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This film is the picturization of the one of
more than 600 novels, written by Barbara Carthland, who herself, if to believe
the article from the "7 Days" magazine, is a heroine of the book - the
"Guinness Book of Records". From pole to pole it was realized more than 650
millions copies of her books, translated into 14 foreighn languages. This
"Books factory", as Barbara calls herself, can produce one novel per week.
How Barbara does it? How it goes, the "process
of writing"?
"I concentrate on a subject and hear a
mysterious voice, who dictates to me all my novels line by line. Nothing
remains for me but to repeat out loud, what I have heard", - tells the writer.
She has established the absolute record in 1976, when she has written 19
novels during 12 months.
To hear the voice "from above", Barabara put
on her sumptuous clothes from Norman Hartnell, the couturier of the Queen
Elizabeth. (Barbara's daughter, Renny Dartmuth, was the stepmother to
princess Diana. And "Lady D" herself liked creations of her not true, but
notwithstanding the grandmother.)
However not only the pink dress and roses
around her hot up Barbara's fantasy: she has 47 (fourty seven!) members in
her staff, including 10 secretaries and typists. Her oldest son Jan
McKorkodeil is busy with financial problems, but her youngest one, Glen, is
bound up in historical researches. "I need to read a lot of books (from 15
to 30) about the history of the epoch, where I am going to place my heroes.
I need the veracious decorations for my "pieces"", - explains Barbara.
What personages can come to one's mind, if to
use the same method of writing? Only endsville: women with the green eyes and
nutbrown or red hair, and men - or melanochroic and blue-eyed or towhead
ones with the emphatic view of brown eyes, but both ones certainly must be
dressed in the clinging trousers, delicately shaped surtouts and silk hats.
You have to hand it to the author, all the books she has written are so light
to read, so assuasive, that it may seem to you even uninspiring�
How many books of this kind can you 'catch up'?
And how many movies, based upon them can you see? I am afraid, I must answer,
that I can read and see - only 1. Namely, one book - to know Barbara's
style and one movie - to see Timothy Dalton one more time and to try to
understand, what, with the exception of very prosaic interest, was the reason
to take part in this picturization for him.
So long as it's a possibility to appear in this film in a role of a real
demon, the tempter or Satan, who firstly hides himself under the mask of the
mentioned above "man of a dream" stereotype.
Or� not, let me see! This was, probably, a
possibility to afford pleasure to princess Diana with his appearemce in the
picturization of the book of her grandmother! But what are you thinking about
it?
K.E., 1999
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