It's Important to be Ernest.
Jun. 1st, 2002 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljIt really is. Especially if your name is not Ernest. Oscar Wilde is one of my favourite playwriters and TIOBE is one of my favourite plays. I saw the movie today, the most recent incarnation. If you love the play, you will enjoy the movie.
Colin Firth and Rupert Everett are perfect casting for Jack and Algernon. The two female leads for Cecily and Gwendolyn were ok. Reese Witherspoon puts on a decent enough English accent but still lacks that ingenue innocence that part requires, at least it requires it in my mind. They sort of tarted up the part a bit. Gwendolyn wasn't quite as you expect either and not really Victorian enough though they took sophistication a bit too far LOL! Judi Dench was as always fabulous in her portrayal of Lady Bracknell. I waited with bated breath to hear her take on the famous line, usually bellowed with outrage, "A HANNNNNDDDDDBAGGGGG??????" Suffice it to say her delivery of the line was unexpected. But SO Judi. The Costumes are meticulously perfect.
One classic line in the play is about diaries always providing one with something sensational to read on the train. But the character that said it, who carries hers with her everywhere, drove to the country estate in an early incarnation of the horseless carriage. Seemed out of step there. I enjoyed it because i like the play. It's light, it's fluffy, it's Oscar Wilde in all his witty glory.
Colin Firth and Rupert Everett are perfect casting for Jack and Algernon. The two female leads for Cecily and Gwendolyn were ok. Reese Witherspoon puts on a decent enough English accent but still lacks that ingenue innocence that part requires, at least it requires it in my mind. They sort of tarted up the part a bit. Gwendolyn wasn't quite as you expect either and not really Victorian enough though they took sophistication a bit too far LOL! Judi Dench was as always fabulous in her portrayal of Lady Bracknell. I waited with bated breath to hear her take on the famous line, usually bellowed with outrage, "A HANNNNNDDDDDBAGGGGG??????" Suffice it to say her delivery of the line was unexpected. But SO Judi. The Costumes are meticulously perfect.
One classic line in the play is about diaries always providing one with something sensational to read on the train. But the character that said it, who carries hers with her everywhere, drove to the country estate in an early incarnation of the horseless carriage. Seemed out of step there. I enjoyed it because i like the play. It's light, it's fluffy, it's Oscar Wilde in all his witty glory.
