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Legislators of both parties began protesting these proposals even as they were being presented. At Senate hearings, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn told Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger that the Pentagon would be lucky to escape with a budget increase barely offsetting inflation. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar warned that "the Administration is inviting catastrophe" by proposing to increase foreign aid while slashing domestic spending...
Kudos to Director Trevor Nunn and screenwriter David Edgar for providing the intelligent, sophisticated, movie-goer with a reason to turn off the VCR and head for the darkened aisles...
Unfortunately for all lovers on romance and fairy tale, Edgar and Nunn remain true to history in the film's conclusion, ending Lady Jane with the heroine's execution. But English history has served them well here, and their fine adaptation of the events of 1554 is a lesson to contemporary filmmakers that we need only to look in our history books to find the greatest stories...
...wise move by Edgar, much of Jane and Guilford's love story is left unscripted, director Nunn relying instead on long, music-filled shots of the two kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more modern Love Story whose protagonists played touch football in a snowy Harvard Stadium, these sequences are much more effective than the written word in capturing the quick, physical passion of adolescent love...
...NUNN'S EFFORTS would be entirely fruitless, however, were it not for the expertise and finesse Helena Bonham Carter in providing Jane with a credible range of emotions to complement the metamorphoses undergone by her character as she progresses from shy, introverted, young scholar to innocent bride to the ruler of England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading...