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Maurice (1987) + corresponding quotes from the novel by E. M. Forster

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maurice (1987) dir. james ivory

“i suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.”

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Typescript of the 1932 version of Maurice by E M Forster, with autograph manuscript alterations and additions made c. 1959

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PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION WEEK Day 1: Favourite film Maurice (1987)

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"Maurice's mother lived near London, in a comfortable villa among some pines. There he and his sisters had been born, and thence his father had gone up to business every day, thither returning."

maurice (1987) + the hall's house

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Maurice I 1988 Academy Awards Nominee for Best Costume Design (Jenny Beavan, John Bright)

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maurice: [shows up at clive’s house entirely unprompted without invitation in the middle of the night] hey clive i just wanted to let you know that i’m in love with your gamekeeper, we had sex in your house, and also we’re running away to live in the woods together . also why can’t you MIND your own BUSINESS

clive:

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I would have gone through life half-awake, if only you’d had the decency to leave me alone.

— Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

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This photo of James Wilby and Hugh Grant on set of Maurice in 1987 is something that can actually be so personal

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“Featherstonhaugh, I think I’m gonna eat one of your apples.”

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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED — 1.01

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“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now…”

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— I’ve never been to the botanical gardens. — Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn.

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re-imagined maurice (1987) posters

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You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now, and he’s mine in a way that shocks you… but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

MAURICE (1987) dir. James Ivory

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Toffs And Their Well-Dressed Troubles.

Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons, 1981.