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Shocking!

posted 17 years ago by laura-wray-1
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I was really excited to hear about the new remake for 'A Room with a View.'

I haven't actually read the book and it seems to be the one period drama that has skipped past me, so although I didn't have anything to compare it to I was really looking forward to it's re-working.

I was bitterly disappointed and stunned with the ending. I was litterally sitting with my mouth wide open for 10 minutes afterwards. After watching over 1 hr of 'will-they-won't-they' and then feeling really elated when she finally chose the better man, I was brought down to Earth with such a bump, I don't think I'll ever recover.

I'm so glad to hear that that's not how the original ended.

What a bad way to go to bed on a Sunday night?

>Come over to the Darkside....we have cookies!

[–] blueskies836 17 years ago

I know, I hated the ending. I hated the whole thing. Watch the Merchant-Ivory film, it's incredible!

But I'm almost sure that Forster wrote an epilogue some years later for the novel, titled "A View without a Room". I don't know the ins and outs, but I'm almost sure George survives and that he and Lucy do have a long and happy, albeit somewhat turbulent, life together after their marriage and honeymoon in Florence. I'll have to look it up, but I'm pretty sure Forster's George doesn't die.

[–] laura-wray-1 17 years ago

I think I will. Thanks!

>Come over to the Darkside....we have cookies!

[–] scaleface 17 years ago

He doesn't die. He's a conscientious (terrible spelling!!) objector in the first world war. He fights in the second and tries to find their room back in Florence but can't find it anywhere. Damn you Andrew Davies! I bet if he adapts Wuthering Heights Heathcliff and Cathy will get together or something idiotic like that. tsk.

[–] kadoodled 17 years ago

I know he's so conceited changing the ending of a story thats been succesful for years it's like he thinks he knows better. I'm so worried about brideshead. And don't ene joke about him doing wuthering heights!

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[–] ifeoma_6 16 years ago

her romantically picnicking with the Italian guy in the final clip

I too was skeeved out by that. What the heck? One minute she is reminiscing about George, the next minute her and Mr. Italian guy are giving each other lingering looks. I was shocked!!! I have a copy of the book but I have yet to read it but when I saw where this was going, I took it off the shelf and went to the last page and George is most definitely alive. Sheesh...did they think killing off George would make it a deeper movie. I liked(liked not loved. I like my romances a bit more interesting and challenging than this) the movie all the way to the end and then discovering that George is alive and whoever adapted this decided to just kill him off now makes me rethink the whole thing.