A Room With A View

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 10:38pm

I think this would make a great musical. It has some wonderful characters: young ingenue, two lovers vying for her affections, etc.

[roquat]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 10:43pm

Pauline Kael described the movie script as being like the book for a musical comedy. I don't know if "comedy" is the right way to go, though--I love the way the movie uses music, especially Puccini arias, to express the characters' hidden passions. A score written in this vein would play beautifully against the repression and primness in the dialogue.

[DG]

Posted: 11/14/05 at 10:45pm

"A score written in this vein would play beautifully against the repression and primness in the dialogue."

Amen.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 10:05am

Sounds good to me--as long as we get to see Jarrod Emick in the Julian Sands role romping naked in the swimming hole...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 10:17am

I thought I read somewhere that it was going to be an opera. Am I just imagining that?

A musical is an excellent possibility, but it would need an AMAZING book writer to fuse the gorgeous and witty dialogue with an appropriate score.

I think it would be just as entertaining if it were a play. I'm not sure it really needs musicalization. It might slow the story down too much. But the film is perfection. Maggie Smith is flawless. Rupert Graves and Julian Sands never looked better.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 11/15/05 at 11:37am

Coincidentally, on my recent trip to Italy, while in Florence, we actually had a room with a view!

Our hotel was on the Piazza San Giovanni, and our window was directly across from the south doors of the Baptistry. It was incredible!