Date: 22 Mar 2025 01:23 pm (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (winslow boy)
I'm so glad you're enjoying the 1977 TWB, and I'll be eager to hear your continued thoughts!

I'm not quite at the end now, but I'm approaching the final scene, and I've enjoyed it very much! It is fascinating to see the choices made in both as to emphasis, and also gives me increased appreciation of just what Mamet did in turning it into a film. One thing being the removal of almost all the lines re. the family being afraid of Arthur/him being stern, so I feel that's probably not so much a performance difference, as a deliberate directorial choice.

Eric Porter is excellent, of course, though - he always is!

And Alan Badel definitely makes a fun contrast to Jeremy Northam - he's more believably fishlike/unfeeling for one thing, haha, and from what I recall this version doesn't play up the shippy aspects so much as the 1999 one.

Yes, although the sandwich scene remains definitely flirty; I think Jeremy Northam's right about that just being written that way, heh. Even if here, it's also a bit of gallantry to her following her rejection, too.

Btw, I looked for this on YT in case [personal profile] sovay wanted the link and then stumbled over a German TV production, which I don't understand a word of, but Kate has particularly good expressions and the last scene appears faithful enough in terms of when characters are coming in and out and talking - but that was very random. (Although the design, with the garden with the roses visible reminded me of the 1999, as did it ending on Kate's smile.)

One random incidental detail struck me as well - in An Ideal Husband, though they borrowed TWB set, they altered the shape of the gallery bars, and I noticed that in the 1977, they are the same shape as in An Ideal Husband, which rather suggests that's the correct shape for them and that the diamond pattern was another deliberate detail choice by the 1999.
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