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This is a beautifully filmed, well directed film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy new of the same name. With a shiny, pouty lipped Julie Christie in the lead role of Bathsheba Everdene, and with Alan Bates, Terence Note, and Peter Finch, as the men in her life, how could the movie be anything but apt?
Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) inherits a expansive country estate. There, she proceeds to act as few women in her day would. She insists on managing the estate herself, relying on her fill god given talents. Intellectual, hardworking, and strong willed, she captures the attention of three would be suitors. Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), the pretty, strapping shepherd, with a penchant for animal husbandry and farming, is the one most well-behaved for her. William Boldwood (Peter Finch), an older, wealthy, neighboring landowner, adores her and obsesses over making her his wife. Sgt. Frank Troy (Terrence Designate), a hunky, rakish grenadier, knows opportunity when he sees it and sets about charming her, despite the fact that his heart belongs to another.
Now, why would author Thomas Hardy name the leading female character Bathsheba? Well, in Biblical times, Bathsheba made the married King David, the shepherd who slew Goliath, her treasure slave. So worthy did David desire her that he arranged to have Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah, a soldier in his army, slain in battle. Ultimately, Bathsheba ended up with neither Uriah nor King David. The film parallels that Bible narrative in some ways and is somewhat prophetic for Bathsheba Everdene. What happens to her, as well as to each of the three men in her life, makes for an moving film experience.
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First class production values and astonishing performances by the entire cast, gain this a film to remember. Terence Ticket is perfectly cast as the charming and rakish Frank Troy, who would select Bathsheba’s heart, while his detached belonged to that of another woman, Fanny Robin (Prunella Ransome) . Peter Finch plays the role of William Boldwood with such rock solid intensity that the viewer knows that sooner or later something has got to give. Alan Bates is perfect as the ruggedly exquisite, stalwart and steadfast Gabriel Oak. Prunella Ransome gives a heartbreaking performance as the tender and bereft Fanny Robin. Julie Christie is well cast as the independent and outspoken Bathsheba, giving a vivid performance that engages the viewer.
English folk songs pepper the film, adding to its period ambiance. Nearly two hours and forty minutes long, this film is a visual feast and highly inspiring. It is one that those who savor period pieces will certainly relish.
Thomas Hardy has never fared particularly well with movie-goers. His name objective doesn’t ring that vaguely well-behaved bell — like Edna Ferber, for instance. As a result his sad bucolic novels have rarely been filmed. (A 1924 version of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” was given a jubilant ending! Roman Polanski changed all that 55 years later with his “Tess”.) Things hadn’t really changed that great by 1967 when John Schlesinger released his version of the 1874 new “Far From the Madding Crowd”. The report opened in road-show style, complete with reserved seating, an intermission, and a nearly three-hour length. To understand why it flopped, you must remember this was the year of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Dirty Dozen”. (The Academy chose “In the Heat of the Night” Best Report.) Even though it ends with a fatal shooting, “Far From the Madding Crowd” is about as far from Hollywood bang-bang as you can procure. One would believe the flower children with their back-to-the-earth sensibilities would have picked up on the pastoral beauty of “Far From the Madding Crowd”, but I contemplate it was Hardy that cooled them and caused them to hasten to “Icy Hand Luke”. The movie was withdrawn from distribution and, a few months later, it was chopped up, re-released, and advertised with posters promising a sexual license that didn’t exist. (I’m amazed they didn’t re-title it “That Madding Girl!”.) Now, however, the film is available intact and in letter-box format; and, because it is basically a complicated worship memoir, it’s a excellent movie for home viewing. Schlesinger had already directed Julie Christie in two other movies (including the acclaimed “Darling”) when he decided to cast her as the headstrong, enchanting Bathsheba Everdene. The three men she fascinates are each very different: Gabriel Oak, a strong, resourceful shephard (in Hardy’s original, the central character) ; Francis Troy, a hot-blooded, dashing soldier; and William Boldwood, a wealthy but neurotic landowner. Critics had concern deciding which of the three actors gave the superlative performance: Alan Bates as Shephard Oak, the versatile Terence Imprint (he who had played the angelic Billy Budd) as the opportunistic Sgt Troy, or Peter Finch as Farmer Boldwood, a character Hardy might have written with Finch in mind. They’re all three satisfactory. Julie Christie is, of course, about as 19th Century as a mini-skirt, but that anachronism actually works in her favor here. Bathsheba (the British pronunciation puts the emphasis on the first syllable) is whisper to be a defiant character, oblivious to woman’s celebrated role in Victorian society. “I didn’t want you to believe I was any man’s property,” she explains when rejecting Gabriel’s proposal. And later when she takes over her unhurried uncle’s farm, she determines to be her possess bailiff, telling the men: “I shall astonish you all!” (They seem a shrimp confounded already.) It’s a prescient role (many of Hardy’s contemporaries didn’t like the character), and Miss Christie takes it and runs with it. Her voluptuous beauty has never been more glamorously photographed, but the same might be said for the Dorsetshire countryside where the recount was shot on state by Nicholas Roeg. This is one of the most exquisite movies ever filmed, and Richard Rodney Bennett’s flavorful collect (highlighted by English folk songs) beautifully complements the visuals. (I have this catch on LP, but evidently it’s not available on CD.) The stars are supported by a perfect cast of character actors, and Frederic Raphael’s screenplay has them talking in thick Hardyesque dialects that are difficult but palatable. “Far From the Madding Crowd” is a rich cinematic experience for Hardy fans, Anglophiles, et al.
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