- When the director chose a Chinese actor, the first thing he thought of was the translator Ying Ruocheng . When he called Ying’s house, his son Da Ying picked it up. Da Ying informed the director that his father had passed away. It was this opportunity that gave Da Ying the opportunity to act. The crew even changed the age of the role from 60. Years down to adjust.
- Wang Luoyong heard that the director of " A Room with a View ", Ivory, was coming to China for filming, so he immediately volunteered to act in the film.
- Ralph Fiennes plays a blind man in the film. To interpret this role, he lived with a blind man at the Royal Academy for the Blind for several months .
- Because Ralph wanted to speak Shanghainese in the film, he asked his assistant to mark the pronunciation of the lines with phonetic symbols, and then follow the translation of the mouth to compare and practice again and again .
- Vanessa Redgrave plays Natasha Richardson's mother-in-law's sister in the film, but in reality the two are mother and daughter. Lynn Redgrave, who plays Natasha's husband's mother, is Natasha's aunt .
The White Countess behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Ara 2022-03-17 09:01:08
Produced by James Ivory. Although star-studded and acted very sincerely, I really didn't feel much about this story. 7 out of 10
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Noah 2022-04-20 09:02:25
It's really light. Ralph's films in recent years have tended to be more and more of this temperament. There was a lot of impatience at first. But in the last ten minutes of the movie, the paradise was shattered, and the destitute prince and the countess were sitting in the broken boat. He said to the cute little girl, sorry, this is not the same trip as imagined. The trumpet sounded, and the girl looked into the distance with confusion but hope. How beautiful.
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Todd Jackson: Why aren't you at home in your bed?
Sofia: There is no bed for me till morning. My daughter... Sorry, I was forgetting our agreement.
Todd Jackson: I told you, there is no agreement. I just once thought that we'd get on best if we confined our friendship to within these walls.
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Grushenka: Another punishment is waiting for her. Such disgrace. Who would have thought when my son married her, she would one day bring such disgrace to his memory. Even now she's in there, putting on that powder. God's watching her. God will punish her.