Writer's Block: Desert Island Time

[fajrdrako]

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1. The Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing
2. Casablanca
3. If DVD sets count, the complete Torchwood to date
4. Series one Doctor Who
5. The Lion in Winter

Of course, I'm already thinking of alternatives... I've chose my favourites, but perhaps it would be good to have something I don't know so well?

Comments

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of overlap — entirely agree on 2 and 4, and 1 and 5 would be definitely in the running.

The Antonio Gades/Carlos Saura Carmen would have to be on there, and echoing someone above, West Side Story... although that would leave me without any Gene Kelly, which would make me sad. Maybe Lost Horizon, because that way I get my Ronald Colman and a snowy landscape, which I would miss on a desert island.

Interestingly, during the blizzard over the weekend, I rewatched the first series of Poldark, and it stands up so well as a rip-roaring period piece — so much better than Elizabeth R holds up, better than Pride and Prejudice (which, I'll admit, I never really cared for) or any of the more recent multi-part BBC productions. Angharad Rees was absolutely the wrong choice for Demelza in the books, but she's just so right, I'm glad they decided to take the risk.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I agree absolutely about Poldark - though it's a while since I've seen it now. But it was good casting, good script - well worth watching still. I haven't tried Elizabeth R since it was first on, and wasn't that a while ago.

Still haven't decided which musical would be best to take, but I would like to have a musical.