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Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day Lewis, Maggie Smith
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Room with a View |
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Few filmmakers are as effective as the Merchant-Ivory team! In “A Room with a View,”
this Academy Award-winnng team take another E.M. Forster novel and bring it to
cinematic life (Forster seems a favorite of theirs!). Starring Helena Bonham Carter and
Daniel Day Lewis, the film divides its setting between two locations--Florence and England.
And it is Edwardian England, a time that evokes “manners and mores of another era”!
At times scathing in its attacks, it is also hilarious, amusing, entertaining, and a little bit
frustrating! Dame Maggie Smith plays the overbearing chaperone to this ever-proper
young English lady Carter. Cinematically the film is excellent and is held together by a
musical score that will entrance you for all its 117 minutes. It is of another era, and while
not “gone with the wind,” it nonetheless is history. It seems such a simpler time, a simpler
life. Alas, sigh, not so! But the movie makes a grand impact.
--Bill Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Room with a View |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1900-1920's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Italy
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
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