Why Terence Stamp and not Alan Bates on the cover?
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d.doherty — 14 years ago(February 06, 2012 12:41 AM)
Why on earth should Bates be on the cover of the DVD?
He played a minor role up till the last few minutes. Terry Stamp was her great love from the begining until the end. The film ends with a freeze frame on a figurine representing Sgt. Troy, while Bathsheba and Gabriel stand silent off screen. -
franzkabuki — 14 years ago(February 18, 2012 09:40 AM)
"He played a minor role up until the last few minutes. Terry Stamp was her great love from the beginning until the end".
The film that I saw had Bates as the leading man whom we followed around for the first half an hour while Stamp only made a couple of brief appearences until approximately an hour into the proceedings.
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Noirdame79 — 10 years ago(July 01, 2015 08:42 AM)
I agree, franzkabuki, that Bates was the real leading man of the film. Those who act like Oak is a minor character in this version clearly were not paying attention. Bathsheba realizes in the end how much Gabriel means to her and the prospect of losing him makes her see how foolish she has been. With Troy, it was one of those fiery, passionate romances that was already starting to burn out. She didn't really know Troy. Bathsheba's relationship with Gabriel was much deeper; he was the only man who loved her unselfishly. Anyone can see that he was the right man for her.
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akg96-1 — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 10:01 PM)
Like IMDb says, he's an icon of the 1960s, he dated the likes of Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot and Jean Shrimpto. That says a lot - popular, star power & culturally important in real life, not just a romantic mythology to appeal to those who have a thing for his look.