#A Handful Of Dust

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Rupert Graves as John Beaver in A Handful Of Dust, 1988. (Directed by Charles Sturridge)

[undinecissy]

Gettyimages released very beautiful pictures of A Handful of Dust(1988).

Photo taken by Murray Close on October 1st, 1987.

[josefksays]

James Wilby in A Handful of Dust (1988)

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Chapters: 65/? Fandom: Mass Effect Relationships: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian, Commander Shepard/Garrus Vakarian

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In the immediate aftermath of the confrontation, Garrus spared Shepard only a glance to make sure she had caught the unbroken artifact. Callahan was already on his knees beside the man who appeared to be the last of the Leviathan’s thralls. Garrus had no idea where the man fit in the hierarchy of the Callahan household, but he’d seen the way his appearance made Shepard wince, and she’d shot to startle and not to wound, despite everything the Leviathans had thrown at them so far, and the consequences of any leniency she had attempted to show.

The man moaned, and it said something about how messed up this particular mission was that the sound signaled the closest thing to victory they’d experienced since the shuttle touched down.

Aside from the gleaming silver orb still clutched in Shepard’s arms, of course.

Garrus was still on the fence about whether the artifact and the whole plan attached to its retrieval counted as victories. Too many variables. Too many suppositions.

Too much putting Shepard in danger. Like usual.

Just thinking about it brought to mind empty rooms and body bags and the consequences of flawed plans.

“Get him out of here,” Garrus said to Vega, more to stop the spiral of his thoughts than because the words needed speaking. “We don’t know what the radius is on that thing, but he doesn’t have the protection we do.”

Callahan finished applying a dose of medigel just as Vega approached and lifted the wounded man as if he weighed no more than a child.

“Take care of him,” Shepard added, low and hoarse, as if she’d been screaming for hours. “He was always kind to me.”

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[bluen3hey]

1988  A Handful of Dust

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A Handful of Dust (Charles Sturridge, 1988) Cast: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Anjelica Huston, Pip Torrens, Stephen Fry, Jackson Kyle, Christopher Godwin. Screenplay: Tim Sullivan, Derek Granger, Charles Sturridge, based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh. Cinematography: Peter Hannan. Production design: Eileen Diss, Chris Townsend. Film editing: Peter Coulson. Music: George Fenton. Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a sharp-edged, cold-hearted satirical novel whose plot turns on the death of a child. Any adaptation needs to be willing to be as ruthless as the novelist in its portrait of the feckless upper classes of Great Britain in the period between two World Wars, but instead Charles Sturridge's version gives us yet another handsomely mounted, elegantly clad film in the Merchant Ivory vein -- without the intelligence of Ismail Merchant's producing, James Ivory's direction, and particularly Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplays, which managed to capture the tone of the novels they adapted with precision. Its leads, James Wilby as the ill-fated Tony Last and Kristin Scott Thomas as his unfaithful wife, Brenda, are handsome but a little too attractive to capture the fatal emptiness of the characters. Scott Thomas almost suggests the depths of Brenda's vanity in the crucial scene in which she receives the news of her young son's death -- at first she thinks she's being told that her lover has died, but when she hears that it's her son, she impulsively mutters, "Oh, thank God," before realizing the enormity of what she has just said. Unfortunately, Sturridge hasn't prepared us for the moment -- he has made Brenda too engaging a character for so wicked a reaction. Nor has Sturridge allowed Tony to be enough of a silly ass for him to deserve the fate he receives at the end of the film. The supporting players fare better: Rupert Graves lets us know from the start that John Beaver is a callow gold-digger; Judi Dench is suitably brassy as his upwardly mobile mother; and Alec Guinness makes a convincingly subtle monster out of Mr. Todd. Anjelica Huston brings her usual smartness to what amounts to a cameo role as Mrs. Rattery, a rich American whose perspective on the Brits and their preoccupation with class and the past opens Tony's eyes, even if a bit too late. Unfortunately, any substance that the film carries over from Waugh's novel has been slicked over with glossy production values and sapped by a timidity about depicting the characters as sharply as the author did.

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Mr. Todd

Brother: Mr. Todd. I hope he calls him that in real life.

Me: Ha ha, that's fucking hilarious. That said, Mr. Todd is the name of an old dude in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust who keeps the hero captive against his will and stops him from going back to his home country, so I'm just going to assume César is making a coded literary reference.

Brother: I was hoping for a Mr. Toad’s reference. Mr. Todd's wild ride.

[celestialalpacaron]

Behave yourselves BOTH OF YOU 💀 Anyways have this crumb while I work on the main Overlord Husk AU comic lolol

[an-admiring-bog]

fascinating little excerpt from Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust. what are you doing to him

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby & Sporting: Part One: 1. Maurice (1987): Boxing 2. Woman In White (1997): Croquet 3. Cotton Mary (1999): Tennis 4. A Handful Of Dust: (1988): Diving 5. Adam Bede (1992): Horse Riding 6. Caccia Alla Vedova/The Siege Of Venice (1991): Fencing 7. Gosford Park (2000): Shooting 8. Regeneration (1997): Golf 9. You Me And It (1993): Cricket 10. Dutch Girls (1985): Field Hockey

[undinecissy]

A vintage programme.

Faust, performed at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London From March 1988.

It starred Simon Callow in the title role. Also in the cast were Alyson Spiro, Peter Lindford, Paul Brightwell, Caroline Bliss, Jack Ellis and a very young Andy Serkis.

One of the inserts has two signatures. One is James Wilby and the other is Rupert Graves who were in the audience and friends of Simon Callow.

I guess it was during the period when they filmed A Handful of Dust.

That reminds me of the famous scene in the British Museum with Mr. Ducie. LOL

[josefksays]

Rupert Graves in A Handful of Dust (1988)

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I'm feelin soft 🥲

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[toffyrats]

bros been holding that in since 1929

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Angel: I love your bigass, unkempt eyebrows.

Husk: I love your small flat ass.

Angel: I love how you cough a hairball every morning as soon as you get up from bed.

Husk: I love how you clog the shower drain with all the hair you shed every day.

Angel: I love how you own one pair of pants and never wash them.

Husk: I love how you use every pot and pan in the kitchen when cooking and never clean up after yourself.

Charlie, watching from afar: Hey, uh, are they alright? Sounds like they're fighting.

Vaggie: Nah, they're good.

Vaggie: None of them have ever dated anyone who they could be honest to, so they're unloading.

Vaggie: They do it once a week.