Posted by Roger Wardale on January 22, 2011 at 12:50:29 user RogerW.
In Reply to: The good parts of the films, was Re: Ages of actors in CC -- was Years of SA & SD posted by Claire on January 22, 2011 at 09:53:05:
Claire, you bring out an interesting point with your mention of Suzanna Hamilton. I can hear her now saying '...And she's going swimming!' too.
However, what you see as 'depth' is surely 'surface' that has been added by Claude Watham (who discovered young Zanna aged 12 in a youth theatre) and David Wood who wrote the additional dialogue (and was at school with me)?
I agree that Susan needed to become more attractive for a more general filmgoing public, but what we are seeing is 14 year old Zanna saying (very nicely) words by David Wood, not 10 year old Susan Walker, whose only reality lies between the pages of AR's books. For myself, I find that most often, the performance stands between me and reality—even great ones (Robert Newton's John Silver, Guinness' Fagin, and the various actresses who have played Elizabeth Bennett)