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...same time, says Holland, she wanted to emphasize the stronger, surer Catherine that emerges at the end of the film. "She wakes up with a kind of independent feeling," says the director. Driven to make her own living away from both men, "she becomes a full person, becomes herself...
...that the same Catherine that Henry James had in mind? Holland, a writer in her own right--an Oscar nominee for writing Europa, Europa, she also authored the screenplay that became Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue--is sensitive to the special demands of adapting existing material to the screen...
...that this "responsibility" demands a complete fidelity to the source novel. Holland's characteristic quirks and odd-ball sense of humor--in Europa Europa, she made a character's foreskin a consistent source of laughs--resist any firm allegiance to an inherited script. "For me it is more playful to make somebody else's material," she affirms; it allows her to "concentrate on the interpretation more [than] having to create everything from scratch...
...does Holland stand on Jane Campion's controversial rendering of James's The Portrait of a Lady? That film was spurned by audiences and many critics for reimagining the novel's entrapped ingenue into an emotional masochist looking for trouble. "I think the criticism of Jane and Portrait came because people didn't like the film," says Holland. "If the film had been more effective for them, they would not have nitpicked about the approach...
...same time, Holland acknowledges that "my situation was much easier, because Washington Square is one of the easiest of James's novels." Because "the plot is very, very simple," her source material could withstand a more conservative adaptation than could the more intricate and interior Portrait undertaken by Campion...