Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary is a 1985 film directed by British Director John Irvin starring Glenda Jacksonand Ben Kingsley . The film is based on the novel by Russell Hoban and was adapted as a screenplay by Harold Pinter .



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == William Snow works as a salesman in a bookstore. Outside of working hours he will be staying in a guest house where he is regularly at odds with the other guests, in particular with Mr. Sandor, a Hungarian. Snow is blue on the carelessness of the man who fails to use the common stove or bath to clean. His spare time brings Snow in the London Zoo, LondonZoo. He is fascinated by the two large sea turtles stay in the Zoo for 30 years. William is initially not aware that there is still a schildpadfan walking around the Zoo, Neaera Duncan. Duncan is a writer and Illustrator of children's literature and lives in an apartment with her w. and a neighbor who is an expert in the field of snails. She is afraid that her talent is hit and are looking for distraction at the sea turtles. Snow and Duncan meet in the bookstore where the last want to buy a book about sea turtles. They are going to collectively to the aquarium and Duncan tells that the turtles have too little space and actually deeply unhappy. Gradually, the idea of the beautiful animals with them to escape to the sea. They receive help from the Sitter of the turtles. Snow goes to work and builds two enormous wooden crates to transport the animals. The escape plan gets delay as Miss Neap, another resident of Snows Inn, commits suicide. But not long after the Snow and Duncan succeed in to sea turtles to sea and letting it escape. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == Harold Pinter adapted the novel by Russell Hoban into a film scenario. He made it a story involving two individuals their own desire to escape from their narrow minded world projected onto two turtles. William Snow lives in a guest house where he is so annoying to the sloppy Sandor that it comes to blows. The Guest House is Snows universe where he is standing between his fellow sufferers. All boarders are lonely, not only miss Neap, Sandor and the spirited but also pension holding. Also on his work in the book store is Snow only. Although he draws the attention of his colleague Harriet, but their relationship is not really out of the paint. Neaera Duncan is a writer and Illustrator of children's literature and like Snow she is stuck in her life. She is the sole company a only w.. Apart from a chat with her quixotic neighbor or a conversation with her Publisher, she barely among the people. The sea turtles are the metaphor for the escape urge of Duncan and Snow. They are looking for a way out of their desperate existence and find way out in the escape of the turtles. Between Duncan and Snow creates no romance, there is no question of romantic love. Well there is the binding of two lonely people with a common goal.
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 * Glenda Jackson -Neaera Duncan
 * Ben Kingsley -William Snow
 * Richard Johnson -Mr. Johnson
 * Michael Gambon – George Fairbairn
 * Jeroen Krabbé -Mr. Sandor
 * Eleanor Source,-Miss Neap
 * Harriet Walter – Harriet Simms