Bad script, Needed More Passion SPOILERS - The Woodlanders (1998) Discussion

[–] butterfly_eight 12 years ago

Yeap, that's pretty much what I noticed too. She was too...bland. I never noticed anything in her mimics that would show the slightest sign she was opposing her dad in any way, plus, that scene with the rain...she did not make at leat ONE step, one attempt to go and get the man ( Giles, that is) back inside? Just let him go like this to "his shelter"???. Makes you wonder if she really loved him at all...

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[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

How about the part where she pretends her husband is not a cad, she was just, for an educated gal a bit "daft".

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[–] cine-maum 10 years ago

Well, this early- mid 1800's time frame is difficult to watch, even in with a good movie...when its about ordinary people.

George Eliot & Thomas Hardy Thomas Dickens -- -- The times were very stiff and the people seemed withdrawn. Except for the occasional spinster school teacher, if you didnt marry, chances are you'd become a beggar. Once your parents died.
Women had no work, outside of the home. Thus, marriage wasnt always about love & passion etc. If your parents could marry you off to a sea captain..then you just 'do your wifely duty" and live a nice life. Or work like dog, being a farmers/labour wife. There wasnt a lot of selection either, in these villages

I thought this was a very good story--but Im thinking the problem was-- they didnt have enough funding. Needed more character development --ended abruptly
I was done with the doctor myself !

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[–] lamont-hard 10 years ago

I like your summary but have to disagree with you on the writing and even more so on the directing. They got Rufus Sewell and he is good. But it is the director that instructs him on his character and there absolutely nothing there on his performance

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[–] cine-maum 10 years ago

Well, this early- mid 1800's time frame is difficult to watch, even in with a good movie...when its about ordinary people.

George Eliot & Thomas Hardy Thomas Dickens -- -- The times were very stiff and the people seemed withdrawn. Except for the occasional spinster school teacher, if you didnt marry, chances are you'd become a beggar. Once your parents died.
Women had no work, outside of the home. Thus, marriage wasnt always about love & passion etc. If your parents could marry you off to a sea captain..then you just 'do your wifely duty" and live a nice life. Or work like dog, being a farmers/labour wife. There wasnt a lot of selection either, in these villages

I thought this was a very good story--but Im thinking the problem was-- they didnt have enough funding. Needed more character development --ended abruptly
I was done with the doctor myself !

Once it gets into the Victorian Era.. I love those movies
People loosen up some.

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