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Hello there and welcome to the latest installment of my fantasy film casting pet project! If you're new here, I like to imagine and cast for my favorite books if they were to be made (or remade) into a film version.

Today we have a new favorite of mine: E.M. Forester's A Room with a View. 

I first read Forester's A Passage to India and was just mesmerized by how easily I could just completely submerge myself into his written world; the people, the places, descriptions...everything just breathed with authenticity...there was hardly any disbelief to suspend.

So I was quite prepared to enjoy A Room with a View and - not surprisingly - I did so very much. :)

Set in the Edwardian Era, the story follows the travels and romantic misadventures of Lucy Honeychurch as she tries to tread safely into the waters of an adulthood within traditional society while also nursing unconventional ideals and curiosities.

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My Casting choices are as follows:

{p.s. my cast is a tad "old" for the story, but I just can't change it - they're too perfect! ;D)

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 Lucy Honeychurch

A young Englishwomen who is unsure of herself 

and the world she is ever so hesitatingly curious to experience.

Elisabeth Moss

Charlotte Bartlett
Lucy's traditionalist spinster cousin who chaperones 
her on their trip to Italy.

Dame Judi Dench

Vicar Beebe
A friendly neighbor to the Honeychurch, Mr. Beebe leases his cottage to 
the Emerson's and tries to facilitate their acceptance within the community.

Stanley Tucci

Miss Lavish
A mediocre armchair novelist, Miss Lavish makes friends with Lucy and 
Cousin Charlotte while traveling in Italy and yet only adds to the mischief of the trip.

Penelope Wilton 

Mr. Emerson
An old, antisocial freethinker, Mr. Emerson is a rough-around-the-edges Englishman who has no patience for the ridiculous conventions of traditional English life.

Ian McKellen

George Emerson
Meeting Lucy and her cousin while traveling with his father in Italy, George is as deviant as his father in opinion and scandalously honest by conservative English standards.

Mark Duplass

Cecil Vyse
A comically pretentious, yet fashionable young Londoner, Cecil is smitten by Lucy in Rome and follows her back to Surrey where he proposes to her for the third time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Freddy Honeychurch
Lucy's younger, cheeky brother who makes sport of all 
involved in the awkward situation.

Andrew Garfield

Mrs. Honeychurch
Lucy's loving but cautious mother.

Sinead Cusack

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I know there are many who would cry foul to this casting round up (especially since a much younger yet still brilliant Judi Dench held the role of Miss Lavish in the 1985 film adaption ) but flawed as it might be, these were the faces that fit when I read the book.
Anywho, there be my dream cast. Care to share yours? :)

A Word From ~ Oscar Wilde

"Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestations, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony."

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A Word From ~ C.S. Lewis

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. 

The world is crowded with Him. 

He walks everywhere incognito. 

And the incognito is not always easy to penetrate. 

The real labor is to remember to attend. 

In fact to come awake. 

Still more to remain awake." 

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{{Just finished reading Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr's "The Question of God"...thought-provoking read...highly recommend watching the PBS documentary of the same name which was based on the book...}}

Favorite Couples Part II || Loy & Powell

 Myrna Loy & William Powell

Appearing in a total of 14 films together, Myrna Loy and William Powell are my definition of onscreen chemistry. They always seemed like old chums having way too much fun in every scene they shared. Witty, charming, mischievous; they make domesticity look like the greatest thing since sliced bread. Enjoy their adorable hooliganism below:

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Aren't they darling?
Unfortunately all that mushy make-believe in Hollywood never sparked anything in really life for the comical duo. And what a shame too because their decedents would have been quite fabulous. ;)

Parts III and IV coming soon!

2012 Summer Olympics Hurrah!

A spot of Python to get us all in the spirit. ;)

Dylan, my Dylan...

Sorry for the scant postings. Thought I'd share a few visuals and sound bites from my favorite Irishman (Liam Neeson ties with him some days, depending on my mood). <3
Scanning the pictures below you may have recognized him from Shaun of the Dead...but now and forever more I hope you will recognize him for his deadpan hilarity and Irish adorableness.

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"What are they really; children? Midget drunks, that's what they are..." 

 "I don't like vegetables. I actually find them morally objectionable, a lot of them."

 "I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, 

which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate."

 "Woman go and get their hair made bullet-proof and get the implants. The silly clothes and the stupid shoes everybody wears now. And they say ”Oh, l enjoy it. l did it for me, you know. l like the fact that it takes me 45 minutes to get in or out of a chair. And l’ve always wanted to look like a prawn who’s being airlifted." lt’s a total lie. That’s not the kind of thing a person does for themselves. You know what l did for me? I had an eclair inside an eclair. That’s the kind of thing you do for yourself." 

And the ever so classic...

 "There's a phenomenon called Irish hair. You can walk into a bar and see four hundred people and they all look like this:"

 source 

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Thanks for the laughs. ;}