#lord goring

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Lord Goring, you have captured my heart.

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just watched a slime tutorial/bootleg of a production "an ideal husband" by oscar wilde, loved it, it was funny, witty and very charming. freddie fox was darling in it and i genuinely laughed many times and would watch it again.

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Hey Brett admirers! I found more of him on YouTube, and remastered no less!

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An Ideal Husband (1999)

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An Ideal Husband, also known as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, is a 1947 British comedy film adaptation of the 1895 play by Oscar Wilde.

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locking Benedick, Beatrice of Messina, Howl Movingcastle, Sylvester Cross, and Arthur Goring in a room to see what happens

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“An ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde: Review

This book could have been really amazing if it wasn't for it happy ending which ruined everything.

Mrs Cheveley and Lord Goring deserved to be together (page 55 to 59), they have an incredible dynamic/chemistry. Even Sir Robert Chiltern agrees to this "You are well suited to each other". I really didn't see coming his affection for Miss Mabel Chiltern, that was absurd (page 67, 68) and even Sir Robert Chiltern agrees to it, "Arthur cannot bring Mabel the love that she deserves."

Until this point, I'm still wondering the morality of the story (page 78). At least Les liaisons dangereuses is far more better and ended way better.

The book is full sarcasm, with surreal conversations.

Also, why introduce Vicomte de Nanjac at the beginning of the story to never hearing from him ever again (page 4)?

It is said at page viii that "The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours", but at page 71, Sir Robert Chiltern said "For two days I have been in terror". Consequently the action of the play took place during forty-two hours (2 full day). So there is something wrong.

Here a passage that described Lord Goring to perfection, "Why, he rides in the Row at ten o'clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes hi clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you? (page 2)" and the other one at page 7, "Thirty-four, but always says he is younger. A wellbred, expressionless face. He is clever, but would not like to be thought so. A flawless dandy, he would be annoyed if he were considered romantic. He plays with life, and is on perfectly good terms with the world. He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage." (A modern Andréa - Hell)

Mrs Cheveley is "a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night", Lord Goring's words. I like Mrs Cheveley's mind too, trying to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern in order to get what she wants (page 15-16). She is so damn cunning. At page 26, I thought she was a spy, but I was wrong. There is one thing I didn't understand, it's Mrs Cheveley's relationship with Baron Arnheim (page 52).

Poor Lady Chiltern, jealous (page 20) and naive (page 23 and 43), and of course she is discovered everything and react poorly (page 30).  

The title "Ideal (husband)" is mentioned at page 22, 43 and 48.

The mystery of the diamant bracelet is revealed at page 60. And I thought innocently that Lord Goring gifted her the bracelet, oh wrong of me.

At the end (page 75), Lord Goring is using Mrs Cheveley's tactics to obtain what he wants. But when he does it, it's ok, nevertheless when Mrs Cheveley's does it it is wrong. Shame.

Beautiful quotes: - Page 1: "Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere." - Page 3: "Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be." - Page 5: "Oh! Mrs Cheveley goes everywhere there, and has such pleasant scandals about all her friends." - Page 6: "To attempt to classify you, Mrs Cheveley, would be an impertinence. But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us nowadays." & "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." - Page 16: "I will give you any sum of money you want. Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is." - Page 17: "English men always get romantic after a meal, and that bores me dreadfully." - Page 21: "One's past is what one is", "Robert are you telling me the whole truth? Why do you ask me such a question? Why do you ask me such a question? Why do you not answer it?" & "I am not changed. But circumstances alter things." - Page 25: "Well, at the worst it would simply be a psychological experiment. All such experiments are terribly dangerous. Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. It it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living...", "Men who every day do something of the same kind themselves. Men who, each one of them, have worse secrets in their own lives. That is the reason they are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own" & "Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not". - Page 28: "I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood." - Page 33: "Of which I know nothing by experience, though I know something by observation." - Page 35: "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." - Page 37: "What a dreadful prospect." - Page 38: "The higher education of men is what I should like to see. Men need it so sadly. They do, dear. But I am afraid such a scheme would be quite unpractical. I don't think man has much capacity for development." - Page 41: "Do you know, Gertrude, I don't mind your talking morality a bit. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that. And I have always detested you. And yet I have come here to do you a service" & "In this world like meets like. It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together. Between you and him there are chasms. He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us." - Page 46: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance, Phipps". - Page 47: "However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. I am not expected at the Bachelors', so I shall certainly go there", "Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time?" & "During the Season, I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday in every month, from four to seven." - Page 48: "Bachelors are not fashionable any more. They are a damaged lot. Too much is known about them." - Page 51: "My dear father, if I am to get married, surely you will allow me to choose the time, place, and person? Particularly the person", "In married life affection comes when people thoroughly dislike each other, father, doesn't it?" - Page 52: "Oh! Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead." - Page 55: "You are mad. What have I to do with her intrigues with you? Let her remain your mistress! You are well suited to each other. She, corrupt and shameful - you, false as a friend, treacherous as an enemy even" "I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. Oh pray don't. One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening." - Page 57: "My dear Mrs Cheveley, you have always been far too clever to know anything about love", "I don't mind bad husbands. I have had two. They amused me immensely" & "When I saw you last night at the Chilterns'. I knew you were the only person I had ever cared for, I ever have cared for anybody, Arthur." - Page 58: "Oh there is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband" & "Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little. It is a commercial transaction. That is all. There is no good mixing sentimentality in it. I offered to sell Robert Chiltern a certain thing. If he won't pay me my price, he will have to pay the world a greater price." - Page 64: "My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time not one's own." - Page 65: "Why don't you try to do something useful in life? I am far too young. I hate this affection of youth, sir. It is a great deal too prevalent nowadays. Youth isn't an affectation. Youth is an art." - Page 76: "Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken."

What a waste this end.

Bonsoir. Thank you, next.

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Thursday, An Ideal Husband (BBC Play of The Month, 1969) Lord Goring for all- Part 11

Sceencaps from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO8XoA4o5R4&t=4s