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This is really a large version — I contemplate it’s hands down the best Ivanhoe! — and immense fun, plus it’s fantastic to ogle Olivia Hussey. (The newer A&E production is fair beneficial, but the lead actor is so bland and, at 5 hours, it’s impartial too long!)
Unfortunately the VHS tape of this 1982 version is as rare as hen’s teeth and it needs to be released on DVD *now*!!
Since “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is (finally) out on DVD next month, I hope it won’t be too long before it’s joined by this pleasing miniseries. I’ll be first in line to retract it.
I have seen both film versions of Ivanhoe as listed in the Leonard Maltin video guide, and this definitely vanquishes all comers. Gain this or not, but when I first acquired the video I watched it on a daily basis for the next few weeks (and I serene do that sometimes) – my long-suffering family would confirm my statement – and I contemplate that anyone who has watched this film would agree with me that all too rarely has a expansive book like Ivanhoe been able to have a film this reliable to do justice to it. Besides the colour, sounds and minor episodes which all blend in this film to design the best recreation of the atmosphere of the age of chivalry I ever saw, what I like most about this film is the device the people who made the film paid attention to all the dinky things that a purist would be grateful for – not only getting the devices and colours, and even the mottoes of the knights’ escutcheons correct, but retaining artistic integrity by refusing to join everyone else in making Brian de B.-G. and Maurice de Bracy out-and-out-bad guys; indeed, portraying them with a advantageous deal of sympathy. As an admirer of Maurice de Bracy for quite some time, I was happy to come by that my favourite character retained all the qualities given to him by Scott even when appearing on veil, and that his friendship with Brian and Reginald F.-d.-B. was portrayed in all its sincerity. Sam Neill and the person who acted R. F.-d.-B. never acted better (or rather, I should say, they acted as well as they always do) and were quite perfect in their roles. In fact, the arrangement the three ‘bad guys’ (they’re not really poor but we’ll call tham that for short, since Wilfred is the ‘hero’ and they’re on the other side) work together is exceedingly fun to notice and they all appear to be enjoying themselves and being fervent about the whole thing which makes it even more fun for the viewer, and brings out their characterisation marvellously. (Impartial to reveal how suitable they are to their characters: in the first gape of a few seconds each that you regain of them in the first sequence, with no shields to identify them, I was able, the first time I watched the display, to guess who they were unbiased from their expressions and appearance – correctly, as I later found; at that point I really had no understanding who they were!) Anthony Andrews carried off the -oh-I-am-sick-ouch-thanks-Rebecca-but-I’m-already-in-love-with-Rowena act splendidly, but to look him at maximum charm survey at ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’. For the rest, I was very impressed with the map all the rest of the cast acted, from Cedric and Wamba through Locksley and the heroines true down to Conrade Mont-Fichet and William de Wyvil (though he’s not called that in the prove) . And even for those who haven’t read the book, this film would be a astronomical thing to gaze. Even if you don’t know the characters, you pick up to know them through here and the chronicle itself is fast-paced and dripping with chivalry and all the trimmings – what more could you want?
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