Originally posted by mercia
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Wolf Hall BBC2
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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What would you think of the 26 episode Forsyte Saga? I think we are conditioned by Hollywood films & USA TV series to expect 'something happening' all the time. Most of life isn't like that. And no, a TV serial isn't 'life', but I think that Wolf Hall is far more realistic than most TV series.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostOh God. The 'action' (if it can be termed thus) just gets slower and slower. I sleep through most of it, and on being nudged awake by Mrs A, she is able to update me in one sentence. Or less."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI think you're watching it for the wrong reasons... or rather, with the wrong expectations.
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostOh God. The 'action' (if it can be termed thus) just gets slower and slower. I sleep through most of it, and on being nudged awake by Mrs A, she is able to update me in one sentence. Or less.
I have to disagree. I'm finding it gripping. Cromwell realises he's riding a tiger, with the Boelyn lions snapping at his heels.Steve
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Originally posted by Darkbloom View PostBernard Hill is great, though. Some world-class swearing, and he is clearing enjoying what few opportunities he has been getting.
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostThere is much to be said for Januszczak in this instance: many of the audience for this sort of programme will have seen the Holbein images (even if only in reproductions) and artefacts from the Tudor age in museums. What they say, however, is more open to "creative" anachronisms, because contemporary texts are less well-known...
Attempts to write authentic Tudor dialogue are always going to sound like pastiche Shakespeare.
I thought I might find the modern language in the books irritating, but I didn't; probably because I felt Mantel really did inhabit her characters, and wrote what they said from that inward knowledge.
.Last edited by jean; 22-02-15, 12:51.
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Anna
My sister (who has read the first book) phoned to see if I was enjoying it, she says she's quite mesmerised by how Mark Rylance can convey his thoughts just in a glance. Her husband, on the other hand, finds it too slow and considers the lack of dialogue makes it boring ..... she doesn't want it to end! Also, she reminded me to turn over to BBC4 immediately after this week's episode as there's a programme about the making of Wolf Hall.
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One of the early silent film directors in Russia, I think it was Pudovkin, filmed an actor staring impassively into the camera. He then intercut the shot with various scenes of sorrow, horror, anticipation etc. This was to make the point that audiences will read in to any scene their own feelings and reactions while the actor's expression remains unchanged. That is exactly what happens in Wolf Hall. We can watch Mark Rylance and think we see his thought processes reflected in his face, and the director gives us time to do so. The brevity of the dialogue and the broad pace all helps to make it riveting. Magnificent.
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Just finished Episode 5 - the best yet, I think: utterly gripping (and a bit more action for you, ardcarp!) plus further visual marvels.
Originally posted by Anna View PostBBC4 immediately after this week's episode ... a programme about the making of Wolf Hall."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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she says she's quite mesmerised by how Mark Rylance can convey his thoughts just in a glance
Haven't watched (or slept through) episode V yet. A pleasure awaits, no doubt!
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Anna
Originally posted by Caliban View PostJust finished Episode 5 - the best yet, I think: utterly gripping (and a bit more action for you, ardcarp!) plus further visual marvels.
Then, "God Save the King" (God Save Thomas Cromwell thinks our hero!)
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