Discussion Question #20

Originally Posted by Karen 30th April 2004


THANK YOU THANK YOU I think everyone has just done an awesome job of discussing a very difficult play! And I also thank y'all for hanging in there and making this such a good, thought provoking chat about THE LIBERTINE!! Please keep posting about THE LIBERTINE as you like, you know I will continue to add news bits and pieces as we go along. PLUS, once the film is released, we can go back and take a look at some of our comments and see how they relate to the finished film.

Now, just for the heck of it, what is the one scene that you are really looking forward to seeing Johnny do in the movie?

Is there something out there that we haven't covered about the play that you want to visit about? Remember please keep it PG 13! LOL
Thanks!

Helen


Last night I was thinking about The Libertine and something occurred to me.
Does anyone else think the Earl "became his father"?

Helen

OH! I thought about this already. The end when all is lost for Rochester
and he goes back to his wife.

Karen

I've got a mess of them, but I think that one of the scenes would
have to be the one with King Charles and Rochester and those letters
from his father..............oh what a heart breaker!!

JP


Since I don't have that scene in my copy, I think I would have to say the opening and closing monologues, if they do them. They set the mood for the whole play and brings the play to a concrete conclusion. I guess I am curious as to how, or if, they will do this.

Karen


Oh me too!! I just wanna see the whole thing up there on the BIG
screen.

Anne

NOW, there is a contridiction of terms Karen!!

No, seriously, I think the best scene is the same one that has my favourite speech, when John is talking to the King about his father and the letters he received in France. I almost cried in that one, I found it very moving. I also liked the one where Jane helps the Wits check out the play, that could be a great scene in the film. I really, really hope they keep it Olde English. I know we discussed that point before, but it's niggling in the back of my brain! Do you realise that if they modernise it, our little discussion group will probably be among the only bunch of viewers who will have had the pleasure of experiencing how it should have been spoken? That would be a shame. I doubt if Joe Public will rush out to buy the play.

Anne


I hope they have the monologues too, but with JD saying them we will probably have difficulty seeing John in the same way as we do in the book. Either that, or we will just become puddles on the floor after the first one and miss the rest of the film!! I would quite like the first monologue spoken over a view of the countryside or London or something like that, with just the voice to concentrate on. Did that make sense?

Karen


Great image Anne, I hope Malkovich reads our group!!! LOL

And the scene where he and Elizabeth Barry squares off should be a hot one, Samantha Morton is Barry and she can rip into him, this should be good!!

Anne


Oooo YES!! That should be great. I can see it now! Poor Johnny!! I hope she's holding a shovel at the time!!Do we know who got the part of Jane? Now that is the part I would have liked, I really like her more than either of the Lizzies, she's quite a character.