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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 214760" data-attributes="member: 82">I´m refloating this old thread because I´ve just watched the 1990 version of "The Handmaid´s Tale"...and I liked it! To be honest, I had the feeling that, despite the remarkable cast, it would be a flop...but it´s not though it has a 6 rating on IMDb.See below the trailer, with Faye Dunaway in the role played by Yvonne Strahovski (Serena), the late Natasha Richardson as the rebellious Offred/June (Elisabeth Moss), Robert Duvall in Joseph Fiennes´s role, and Elizabeth McGovern in Samira Wiley´s (Moira). [MEDIA=youtube]oTnhx_N7nro[/MEDIA] The story is limited to scarcely two hours, and only the last two minutes seem to be an unnecessary add-on for commercial reasons, though I think it didn´t need it. The theme is tough and beyond its time, and it´s understandable and watchable with the 10s´ sensibility, but not so much with the early 90s´!! The most outstanding virtue is that one can say that you are watching the same story with little changes, even in the same places (but it´s not!).[ATTACH=full]20954[/ATTACH] No hats in the movie!All the characters are described almost as well as in the show, though they are oversimplified: June is more naïve, Serena (a very restrained Dunaway with Joan Crawford´s big shoulderpads) is a former opera singer instead of a clever woman retired by her marriage, Moira is just like the one from the show (and white too, just like June´s husband and Serena´s maids...) and McGovern is really great in a type of role far away from her Lady of "Downton Abbey"...Aidan Quinn is correct (and cute) as the chauffeur Nick and Victoria Tennant as hateful as Ann Dowd´s take on the role, but both characters have been reduced to the minimum expression to make the plot believable. Funny that the Janine role is perfectly drawn with three scenes and a fine actress, Traci Lind. About the plot itself, it sort of follows the story of the show´s first season.<img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSpi9BHPwqfcyh9OL2QhsxAU0sOmm0IEMCaih04Q3hsaO-NDeOy&usqp=CAU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Believe it or not, this was one of the movie´s posters...One big problem is the Commander, played by Robert Duvall. In this case there is no comparison between him and his TV counterpart: Duvall is too kind and even paternal when Fiennes seems to be going to strangle someone in every scene...In fact he reminded me more of Bradley Whitford´s character in Season 3, I wonder if the screenplay writer used both characters to define this one.The movie is equally depressing, dystopic and highly recommendable to watch as a social commentary of what we are living now, or maybe next year...I found funny the fact that nobody wanted to make this movie for four long years, and all the actresses except two declined the role (Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver, who got pregnant and left to be replaced by Richardson).Producers said that "that kind of story was about women and only would interest women..." Probably Harvey Weinstein would agree with that. So it´s actually worthwhile watching it, despite its faults. I had to lol when I read that Dunaway wanted to quit because her character was "too weak" (I´m sure she would have loved to do the current show´s version of Serena!!!).[ATTACH=full]20956[/ATTACH] Staircases become Faye...</blockquote>

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