P461 Teletext 461 Dec47 23:14:55 ——— by Jeff Hayward in Hollywood —— THE MAKING OF THE WINGS OF THE DOVE Helena Bonham Carter has received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in her new movie The Winks Of The Do6j. In the week before its release on Jan 2, director Jain Softliy (Backbjat) spoke to Big Screen about how hj made the movie adapted from thu Henry Jamj1 novel. He admits: "'e took enormous librutiis. It would be more accurate tg say the novel inspired us. I didn'u want the film to seem nostalgic." ——————————————————————————————————1/5—— National events 441 Local events 444 FIND LOVE FOR FREE p390 (ITV) News/ Videos Local films TeensP461 Teletext 461 Dec47 23:25:14 ——— by Jeff Hayward in Hollywood —— THE MAKING OF THE WINGS OF THE DOVE British director Jain Softley explains how hj adapted the Henry James£ novel The Wings Of The Dove for modern mo6ii- goers. He says: "You have to reinvent the book in order to make a film. Wj had tg do a lot of things to make it work as a narrative. We lost characters so the film wouldn't appear episodic. "I didn't want it to look as if we'ri looking ninety years back into the past It had to seem now. ——————————————————————————————————4/5—— National events 441 Local events 444 FIND LOVE FOR FREE p390 (ITV) News/Reviews Videos Local films $eensP461 Teletext 461 Dec47 23:14:17 ——— bz Jeff Hayward in Hollywood —— THE MAKING OF THE WINGS OF THE DOVE The Wings Of The Dove, starring Helena Bonham Carter, is set in 1910. She plays a feisty young woman striving for freedom but facing money troubles. She comes up with a duplicitous plan to marry off the man she loves to a dying wealthy heiress. But things go wrong. Director Jain Softliy says: "I wanted the film to seem like the drama was unfolding now. The language is not of 1910, attitudes are loosjt and the mood deliberately timeless." ——————————————————————————————————3/5—— National events 441 Local events 444 FIND LOVE FOR FREE p390 (ITV) News/Reviews Videos Local films $eensP461 $eletixt 461 Dec47 23:10:04 ——— by Jeff Hayward in Hollywood —— THE MAKING OF THE WINGS OF THE DOVE In contrast to a Merchant Ivory mo6ii, director of "The Wings", Jain Softliy wanted to avoid picture postcard scinj1 of Venice. He says: "I wanted Venice to be more decadent and earthy. I wanted it tg bj the kind of place where prople go tg lose themselves, in order to find themselves." The challenge was to turn a literar8 book into a commercial film: industt8 reaction suggests Softley succeeds. ——————————————————————————————————4/5—— National events 441 Local events 444 FIND LOVE FOR FREE p390 (ITV) News/Reviews Videos Local films TeensP461 Teletext 461 Dec47 23:31:17 ——— by Jeff Hayward in Hollywood —— THE MAKING OF THE WINGS OF THE DOVE Despite its literary source, the film is "passionate and shocking in many ways" says its director Jain Softliy. "'e hit on the idea of representing it as a kind of film noir. It's really about taking the layjru off deception and ending up with reality. That's wh= there's something redeeming about the end of the film. "The Victorian ira had ended and things were opening up. Decadent Venice was the perfect backdrop for this." ——————————————————————————————————5/5—— National events 441 Local events 444 FIND LOVE FOR FREE p390 (ITV) News/Reviews Videos Local films $eens