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[b]Cynical (as ever) wrote:[/b]
[quote]A pivotal scene in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy’s ‘The Forsyte Saga’ is when the character of Soames forcibly took what his wife Irene refused to give him as part of her wifely duties, helped make the epic 26-part series...The actual scene itself is brutal without being explicit; Soames rips away Irene’s blouse and the camera cuts to a toothless old hag turning a barrel-organ in the street below during the act; when we return to the Forsyte bedchamber, the camera pans from a weeping Irene to a stunned Soames, horrified at what he has been reduced to.

More interestingly from a distance of almost fifty years, the nation was divided between those who sympathised with the predicament of Soames and those who sympathised with the predicament of Irene. A vox-pops survey of the Great British public screened as a ‘Late Night Line-Up’ debate on the contentious scene saw a remarkable degree of support for Soames from both sexes, with their argument being that Irene should have done her duty all along and she would have been spared the rape. It’s hard to imagine any support for this opinion in 2015.

http://annaraccoon.com/2015/01/30/when-yes-means-no/[/quote]

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Topic History of: Anna, the "R"-word from Forsyte to hindsight
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Cynical (as ever)

A pivotal scene in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy’s ‘The Forsyte Saga’ is when the character of Soames forcibly took what his wife Irene refused to give him as part of her wifely duties, helped make the epic 26-part series...The actual scene itself is brutal without being explicit; Soames rips away Irene’s blouse and the camera cuts to a toothless old hag turning a barrel-organ in the street below during the act; when we return to the Forsyte bedchamber, the camera pans from a weeping Irene to a stunned Soames, horrified at what he has been reduced to.

More interestingly from a distance of almost fifty years, the nation was divided between those who sympathised with the predicament of Soames and those who sympathised with the predicament of Irene. A vox-pops survey of the Great British public screened as a ‘Late Night Line-Up’ debate on the contentious scene saw a remarkable degree of support for Soames from both sexes, with their argument being that Irene should have done her duty all along and she would have been spared the rape. It’s hard to imagine any support for this opinion in 2015.

annaraccoon.com/2015/01/30/when-yes-means-no/