his lifetime because of its frankness about gay relationships
I think the difference in costume still can be attributed to
Merchant Ivory's lavish design values and budget
A view these days that middle and lower class people in the past were a lot less fashionably and smartly dressed day to day than we assume
EG look at the late 1970s, rather dressy TV production of P & P - and then at the consciously more muted and simple dresses in the Keira Knightley film
Fashions in costume design come and go just as the fashions they are attempting to replicate do

LOL at HBC stomping like a brikkie so funny so true!

No IMO
This Lucy rather than HBC. This Lucy wasn't as post as HBC. She should be suburban not Cheltenham Ladies College - or so it seems from the book.
This George rather than too-posh Julian Sands (although his [physical presence is stronger and in some ways sexier I agree - but George should sound working class and JS just doesn't. Rafe Spall does the class thing just right I think)
Old Freddy was perfect
This Charlotte was better too - more believable than Maggie Smith who hammed it up imo
Fox boy was great but no one can ever ever ever beat DDL in a head to head surely? He steals the film from the whole cast I think.
Also Denholm Elliot better than this Beebe.

In the new one - why no close up shot of Lucy's mother? How crap is that - there seemed to be a whole emotional scene where we never get a decent look at mother - what's wrong with a close up of her? Do you think they just screwed up and didn't cover the shots properly? Very irritating.

not as POSH as HBC not POST
sorry

I love this Lucy, I think the actress is 10 times HBC. Did anyone see her in Fingersmith? What a fabulous plot twist - when I read the book I nearly fell off my chair - totaly surprise enough respect to Sarah Waters.

But I must say HBC is very good in Fight Club.

Fingersmith! Of course...was wondering & wondering where I'd seen her before. Yes, terrific book, that.

DS having a rare afternoon sleep so have just seen this on sky plus - I loved the old film and was prepared for disapointment but in fact there was lots about the ITV version that was better. Totally agree about the class thing - never really got what was wrong with George from the film. also more fanciable than Julian Sands I though. Cecil wasn't really repulsive enough though. And Lucy's family wasn't well developed.

I am glad I am not the only one who loved Rupert Graves as Freddy - I always look out for him in new productions and he has never been the same since.

Horrible that they made George die in the war - glad to hear that didn't happen in the book.

nope - Rupert Graves not quite the same anymore - he was fab as Freddy. You're right too about the class thing being difficult to tell in the MI version - Julian Sands not obviously working class. I love D Day Lewis - particularly in My Beautiful Laundrette - and saw him in Hamlet at National Theatre, before he went loopy

you say DDL pre Hamlet meltdown? very jealous - he was supposed to be unbelievable as Hamlet were you speechless?

Rupert Graves - one of those boyish looking actors who don't age as cute as they start.
Peter Firth, I rest my case.

yes, he was fab -I was very lucky to see it ! went on my own too as bf at the time wasn't interested !!

I saw that Hamlet too! But I think DDL was melting down at that point. I don't remember it being all that good.
(Mind you I did see an awful lot of Hamlets when I was a teenager. I went to the Edinburgh Festival when I was 17 and saw about two a day for week )

were you doing Hamlet for O levels then ??!! or do you just love Shakespeare ? Ophelia was Miss Bea in House of Elliot btw

MyEye - nuff respect for your ardour!

MyEye - nuff respect for your ardour!

Same here MyEye, he was really on the verge the night we saw it
Even though I adored DDL (saw him in The Futurists as Mayakovsky, god he was amazing) I am possibly the only person on the planet who wished she had held off and seen Jeremy Northam (Laertes that evening) step very bravely into the role at short notice
My love affair with Hamlet started at 14 when I saw Derek Jacobi in it at the Old Vic in one of those black tights and velvet drapes uber-romantic productions.
Mark Rylance in pyjamas brought me to my senses...