“You’re quite right; life to me is just a spectacle, which—thank God, and thank Italy, and thank you—is now more beautiful and heartening than it has ever been before.”
Now available: the full extended cut of the 2/21 Zoom chat that Rupert Graves held with fans via @threepatchpodcast. Together, we raised over $2500 for the Trevor Project with that chat!
Listen to the audio here and follow along with the transcript. I had fun figuring out how to convey this actor’s repertoire of nonverbal grunts and grimaces! Includes discussion of that striped blazer from A Room with a View, his worst audition experience, his loathing of parsnips, and more. Tagging @expo63 for the fun of it!
It’s March, which means it’s time to celebrate(?) our Lockdowniversary! In which we sing sea shanties, chat with Rupert Graves, and reflect upon a year under lockdown. Shownotes, streaming and direct download information are available HEREatthree-patch.com. Subscribe via RSS, Apple podcasts or wherever you like to listen.
Featuring:
Our chat with Rupert Graves, which raised over $2500 for The Trevor Project!
Our new Life Beta 5+1, where consulting fans share real life experience for popular fanfic professions and genres. @fffinnagain moderates our inaugural segment on the theme of Therapy
@alexxphoenix42 hosts the Queerest Book Club in the World, this month discussing Red, White & Royal Blue with @cumberqueer and Science
Lockdown-themed Fandoms of Interest, featuring the BBC series Staged and the hit Philippine BL series Gameboys
Plus our very own sea-worthy fandom filk and other TPP extras!
Here it is! The shorter, edited version of the Zoom chat with Rupert Graves where he says of homophobes: “Just get over it. I mean, come on. Just grow up, everybody.” (You can’t see it, podcasts being audio-only, but then he gave the finger to homophobia. Yes, really.)
- From the 2/21/21 @threepatchpodcast Zoom chat between the magnificent Rupert Graves and an international gathering of online fans, a fundraiser for the Trevor Project crisis intervention hotline. Together, we raised over U.S. $2,300.
Audio from this chat will be released in Episode 114 of the Three Patch Podcast on March 1, 2021, along with an extended cut later in March.
CANDIDA by Shaw ; Rupert Graves (as Eugene Marchbanks) ; at The King’s Head Theatre Club, Islington, London, UK ; 06 December 1986 ; Credit: Sheila Burnett / ArenaPAL ; www.arenapal.com
This play. This play has swept up my imagination since I was 15 and I wish I could go back in time to see Rupert Graves draw out every anarchic facet of Marchbanks’ character to the very limits of human sweetness. Raw, stumbling, old. This actor is a magnifier of pure emotion and he can cram so many different and real ones into a single facial expression. These photos are good. They show me something real of what I’ve missed.
The girls were damned ugly, which the man wasn’t: somehow this made it worse, and he stared at the trio, feeling cruel and respectable; the girls broke away giggling, the man returned the stare furtively and then thought it safer to touch his cap; he had spoilt that little game. But they would meet again when he had passed, and all over the world girls would meet men, to kiss them and be kissed; might it not be better to alter his temperament and toe the line? He would decide after his visit—for against hope he was still hoping for something from Clive. - Maurice E.M. Forster, ch. 34
InMaurice, Forster writes ‘damned ugly’ only twice: here, and then again in Ch 37 when the Reverend Borenius slags off Alec: ‘If the parson hadn’t looked so damned ugly he wouldn’t have bothered, but he couldn’t stand that squinny face sneering at youth.’
Both times, ‘damned ugly’ is Maurice’s subjective feeling. The phrase arises only when he desires Alec but doesn’t realise, or when he feels an urge to defend Alec. I love the way Forster expresses Maurice’s growing but subliminal/disavowed attraction in double negatives. The girls were damned ugly, which the man wasn’t.
Alright, that was really nice! I actually liked the ways in which it deviated from the novel, i think it fleshed everything out just a tad more.
To readdress the carding/R rating saga, it’s 100% rated R where I live bc of full frontal, not the story as I had originally presumed.
(Can someone explain to me how ‘Maurice’ becomes 'Morris’)
Acting was great! i think they did Rupert a lil dirty with the dialogue and the accent (Alec doesn’t have a specific accent in the book does he?) Hugh grant was hugh grant but with a strange mustache. I’ve never seen James Wilby before but I really liked him!
Sets and costumes were nicely done and thank god there wasnt the usual English-film-pitch-black-fucking-lost-the-gaffer lighting!
I’m on a quest to read every Forster novel and watch every Merchant-Ivory film!
‘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.’
Found this picture in Nov, 1989, Japanese Screen magazine…
It says, “Even casual jacket and jeans can’t hide the elegance of James Wilby from the inside out! This time he brought us the movie A Summer Story. The upper class gentleman in the film is very suitable for the noble temperament of him. Besides, fans of Maurice will no doubt be exciting and looking forward to the film first show on TV in October.
<333@undinecissy I hope you’ve seen the open-shirted/lips-parted variant on this photo (clearly from the same shoot), in which James is posed next to a classical male statue (just in case anyone missed his beauty)? If not, you’re in for a treat. I bought a Hugh Grant Japanese fanbook to get it… :O
James is sunburnt as well as very open-shirted, making the ‘can’t hide the elegance … upper-class gentleman … noble temperament’ text even more amusing to me. ;)
As well as Mr Ashton in A Summer Story being (as already noted in this thread) a spineless cad, the Japanese Screenwriter might not have realised that this style of crushed linen ‘casual jacket and jeans’ and shirt without tie were almost an upper-middle-class-male English uniform in the mid-1980s. (See also James and Hugh in my Observer magazine scan, and the various shots of Hugh in an open-necked shirt/shorts/plimsolls at the 1987 Venice Film Festival.) Rupert, in contrast, isn’t from that background, and went for a very different Eighties style/s which and/or messed with anything ‘elegant’… [x] [x] [etc]
This story has been won and prompted by the wonderfully amazing @imagine-mystrade. I am so sorry, hon, that it took me forever to write this. Thank you so much for your patience and of course for your bidding and donation and your prompt. It kind of crashed into my imagination, took it hostage and ran away with it (meaning: I changed a few things. Sorry!) - So I really hope you like it ! *fingers crossed*
Prompt: So I’m thinking as a prompt Nick Savage as a young lawyer. He gets involved with the opposing counsel and they have a hot fling, both of them knowing that it can’t last. Then they meet each other in court?
The clicking sound of your heels against the marble floor echoing off these long hallways still manages to make your heart race. Even after all this time… After walking them for over twenty years now. It’s still exciting to be here, walking along these floors that so many people walked on before you. Crying, laughing, experiencing one of the best or worst days of their lives. Or just being stressed out of their minds which mostly seems to happen to yourself and your colleagues or anyone else being here for work and not for any other reason.
The courthouse is hundreds of years old now and you can’t help but feel it’s a privilege to work here. Even though it is stressful, even though some days are just shitty (and sometimes even worse) or even if you are haunted by ghosts from the past…
You nearly stumble over your feet and have to take a deep breath.
This is incredible! I feel like it is the mark of a great writer to take an idea, put their own spin on it, and make it even better than imagined! This is worth twice what I bid, and I am so grateful to have won your writing and gotten this amazing story!
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