#peter firth

[worldofhurt]

Spooks (4x10)

[victorian-yaoi]

How have I not talked about why Dorian Gray 1976 is my favorite (and imo the most accurate) adaptation?!

I love it specifically for one thing: the Dorian and Alan scene

At first it feels fairly normal, nothing out of the ordinary for a movie from the 1970s

Then Dorian is standing in front of Alan, unbuttoning his jacket in a way I can only describe as sensual.

He sits with Alan, again fairly normal dialogue, very faithful to the book

Then, with the line "Alan, it was murder." It straight up. looks like Dorian is about to kiss Alan

And I always react very normally to that

Of course, there is more very heterosexual cuddling/pleading.

Then, once pleading doesn't work, Dorian starts the blackmailing.

After presenting the letter about vague immoral things that Dorian will send somewhere, Alan drops to his knees

...

After Alan has complied, he writes the note of supplies he needs which Dorian looks over and hands off. Then, he makes this face

Pookie

And for the grand finale:

And I don't ever scream and kick my feet when watching this. They also don't kiss which I am completely, totally okay with.

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Have you seen An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)?

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visual propaganda below:

[dhplover]

#OTD in 2008:

Harry: “Dum spiro spero.”

Lucas: “While I live I hope. Tattooing’s part of the culture in there. You don’t do it, you don’t belong – you don’t belong, you’re dead. They all mean something. There’s a specific iconography. Fascinating, really. So, how did Tom Quinn work out?”

Harry: “He took early retirement.”

Lucas: “How did you get me back, Harry?”

Harry: "We caught one of their top men accessing confidential files from the British Power Consortium. This is ahead of a substantial oil-supply deal between the UK and Russia. Very embarrassing for them. I used their embarrassment as collateral.”

Lucas: “You horse-traded.”

Harry: “You need rest.”

Lucas: “Welcome home to a safe house with a stained mattress and nylon sheets.”

Harry: “You’re malnourished, running on adrenaline. Close to exhaustion.”

Lucas: “So where do I go? You want me to go and watch pay-per-view in a Holiday Inn? Catch up on eight years of Coronation Street? Where do I go, Harry? What am I supposed to do when I get there? Just tell me and I’ll go and I’ll do it.”

Harry: “I’m giving you clearance till midnight on Sunday. After that, you rest. Then we’ll talk some more. Properly.”

Lucas: “Have you seen her?”

Harry: “She’s well…and happy.”

Lucas: "Meaning?”

Harry: "It’s good to see you, Lucas. You were missed.”

#Spooks 7.1

[ghostofthedistantfuture]

GOD BLESS AMERICA AN EBAY LISTING I FOUND OF AN AMADEUS PLAYBILL FROM WHEN PETER FIRTH PLAYED MOZART HAS A PHOTO OF HIM IN COSTUME GOD BLESS AMERICA I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SINCE LIKE FOREVER i dont even like america really ive just started saying that when excited

PLUS JOHN WOOD HELL YEAH I THOUGHT THERE WAS ONLY ONE PHOTO OF JOHN WOOD AND NONE OF PETER FIRTH

Update:

[commanderpeggymcgee]

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

John Green

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Leonard Nimoy, Peter Firth and Anthony Perkins at the closing night party for the Peter Shaffer Broadway play Equus on October 2nd, 1977. All three actors appeared in the production during its three year, 1,209 performance run, with Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Perkins, and Nimoy alternating as Dr. Martin Dysart opposite Firth as the troubled Alan Strang (Tom Hulce replaced Firth during the Broadway run when he left to star in the United Artists/Sidney Lumet film adaptation of Equus opposite Richard Burton; the movie was released on October 19th, 1977, a little over two weeks after this photo was taken). Perkins, it should be noted, as well as Firth, won Outer Critics Circle Awards in 1975 for Equus, as did the play.