![]() After that, she drew bigger and bigger audiences, and in 1993 hired the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End for the first of many successful solo shows. Izzard worked as a street performer and in smaller comedy venues throughout the mid-to-late 1980s her big break came when she appeared in Hysteria III, a 1991 AIDS fundraiser held at the London Palladium, and did her now-famous "Raised by wolves" sketch. Provided that you treat it as such you will enjoy it I am sure.Best-known for her surreal and digressive stand-up, British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard was born on February 7, 1962, in Aden, Yemen, where her English parents - Dorothy Ella, a nurse and midwife, and Harold John Izzard, an accountant - worked for British Petroleum. In all then this is a well produced and enjoyable film but it is very much an adaptation of the book rather than a faithful rendering. ![]() The pace moves along nicely and there is is some great performances from Toby Regbo as Jim, Philip Glenister as Captain Smollett and surprisingly, Elijah Wood as the maroon Benn Gunn as well as a superb cameo by Donald Sutherland and the whole thing as a great atmosphere in the way the somewhat far fetched Pirates of the Caribbean films don't. This is far from being politically correct but rather an accurate portrayal of crews, particularly buccaneer crews of the time who were made up of members of the new as well as old worlds. ![]() Another good detail is the crew of the ship being composed of several ethnic minorities. She forms a strong part of the story seeking refuge from a vengeful Billy Bones at the Hawkins inn before Jim's mother is ruthlessly evicted from the inn on account of being in arrears with the mortgage. There are some nice additions to the text as well with Silver being made more human by having a pretty young mulatto wife back in Bristol who he rescued from prostitution. Firstly the whole series is beautifully shot both for the UK scenes and the Island scenes (filmed in Puerto Rico). As someone who grew up loving these characters in the novel I found this a bit hard to stomach. Livesy is portrayed as a naive and cowardly young swot with no stomach for battle. He does this by turning Trewlawny into a trecherous, double dealing and ruthless cad who is in no way a replication of the character in the book. However Eddie Izzard's Silver (played with a mockney accent instead of a the usual west country burr that jars but not too much) lacks genuine menace and so the script writer had to look elsewhere for a villain. Both were brave and honourable men in the book with Silver being a genuinely menacing figure beneath the surface bonhomie. I too agree with the reviewer above who criticises this film for the portrayal of Dr Livesy and Squre Trelawny. Let me get the negative out of the way first. To be fair I think this is justified as cracking though the original novel is, it is known that Stevenson wrote it in a hurry and there is plenty of space for fleshing out and this is what this film does in its near three hour length. It has also inspired some pretty good stabs at literary sequels: Bjorn Larsson's Long John Silver and the recent: Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion. Treasure Island's theme has been adapted several times for the screen ranging from the fairly true 1950s film to muppet fantasy. I suppose I could be curmudgeonly and slam this production as not being true to the book but I think that to do this would be an injustice. Ga naar onze Privacyverklaring voor meer informatie over hoe en voor welke doeleinden Amazon persoonsgegevens gebruikt (zoals de bestelgeschiedenis van Amazon Store). ![]() Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. ![]() Derde partijen gebruiken cookies om persoonlijke advertenties weer te geven en te meten, doelgroepinzichten te genereren en producten te ontwikkelen en te verbeteren. Dit omvat het gebruik van cookies van eerste en derde partijen die standaard apparaatgegevens, zoals een unieke ID, opslaan of openen. We gebruiken deze cookies ook om te begrijpen hoe klanten onze diensten gebruiken (bijvoorbeeld door websitebezoeken te meten), zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen.Īls je ermee akkoord gaat, gebruiken we ook cookies om je winkelervaring in de Amazon Stores te verbeteren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. ![]()
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