I'm thankful it's into your hands I fell

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[pnglove]

[davinaclaires]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 , dir. Peter Jackson

[shesnake]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

[mintmatcha]

you guys have to get more weird. it's genuinely not hurting anyone. get weirder. get horny and sexual with it. get violent, get horrifying, get scared, get sad.

[liketheysay]

What if I told you this was the most beautiful photo I’ve ever taken.. what then

[oscarskirt]

Maurice (1987) - directed by James Ivory

[filmaticbby]

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears

[kitconnor]

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE / PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU Dir. Céline Sciamma (2019)

[ironmaidenhead]

FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926) — Dir. Clarence Brown

[liketheysay]

Maurice (1987), dir. James Ivory, cinematography by Pierre Lhomme.

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[evening-primroses]

“[on intimacy in Maurice] … there’s a moment where . . where Maurice and Clive, played by Hugh, they hold each other, there’s a clumsy - not even a kiss, I don’t think the mouths even meet. The real person that the sort of proper sex scenes, as it were, are between Maurice and Scudder, played by Rupert, so - and Rupert’s one of those very easy actors and very pliable, if I may say the wo- use that word, he’s you know - if I hold - if I held Rupert, he would be holding me back. It was very - he was very physically easy to be with, I found it very easy to do those scenes, extraordinarily easy. We built up a rapport, he makes me laugh, Rupert, he always has done … ”

‘Great British Film - Merchant Ivory Memories - James Wilby on playing Maurice’ from Distinct Nostalgia by MIM

[thereignclub-trc]

I just want to remind you that sometimes your life really doesn't begin until you are 26+... Romanticizing and obsessing over our youth is harmful. Growing up is beautiful. Discovering who you are and how you interact with the world is a gift. Maturing and learning what you truly want out of life and living in that purpose brings fulfillment and peace. Your life is not over in your early 20's because you haven't figured it out yet, it's just beginning.

[expo63]

‘During and after my illness I must have been a delightful companion. But you were so wonderfully considerate. You never snubbed me as you did your family at dinner. [Clive throws the card at Maurice’s head.] What’s the matter now – are you tired?’

For everyone who’s ever strived to be even-handed about Clive Durham in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987), let’s be thankful that this, the most corrosive of all Maurice’s deleted scenes (‘The Night Before Greece’) wasn’t included in the released cut.

I’m not entirely thankful, because the acting in this scene is agonisingly superb, and makes it painfully clear how toxic Maurice/Clive’s relationship has become before their break-up.  But it also shows us a Clive who’s not merely irritating and contemptible but a cruel, goading bitch.

[liketheysay]

I’m absolutely guilty of liking Clive— well, I can’t say it’s so much liking him as it is appreciating him and his role in the story, if that at all makes sense. Admittedly my ideal Clive is one that’s a mix of movie-Clive & book-Clive. To me, he’s the most human character in the whole story. Unlike Maurice, he can’t find it in him to risk it all for sake of love. He’s too frightened about what it would to do his social standing (with Risley being the prime example, in the movie at least), his name, and his own conscience. He’s really a master of self-deception, and I find his faults (if not somewhat unheroic and just plain stupid) completely humanizing and believable. 

Clive understood his sexuality and aversion to the church very early on in his life— he suffered because of this and taught Maurice to suffer, too. However, Maurice being the more sentimental of the two, this self-pitying state wasn’t good enough to survive on. The fact that Maurice climbed above the mountains and Clive remained shrouded beneath them, thus without living honestly to himself, makes me feel for Clive. He’s a complete dick, yes, and I adore Alec & his relationship with Maurice, but they likely wouldn’t have happened if Clive didn’t provide a perfect foil for Maurice and his ultimate sacrifice. 

In my mind, Maurice kept Clive awake and true to himself. After Clive got ill and went away by himself, fear got the better of him. By the end of the book, Clive has grown backwards into what Maurice once described as ‘flat pieces of cardboard.’ Like Forster wrote in the afterword of the book, Clive intends no evil, but is just so consistently damn infuriating because he keeps making the wrong choices! And I helplessly find that equally endearing and frustrating.

So there’s my completely uncalled for two-cents!

[userarmand]

andrew scott & paul mescal behind the scenes of their out magazine shoot

[liketheysay]

Might be acquiring a first edition print of Maurice soon, I can hardly contain my excitement!! 🥰

[liketheysay]

Excuse me while I hyperventilate 🥲

[liketheysay]

Might be acquiring a first edition print of Maurice soon, I can hardly contain my excitement!! 🥰

[liketheysay]

“But as he returned to his bed a little noise sounded, a noise so intimate that it might have arisen inside his own body. He seemed to crackle and burn and saw the ladder’s top quivering against the moonlit air. The head and the shoulders of a man rose up, paused, a gun was leant against the window sill very carefully, and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, “Sir, was you calling out for me?… Sir, I know…. I know,” and touched him” (Maurice, Ch. 37, E.M. Forster).

(screen caps via screenmusings.org).