MovieChat Forums > A Passage to India (1985) Discussion > Miss Quested....Miss Quested

Miss Quested....Miss Quested

posted 14 years ago by shaguniitb
5 replies | jump to latest

There is a scene where Judy is in the cave and Aziz comes looking for her. She blows out the matchstick, he calls her, she falls into a trance, and then we see a deluge. This entire one-minute scene has to be one of my favorite scenes of all time. Does anyone else love this scene as well? I don't know how to put it down what about it or why I like it so much, but its the acting, the sound, the choreography of the scene, its direction or the combination that makes it so special to me.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is a video on youtube of David Lean discussing this scene as well.

[–] shaguniitb 14 years ago

Guess I'm the only one!

[–] shaguniitb 13 years ago

still no reply!!

[–] vikram8402 13 years ago

I found the scene very interesting too. Not the greatest I have seen. But the most important in the movie. That scene is the life-source of the movie, its spine. The way Miss Quested comes skuttling down the mountain was beautifully introduced; and how Mrs. Moore wakes up with a premonition of something bad happening. And immediately the man close by tells her the elephant has stepped into the water, which was funny.

[–] shaguniitb 11 years ago

Yeah, I like the imagery, and the metaphor of water-flow signalling the rape. Wish there were filmmakers like David Lean still working.

[–] forbidden10 11 years ago

Yes, that is a remarkable sequence! I love the way Lean filmed the rock falling down and then Adela running through the bush. Plus, Lean's creation of Adela's visit to the ruins (not in the book) was poignant and very appropriate to film language: worked as a first warning to her that India was an Indians land, not an English one.