exponential63: Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room With A…
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room With A View
E. M. Forster, A Room With A View:
‘I say, Cecil, do play, do, there’s a good chap. It’s Floyd’s last day. Do play tennis with us, just this once.’
Cecil’s voice came: ‘My dear Freddy, I am no athlete. As you well remarked this very morning, “There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books”; I plead guilty to being such a chap, and will not inflict myself on you.’
The scales fell from Lucy’s eyes. How had she stood Cecil for a moment? He was absolutely intolerable, and the same evening she broke off her engagement.
I know I’ve gushed about Maggie Smith, but Daniel Day-Lewis steals the movie. He even steals my favorite Charlotte scene, where she stands by the window while Lucy argues with George, just in that one moment when he’s dancing around with his teacup waving at a bee.
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