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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE, because I was fooled 1 hour 20 minutes into the Film4 screening of Howard's End which I believed to be The Remains of the Day (1993).
Confused? Let me explain. Yonks ago, I watched this period drama set in Victorian England about a butler (Anthony Hopkins) and this woman (Emma Thompson); I found it as compelling and moving as Brief Encounter (1946).
For even though they had desires for one another, neither Hopkins nor Thompson made a move, neither kissing or anything. But there was a sexual tension, a desire so powerful between them, you could cut it with a knife.
In the end, both separate, and on their parting neither of them have the guts or the will to say what they really feel for one another.
Now that film was called The Remains of the Day (1993).
Go back 12 months to 1992, and we find Hopkins and Thompson playing VERY SIMILAR ROLES in Howard's End, about...well, re: the above plotline for The Remains of the Day...more or less exactly the same setting, characters...but a different story.
Why on earth Hopkins and Thompson play opposite each other, in virtually the same characters in two films, only 12 months apart, staggers me...
I was so looking forward to watching the movie in which love does not develop, but I got my Howards End mixed up with my Remains of the Day...
An easy mistake to make. :-bash
I mean even the film posters are virtually the same!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107943/
Nutty, or wot...:-bash
!
Confused? Let me explain. Yonks ago, I watched this period drama set in Victorian England about a butler (Anthony Hopkins) and this woman (Emma Thompson); I found it as compelling and moving as Brief Encounter (1946).
For even though they had desires for one another, neither Hopkins nor Thompson made a move, neither kissing or anything. But there was a sexual tension, a desire so powerful between them, you could cut it with a knife.
In the end, both separate, and on their parting neither of them have the guts or the will to say what they really feel for one another.
Now that film was called The Remains of the Day (1993).
Go back 12 months to 1992, and we find Hopkins and Thompson playing VERY SIMILAR ROLES in Howard's End, about...well, re: the above plotline for The Remains of the Day...more or less exactly the same setting, characters...but a different story.
Why on earth Hopkins and Thompson play opposite each other, in virtually the same characters in two films, only 12 months apart, staggers me...
I was so looking forward to watching the movie in which love does not develop, but I got my Howards End mixed up with my Remains of the Day...
An easy mistake to make. :-bash
I mean even the film posters are virtually the same!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104454/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107943/
Nutty, or wot...:-bash
!