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℘ ﹒ Maurice ( 1987 ) cast as LPS 𝜗℘ 𓈒 🎞️

Homophobic tw 😒😒😒

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"Block don't report"

You're posting abt You're fantasies and desire to groom someone.

Wtf do you mean block don't report.

You're getting fuckin reported.

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"you made a fool out of me, and I can make you sorry for it"

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HUGH GRANT & JAMES WILBY  as CLIVE DURHAM & MAURICE HALL in MAURICE (1987), dir. James Ivory

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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL WITH MADS MIKKELSEN​​

Global Ambassador Mads Mikkelsen captured at the iconic Hôtel Martinez.​ He wears an all-black ensemble of Trofeo™ silk and wool tuxedo suit, Trofeo™ silk shirt, and leather Vienna evening shoes.​​ Photography: Saskia Lawaks credits to ZEGNA, X, GalaFr

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I do appreciate that Alec saw Maurice and was like “I want that one.” like, I totally would have gotten the ick if I wished a guy happy birthday and he sneered at me but Alec was immediately committed to seeing this through when if Maurice was initially a rich dickhead about it.

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i love alec i really do

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Realising that Maurice's speech to Clive Durham in the garden, where he tells Clive that he shagged the sexy gameskeeper in Clive's house while Clive was away, and now they're in love forever and ever while Clive has to pretend to love his wife every day, before Maurice literally vanishes into the night is essentially 1914's version of Good Luck, Babe!

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Sweet Moments Between Maurice and Alec That You Have Not Seen Before (From E.M. Forster's 1st Draft for Maurice)

Context: Forster's first version of Maurice, finished in 1914, has a rather different ending than the final published version (no hotel scene, and no boathouse reunion). See here.

Forster's first draft for Maurice is, in my opinion, the rawest in terms of boldly displaying the love shared between Maurice and Alec. This version shows much more of Alec's emotion and tenderness, as well as of Maurice's sentiments and affection towards Alec. It is definitely not as subtle as the final version, with quite a few straightforward declarations of love.

Hence, I'm disappointed that Forster did not manage to integrate at least some of these 1914 texts into the final version: it would've made the love between Maurice and Alec much more pronounced and convincing, as well as made Alec a character with more depth and feelings.

Having read Forster's first draft for Maurice, I share below some of these moments between Maurice and Alec that are not in the final version (ordered on how lovely I think each moment is. Bolded texts are the highlights).

1. After running into Mr. Ducie in the museum and Maurice bursting out to Alec.

M: "I'd possibly have blown out my own brains."

A: "Why?" he asked, stopping dead.

M: "I should have known by that time that I loved you."

A: "You can't, sir, you couldn't."

M: "I love you, sir be damned."

A: "Maurice"—never before had the word been spoken—"you're an angel."

M: "I don't want to hear that."

A: "Maurice, Maurice" his voice failed also; he had once said the rest to a woman. "Maurice - what you've said I feel. Understand?"

M: "I think so, but I want to be sure. Remember those rose bushes in the other rain? - Look at me hard - That's right. That'll do. It's settled." (Maurice is referring to the moment when Alec ran in the rain across the rose bushes at Penge just to see Maurice's face.)

2. The conversation after Maurice refuses to stay the night with Alec—a scenario that only happens in the first draft in 1914. Be prepared for tears.

A: "Come just for a little to me."

M: "If I came it would be for ever."

A: "Ever's the best."

M: "Why, man, you sail Thursday."

Alec found no answer.

...: here's when Maurice explains in a long paragraph why they can't be together because of their class difference and the fact that they're both men. But in this long paragraph Maurice pretty much brings up wanting to marry Alec—"We can't have the particular thing we want (which is roughly speaking marriage) unless we sacrifice something else"

M: I thought from that letter of yours you might want me to come. But, Alec, come where to?"

A: "I'd know if you weren't a gentleman," Alec said. "We'd a' found work together as mates."

M: "Yes, and if you were a gentleman, I'd take you this minute to my home.

A: "I'd a' been what young Clive was to you, then."

M: "He's a saint and we aren't. Leave out him."

A: "I'd a' been yours till death, then." ("I would've been yours till death, then")

M: "Out there if you get a chance to marry, take it. That's what I wish.

A: "Maurice, what'll you do without me, dear? Have you no other friends?"

Maurice dared not look forward to his own future. He rushed on the parting.

M: "And if there's ever a child, I shan't ever have that, so remember me."

A: "I'll remember you, child or none. God bless you. O God bless you, and be with you if I can't."

3. Right after Maurice puts his hand on Alec's back in the museum

"Yes, awfully serious," remarked Maurice, and rested his hand on Alec's shoulder, so that the fingers touched the back of the neck, doing this merely because he knew that he loved Alec, that he loved him not as a second Dickie Barry, but deeply, tenderly, for his own sake, beneath weakness and vulgarity.

4. In the museum, Alec in pain and acting cute

[Alec] had bitten his lip, his eyes were red too; face and body were cramped with pain.

M: "Alec -"

A: "Alec am I?"

M: "I'm sorry I used that other name of yours."

A: "Don't speak to me," he growled, "let me go, you calling me Alec when I"

M: "Did you give me away then on purpose?"

A: "You're correct.

M: "Was it to get money - or only to do me harm?"

A: "I couldn't say."

M: "Come, let's get away where we can finish our talk."

A: "What? What do you say?"

M: "Come along, Alec."

A: "Do you call me that still?"

M: "Come away, man, don't break down for God's sake...." He took hold of [Alec's] arm. The touch was not reminiscent; it hinted at a relation to come.

A: "Oh but you must, I want it." Alec yielded.

5. Maurice at night thinking about Alec's letter

He tried to forget the treacherous letter, but it stole back to his mind, and he suffered most during moments in bed, when it masqueraded as a real love letter, and offered him the completeness that Clive enjoyed with Anne.

(This is brilliant writing because we, as readers, know that Alec's letter is a love letter, yet Maurice's "muddles" prevent him from seeing it as a love letter, and it is only at night, when he's craving Alec's presence, that he's able to allow himself to see the truth and succumb to his feelings for Alec.

Here, again, is also a suggestion of Maurice wanting to marry Alec, like how Clive married Anne)

6. One version of Maurice's and Alec's first night together

A: "Good evening - sir, said the low voice. Was you wanting something? Couldn't you sleep?" It was the gamekeeper.

On your rounds? gasped Maurice, trying to sound natural, and felt corduroys. Their touch disconcerted him. Whither was he tending from Clive into what companionship?

A: "Just wait till I've set down my gun - eh aren't you trembling?"

M: "So are you - ah don't."

A: "Don't you like that?"

M: "I don't know."

A: "Christ you're fussy. Don't you like me to touch you."

M: "That's you lad."

A: "Yes."

Side notes: hopefully these will shut all the detractors (of the relationship between Maurice and Alec) up—namely Clive apologists, Clive+Maurice shippers, and all of those dark academia classist out there.

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Thats just his first time living 💔

Hannibal Lecter is a mature, intellectual sophisticate, but he's also such a child. He examines and pokes and prods and cracks people open just because he wants to, gets himself into situations just for fun, like a curious little kid in that stage of psychological development where they start learning that actions have effects and consequences so they begin to do things purely to see what will happen - except his actions lack that innocence, because he's now an adult and you really shouldn't be cracking people open like that, Hannibal.

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(　ཫ　.　ᵔ　)　maurice ﹒ 1987 　— 　Alec n Maurice ( relationship ) edit　🏷️　

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Another hint to his conversion can be seen in the evening before he goes to Greece. He is much irritated by Maurice. It is obvious that Maurice’s slowness, his compassion, his never failing care for him disgusts him. He shows the symptoms of a disillusioned lover who now sees the shortcomings of his partner as if under a magnifying glass, and thus he cannot be kind anymore. “He would make slightly malicious remarks, and use his intimate knowledge to wound.”[46] Again, there is a deleted scene in the film in which this disillusionment is acted out by Hugh Grant in a superb way. The night before leaving for Greece Clive reveals his torturing thoughts. He is considering the fact that if there is Hell he and Maurice might end up there instead of lying peacefully in their graves. But as always, Maurice is not able to follow his reasoning so Clive starts to mock him. “Well then, what did you care about in me?...Let’s hear!... Is it my beauty?... These somewhat faded charms. Hair’s falling out, are you aware?” But this mocking sounds more like self irony as he knows that his old self is getting thinner and thinner. The reason why Ivory let this scene be cut from the final version of the film is that the inserted part with Lord Risley’s scandal provides ample motivation for Clive to change his mind, as we will see later on.

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That’s exactly what I was thinking on my second rewatch omg

Recurring Musical Motif

One thing I absolutely adore with the Maurice 1987 soundtrack is the recurring melody that plays at different points of the movie. In the song, "Prologue: The Lesson", there is that original introduction of what I consider Maurice's musical motif/theme. The way I see it, the motif plays when Maurice is feeling fulfilled and loved, or when he feels like himself. He was given presents by his classmates and teachers, henceforth feeling fulfilled and loved. This motif does not play again fully until later in the movie because even though Maurice loved and was loved by Clive, he was not feeling fulfilled, at least not in the scenes we see.

Sometimes small amounts of Maurice's motif will show up in the music. For examples, that similar motif plays during his nightmare, "A Moonlit Night."

However, the full portion of his motif doesn't play until "The Boathouse." This is when he is reunited with Alec after he thought he would never see him again. That familiar motif then slowly creeps it's way in, connecting the music back to the idea of Maurice feeling fulfilled. When the end credits start to roll the fully fleshed out version of Maurice's motif/theme starts to play.

To me, the music is the way it is because Maurice is finally feeling fulfilled and happy. He's feeling like himself. Maurice found someone who will love him without fear and would sacrifice so much just for him. It is a wonderful ending to the bittersweet story in which the music gives us a big finish at the end.

Even if it was not intentional, the musical storytelling that occurs is one of my favorites. The music helps paint a picture and it was perfect in Maurice 1987.

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Catholic fans can you explain to me how the pope regenerates and if I need to start at St Peter or if I can just watch the new season please

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yall aint ready when imma watch the movie every single day n note down every single parapal ill be seein

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Alec Scudder moodboard with creek related images

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