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Great for fans of Downton Abbey
Recensito in Canada il 12 novembre 2023JH
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 3 [DVD] [2010] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 17 novembre 2023
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DOES have 2012 Christmas Special, NINE Episodes, Here's a Synopsis of DVD Special Features!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 febbraio 2013
Happy Reader
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 1 febbraio 2013
This Season 3 DVD set contains three discs. It DOES have the 2012 Christmas Special. I have received my DVD set, ordered on this page, and it has parts 1 - 9 of Season 3, plus "A Journey to the Highlands" and 8 Special Features.
DISC 1:
Disc 1 has parts 1, 2, and 3 of Season 3 and 1 extra. English subtitles are available.
Special Features:
1. "Behind the Drama" (60 minutes) This is an fabulous overview of the first two seasons, with clips from the two seasons, interviews and rehearsal scenes. What I particularly liked is that it's not just a rehash of the plot lines, it includes why a plot line or character development was important or undertaken. Per the narrator, before WWI, there were 1.4 million people "in service" in England. Highclere Castle, "with more than 50 bedrooms, there was plenty to do." And plenty of rules, and the hierarchy below stairs was even stricter than above stairs.
When a scene takes place upstairs, they are really filmed at Highclere Castle. When below stairs, though, they were filmed on sets at Ealing Studios. That's because though the magnificent upstairs is much the same (except for bathrooms!) now as it was before WWI, the kitchens and downstairs have been modernized.
Remember the scene where "The Turk" enters Lady Mary's bedroom and she says, "You and my parents have something in common. You think I am much more of a rebel than I am." (Which is pretty humorous in itself, given that Mary is most tradition-hide-bound of the sisters.) Julian Fellowes tells us that the whole dead Turkish lover is based on a true story. A friend of his, who owns a Big House, "came upon a diary of one of his great-aunts, and this whole incident is recorded".
The commentators also touch on the Spanish Flu epidemic, which may have killed up to 50,000,000 people world wide. Most flus are most lethal to the very young and the elderly. I've read that the Spanish Flu, however, was most lethal to healthy adults. It made your immune system go wild, attacking your body as well as the virus. So the healthier your immune system was, the more likely it was going to kill you.
DISC 2:
Disc 2 has parts 4. 5. 6. and 7 of Season 3. English subtitles are available. There are no special features on this disc.
DISC 3:
Disc 3 has parts 8 & 9 of Season 3, as well as "A Journey to the Highlands" (the 2012 Christmas special) and 7 Special Features. English subtitles are available.
Special Features:
1. "Downton in 1920" (20 minutes) Commentators include Julian Fellowes (writer and creator), Brian Percival (director, episodes 1 & 2), Magi Vaughan (make up & hair designer), Caroline McCall (costume designer), Charmain Adams (production designer), Elizabeth McGovern (plays Cora, Countess of Grantham), Michelle Dockery (plays Lady Mary), Laura Carmichael (plays Lady Edith), Alastair Bruce (historical advisor), Jim Carter (plays Mr. Carson the butler), Lesley Nichol (plays Mrs. Patmore, the cook), Jessica Brown Finlay (plays Lady Sybil), Sophie McShera (plays Daisy Mason, cook assistant), Allen Leech (plays Tom Branson, the chauffeur), Brendan Coyle (plays John Bates), Gareth Neame (executive producer), Shirley MacLaine (plays Martha Levinson, Cora's American mother), Dan Stevens (plays Matthew Crawley), and Pete Gaine (from Motorhouse Hire Ltd, who supplied Matthew's marvelous 1920 car).
In Season 3, it's 1920. When we think 1920, we think "The Roaring Twenties". But, as Caroline McCall points out, "I think people's perception of the 20's is very different from 1920." Julian Fellowes points out that the Charleston dance craze didn't happen until 1926. The hair and costume designers had to show fashions changing gradually, because it's not as if everyone started dressing like flappers in 1920.
The rigid laced-up corsets of before the war, give way to bandeau corsets and breast-flattening bras. Even the men show subtle changes in their suit jackets, etc. Except for Mr. Carson, of course, who continues to wear exactly the same suit he always has.
It wasn't just clothing that was changing. As Alastair Bruce says, "We see this great imperial family gradually alter, as moral conscience takes us on a different path." Very much the way the Imperial British Empire was altering.
2. "The Wedding of Lady Mary" (18 minutes) Commentators include many from extra #1, with new ones: Victoria Brooks (head of publicity for "Downton Abbey"), Liz Turbridge (producer), Matthew 'Sparky' Ellis (location manager), Charmain Adams (production designer), Maggie Harris (resident of Bampton, where the wedding was filmed), Rev. David Lloyd (Vicar of Bampton), Timothy Word (crowd assistant director), Danielle Bennett (second assistant director), Rupert Steggle (crowd costume assistant), Hugh Bonneville (plays Robert, Lord Grantham), Rob James-Collier (plays Thomas Barrow, footman and troublemaker), Chris Croucher (first assistant director), Stephen Sorby (from Above the Line Security) and Joanne Froggatt (plays Anna Bates).
Victoria Brooks says, "It's almost the next royal wedding, dare we say it!" There were 209 total crew & cast, including the extras, and the paparazzi was wild to get a photo of "Mary" in her wedding dress.
3. "The Wedding of Lady Edith" (25 minutes) Commentators include many who also appear in the first 2 extras, as well as Robert Bathurst (plays Sir Anthony Strallan), Denis Maguire (supporting artist, plays the photographer at the church), David Holt (special effects technician) and Damian Butlin (standby propman).
Poor Edith - how many of us think that? Julian Fellowes says, "Her self-rebuilding will become another part of the story.... The subliminal message, I think, is we must get behind the wheels of our own lives."
We should take a poll. Did Sir Anthony act out of misguided honor or is he just a jerk? And if we don't think he's a jerk, how about Lord Robert's part in this?
4. "The Men of Downton Abbey" (12 minutes) Commentators appear in the first 3 specials. This focuses on how WWI was the changemaker, whether you were above stairs or below stairs. Hugh Bonneville says, "After the turmoil of the war, Robert thinks, in a way, that life will return to the way it was before the way. And, of course, it never will."
Alastair Bruce adds, "People have survived something [in WWI], and they are never going to forget what they've gone through.... It changes their view of what they expect from the world."
5. "Shirley MacLaine at Downton" (16 minutes) MacLaine hadn't been watching "Downton Abbey" herself, but she had friends who were addicts. It's a sign of how good the show is that it could get a Shirley MacLaine to be in it. Sophie McShera groans, "I didn't get to meet Shirley MacLaine and I'm so jealous."
Rob James-Collier is excited just talking about the meeting of Shirley Maclaine and Dame Maggie Smith on the show. "They are going to be epic, they really are. Two actual legends on screen, battling it out. The only thing I can liken it to is DeNiro vs Pacino in "Heat"!" ("Heat" is an American 1995 movie.)
6. "Behind the Scenes: The Cricket Match" (10 minutes) Many commentators appear before. New ones are Eddie Williams (3rd assistant director), Adam Ghillam (camera operator), Kevin Doyle (plays Molesley, the butler for Mrs. Crawley, Matthew's mother), Ed Speleers (plays Jimmy Kent, new footman), Cora Theobold (plays Ivy Stuart, new kitchen maid), David Evans (director episodes 7 & 8) and Matt Milne (plays Alfred Nugent, footman).
The match took three days to shoot. Mr. Carson takes part, and Jim Carter says, "It's lovely for Carson to be out in his cricket gear. First time in three years I've had a change of clothes." Only one cast member taking part in the match actually knew how to play cricket. Thanks to stand-ins and clever camera work, you wouldn't know it.
7. "Behind the Scenes: A Journey to the Highlands" Many familiar commentators, with these new ones: Lily James (plays Lady Rose MacClare), Andy Goddard (director for this episode) and Diana Scrivener (choreographer). For this 2012 Christmas special, cast and crew traveled, for filming, to Inveraray Castle, Scotland, seat of the real Duke of Argyll. Incredibly beautiful scenery, but everybody complains about the outdoor scenes where they were attacked by hordes of midges.
For the show, Inveraray stands in for Duneagle Castle, home of Sir Robert's cousin, Hugh 'Shrimpy' MacClare. His 18 year-old daughter, Rose, will, according to Julian Fellowes become a prominent character going forward. The staff that stays home at Downton Abbey aren't forgotten, and the episode shifts back and forth between Scotland and Downton. New romance is in the air for more than one character. Lesley Nichol says she asked Fellowes to give Mrs. Patmore a love interest, and he complied. Lesley says, "Mr. Tufton has taken over our local shop. He's a bit of a flirty ponce, which shocks her [Mrs. Patmore] sideways, really, because I don't think people flirt with Mrs. Patmore."
Season 4 of "Downton Abbey" starts filming in late February 2013. I can't wait to see it!
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