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Creative Experiments - Shoutpost HelpPBS Masterpiece: A Room with a View
2008-04-14
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Yes, I was looking forward to this! I enjoyed it and was trying to figure it out and was disappointed in the ending because, like all book to TV/Movie, somewhere along the line, they ruin it.
At the beginning we see, as we know to be, Lucy walking in Italy and it says 1922 on the screen. We only see her lower legs and feet/shoes walking at a brisk pace, her hemline is shorter.
She checks into the Hotel Bertonlini and during her stay there, at this present time, the desk clerk asks if her husband is with her and she says no. Her hair is shorter also.
So what has happened to George?
She reminisces about her first stay and meeting George Emerson.
The reminiscing parts are all in order but in the end we see/hear why Lucy is alone.
As the movie makers thought this would be interesting, Lucy in the present time of 1922, is a widow having lost George in the War, and of course, they had to show it graphically, him lying dead in the war field.
I was sobbing. Why kill him off? He was not killed off in the book! I like to think that they had a long happy life with children at Windy Corner who play tennis all day long with "Uncle Freddie" the slacker brother. LOL (Mrs Honeychurch in this newer version was played by Elizabeth McGovern.)
But wait -- while she is in Italy remininscing, in real time, she finds the original driver of the carriage that took the hotel touring party to the field where George first kissed her years earlier (always a wonderful scene). He takes her back there and the two of them have a picnic. She finds out that he has never gotten married in the ten years since her first visit but she touches him and the movie ENDS! Now what are we to believe!
As usual, the acting and costumes were great but the story change was a bit upsetting to me because I love this story. So if I have to pick -- the original movie with Helena Bonham Carter (Lucy Honeychurch) and Julian Sands (George Emerson) is my favorite pick.
I need to go buy more Kleenex.
Then I will reread Howard's End and Where Angels Fear to Tread by the same author.
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