Me too! I remember being very baffled when I first read it as a teenager, because things I assumed were fades-to-black then revealed themselves to be actual non-happenings.
The film is weirdly miscast, isn't it, as if Merchant Ivory took one look at the novel's many descriptions of Maurice as dark and heavy-set and decided this cannot be for we are Merchant Ivory, purveyors of jam and crumpet fey Edwardiana to the general and we will cast a slim blond willy-nilly! And then Clive, who actually is fey and fair, becomes Hugh Grant.
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Date: 2015-06-14 05:18 pm (UTC)Me too! I remember being very baffled when I first read it as a teenager, because things I assumed were fades-to-black then revealed themselves to be actual non-happenings.
The film is weirdly miscast, isn't it, as if Merchant Ivory took one look at the novel's many descriptions of Maurice as dark and heavy-set and decided this cannot be for we are Merchant Ivory, purveyors of
jam and crumpetfey Edwardiana to the general and we will cast a slim blond willy-nilly! And then Clive, who actually is fey and fair, becomes Hugh Grant.