Posted by Alex Forbes on January 03, 2008 at 15:26:23 from 4.242.120.173 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: New Film Version of SA posted by RichardG on January 02, 2008 at 16:06:33:
I hope the new film will manage to find a group of children who look as thought they could be siblings.
Not to be contrary, but I actually didn't mind the lack of physical resemblance. I've heard the same complaint used against the BBC/A&E version of "Pride & Prejudice", too --that none of the Bennett sisters look like they could actually be sisters-- but when I thought about it, I realized that the un-related appearances of the characters (in both films) made it much easier to identify them as soon as they came on screen. It was sort of the visual equivalent of a writer using a different first letter for the name of each of his characters --Anne, Eliza, and William, say-- so that the instant the reader's eye hits the first letter they know who they're dealing with. It allows the reader --or viewer, in the case of film-- to concentrate on the story instead of on keeping track of who's who.
Alex