{"id":2003,"date":"2011-01-24T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/a_room_with_ang\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:01:05","slug":"a_room_with_ang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/a_room_with_ang\/","title":{"rendered":"A Room with Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a totally minor thing,<\/strong> but in the middle of a dull week it made me smile. After watching a really, really terrible made-for-TV version of A Room with a View<\/i><\/a> (my exile from England has driven me to gorge on British period films) I decided to wipe the disappointment from my mind by watching the original<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

\"Room<\/p>\n

There is still plenty to love about the first version, even after all these years, but watching it again I caught something small but charming that I wouldn\u2019t have noticed the first time around. In the book, the pivotal scene on the Fiesole<\/a> hillside is quite brief, but it gets a little more time and attention in the film. There\u2019s a film-only moment where cousin Charlotte and Miss Lavish are gossiping about an English woman who runs off to Italy and marries a much-younger Italian in a town called Monteriano. That, of course, is actually the scandal at the heart of an earlier novel of Forster\u2019s (also turned into a film later on), Where Angels Fear to Tread<\/i><\/a>. It\u2019s a quick aside, but a cute detail to throw in, and it actually does a neat job of establishing that Charlotte and Miss Lavish develop the kind of friendship where they\u2019d swap indiscreet stories.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Another extended scene which is equally delightful, but with fewer literary in-jokes, is this one:<\/p>\n

\"Mr
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Naked Rupert Graves<\/a> . . .sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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