A Room with a View doodles! I can’t say I think it’s a fantastic book, but I enjoyed it immensely. And I’m really starting to get into Forster in general.
Alec being kissed and lifted off the ground mid-kiss, his arm wrapped around Maurice.
So many scenes in gorgeous film I had to go back and view again (and again and again)
I remember reading from James Wilby that this scene was actually filmed on only day three or four , so they didn’t really even know each other!
They had dinner at a restaurant and spoke on everything but that scene.. James asked “do you think we should just go for it?” And, in Rupert’s typical, wonderful fashion, he just said “yup” and they did it.. James’ actual quote was along the lines of “he stuck his tongue down my throat, and that was the end of that!”
(Rupert also caused the bed to break in the other scene… Good Lord..)
Maurice as a book will always be my favourite and the film was bloody fantastic too! The cast were gorgeously chosen and suited the characters perfectly. Forster would have been so proud.. I even have a tattoo of Forster himself I just love it all
(And this kissing scene at the end makes me cry so much because we didn’t get that in the book, but it was so beautiful I’ve never been more happy that they strayed from the novel )
“I have shared with Alec,” [Maurice] said after deep thought. “Shared what?” Google asked. “All I have. Which includes my body.” Google sprang up with a whimper of disgust.
allow me to offer this trio of gifs from three of my favorite scenes
they all make me sensibly chuckle, this movie is a treat
Ah yes, Clive biffing Maurice over the head with his political speech. This is at least the second instance of closet!Clive getting inappropriately physical with Maurice when Maurice would really prefer not. (See also ‘Hail fellow!’ and the unsolicited hair-ruffling in the Russet Room.)
@ultra-rockart It would be amusing there *was* a scene in which Maurice biffs Clive over the head with a Conservative Party electoral speech, but … nope.
If you mean Maurice’s earlier physicality with Clive, there are many differences, not least that whole-hearted physicality is integral to Maurice’s personality, while Clive is the opposite. 20-year-old Maurice does it in the spontaneous flush of first love and clumsy desire. The ‘mature’ Clive only starts the biffing/hair-ruffling after he’s married and no longer interested in Maurice – and Clive specifically does this in scenes in which he believes (wrongly) that Maurice has found a ‘girl’ to marry.
Younger Clive’s unreadiness for Maurice’s physicality is a red flag that this be an issue for the future of their relationship. Older Clive’s sexless physicality comes at the precise moment when Maurice is pulling away from Clive – and Clive’s teaching – and about to take a different path. This becomes fully clear in Maurice’s speech in their final scene together, where (as many viewers have observed) Maurice has gained all the intellectual confidence, eloquence and authority which were once Clive’s.
