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Re: Quite the opposite Camilla Send a noteboard - 04/06/2010 04:20:29 PM
You might want to see some Oscar Wilde films. They seem to get them right quite a lot.


Having seen most of the film adaptations and having seen most of those plays preformed on stage, I would say that there is a sizeable difference. The films are not dreadful but they still fall well short of the plays.


It could be you don't have a thing for Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Jeremy Northam?


I have quite the thing for said gentlemen (I could expand on this but this is a family board) and if they were to be appearing in a proper stage version of Earnest or an Ideal Husband I would first in line for tickets (they were all quite excellently cast). But the stage versions I have seen are simply superior, even if they lacked the acting talents of those film adaptations.


I would really like to have seen those stage versions.
You must agree, though, that the film versions are much above the quality of what Stephen seems to have experienced with King Lear...
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