Posted on 02/24/2017 6:32:44 AM PST by C19fan
If you're looking for a gripping new TV series with a superstar cast and a hefty dose of drama, an upcoming BBC 2 show could be just the ticket.
TV aficionados are going wild on Twitter for the upcoming TV adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, Howards End.
The dark TV drama explores the changing landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England through the tales of three families: the intellectual and idealistic Schlegels, the wealthy Wilcoxes from the world of business, and the working class Basts.
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I watched Downton Abbey and the one thing that struck me was all the women were thin. You look at pictures and portraits of the era and the women were a lot more filled out. You look at the dinners they were having in the TV show and they surely would have put on the pounds.
Ismael Merchant and James Ivory were the greatest film makers of all time. And they proved you don’t have to spend millions.
Big time actors were willing to work for less just to be in one of their films.
Actually, as a famous movie star used the term in numerous of his films, “You have no idea how little I care”.
“Howard’s End” would be a great title for a film focusing on Ray “End Around” Sparling, the star pass receiver who played end for coach Howard Jones’ USC Trojan team known as the Thundering Herd. The film would follow Sparling and his team mates to Notre Dame, where they must take on the formidable Fighting Irish who had shut them out at home the previous year. Shortly afterwards comes an even greater challenge, the powerful Tulane Green Wave, who await them in the Rose Bowl on the first day of 1932.
In the hands of a good director and producer and with a good cast, this could be a very exciting and dramatic movie.
And those that were filmed in dry dusty dirty conditions were always made up perfect. Really, who had bright white teeth in the 1800’s and wearing spiffy clothing while driving a covered wagon on the Oregon Trail?
I noted the same thing in later episodes of Happy Days, which was supposed to be in the ‘50s. The guys had the longer hair prevalent in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, and not ‘50s era men’s short hair.
You never know how they will do it. The Wolf Hall production values were much more accurate to the time. We can only hope it is better than the soap opera feel they gave Downton Abbey.
Gosh, can’t they produce anything more uplifting, more inspirational.
That’s why we only watch Korean dramas, because they have a moral core.
I have had enough of garbage and I don’t consider it entertaining.
I remembered watching the original movie and the relationship between Hopkins and Redgrave was very dispiriting and sad. Enough!
DA started out pretty good then it dissolved into a soap opera.
As a history buff, I enjoy well done period pieces. Some I can only tolerate so much — I tried to survive Poldark. I know it is famous in Britain in this second version but it is so much like a cheap romantic novel that the fairly good acting and production values are wasted.
My wife would say, “hide your eyes, they are going to show him riding along the cliffs again. Don’t groan.”
It is why you never go to Hollyweird for history or the MSMLSD for truth.
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