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Post by charliesgirl7681 on May 12, 2010 21:00:44 GMT -5
I guess I'm a little late to the party but they remade this with Glen Close? Wow. How was that did anyone see it?
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Post by CrazyForKate on May 13, 2010 0:40:22 GMT -5
Well, the movie as a whole was a bit iffy. Seemed like it was trying too hard. And they added some scenes that were kind of unnecessary. Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart were good- I mean, they're Glenn Close and Patrick Stewart- but couldn't touch Kate and Peter. They played it very differently, kind of quieter, and it doesn't come off as well. Jonathon Rhys-Meyers (AKA King Henry the Naked on The Tudors) played Philip and is quite good- as good as Dalton. It's worth a look, but doesn't compare to 1968 one bit.
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Post by martha on May 13, 2010 8:48:42 GMT -5
i did see it. aired on a premium television channel as i recall originally. but i could be wrong. television. small screen. seemed .. misconceived from the get go. as CFK mentions .. i mean .. glenn close ... not bad duty. me likes her. and reminded me, as these kinds of things do, that the role of course preceded Kate so of course it CAN stand on its own. the writing of the play is just so exquisite.
and yet. and yet. this particular production just seemed oddly spare.
i saw a stunning stage production of LIW at Writers Theatre in Glencoe, IL (just north of Chicago) a few years ago when i still lived in Chi-town .. that blew me away. saw it twice. The play stands ... but each production needs to come up with its own .. feel. its own reason for being. and perhaps its because this was a screen adaptation too and, for me again, that may have been done now. definitively. for all time. unless a real re conception comes along and invites us to look again on screen .. this was ... not great on the whole.
now .. to see close and stewart create these roles ON STAGE. that i would see. oh yes.
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