Sometimes classic shouldn't be touch and let them alone to be appreciated by all
the generations to come. Sadly I have come across to a TV show based on a book
of E.M. Forsters that made me cringe because of its miscasting and the
missing touch that such a story needs. Discover what I'm talking about
in this episode of Quick Clips, coming up!
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channel. In 1992, the duo James Ivory and Ismail
Marchant crafted a beautiful movie based on the novel by E.M. Forster Howards End.
A story of class relations at the beginning of the 20th century in Britain,
depicting different storylines, that cross paths over the span of several
years. Howards End is one of my go-to movies,
when I don't know what to watch, and with the Remains of the Day and Shadowlands,
one of my favorite British movies from the nineties. When I saw that Howards End
was made into a miniseries for television I was intrigued and I went and
took a look at it. Sadly I saw myself twitching and cringing from the beginning.
Something wasn't right. The TV show starts with Hellen reading a letter out
loud and it felt wrong. If anything the movie starts on Howards End and we
figure out that the woman depicted is in love with that place and then we see her
family having a good time and all without a line of dialogue.
The relationships will then come clearer as we follow the movie. The TV show
instead of letting us wonder who those people are and what that place is tells
the audience straight away everything, what the movie leaves us to discover. As I said
the cast isn't right neither. Hayley Atwell had to take over the role of
Margaret that was played in the movie by Emma Thompson, who won an Oscar for that
interpretation. And how difficult must have been for Henry McFadden to step
into the shoes of Antony Hopkins playing the role of Henry Wilcox.
Let's not forget Helena Bonham Carter playing the role of Helen Schlegel and Vanessa
Redgrave who played Ruth Wilcox in the movie and was replaced by a badly casted
Julia Ormond, that doesn't deliver in my opinion the obsessive love that Ruth has
towards Howards End.
You've never seen how it end I want to show it to you
Maybe I didn't like the TV show because when I first saw the movie I fell in
love with it and it's really hard when you watch a movie as well that many times it's
really hard to watch a remake with different actors because now in your
mind those character are represented by the cast of the original movie or of the
movie or the TV show that you really like. It is like when you read a book and
you know you invest time in reading a book and you build up those character in
your mind and you have a vision for them and then suddenly somebody does a movie
or a TV show and they cast actors and those actors are not a reflection of
what you have imagined and that's when most of the time you watch a movie or a
TV show based on a book and you don't like it.
Good God!
And this is like my case in watching Howards End the TV show; I
couldn't stand the actors because in my mind Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins,
Helena Boham Carter, were the people that had to play those characters from the novel by
E.M. Fosters. But let's go into the story a little bit and if you haven't seen
Howards End please go and take a look at it, and of course take a look to the
movie not to the TV show. That's my recommendation maybe if you watch the TV
show without having watched the movie you'll enjoy it. So decide for yourself but in
my opinion you should watch the movie, it's so beautifully crafted.
I want to see it!
Now the story and spoilers so if you wanna watch the movie
without being spoiled you should skip this part and see me at the
end of it. There are three families: the Schlegel's, Margaret, Helen and Tibby...
Why don't you take out cousin Frida invitation go to Hamburg for those few weeks?
The Wilcoxes...
Yeah not canceled but postponed.
with Ruth and Henry and their
grown-up children and the Basts
Stop it Jackie!
workers that fight every day to survive.
Helen Schlegel falls for Paul Wilcox but is rejected
- Morning. - Good Morning.
Her sister Margaret becomes friend with his mother Ruth
Who promises her the
family house Howards End.
When Ruth dies the will disappears
and the house doesn't go to Margaret as promised.
I would like miss Schlegel,
Margaret, to have Howards End.
In the meantime Helen meets Leonard Bast
If you pardon me you took my umbrella - quite inadvertently I'm sure.
And through some information given by Henry Wilcox she tells him to leave his job.
We were told the Porfirion is no go.
A friend of ours did think that it's insufficiently reinsured.
And advised you to clear out.
He does so but the new company he works for
fails and he loses his job.
Excuse me sir? Where would I go to enquire about a position?
Helen gets mad and Henry with no results
Now it turns out that it saves his houses and and Mr. Bast did never have
left and taken another post to greatly reduce salary.
And the Basts get poorer and
sadly bad things happen to them.
Aren't you going to say hello?
Henry marries Margaret and the house, that was wrongfully taken away from her, goes to her.
Mind blowing!
If you wanna see how this short summary translate into the
movie, go and check it out. I've put the links in the description below you find
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