Maurice is one of my favourite films. I rented it a dozen times before I got my own copy, and lost count of how many times i read the book.
In answer to your questions.., well.. 1. - I don't know! 2. - Hugh Grant was sweet in this, probably the only time I've really liked him in anything - Maurice just wasn't the type of film to rocket anyone in the stratosphere I don't think.. 3. - Check out http://imdb.com/name/nm0928134/ (copy and paste it) for james Wilby and http://imdb.com/name/nm0001291/ for Rupert Graves - especially of note is Different for Girls, in which Ruperts character falls in love with an old school friend - who is now a post operative male-female transexual (played by Stephen Waddington), Also Regeneration, which starts James Wilby, Jonathon Pryce and Johnny Lee Miller, and is worth a watch (no boytouching, but a lot of subtext, based, as it was in truth) 4. - A note by the author, published in the Penguin Books edition reads: "The chapter after their reunion, where Maurice ticks off Clive, is the only possible end to the book. I did not always think so, nor did others, and I was encouraged to write an epilogue. It took the form of Kitty encountering two woodcutters some years later, and gave universal disatisfaction. Epilogues are for Tolstoy. Mine partly failed because the novel's action-date is about 1912, and 'some years later' would plunge it into the transformed England of the First World War."
I hope this helps a little - I too recommend this movie (and the novel) to one and all!
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Date: 2006-05-07 02:11 pm (UTC)In answer to your questions.., well..
1. - I don't know!
2. - Hugh Grant was sweet in this, probably the only time I've really liked him in anything - Maurice just wasn't the type of film to rocket anyone in the stratosphere I don't think..
3. - Check out http://imdb.com/name/nm0928134/ (copy and paste it) for james Wilby
and http://imdb.com/name/nm0001291/ for Rupert Graves - especially of note is Different for Girls, in which Ruperts character falls in love with an old school friend - who is now a post operative male-female transexual (played by Stephen Waddington), Also Regeneration, which starts James Wilby, Jonathon Pryce and Johnny Lee Miller, and is worth a watch (no boytouching, but a lot of subtext, based, as it was in truth)
4. - A note by the author, published in the Penguin Books edition reads:
"The chapter after their reunion, where Maurice ticks off Clive, is the only possible end to the book. I did not always think so, nor did others, and I was encouraged to write an epilogue. It took the form of Kitty encountering two woodcutters some years later, and gave universal disatisfaction. Epilogues are for Tolstoy. Mine partly failed because the novel's action-date is about 1912, and 'some years later' would plunge it into the transformed England of the First World War."
I hope this helps a little - I too recommend this movie (and the novel) to one and all!