Winterbottom has filmed new version of Hardy
The European premiere of "Trishna" - so English Tess has been renamed on the Indian style by Winterbottom - was held in London on Saturday, October 22. It was found that between England and 19th century modern India there are much in common - scary industrialization, poverty, illiteracy and rural women and attitudes toward women as property.
Trishna played by Frieda Pinto - the girl from a poor village somewhere in the desert and barren Rajasthan. If in the original novel of Hardy, the whole story begins with the death of a horse, without which the family can’t subsist, then Winterbottom begins with an accident: a new jeep, driven by a drunken asleep Trishna’s father has faced with a truck. The father is in the hospital, the girl impose plaster. The jeep is in loan and the family has to pay a lot of money for it. About the incident finds a new friend of Trishna - Jay, son of hotel mogul, who lived all his life in the UK and came to India with his friends.
He offers Trishna to work in a hotel of his father in Jaipur.
And then the story develops almost like in Hardy - Jay seduces inexperienced and unable to resist girl, she first goes back home, but then again returns to her seducer. But Winterbottom removed from the plot of another goodie - Angel.
"The Hardy has clear distinction between physical and spiritual. It is too simple, I wanted to connect the two sides in one person - told of his decision director and screenwriter Winterbottom at a press conference. - And I thought that Riz Ahmed will be able to convey this complexity. Generally, there was no casting. I immediately offered the roles to Robe and Frida, and then I just had to convince them to act. "
Passivity of then Tess and today Trishna invariably raises the question of emancipated from the spectators: why does not she break the vicious circle, when she starts to be used as a sex toy?
"She has a hope- say for her heroine Frieda Pinto. - She hopes that Jay will change and become the same as he was - who loves her. And then, she has no choice - it is already committed to one man and can’t return home. "
"Jay for me - not an Indian, namely, a Briton who moved to India as a tourist. He is the son of a rich man, he still gets everything very easily and he is spoiled by luxury. He simply did not have the imagination to imagine what might have Trishna. This, I would say the quality of British"- shared his vision Winterbottom.
This is the third film adaptation of Hardy's works on the account of the British film director.