An Inspector Calls

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02z80kq

20:30 tonight, on BBC One. Its been years since I saw this in the West End, and I am looking forward to it immensely !

[Svejk]

mikey4444

/// All the previously argued leftie analysis is just tosh. The play exposed the hypocrisy of the moneyed classes ///

Ho ho ho, You're one of a kind, mikey.

[Georgiesmum]

Oh Tilly2, I will look forward to that. The dramas are proving to be all very well worthwhile watching.

[naomi24]

//The play exposed the hypocrisy of the moneyed classes //

Odd what people read into things. I've no doubt it would have worked as well in a different family scenario.

I enjoyed it very much.

[mikey4444]

Another occasion when we agree Naomi...we should stop meeting like this, else people might begin to talk !

Apparently there is more to come on a Sunday evening. I have looked on the BBC website but can't find a list of the others yet to come, apart from The Go Between, next Sunday. Worth staying in for !

[Tilly2]

Mikey, there are only four.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a566434/bbc-one-to-adapt-lady-chatterleys-lover-an-inspector-calls.html#~pofgdxS4SkG5pM

[Svejk]

///Another occasion when we agree Naomi///

????. I thought Naomi just refuted your analysis.
Incidentally, I agree with you, mikey. It is a left wing play.

[mikey4444]

Thanks Tilly ! We must enjoy them even more then.

[bednobs]

i think they both enjoyed it :)

[Tilly2]

I'm sure we weren't the only two, Bednobs.

[Svejk]

Nobody else thought the cast unattractive then? The Alastair Sim film was much more nuanced, I thought. More 'sympathetic' to the family. The message was weakened by 'over egging the pudding', imo.

[mikey4444]

DaisyNonna
...quick question, if I may !

You say you have taught it. Is it taught as a Left-wing play ? Priestly certainly seemed to annoy the Tories during his career !

[bednobs]

yes, they were unattractive (physically) I also could not take my eyes off ken stott's nose. perhaps they chose the cast deliberately to emphasize their unattractive traits? also the daughter has to be unattractive really for her piece of plot to work

[naomi24]

It is a left wing play - but set in a different scenario it could display the hypocrisy of any class. The less wealthy classes aren't beyond hypocrisy.

[Retrochic]

The story line could have been set in any 'class' of people - IMO it is more about looking after one another and thinking about the consequences of our actions, not moneyed class verses the poor. I did not know the story line but son is doing this for GCSE and had already read the play and seen the 1954 film. I thought it predictable and a bit over-acted to be honest -and chloe pirrie playing the daughter was not good.

[Georgiesmum]

Its a great pity the BBC are only going to put four of these dramas on in this series. Id like to see so many more, Arsenic and Old Lace for example..

[jourdain2]

Without going into the politics of the play - we both thoroughly enjoyed the production. We've both read it before, I read it in 6th form as well, and J.B.P. is part of my heritage.

I was a bit worried about modern techniques, but I thought that in the end it worked extremely well. I got a bit confused with the daughter's dress and some settings, which looked more 1920's, but more than compensated for with so many shots around my old stamping-ground of Salt's mill. I went minnowing around the bridge on the towpath which they showed so frequently and signed in at the office, just under the entrance, for my holiday jobs!

[kirkcudbright]

Alistair Sim was brilliant in the 1954 film

[jourdain2]

I'll try to pick that up kirkcubright. :)

[DaisyNonna]

Mikey, I certainly did not teach it as a left wing play.
The students were expected to think for themselves and draw their own conclusions as to the rights and wrongs of the situations which unfolded.
Before you might ask, I was not teaching to the syllabus, I attempted to get them to express their own ideas and discuss how morality may have changed over the ensuing years.