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I saw the Merchant/Ivory version with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson at the theatre. Hard to see how that can be topped. Although this version is sexing up the characters with the casting.
1 posted on 02/24/2017 6:32:44 AM PST by C19fan
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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.


2 posted on 02/24/2017 6:37:49 AM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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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.


3 posted on 02/24/2017 6:42:08 AM PST by Terry Mross (Now I understand how dictators gain power. Eventually people want some relief from the idiots.)
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“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.


6 posted on 02/24/2017 7:23:00 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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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!


10 posted on 02/24/2017 8:58:24 AM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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