A reinterpretation of the book rather than a straight remake of the film, the series is a co-production between Miramax Television and Paramount Television Studios, and is being spearheaded by Australian-American poet, novelist, and screenwriter, Emily Ballou ( Run, Taboo, Humans).įor those of you who don’t remember, The English Patient follows a man (played in the film by Ralph Fiennes) with horrendous, full-body burns sustained in a plane crash-the eponymous patient, presumed to be English though he’s actually a taciturn Hungarian count and desert explorer with amnesia-his tender-hearted-but-troubled French-Canadian Army nurse (played in the film by Juliette Binoche), a Sikh British Army sapper (played in the film by Naveen Andrews) and a mercurial Canadian thief with bandaged hands (played in the film by Willem Dafoe). I am, however, curious to know how they feel about yesterday’s announcement that the BBC is developing a small screen adaptation of Ondaatje’s most famous novel. They are naught but contrarians, advocates of Lucifer, calumniators so glued-up with bile that they can’t stand the existence of beautiful things, and I have no time for them.
They think it’s overlong, painfully melodramatic, a relic of a more plodding and indulgent era of filmmaking.
There are people (cowards, philistines, general haters) who now roll their eyes when I talk about how much I love The English Patient-Anthony Minghella’s lush, multi-Oscar-winning 1996 adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning 1992 novel.
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