Tom Stoppard's dramatisation for BBC TV of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford will bring new readers to the novel as well as giving Stoppard's audience much that is original to his inventive version of a masterwork of modernist English literature. This is the story of Christopher Tietjens, the 'last Tory', his beautiful, disconcerting wife Sylvia, and the virginal young suffragette Valentine Wannop who completes this triangle of love among the English upper class before and during the Great War.
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Now a major BBC drama, directed by Susanna White and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens.
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Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia and Rock 'n' Roll. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and Inthe Native State. Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End. His film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.
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Better Than The Book
20 Mar 2013
By D. J. Leedham
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It is very rare that a movie, especially a BBC sponsored movie, is actually better than the book. This is.
Ford Maddox Ford tried to express the sheer Unspeakable HORROR of how a generation of young men were slaughtered, en mass, because of the complete moral and intellectual break down of an entire class of British (German/French) ruling class. But, perhaps, Ford was just too close to this horrendous, unintelligible disaster. One of his characters, Ms. Wannop's brother, as depicted in Stoppards competent script, probably best exemplifies Ford's hysterical, over wrought, desperate attempt to come to grips with the First World War.
Stoppard leaves out the entire fourth book and reduces the remaining three to a few telling moments to try to salvage a coherent narrative. He does a creditable job of it. With what is left, the script offers the actors (who are all excellent) room to make what is possible from Ford's book(s) - The more recently celebrated "Birdsong", does it better. (Though the BBC movie of it is execrable) - With the advantage of 60 odd years reflection. "Behind The Lines" (Books and movie) does it even better.
Why bother? Well, we, in the USA, are just coming out of two major military engagements. We the public and they the military can learn a lot from watching this and the other mentioned movies.
The sad tragedy never ends...
Ford Maddox Ford tried to express the sheer Unspeakable HORROR of how a generation of young men were slaughtered, en mass, because of the complete moral and intellectual break down of an entire class of British (German/French) ruling class. But, perhaps, Ford was just too close to this horrendous, unintelligible disaster. One of his characters, Ms. Wannop's brother, as depicted in Stoppards competent script, probably best exemplifies Ford's hysterical, over wrought, desperate attempt to come to grips with the First World War.
Stoppard leaves out the entire fourth book and reduces the remaining three to a few telling moments to try to salvage a coherent narrative. He does a creditable job of it. With what is left, the script offers the actors (who are all excellent) room to make what is possible from Ford's book(s) - The more recently celebrated "Birdsong", does it better. (Though the BBC movie of it is execrable) - With the advantage of 60 odd years reflection. "Behind The Lines" (Books and movie) does it even better.
Why bother? Well, we, in the USA, are just coming out of two major military engagements. We the public and they the military can learn a lot from watching this and the other mentioned movies.
The sad tragedy never ends...
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