{"id":615,"date":"2007-01-09T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T08:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/quotes-on-a-scandal\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T08:27:38","slug":"quotes-on-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/quotes-on-a-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes On A Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just filed my latest movie reviews for Plan B <\/em>magazine. These include Notes On A Scandal<\/em>, which is already one of my favourite films of 2007. Not least for quotes like these:<\/p>\n

“You’ve got a basement flat off the Archway Road and you think you’re Virginia frigging Woolf!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Archway Road is my local high street)<\/p>\n

“Her fetish for the boy was simply her snobbery manifested. ‘He’s Working Class and he likes Art’. As if he were a monkey who’d just strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I heard a critic on the radio the other day bemoaning the casting of Rene Zellweger as Beatrix Potter in the new film Miss Potter<\/em>. His point was that she was stealing work from perfectly good British actresses. Well, Cate Blanchett isn’t British either, but I defy anyone to see her as the trusting if pretentious schoolteacher Sheba Hart in Notes On A Scandal<\/em> and come to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n

As for Miss Potter<\/em>, it’s fluffy and visually sumptuous fare but has more modern substance than appearances suggest. Beatrix, Frederick Warne (Ewan McGregor) and Millie Warne (Emily Watson) are all careerless thirty-somethings dismissed by their families as aimless wastrels best kept on a leash. Rather reminds me of a few people I know in 2006. Though the film does move away from such issues to ultimately resemble an advert for the Lake District Tourist Board, I found it perfectly enjoyable. And Ms Zellweger’s casting is fine. Her accent may be a slightly posher Bridget Jones, but it works. Ewan McGregor twinkles sensitively behind his Christmas Cracker moustache, and all is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just filed my latest movie reviews for Plan B magazine. These include Notes On A Scandal, which is already one of my favourite films of 2007. Not least for quotes like these: “You’ve got a basement flat off the Archway Road and you think you’re Virginia frigging Woolf!” (Archway Road is my local high street) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}