#edwardian sexual practice
Alec being kissed and lifted off the ground mid-kiss, his arm wrapped around Maurice.
So many scenes in this gorgeous film I had to go back and view again (and again and again)
@mycrofts-gunbrellaItkillsme that James and Rupert have been ‘competing’ over this for literally decades. <33
Here’s James way back in Oct 1987:
‘It was on the third* day of shooting that he first met Rupert Graves to discuss the physical side of their relationship over dinner** with James Ivory. The director instructed them*** in Edwardian practice: mutual masturbation was in; oral sex was out. Kissing was out, too; nevertheless, Ivory felt that the two men should kiss at the end to show the depth of their emotions. “Rupert and I were strangers,” so we ummed around the subject a bit, then I said, ‘I think they really go for it,’ and Rupert said, ‘so do I.’ That’s how we did it.”’ [X]
*As a warm-up, Maurice/Alec’s first encounter, the greenhouse deleted scene, was shot on Day 1
**Curry
***‘Instructed them’ debateably, if we compare this advice with some of what Oscar Wilde reputedly got up to: ‘Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.’
