Thompson’s stunt double threw herself again and again out of the moving car, and we went back a hundred yards or so to the cottage, child, and “dead” dog in order to shoot the moment the big wheel struck it. It being an open car, Margaret stands up in it and leaps out, onto the grass verge, as Charles shouts at this woman in revolt, “What will my father say?”Īll of this was shot-though a bit scrappily, as we had waited until the end of the day-when the sun was sinking, and we felt pressed to get done before we lost the light. Charles ignores this, and the driver goes faster. “We must have brushed a cat.” But Margaret is sure that it was not nothing, and she tells Charles again to stop the car. “It was nothing,” he replies, then tells the chauffeur to step on the gas. Margaret, at once aware that something is wrong, asks Charles, “What was that?” Looking back from the open Edwardian touring car, she can just see the wailing child crouching over something at the edge of the road. Forster as being no more than a bump under the heavy car and a fast-receding scream as a child runs out of her cottage. A good example of this is the famous sequence in the novel-not the film- Howards End, when the insufferable Charles Wilcox (played in the film by James Wilby), driving through the English countryside with his father’s fiancée, Margaret Schlegel (played by Emma Thompson), whom he hates, runs over a dog. But, it turns out during shooting, despite all your enthusiasm and planning, you discover too late that you have not carefully thought through one of these favorite scenes, and you end up defeated by it. Once committed to the project, you duly transfer the scenes to the screenplay, and in pleasurable anticipation, you round up the right actors. Presumably, when you set out to turn a favorite novel into a film, it’s mostly because of the wonderful scenes that you look forward to shooting taken all together, they are the reason for making the film in the first place. Adapting a work of fiction can have its disappointments for a director.
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