Having panned the 2020 version of The Secret Garden last week, I thought that I'd feature a clip of the not perfect, but much superior 1993 film. It stars Kate Maberly as Mary Lennox, Heydon Prowse as Colin Craven, and the always great Maggie Smith as Mrs. Medlock. In this scene Colin, who has been bedridden all his life, is terrified when Mary and Dickon unseal his windows to let in the sunshine, certain that the "spores" in the fresh air are going to kill him. When an unconcerned Mary runs off to play with Dickon, Colin has a hysterical meltdown- not an unusual occurrence for him. |
Mary returns to the sound of his screaming and, in a temper herself, decides to tell him a few hard truths. This is humorous because she's also a rather selfish child, but she's irritated beyond belief to have to deal with her cousin's over-the-top behaviour. It's because Mary's not a particularly good natured child that she's willing to tell Colin off in a way which the servants, who have deferred to his whims since he was a baby, would never do.
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The trailer below is from the 1987 Spielberg film Empire of the Sun, which stars a young Christian Bale as twelve year old James (Jim) Graham whose wealthy British family is caught in Shanghai when the Japanese invade China near the beginning of World War II. In the ensuing panic, Jim gets separated from his parents and ends up in a Japanese internment camp where he spends the war years. The movie is based on the 1984 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name written by JG (James Graham) Ballard. He spent the war years in a Japanese camp, though unlike Jim, with his parents. The film is often beautiful but also flawed- tonally unbalanced. Bale however puts in an amazing performance for a child actor.
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