At the risk of being insulting: stiff and wooden? Hello, they're English, remember? To be stiff and wooden is to be English! *gryn* Not entirely true, o'course; I've met many English types who are not stiff and wooden. But I've also met many who are, and the impression of that time period is that there were more. Hmmmm.
Anyway, from what I've seen of the actors in other places, it was intentional. It was E.M. Forester, after all; part of the point is that whatshername is opting for a not so stiff and wooden existance, in the end. (or, more accurately, an existance in which she doesn't turn into her excessively repressed cousin Charlotte)
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Date: 2004-06-24 09:37 am (UTC)Anyway, from what I've seen of the actors in other places, it was intentional. It was E.M. Forester, after all; part of the point is that whatshername is opting for a not so stiff and wooden existance, in the end. (or, more accurately, an existance in which she doesn't turn into her excessively repressed cousin Charlotte)