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Screen captures at JeremyBrett LJ community Video clip (courtesy of RJDoll2) Video clip of Jeremy singing (on YouTube) Synopsis courtesy of RJDoll2: The scenery, costumes and acting are all top notch in this beautifully staged but sad adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel. The story is narrated by actor Robin Ellis, who also appeared in the Sherlock Holmes episode Shoscombe Old Place. It has a modern feel due to the fact that the story is told in flashbacks, out of chronological order. The Good Soldier explores the mores of the day in the Edwardian era, including passion, sex and religion. Jeremy gives an elegantly understated performance as dashing Captain Edward Ashburnham, who appears to have a perfect marriage, perfect friendships and the perfect life. He and his wife travel each year to a German spa in Nauheim because of his heart ailment, and while there they meet their American friends. We soon are give to believe that they are all "good people. All appears to be well for these two upper-class couples. They go to the "right" places, do the "right things" and are concerned with "good people." Captain Ashburnham is a virile, physical and passionate man who has a weakness for falling in "love" with many of the women he meets. Slowly the story unfolds and we see that what we believed to be true was a mere facade. A tangled web of deception, infidelities and suicides rock the very foundations of these "good people," unearthing unhappiness that has been hidden for years. As the narrator states in the beginning, it is one of the saddest stories ever told, but it cleverly lulls the senses with a veritable feast for the eyes, and as the end approaches, one realizes, aren't we all "good people"? DVD available. Amazon U.S. // PBS // Amazon U.K. |
The Good Soldier