Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
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Movie Reviews of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
Movie Review: Gilbert and Sullivan in a bawdy 17th century way with great laughter and music of the day. Delightful!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really have to place this production of a very human work of comic delight at the top of my list. Gilbert and Sullivan's Sorcerer is a companion to it and so is Iolanthe. I now know why my dear father told me to read Tom Jones when I was a teenager long ago (he also worshiped Iolanthe). I found it too stilted and of the age it was written. Now I see that it was not that it had lessons of life but that it was so much fun when you know life well (i.e. youth will not understand how funny it is)! And here you have it. Benjamin Whitrow as the father (same in the definitive "Pride and Predudice" production) is so endearing and loving and wise (much like my own dear Dad was). And all the romp with music to match and John Sessions filling in as the commenting Henry Fielding. I believe my sentence is for life and it is to watch this production yearly till death. The music, the actors, the screenplay, the direction, setting (landscape, buildings, dress, etc) are all perfect. Brian Blessed as Sophies dad is so ... well just see it. Thanks All you hard working folks who created this. It was based on a tale from a very humane judge of four hundred years ago and will last as a visual play of his work for another four hundred years. You have created a true lasting masterpiece. Thanks!!!
For all the prudes who are horrified by the morality of this period of England I feel sorrow. Perhaps watching "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe might wake you up to how hard your ancestors had life and that being a good person really means not being cruel to others in the end. Caring in the face of suffering high and low. Morality is so often an excuse for cruelty. Get into the carriage and rock along with Judge Fielding and his tale of human foibles!
Movie Review: I love it! This is the best Tom Jones.
Summary: 5 Stars
I think that "Tom Jones" is my favorite movie. I must have seen the Albert Finney version (at least) a hundred times. I thought that it was impossible to improve on this wonderful movie. BUT I LIKE THIS VERSION EVEN MORE! Max Beesley is as good a Tom as Finney. I loved Susannah York, but Samantha Morton is even more endearing. The one character from the original movie who cannot be improved upon: Hugh Griffith! He is amazingly funny as Squire Western in the 1963 version. The A&E version is much longer than the original, and gives much more delicious detail. Some things are omitted completly from the 1963 movie.
The quality of the DVD is very good (both sound and picture). This is not a good choice if you are easily offended by bawdy behavior. But both versions give a delicious look at life in 18th century England, showing the bad along with the good (and having a lot of fun in the process).
Movie Review: fun fun fun
Summary: 5 Stars
This version is a fun romp through the History of Tom Jones.
I had to read this in high school and compare it to the original movie, both of which were delightful. I received this version as a gift and my husband and I both enjoyed it.
To the few people who complain about the sex and themes - this is Tom Jones! What were you expecting? If you will not tolerate any such scenes in your house why on earth would you choose to watch Tom Jones? To put this into some sort of perspective, this is something I will allow my children to watch in their teens, once they are mature enough to understand the historical time and the literary themes and once they each have read the book -- probably at age 14-15+.
Movie Review: Outrageous!
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's a story filled with dastardly plotting and prevarication, true love and tawdry sex, wild drunkenness, chases, disguises, near-misses, and utterly improbable (but hilarious) meetings. Wonderful acting by British stage and film stars--fans of BBC literary adaptations will recognize many favorites--bring this wild, picaresque tale to life with charm and boundless verve. Perhaps best of all is the screenplay, which manages to make sense of everything in Fielding's convoluted tale while also making the most of 18th-century English, when the language was at its graceful, urbane peak.Just try to watch this one with a straight face!
Movie Review: FABULOUS
Summary: 5 Stars
A FABULOUS ADAPTION OF FIELDLING'S NOVEL. ANOTHER GREAT A&E MINI-SERIES. VIEWED IT FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN IT AIRED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND NEVER FORGOT HOW ENJOYABLE AND FUNNY IT WAS. SOME MAY FIND IT OFFENSIVE, BUT I THINK THAT MOST OF US WHO CHOOSE TO VIEW THIS FILM IS ADULT ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT THERE'S REALLY NO DIFFERENCE IN LIFE EXPERIENCES TODAY AS THERE WAS IN THE 1700'S. THE CAST THAT WAS CHOSEN ARE VETERANS TO THIS TYPE OF FILM AND COULD NOT HAVE PLAYED A BETTER PART. 5 STARS GO TO A&E AND THE BBC FOR BRINGING THESE NOVELS TO LIFE.