What this film needed.

I saw Room With a View last month and enjoyed it for what it was. Sure, it's no Maurice or Howard's End but it serves as a good warm up. The acting, screenwriting and production is uniformly excellent, and the cinematography really made me want to go to Italy.

However, there are a couple of things I wished were different.

1. The vignettes are a little too quaint and remind me of the vignettes for Babe with the mice chirping the titles "Pigs are definitely stupid" "A Tragic Day" "That's Just the Way Things Are" "Crime and Punishment." It works well for a children's film like Babe but maybe not so much for a period drama.

2. The lines "Ms. Honeychurch, Lucy and George, etc. riding through an Italian park." I don't need to be hit over the head with that. I can see it for myself. Too much telling, not enough showing.

3. The scene where Lucy finds George after having a talk with his father is not shown. I really wanted to know what she would say when they finally declared their love for each other after such a climatic build up with Mr. Emerson and the organ and choir but we are cheated to a fast-forward to the honeymoon scene. Did Merchant Ivory feel like such a scene wouldn't flow well with the rest of the film or was he under time constraints and had to wrap it up quick?

So I wrote the missing scene on fanfiction.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/14269934/1/Lucy-Declares-her-love-for-George-A-Room-With-a-View