HARD TO ABSORB CHANGES MADE IN CLASSICS
April 09, 1999.

Having read the book long before Leonardo, just as I did Les Miserables before Andrew Webber, I was aware of artistic interpretations on the directors part. I was reared on heroes..those brave few who stood against odds and majority. I find it sadly missing today. It was evident in the "Mask." Good was Good to the bone...Bad was Bad to the Bone...It was a delight to watch it with my daughter and see her response to bright heroism sans dark under-tints. For myself, I question the saintliness of Aramis, he did after all, leave a 16 year old boy locked away for six years and offered only one, Someday I will ask your forgiveness... Leonardo is as daughter gleefully says, Easy to look at...and one has to absorb the changes made in classics, doesn’t one. It should be a one for all, and all for one world and if this was gleaned by even one adolescent or adult, all is forgiven