The Four Feathers (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
by Shekhar Kapur
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Actor: Campbell Brown, Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson, Mohamed Bouich, Wes BentleyDirector: Shekhar Kapur
Brand: Ff
Producer: Allon Reich
Producer: Julie Goldstein
Producer: Laurie Borg
Producer: Marty Katz
Writer: A.E.W. Mason
Writer: Hossein Amini
Writer: Michael Schiffer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Four Feathers (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Great Battles sequences, not enough backstory
Summary: 5 Stars
In this new version of "The Four Feathers", Heath Ledger plays the part of William Favishion, a man who is trying to find his place.
Heath Ledger does a marvelous job, giving a very moving and emotional performance.
Wes Bentley, and Kate Blanchett, also star in this movie; both give good performances but it is clear that Wes Bentley outshines Kate Blanchett by far.
My quibble (and it is minor) is that there isn't the backstory with the father that you got in the Beau Bridges version.
However, the battle sequences are things of beauty, hundreds and hundreds of Arabs charge British soldiers and practically whip them out.
There is some language but not to the point of unecessary, unlike some other movies.
The thing that really moves me most about the movie, is how the characters truly care about each other, and have a love and respect for each other and for God.
I've heard that there is a lot more spirituality in this version of the tale, than in the oldest.
I don't know personally, because I haven't watched the oldest version.
Anyway, there is a sexual scene, but it is brief and there is no nudity. (It is still disappointing though).
I won't go into the movies storyline, simply because all of the other reviews already tell you about it.
I just want to give you a little bit more discription on the film's content.
Hope it was helpful
Summary of The Four Feathers (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
SET IN LATE-19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND, A SOLDIER RESIGNS FROM HISDUTIES ON THE EVE OF A BATTLE WITH SUDAN. HIS FIANCEE AND THREE FRIENDS SEND HIM THE TITULAR FEATHERS, WHICH REPRESENTS A COWARDICE.WHAT HIS LOVED ONES DIDN'T KNOW IS THE SOLDIER HADCHANGED HIS MIND AND TRAVELED NORTH TO HELP HIS REGIMENT.The seventh filming of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 novel, this near-epic production of The Four Feathers looks great, sounds great, and feels rather average. It would be difficult to diminish the rousing adventure of Mason's novel, and director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) certainly gets more bang for his buck, with massive battle scenes and rugged, sun-baked harshness enhanced by Robert Richardson's masterful cinematography. Kapur preserves the universal appeal of the story, set in the 1880s, in which a promising soldier (Heath Ledger) resigns on the eve of battle in Britain's Sudanese campaign, is labeled a coward by his fiancée (Kate Hudson), and redeems himself by posing as a Muslim warrior to rescue his best friend Jack (Wes Bentley) from certain death in the desert. For all its heroics, however, the film seems oddly passionless; Djimon Hounsou is excellent as Ledger's desert guardian, but these young Hollywood stars lack the authenticity of Zoltan Korda's 1939 film, which remains the definitive version. --Jeff Shannon
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