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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Melusine:
Oh, did anyone see Quills? Was quite disappoiting.
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I haven't read any de Sade myself but I got cajoled into going to Quills by a friend of mine. I really liked it, although he thought it was a bit over the top. To be honest I don't know what he was expecting from a film about the Marquis de Sade if not a large amount of sex. But anyway, I thought it was quite good.</font>[/QUOTE]Well, I thought it was over the top too - it's so Hollywood... The portrayal of De Sade was just not what I'd expected. I just couldn't get over the ridiculous "must write" thing he had - the minute they took his pens away, he starts cutting himself up to write - he wasn't like that at all! It just was not convincing - writing in wine on sheets? Yeah right... If he really wanted to write so badly, he wouldn't have let it come so far in the first place. No, it was just unconvincing to me. Not to say that I didn't like the movie at all, the actors were all quite good (love Kate Winslet!) and overall I enjoyed watching it - I just wish they hadn't marketed it as a movie (even if fictional) about De Sade.