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He's coming! He's coming!
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All right, now.
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Let's give a good
Colorado welcome here!
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- Hello, sir. You're most welcome.
- Thank you, thank you.
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All right, everybody, listen up.
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I want to introduce you
to Oscar Wilde.
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Welcome to
the Matchless Silver Mine.
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Today, we opened up a new seam.
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We're gonna name it after you.
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How very kind.
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I look forward to collecting
the royalties.
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Now, why don't you
follow me over here.
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Great lecture you gave last night.
We're honored to have you visit us.
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If you'd just like to step in here.
There ya go, sir.
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I thought I was descending
into hell...
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but with these angel faces to greet me,
it must be paradise.
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Is this the way to my personal seam?
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Of course, I should have preferred
gold... purple and gold.
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But we live in a Silver Age, alas.
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So much that is exquisitely beautiful
is wrought from suffering, from pain...
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from toil... broken bones
and blistered skin.
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Benevenuto Cellini understood silver.
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He took the metal that you mine
so nobly down here...
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and transformed it into works of art
for popes and princes.
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Cellini... is he a wop?
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The Renaissance man, in every sense.
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The greatest silversmith
the world has ever seen...
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but a genius in life
as well as art.
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He experimented with
every vice known to man.
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- He committed murder.
- He killed a man?
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More than one.
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Thank you.
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I'd like to meet Cellini.
Why didn't you bring him with you?
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I'm afraid he's dead.
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Who shot him?
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Is Miss Lloyd connected
to Lloyd's Bank?
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A pity.
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But she's comfortable, Ada.
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A thousand a year.
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Then I congratulate you, Lady Wilde.
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Now that Oscar's been to America
and sown his Wildean oats...
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it's time he settled down.
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But weren't they very rough?
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No, charming.
Well, charming to me.
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With each other, it's true
they could be a little brusque.
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They hanged two men in the theater
one night before I gave a lecture.
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I felt like the sorbet
after a side of beef.
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I know your friend is famous, Ada...
notorious, at least...
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but I don't understand for what.
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For being himself,
Lady Mount-Temple.
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Don't Americans talk
the most wonderful slang, though?
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Well, I did hear one lady say...
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"After the heel-lick
I shifted my day goods."
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What on earth did she mean?
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She meant that she changed
her clothes after a dance.
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Connie, my love, Lady Mount-Temple
is so anxious to meet you.
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I knew your father, Miss Lloyd.
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She's delightful, and not stupid.
Really, not stupid at all.
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Is that quite a reason to marry her?
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Well, I must marry someone.
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And my mother has our future
planned out in every detail:
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I'm to go into Parliament,
we're to have a nice house...
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and live a proper, settled life...
literature, lectures...
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the House of Commons, receptions
for the world in general at 5:00.
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How dreary.
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Your attendance will
not be required at those.
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But your sphinxiness will be essential
for our intimate little dinners at 8:00.
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It will be a grand life,
a charming life.
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I see Constance will be busy
preparing the dinners...
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but what will she contribute
to the literature and lectures?
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She'll correct the proofs
of my articles.
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Oh, what a little sunbeam.
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I do love her, Ada. She's...
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Silent.
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- I find her very silent.
- But so sympathetic.
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And I do need an audience.
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I don't see how you can possibly
take it all in, reading at that speed.
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Try me.
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I know better.
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Where are we dining tonight?
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At the Leversons.
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Then you must show your true colors
as a propagandist for dress reform.
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The cinnamon
cashmere trousers, I think.
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And the cape with the ends
that turn up into sleeves.
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I don't think I can wear
those trousers anymore.
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A new Wilde for the world!
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Another genius for Ireland!
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We shall have to buy you
a whole new wardrobe.
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Ernest proposed to me
under that statue.
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Really, the things that go on in front
of works of art are quite appalling.
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The police should interfere.
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We were made not to marry,
whereas you and Constance are so happy.
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Everyone says so.
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It's perfectly monstrous how people
say things behind one's back...
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that are absolutely true.
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So your audience has proved
as responsive as you hoped?
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Receptive, yes. Responsive?
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I always wonder what she's thinking.
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I expect it's about the baby.
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Yes. Well, Constance is
such a natural mother.
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She's invited Robbie into the nest
while his parents are abroad.
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Robbie is Canadian.
You can tell by his youth.
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Have you been brought
to England to mature, Mr. Ross?
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Well, that was the idea,
but it doesn't seem to be working.
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I've lived here since I was three,
and you see the pitiful result.
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Robbie comes from a long line
of imperial governors.
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His grandfather was
Prime Minister of Upper Canada.
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Or was it Lower Canada?
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The British will take their class system
with them wherever they go.
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They apply it even to continents.
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Are you planning
to govern a continent?
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No. I don't even plan
to govern myself.
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Very nicely turned leg.
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Hello, sir.
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Shall I give you these, my love?
I'll see if I can find a cab.
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Coming through there, gents.
Mind your backs.
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Can you move
out of the way, please?
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Looking for someone?
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Cab, cab!
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Bedtime.
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Just one more cigarette.
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No. No, thanks, Robbie.
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Don't stay up too late, Robbie.
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Good night.
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Good night, Oscar.
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Good night, Robbie.
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He's asleep.
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He's so beautiful.
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Almost as beautiful
as his mother.
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I don't know what I'd do without you,
my constant Constance.
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Good night, my dear.
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Good night.
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A university education
is an admirable thing, of course...
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so long as you remember that nothing
worth knowing can ever be taught...
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least of all at Cambridge.
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But you told me...
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in ancient Greece the older men
taught the younger.
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They drew them out.
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I look forward to being
drawn out immensely.
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Yes, well, Greek love...
platonic love...
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is the highest form of affection
known to man, of course.
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You also told me...
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that the Greeks put statues of Apollo
in the bride's chamber...
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so she would have beautiful sons.
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But I can't help noticing that here
the statue's in your bedroom.
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Constance prefers a bath.
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She was so beautiful
when I married her, Robbie.
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Slim, white as a lily...
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such dancing eyes.
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I've never seen such love
in a pair of eyes.
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She was...
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Nothing should reveal the body...
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but the body.
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Didn't you say?
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There has to be a first time
for everything, Oscar...
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even for you.
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Hush. There's
a good little fellow.
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Come on. Come on, now. There.
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Now, come on, Cyril.
It's time for your bath.
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Be a good boy.
Don't make such a fuss!
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You've got to get undressed.
Come on.
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I know you hate it.
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Boys, Mrs. Wilde,
they never do what they're told.
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Oh, we're going to have
a girl next time.
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- Aren't we, Oscar?
- I must go.
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Good night, my dear.
Now you behave, Cyril.
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Remember, a gentleman should take
a bath at least once a year.
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- Good night.
- Come on, Cyril.
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It's not that bad.
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I shan't be back till late.
I'm dining with the Asquiths.
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Hush now.
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Come on, now.
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Do you love me?
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I feel...
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like a city that's been...
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under siege for 20 years.
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Suddenly the gates are thrown open...
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and the citizens come pouring out...
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to breathe the air
and walk the fields...
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and pluck the wildflowers.
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I feel...
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relieved.
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You don't worry about Constance?
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"Every afternoon,
on their way home from school...
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the children used to play
in the garden of the selfish giant. "
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Is that the garden where we play?
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No, this is much larger and lovelier
than that, with soft green grass.
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There's grass where we go.
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Yes, but are there 12 peach trees
that burst into delicate blossoms...
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of pink and pearl every springtime
and bear rich fruit in the autumn?
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Are there, Mama?
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I don't think there are,
Cyril, no.
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Would you hand me a matchstick,
and I'll put this hussar's head back on?
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Thank you.
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"The birds sat on the trees
and sang so sweetly...
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that the children used
to stop their games to listen.
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'How happy we are here,'
they said to each other."
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I don't know how they could be happy
if there was a giant.
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There wasn't, you see, not yet.
He was away, visiting a friend.
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You're always away.
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Yes, but I only go for a night or two
at a time, and I always come back.
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Whereas this giant,
the one whose garden it was...
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he'd been away for seven years,
staying with an ogre in Cornwall.
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"And after seven years,
when he'd said all he had to say...
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because his conversation
was very limited...
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he decided to return home
to his own castle.
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When he found the children playing
in his garden, he was very angry.
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'What are you doing here? ' he cried.
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And all the children ran away.
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'My own garden...
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is my own garden! '
Said the giant.
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'And I won't allow anyone
to play in it except myself.'
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So he built a high wall
all around...
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put up a large notice board on which
was written, in capital letters:
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'Trespassers will be prosecuted."'
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Arthur, you're trespassing.
Cyril will now eat you.
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It's Mr. Ross, sir, with Mr. Gray.
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Heavens, I must fly.
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The horses of Apollo are pawing
impatiently at the gates.
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I beg your pardon?
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Papa must go.
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You will come back
and finish the story?
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Of course I will.
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Come on, Cyril.
It's almost teatime.
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I really don't know why people bother
painting portraits anymore.
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You can get a much better likeness
with a photograph.
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A photograph's just
one moment in time...
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one gesture, one turn of the head.
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Yes, portraits are not
likenesses, Mr. Gray.
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Painters show the soul
of the subject, the essence.
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The essence of the sitter's
vanity, you mean.
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Well...
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this is a portrait
of Lady Battersby as a young woman.
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She's over there,
as a matter of fact.
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I must go and console her.
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How nice to see you.
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Poor thing.
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I expect in her heart...
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she thinks she still
looks like this.
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If we could look young
and innocent forever...
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Do you think we'd want to?
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If our souls were ugly, yes.
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Give a man a mask,
and he'll tell you the truth.
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Have we had enough of this?
Shall we go and have dinner somewhere?
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Dorian Gray is the most
wonderful book I've ever read.
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And the end,
when the servants break in...
247
00:21:10,026 --> 00:21:13,154
and they find him wizened,
old and dead...
248
00:21:13,263 --> 00:21:15,094
and the picture young again...
249
00:21:16,299 --> 00:21:18,290
I fainted.
250
00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:20,700
My family say it's dull and wicked.
251
00:21:20,804 --> 00:21:22,169
Dull?
252
00:21:30,647 --> 00:21:32,137
It's sublime.
253
00:21:33,717 --> 00:21:37,209
It's about the masks
we wear as faces...
254
00:21:38,455 --> 00:21:41,049
and the faces we wear as masks.
255
00:21:43,727 --> 00:21:46,321
That my son should have written
a work of such...
256
00:21:46,463 --> 00:21:49,626
People say it's full
of dangerous paradoxes.
257
00:21:50,901 --> 00:21:54,132
Hardly anyone will speak
to us anymore.
258
00:21:54,237 --> 00:21:55,898
We're ceasing to be respectable.
259
00:21:59,743 --> 00:22:03,338
Artists care nothing
about respectability.
260
00:22:04,748 --> 00:22:06,875
It's only jealousy.
261
00:22:06,983 --> 00:22:11,545
It's the spite of the untalented
for the men of genius.
262
00:22:14,191 --> 00:22:15,556
Where is Oscar?
263
00:22:16,493 --> 00:22:18,791
He's in the Lake District,
writing a play.
264
00:22:19,763 --> 00:22:21,560
- A drama?
- A comedy.
265
00:22:23,233 --> 00:22:25,258
Robbie Ross has gone
to keep him company.
266
00:22:27,471 --> 00:22:28,961
I do like Robbie.
267
00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:32,101
And they both love you.
268
00:22:33,710 --> 00:22:35,735
Oh, it'll be a great success.
269
00:22:36,613 --> 00:22:39,844
Oscar's made for the stage.
270
00:22:53,864 --> 00:22:55,923
- Author! Author!
- Author!
271
00:23:04,574 --> 00:23:06,633
Oscar, please!
272
00:23:06,743 --> 00:23:09,337
- Magnificent!
- Well done, everybody.
273
00:23:24,728 --> 00:23:29,062
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have enjoyed this evening immensely.
274
00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:33,693
The actors have given us a charming
rendering of a delightful play...
275
00:23:33,837 --> 00:23:37,170
and your appreciation
has been most intelligent.
276
00:23:37,307 --> 00:23:40,470
I congratulate you on the great success
of your performance...
277
00:23:40,577 --> 00:23:43,876
which persuades me that you think
almost as highly of this play...
278
00:23:43,980 --> 00:23:45,811
as I do myself.
279
00:23:57,694 --> 00:24:00,458
Absolutely splendid, Oscar.
An absolute triumph!
280
00:24:00,630 --> 00:24:02,996
- Thank you so much. Thank you.
- Well done.
281
00:24:03,133 --> 00:24:04,964
How sweet of you to say so.
282
00:24:06,369 --> 00:24:08,530
It went so well, Oscar.
283
00:24:09,773 --> 00:24:12,003
Even better than I'd...
284
00:24:12,108 --> 00:24:14,668
They loved it.
They absolutely loved it.
285
00:24:14,811 --> 00:24:17,109
And I, dear boy, love you.
286
00:24:17,247 --> 00:24:18,839
Congratulations, Oscar.
287
00:24:18,982 --> 00:24:20,779
Thank you.
288
00:24:20,951 --> 00:24:22,646
It's good to see you.
289
00:24:22,819 --> 00:24:24,980
Hello.
290
00:24:25,855 --> 00:24:27,686
Mr. Wilde.
Wonderful, really wonderful.
291
00:24:27,857 --> 00:24:29,722
- Oscar.
- Sphinx!
292
00:24:29,893 --> 00:24:33,420
You really must be careful.
You're in grave danger of becoming rich.
293
00:24:35,398 --> 00:24:38,925
- It was wonderful. I knew it would be.
- Thank you, Robbie.
294
00:24:39,069 --> 00:24:41,594
Everyone's dying to know
who the real Lady Windermere is.
295
00:24:41,738 --> 00:24:44,468
The real Lady Windermere is every woman
in this room, and most of the men.
296
00:24:44,641 --> 00:24:46,006
- Oscar!
- Lionel!
297
00:24:46,142 --> 00:24:48,303
It's a wonderful play.
298
00:24:48,411 --> 00:24:50,242
My cousin Lord Alfred Douglas
is here.
299
00:24:50,413 --> 00:24:53,075
He would like very much
to congratulate you.
300
00:25:04,995 --> 00:25:07,463
- Wonderful.
- Oscar, this is Bosie Douglas.
301
00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:11,795
We met last year.
Lionel brought me to tea at Tite Street.
302
00:25:11,901 --> 00:25:13,732
How could I possibly forget?
303
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,271
I love your play.
304
00:25:19,442 --> 00:25:21,467
The audience didn't know
whether you meant your jokes or not.
305
00:25:21,578 --> 00:25:23,375
You shocked them...
306
00:25:23,546 --> 00:25:26,140
especially with your speech.
307
00:25:26,316 --> 00:25:29,615
But the more frivolous you seem,
the more serious you are, aren't you?
308
00:25:29,719 --> 00:25:32,017
- I love that.
- Thank you.
309
00:25:32,122 --> 00:25:34,420
I always say,
the young are the only critics...
310
00:25:34,557 --> 00:25:36,582
with enough experience
to judge my work.
311
00:25:36,693 --> 00:25:39,253
- Splendid, Oscar.
- We need shocking.
312
00:25:39,396 --> 00:25:42,229
People are so banal.
And you use your wit like a foil.
313
00:25:42,399 --> 00:25:46,233
You cut through all those
starched shirt fronts.
314
00:25:46,403 --> 00:25:49,531
You draw blood.
It's magnificent.
315
00:25:49,673 --> 00:25:52,767
I wish you'd draw some blood
down in Oxford...
316
00:25:52,876 --> 00:25:54,400
though you'd need a miracle.
317
00:25:54,544 --> 00:25:56,910
All the dons at my college
have dust in their veins.
318
00:25:57,047 --> 00:26:00,744
At which college
do you educate the fellows?
319
00:26:00,917 --> 00:26:02,407
Magdalen.
320
00:26:02,552 --> 00:26:04,144
My own college.
321
00:26:04,287 --> 00:26:07,848
I shall claim the privilege of
a graduate and take tutorials with you.
322
00:26:09,225 --> 00:26:12,558
Come soon, then.
They're threatening to send me down.
323
00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:15,824
How could they be so cruel
to one so beautiful?
324
00:26:21,805 --> 00:26:24,865
Dons... they're so middle class.
325
00:26:24,974 --> 00:26:28,637
Oscar, you've shocked the whole
of London, smoking on stage like that.
326
00:26:28,812 --> 00:26:30,871
Excellent.
Then we shall run for a year.
327
00:26:30,980 --> 00:26:33,346
Oscar, you must say something
to Marion Terry.
328
00:26:33,483 --> 00:26:35,007
She was good, wasn't she?
329
00:26:35,151 --> 00:26:38,177
So good, I think she wrote
most of the lines herself.
330
00:26:38,288 --> 00:26:40,848
- Excuse me, Lord Alfred.
- Bosie, please.
331
00:26:47,130 --> 00:26:49,655
- You must be so thrilled, Oscar.
- I know.
332
00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:51,790
Isn't it humiliating?
333
00:26:51,901 --> 00:26:56,065
" 'My own garden is my own garden, '
said the giant.
334
00:26:56,172 --> 00:26:59,573
So he built a high wall
all round it...
335
00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:01,608
and put up a notice board:
336
00:27:01,778 --> 00:27:05,043
'Trespassers will be prosecuted.'
337
00:27:05,148 --> 00:27:08,447
He was a very selfish giant.
338
00:27:08,551 --> 00:27:11,714
The poor children
had now nowhere to play.
339
00:27:11,821 --> 00:27:13,652
They tried to play on the road...
340
00:27:13,823 --> 00:27:17,691
but the road was very dusty and full of
hard stones, and they did not like it.
341
00:27:17,861 --> 00:27:20,557
They used to wander round the high wall
when their lessons were over...
342
00:27:20,764 --> 00:27:24,495
and talk about
the beautiful garden inside.
343
00:27:24,667 --> 00:27:28,831
'How happy we were there, '
they said to each other. "
344
00:27:28,938 --> 00:27:32,396
I hope he was
a very beautiful boy.
345
00:27:32,542 --> 00:27:36,911
Well, pretty, you know,
in a street-Arab sort of way.
346
00:27:37,046 --> 00:27:39,708
There's no point being blackmailed
by an ugly one.
347
00:27:46,089 --> 00:27:49,957
What's tiresome is he's threatened
to show my letters to my father.
348
00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:54,392
Who will show them to all his friends
for the excellence of their style.
349
00:27:55,999 --> 00:27:58,559
You don't know him.
He's a brute.
350
00:27:59,869 --> 00:28:03,464
Really. He carries a whip
wherever he goes.
351
00:28:06,242 --> 00:28:08,073
He used to beat my mother.
352
00:28:09,445 --> 00:28:12,278
He beat my brothers.
He thrashed me from the age...
353
00:28:12,448 --> 00:28:14,575
My dear boy.
354
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,912
Of course, he's
practically illiterate.
355
00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:23,388
He probably won't understand
the letters anyway.
356
00:28:23,526 --> 00:28:26,120
By an unforgivable oversight,
I've never been blackmailed myself...
357
00:28:26,296 --> 00:28:29,754
but my friends assure me that
a hundred pounds will usually suffice.
358
00:28:29,899 --> 00:28:31,264
Really?
359
00:28:31,401 --> 00:28:33,596
God, l... You promise?
360
00:28:33,703 --> 00:28:37,332
Leave it to Lewis...
George Lewis... my solicitor.
361
00:28:37,507 --> 00:28:40,840
He knows what he's doing.
He acts for the Prince of Wales.
362
00:28:49,252 --> 00:28:51,550
Leave me not to pine
363
00:28:51,654 --> 00:28:56,717
Alone and desolate
364
00:28:56,860 --> 00:29:01,126
No fate seem fair as mine
365
00:29:01,264 --> 00:29:05,462
No happiness
366
00:29:05,568 --> 00:29:07,331
So great
367
00:29:07,503 --> 00:29:09,266
Isn't he killing, Mr. Wilde?
368
00:29:09,439 --> 00:29:12,135
- And nature day by day
- He's perfect.
369
00:29:12,308 --> 00:29:15,300
He's perfect in every way.
370
00:29:15,411 --> 00:29:19,313
In accents clear
371
00:29:19,482 --> 00:29:24,044
This joyous roundelay
372
00:29:25,021 --> 00:29:28,479
He loves me
373
00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:30,786
He is here
374
00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:42,902
He loves me
375
00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:45,701
He is here
376
00:29:57,053 --> 00:29:59,112
That was lovely. Well done, Bosie.
377
00:29:59,222 --> 00:30:00,814
Yes, absolutely enchanting.
378
00:30:00,990 --> 00:30:02,423
More tea, anyone?
379
00:31:28,111 --> 00:31:31,171
I don't want to sit here.
I want to sit there.
380
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,271
You heard what Lord Alfred said.
381
00:31:35,385 --> 00:31:37,512
I want everyone to look at us.
382
00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:41,454
I want everyone to say, "Look,
there's Oscar Wilde with his boy."
383
00:31:50,233 --> 00:31:53,293
So, what shall we let people
see us eating?
384
00:31:54,637 --> 00:31:57,868
Fois gras and lobster
and champagne.
385
00:31:57,974 --> 00:32:00,636
For two.
We do everything together.
386
00:32:00,810 --> 00:32:02,368
Very good, Mr. Wilde.
387
00:32:10,286 --> 00:32:13,847
I think he enjoyed thrashing me.
388
00:32:13,990 --> 00:32:15,753
All my family are mad.
389
00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:21,921
My uncle slit his throat last year
in a railway hotel.
390
00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:23,396
Which station?
391
00:32:25,068 --> 00:32:26,399
Euston.
392
00:32:28,604 --> 00:32:31,767
All life's really serious journeys
involve a railway terminus.
393
00:32:34,210 --> 00:32:36,576
And now I must go
to the station myself.
394
00:32:38,081 --> 00:32:41,414
Sarah Bernhardt thinks she knows
better than I do how to play Salome.
395
00:32:41,551 --> 00:32:42,540
Stay.
396
00:32:44,654 --> 00:32:46,087
Please stay.
397
00:32:48,224 --> 00:32:50,749
At least till this evening.
398
00:32:53,029 --> 00:32:54,860
Sarah is divine, as you are.
399
00:32:56,466 --> 00:33:00,459
She will be wonderful at the play's
climax when Salome kisses the lips...
400
00:33:00,570 --> 00:33:03,004
of the severed head
ofJohn the Baptist.
401
00:33:03,139 --> 00:33:06,575
"Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me
to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan."
402
00:33:06,709 --> 00:33:09,576
Jokanaan is
an old Hebrew name forJohn.
403
00:33:09,745 --> 00:33:12,043
"Well, I will kiss it now.
404
00:33:12,181 --> 00:33:14,911
I will bite it with my teeth
as one bites a ripe fruit.
405
00:33:15,118 --> 00:33:18,417
Yes, I will kiss
thy mouth, Jokanaan.
406
00:33:20,123 --> 00:33:23,615
Thy body is white like the snows
that lie on the mountains...
407
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,524
like the snows that lie
on the mountains ofJudea...
408
00:33:27,697 --> 00:33:30,495
and come down into the valleys.
409
00:33:30,666 --> 00:33:32,964
The roses in the garden
of the queen of Arabia...
410
00:33:33,069 --> 00:33:35,299
are not so white as thy body. "
411
00:33:43,613 --> 00:33:45,877
I'm not good enough
for him anymore.
412
00:33:48,451 --> 00:33:50,681
I'm just the son
of a carpenter, while Bosie...
413
00:33:50,786 --> 00:33:53,653
Oscar's only ever
been smitten before.
414
00:33:55,625 --> 00:33:59,083
He was smitten with me.
He was smitten with you.
415
00:33:59,228 --> 00:34:01,253
I wasn't smitten.
416
00:34:06,602 --> 00:34:07,967
I loved him.
417
00:34:08,104 --> 00:34:12,598
Well, now he's fallen in love.
418
00:34:13,776 --> 00:34:16,074
I'm halfway to hellfire.
I'm not joking.
419
00:34:18,314 --> 00:34:20,145
Someone else was
a carpenter's son.
420
00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:25,211
I've given in
and become a Catholic.
421
00:34:27,089 --> 00:34:29,683
I find confession...
422
00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:31,326
wonderfully consoling.
423
00:34:31,460 --> 00:34:32,984
I can't go to confession...
424
00:34:34,463 --> 00:34:36,294
when I want to kill Bosie...
425
00:34:39,569 --> 00:34:41,298
or myself.
426
00:34:49,512 --> 00:34:52,276
- Oscar's furious.
- He has no right to be.
427
00:34:52,448 --> 00:34:55,042
He knew perfectly well the Lord
Chamberlain would never allow...
428
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:57,015
a play with biblical characters.
429
00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,711
Oscar doesn't think there should be
censorship of plays at all.
430
00:34:59,855 --> 00:35:01,846
Of course there
must be censorship.
431
00:35:01,958 --> 00:35:05,325
Or people would say what they meant,
and then where should we be?
432
00:35:05,461 --> 00:35:07,929
- When is he coming to join us?
- He's not.
433
00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:10,157
He must stay
and look after Lord Alfred.
434
00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:13,497
Those Douglases are always ill,
when they're not demented.
435
00:35:13,603 --> 00:35:15,867
One of them roasted
a kitchen boy on a spit.
436
00:35:15,972 --> 00:35:18,372
And Bosie's father,
Lord Queensberry...
437
00:35:18,507 --> 00:35:20,975
he's a dreadful man, Constance...
438
00:35:21,110 --> 00:35:23,635
eoesn't believe in God
or marriage.
439
00:35:23,779 --> 00:35:26,213
A marquis should set
a proper example...
440
00:35:26,349 --> 00:35:29,443
or what are the upper classes for?
441
00:35:29,552 --> 00:35:31,349
I tell you...
442
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,115
I wouldn't want a daughter of mine
to marry a Douglas.
443
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,084
I haven't got a daughter.
444
00:35:39,262 --> 00:35:41,526
Plenty of time still, my dear.
445
00:35:48,471 --> 00:35:49,836
I see.
446
00:35:51,374 --> 00:35:52,898
It's my fault.
447
00:35:54,477 --> 00:35:57,139
After Vyvyan was born,
all I could think of was the children.
448
00:36:00,616 --> 00:36:04,416
So that's why Oscar spends
so much time with his men friends.
449
00:36:04,587 --> 00:36:07,112
Oscar needs disciples.
450
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:10,487
Lord Alfred's a poet.
A very fine poet, Oscar says.
451
00:36:10,593 --> 00:36:14,359
He's studying classics.
Oscar and he talk about Plato.
452
00:36:17,166 --> 00:36:18,531
There's nothing wrong.
453
00:36:19,835 --> 00:36:21,496
Really, there isn't.
454
00:36:21,671 --> 00:36:23,866
It's not whether
there is anything wrong.
455
00:36:23,973 --> 00:36:26,771
It's whether or not
there appears to be.
456
00:36:26,942 --> 00:36:28,773
That's all people care about.
457
00:36:28,944 --> 00:36:32,710
The empire was not built
by men like Bosie Douglas.
458
00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:36,274
"Then the spring came...
459
00:36:38,187 --> 00:36:41,714
only in the garden of the selfish giant
it was still winter.
460
00:36:41,857 --> 00:36:44,849
The birds did not care to sing in it,
as there were no children.
461
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,428
And the trees forgot to blossom.
462
00:36:47,563 --> 00:36:50,657
The snow covered up the grass
with her great white cloak...
463
00:36:50,766 --> 00:36:54,497
and the frost painted
all the trees silver. "
464
00:37:47,256 --> 00:37:48,814
Let's go out.
465
00:37:48,958 --> 00:37:50,323
If you like.
466
00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:58,731
The thing about renters is you
don't have to consider their feelings.
467
00:37:58,868 --> 00:38:02,099
But if someone is willing to give one
pleasure, one should show gratitude.
468
00:38:02,204 --> 00:38:04,229
No. Money, that's all they want.
469
00:38:05,441 --> 00:38:09,741
What's wonderful about going
to Taylor's is no one pretends.
470
00:38:09,845 --> 00:38:11,676
You just do it
and be done with it.
471
00:38:19,855 --> 00:38:21,379
I do love you, Oscar.
472
00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:26,284
But variety is
the spice of life.
473
00:38:30,366 --> 00:38:32,197
You can watch me, if you like.
474
00:38:34,570 --> 00:38:36,936
You must attempt to keep a grasp
upon your sobriety.
475
00:38:38,641 --> 00:38:42,168
That is disgusting.
We'll have less of that.
476
00:38:42,311 --> 00:38:44,609
- Good evening.
- Lord Alfred.
477
00:38:44,713 --> 00:38:46,374
Alfred Taylor, this is Oscar.
478
00:38:46,549 --> 00:38:49,211
Delighted to make
your acquaintance, Oscar.
479
00:38:49,385 --> 00:38:51,182
Charles Parker. I remember you.
480
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:53,649
Hello, Oscar.
481
00:38:54,990 --> 00:38:56,719
Charming to see you again.
482
00:39:01,931 --> 00:39:03,796
- Do you smoke?
- I do everything.
483
00:39:03,966 --> 00:39:07,129
- Yeah, everything that pays.
- Expertly, I might add.
484
00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:12,001
Mr. Wilde, some wine.
485
00:39:12,174 --> 00:39:14,005
Thank you.
486
00:39:14,176 --> 00:39:17,304
- It's a nice case.
- I want you to keep it.
487
00:39:20,149 --> 00:39:22,413
Thank you.
488
00:39:22,518 --> 00:39:26,784
So, this is a den of vice.
I should call it more of a garden.
489
00:39:26,889 --> 00:39:29,153
Such pretty flowers, Mr. Taylor.
490
00:39:29,258 --> 00:39:31,749
How wise of you to keep
the curtains closed.
491
00:39:31,894 --> 00:39:33,725
They would never grow
in the common light of day.
492
00:39:33,896 --> 00:39:36,729
- Who are you calling common?
- Certainly not you, dear boy.
493
00:39:36,899 --> 00:39:40,027
You seem to be a flower
of the rarest hue.
494
00:39:49,211 --> 00:39:52,806
Bosie never told me that you
were a botanist, Mr. Taylor...
495
00:39:52,982 --> 00:39:56,042
that you roam the earth, climbing
the highest peaks of the Himalayas...
496
00:39:56,151 --> 00:39:58,346
and plunging
into the darkest forests...
497
00:39:58,454 --> 00:40:01,446
of Borneo to return triumphant...
498
00:40:01,557 --> 00:40:04,424
to this delightful conservatory
in the shadow of Westminster Abbey...
499
00:40:04,593 --> 00:40:06,493
to exhibit your specimens.
500
00:40:07,596 --> 00:40:09,427
The boys are all Londoners, actually.
501
00:40:10,766 --> 00:40:13,200
Impossible.
I see Londoners every day...
502
00:40:13,335 --> 00:40:16,771
but never such
exotic blooms as these.
503
00:40:16,906 --> 00:40:19,033
Does he always talk like this?
504
00:40:19,141 --> 00:40:21,132
Not when he's in bed.
505
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:32,981
I am discreet.
506
00:40:33,155 --> 00:40:36,989
Bosie is far too grand for that.
He wants everyone to know.
507
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,993
- You must understand...
- I must be with young people, Robbie.
508
00:40:41,163 --> 00:40:43,688
They're so frank and free.
509
00:40:43,832 --> 00:40:45,663
They make me feel young myself.
510
00:40:45,834 --> 00:40:48,098
That's all very well,
but what would you say...
511
00:40:48,203 --> 00:40:51,036
if someone wanted
to go to bed with your son?
512
00:40:51,206 --> 00:40:52,571
Cyril's eight.
513
00:40:52,708 --> 00:40:55,040
What will you say when he's 18?
514
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,972
Nothing. He must do
as his nature dictates...
515
00:41:02,117 --> 00:41:04,711
as I only wish I had done.
516
00:41:04,887 --> 00:41:08,414
"'I do believe the spring has come
at last,' said the giant.
517
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:11,389
He jumped out of bed,
and looked out of the window."
518
00:41:11,594 --> 00:41:13,892
- What did he see?
- You tell me.
519
00:41:14,029 --> 00:41:15,553
No, you tell it.
520
00:41:15,698 --> 00:41:19,725
All right.
"He saw the most wonderful sight.
521
00:41:19,835 --> 00:41:21,860
Through a little hole
in the wall...
522
00:41:21,971 --> 00:41:24,439
the children had crept back
into the garden and were sitting...
523
00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:26,404
on the branches of the trees.
524
00:41:26,609 --> 00:41:29,772
And every tree that he could see,
there was a little child.
525
00:41:29,878 --> 00:41:31,709
The trees were so glad that they..."
526
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,541
They covered themselves
with blossoms!
527
00:41:33,716 --> 00:41:35,013
Blossoms!
528
00:41:35,150 --> 00:41:38,745
"And were waving their arms gently
above the children's heads.
529
00:41:38,887 --> 00:41:42,550
And the birds were twittering
and singing above them with delight.
530
00:41:42,725 --> 00:41:46,559
And the flowers were looking up
through the grass and laughing.
531
00:41:46,729 --> 00:41:50,756
Oscar, it's time the boys changed,
or we'll miss the train.
532
00:41:50,866 --> 00:41:52,766
Come on, boys.
533
00:41:52,935 --> 00:41:55,165
Papa, can't we stay?
534
00:41:55,270 --> 00:41:58,933
Papa's got to work.
He's got to finish his play.
535
00:41:59,108 --> 00:42:00,632
Yes, poor dear Papa.
536
00:42:00,776 --> 00:42:02,937
Poor Papa.
537
00:42:03,045 --> 00:42:07,277
Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Papa.
538
00:42:09,718 --> 00:42:11,913
Where is Oscar?
We haven't seen him at all.
539
00:42:12,021 --> 00:42:14,922
Where do you think he is? He's working.
He is a writer, after all.
540
00:42:15,090 --> 00:42:17,752
I hear your father's threatening
to shoot Lord Roseberry.
541
00:42:17,926 --> 00:42:21,589
Really? He usually
prefers the horsewhip.
542
00:42:21,764 --> 00:42:23,891
Says he's been buggering
your brother.
543
00:42:23,999 --> 00:42:26,832
Well, Roseberry is Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs...
544
00:42:27,002 --> 00:42:29,470
and Francis is
his private secretary.
545
00:42:29,605 --> 00:42:32,039
Actually, Francis is
about to get engaged.
546
00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:35,473
What's your father
talking about, then?
547
00:42:36,779 --> 00:42:38,838
He's obsessed with sex.
548
00:42:38,947 --> 00:42:40,812
He thinks Oscar's buggering me...
549
00:42:40,983 --> 00:42:43,679
as though I'd allow
anyone to do that.
550
00:42:55,497 --> 00:42:57,021
I'm sick of the country.
551
00:43:01,003 --> 00:43:02,527
Let's get back to London.
552
00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:11,475
What's the point of us living together
if you're always working?
553
00:43:11,647 --> 00:43:15,139
- I have responsibilities... a family.
- God, not that again!
554
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,814
I ask my friends over from Oxford,
and you just disappear.
555
00:43:25,594 --> 00:43:28,222
I'd be better off
staying at my mother's.
556
00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:31,594
- At least she's there.
- You asked me to take this house...
557
00:43:31,734 --> 00:43:33,292
Now I'm bored with it.
558
00:43:33,435 --> 00:43:36,996
- And with you.
- I can't give it up.
559
00:43:37,139 --> 00:43:40,506
It's paid for in advance.
Until I finish my new...
560
00:43:42,144 --> 00:43:43,509
Bosie, dear...
561
00:43:43,645 --> 00:43:45,909
you have beauty,
you have breeding...
562
00:43:46,014 --> 00:43:48,574
and, most glorious of all,
you have youth.
563
00:43:48,751 --> 00:43:51,242
But you are very fantastical
if you think that pleasures...
564
00:43:51,386 --> 00:43:53,911
don't have to be earned
and paid for.
565
00:43:54,056 --> 00:43:57,890
Whenever I want to do anything,
you say you can't afford it...
566
00:43:58,060 --> 00:44:00,358
but you give all those renters
cigarette cases.
567
00:44:00,496 --> 00:44:02,623
But I've lavished presents on you!
568
00:44:02,765 --> 00:44:05,495
Every penny I've earned from my play
I have spent on you!
569
00:44:05,667 --> 00:44:08,295
I'm sure you've been counting.
570
00:44:08,470 --> 00:44:11,598
You're so mean
and penny-pinching...
571
00:44:11,707 --> 00:44:14,267
and middle-class, all you can
think about is your bank balance.
572
00:44:14,409 --> 00:44:16,400
For God's sake!
This is intolerable!
573
00:44:16,512 --> 00:44:21,040
No gentleman ever has the slightest idea
what his bank balance is!
574
00:44:22,651 --> 00:44:24,243
You're absurd!
575
00:44:24,419 --> 00:44:26,683
Telling everyone
how they ought to live.
576
00:44:26,789 --> 00:44:29,417
You're so vulgar!
577
00:44:29,591 --> 00:44:32,116
I never want
to see you again, ever.
578
00:44:32,261 --> 00:44:35,822
All right, then.
If that's what you want, then you go!
579
00:44:35,964 --> 00:44:37,556
Get out!
580
00:44:41,370 --> 00:44:43,804
"But in the farthest corner
of the garden...
581
00:44:43,939 --> 00:44:48,239
it was still winter, and in it
was standing a little boy.
582
00:44:48,377 --> 00:44:52,609
He was so small, he could not reach up
to the branches of the tree.
583
00:44:52,714 --> 00:44:55,615
'Climb up, little boy, '
said the tree.
584
00:44:55,818 --> 00:44:59,117
But the little boy was too tiny. "
585
00:44:59,254 --> 00:45:01,916
Egypt is lovely this time of year.
586
00:45:02,090 --> 00:45:05,389
- But you mustn't idle your time away.
- Mother.
587
00:45:05,527 --> 00:45:08,360
And I want you
to promise me something:
588
00:45:10,065 --> 00:45:12,192
Not to write to Oscar Wilde.
589
00:45:13,635 --> 00:45:15,865
I can't do that.
I love Oscar.
590
00:45:17,639 --> 00:45:20,233
I love him as a disciple
loves his teacher.
591
00:45:20,375 --> 00:45:22,639
But he's not fit to teach anything.
He's evil.
592
00:45:23,912 --> 00:45:26,380
Do you really think your own son
could love someone evil?
593
00:45:28,150 --> 00:45:31,517
I just wish I could love Oscar
as loyally, devotedly...
594
00:45:31,653 --> 00:45:34,383
unselfishly and purely
as he loves me.
595
00:45:37,192 --> 00:45:39,786
But I'm not as good as he is.
596
00:45:41,797 --> 00:45:43,526
I probably never will be.
597
00:45:46,168 --> 00:45:48,033
Good-bye, then.
598
00:46:03,352 --> 00:46:05,377
"I adore simple pleasures.
599
00:46:05,487 --> 00:46:08,251
They are the last refuge
of the complex.
600
00:46:08,423 --> 00:46:10,857
But, if you wish,
let us stay here.
601
00:46:10,993 --> 00:46:12,893
Yes, let us stay here.
602
00:46:13,061 --> 00:46:16,519
The Book of Life begins
with a man and a woman in a garden."
603
00:46:16,665 --> 00:46:18,496
"It ends with 'Revelations."'
604
00:46:18,667 --> 00:46:21,295
Yes. Mr. Tree, may I?
605
00:46:21,470 --> 00:46:23,995
I'm delighted, of course,
that you find my lines funny...
606
00:46:24,139 --> 00:46:26,539
but please don't try and make
the audience laugh with them.
607
00:46:26,675 --> 00:46:29,337
They should sound completely
spontaneous and natural...
608
00:46:29,511 --> 00:46:31,604
as though people spoke
like that all the time.
609
00:46:31,713 --> 00:46:34,045
Yes, of course.
610
00:46:34,182 --> 00:46:35,547
Let's try again.
611
00:46:37,319 --> 00:46:39,787
You should break with Bosie
more often, Oscar.
612
00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:44,188
Then we'd have more of
your spontaneous and natural plays.
613
00:46:44,293 --> 00:46:47,194
Bosie was envious.
That's why he stopped Oscar working.
614
00:46:47,362 --> 00:46:49,592
- That's not true.
- Of course it is.
615
00:46:49,698 --> 00:46:52,758
His poems aren't nearly
as good as you pretend...
616
00:46:52,868 --> 00:46:54,358
and he knows it.
617
00:46:54,503 --> 00:46:57,404
- He's just a shallow little...
- Rivulet.
618
00:47:00,008 --> 00:47:03,466
Bosie's a child, a vulnerable child.
He needs love.
619
00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:05,341
We all need love.
620
00:47:06,548 --> 00:47:08,607
But which of us can give it?
621
00:47:08,717 --> 00:47:11,379
Wish you a merry Christmas
622
00:47:11,553 --> 00:47:13,987
We wish you a merry Christmas
623
00:47:16,792 --> 00:47:19,226
And a happy New Year
624
00:47:19,361 --> 00:47:21,921
Good tidings we bring
625
00:47:22,064 --> 00:47:24,532
To you and your kin
626
00:47:24,666 --> 00:47:27,100
We wish you a merry Christmas
627
00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:30,602
And a happy New Year
628
00:47:30,739 --> 00:47:33,105
- Cracker time!
- It is cracker time.
629
00:47:33,241 --> 00:47:36,005
I won this time. Look. There.
One for you, one for me.
630
00:47:36,178 --> 00:47:39,636
"And the giant's heart melted
as he looked out.
631
00:47:39,781 --> 00:47:42,909
'How selfish I have been, '
he said.
632
00:47:43,018 --> 00:47:46,112
'Now I know why the spring
would not come here.
633
00:47:46,221 --> 00:47:48,815
I will put that little boy
on top of the tree...
634
00:47:48,991 --> 00:47:51,118
and I will knock down the wall,
and my garden shall be...
635
00:47:51,226 --> 00:47:53,888
the children's playground
forever and ever. '
636
00:47:54,062 --> 00:47:56,929
He was really very sorry
for what he had done. "
637
00:47:58,233 --> 00:48:00,360
This is really nice, even though...
638
00:48:01,603 --> 00:48:05,198
"So he crept downstairs and opened
the front door quite softly...
639
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:07,331
and went out into the garden.
640
00:48:11,046 --> 00:48:13,810
That he did not see
the giant coming.
641
00:48:14,016 --> 00:48:18,316
And the giant stole up behind him
and took him gently by the hand...
642
00:48:18,453 --> 00:48:20,512
and put him up into the tree.
643
00:48:20,622 --> 00:48:22,613
And the tree broke
at once into blossom...
644
00:48:22,724 --> 00:48:25,318
and the birds came and sang on it,
and the little boy...
645
00:48:25,494 --> 00:48:27,485
stretched out his two arms...
646
00:48:27,596 --> 00:48:29,894
and flung them
round the giant's neck...
647
00:48:30,032 --> 00:48:31,659
and kissed him. "
648
00:49:05,167 --> 00:49:08,000
I don't care what people think.
I love you.
649
00:49:08,170 --> 00:49:11,606
It's all that matters to me.
It was agony being away from you.
650
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,469
Well, here I am.
651
00:49:13,642 --> 00:49:15,906
Oh, Bosie, you're
my catastrophe, my doom.
652
00:49:16,011 --> 00:49:17,842
Everyone says so, even me.
653
00:49:19,448 --> 00:49:20,813
I missed you.
654
00:49:23,218 --> 00:49:27,211
I thought you might like something
to celebrate your return.
655
00:49:33,395 --> 00:49:36,228
When I saw them in the window,
they begged me on their knees...
656
00:49:36,398 --> 00:49:37,922
to make them yours.
657
00:49:39,568 --> 00:49:42,162
I'll put them on now.
They're superb.
658
00:49:57,953 --> 00:50:00,945
- I'll sit there. I want a proper table.
- Is there something wrong, my lord?
659
00:50:01,056 --> 00:50:03,854
This young fool wants me
to sit by the service door.
660
00:50:04,025 --> 00:50:05,925
Oh, God, my father.
661
00:50:06,128 --> 00:50:09,689
I'm extremely sorry. He's new,
and he didn't know who you were.
662
00:50:11,500 --> 00:50:13,764
Bosie, you're not going to flee.
663
00:50:19,474 --> 00:50:21,066
Give me the menu.
664
00:50:25,547 --> 00:50:28,015
I'll have the pea soup
and then the salmon.
665
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:30,050
Will you have it with us, Papa?
666
00:50:32,020 --> 00:50:35,183
I'm lunching with Oscar Wilde.
Will you join us?
667
00:50:40,295 --> 00:50:42,593
I told you never to see
that vile cur again.
668
00:50:42,731 --> 00:50:46,223
He's not vile or a cur.
He's utterly delightful. Come and see.
669
00:50:48,803 --> 00:50:51,397
How do you know what he's like
when you've never met him?
670
00:50:53,108 --> 00:50:55,906
You're not a man to be influenced
by other people's opinions.
671
00:51:04,653 --> 00:51:08,555
Oscar, you've never met
my father, have you?
672
00:51:08,723 --> 00:51:10,156
Lord Queensberry.
673
00:51:13,528 --> 00:51:17,225
Bosie has told me so much about
your exploits on the racetrack.
674
00:51:19,267 --> 00:51:23,704
I've never heard such bad luck
as yours with the Grand National.
675
00:51:23,838 --> 00:51:26,068
Bosie tells me
that you would have won...
676
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:28,403
but that your cousin
wouldn't let you ride the horse?
677
00:51:30,212 --> 00:51:32,237
Bloody fool said I was too old.
678
00:51:33,348 --> 00:51:36,010
Why, you're never too old.
I'd ridden Old Joe on the gallops.
679
00:51:37,519 --> 00:51:39,384
Came in at 40 to 1.
680
00:51:39,554 --> 00:51:41,886
No horse could ever have carried me
over the jumps, I fear.
681
00:51:42,023 --> 00:51:43,388
What are you having?
682
00:51:44,693 --> 00:51:47,287
- Pea soup and salmon.
- Then I shall join you.
683
00:51:47,462 --> 00:51:49,692
Spring is the time
to lunch on salmon...
684
00:51:49,798 --> 00:51:52,232
though I always think it tastes so much
nicer if you've caught it yourself.
685
00:51:53,702 --> 00:51:55,067
You fish?
686
00:51:55,237 --> 00:51:57,262
I used to when I lived in Ireland.
687
00:51:57,372 --> 00:51:59,670
My father had the most charming
hunting lodge...
688
00:51:59,774 --> 00:52:02,004
on an island in a lake.
689
00:52:02,110 --> 00:52:05,102
- Do you know the west of Ireland?
- Not really.
690
00:52:09,284 --> 00:52:11,013
Whereabouts, exactly?
691
00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:28,833
The Christians go around pretending
they know who God is and how He works.
692
00:52:28,970 --> 00:52:30,835
I've got no time for that tomfoolery.
693
00:52:31,006 --> 00:52:33,839
If you don't know something,
you should stand up and say so...
694
00:52:34,009 --> 00:52:37,740
not go around pretending
you believe in some mumbo jumbo.
695
00:52:37,912 --> 00:52:40,779
I can believe in anything,
provided it's incredible.
696
00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:44,077
That's why I intend to die a Catholic,
though I couldn't possibly live as one.
697
00:52:44,185 --> 00:52:48,417
Catholicism is such a romantic religion.
It has saints and sinners.
698
00:52:49,391 --> 00:52:51,757
The Church of England
only has respectable people...
699
00:52:51,893 --> 00:52:54,259
who believe in respectability.
700
00:52:54,396 --> 00:52:57,388
You get to be a bishop not by what
you believe but by what you don't.
701
00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:00,492
That's true enough.
702
00:53:00,669 --> 00:53:03,160
It's the only church where
the skeptic stands at the altar...
703
00:53:03,305 --> 00:53:06,138
and St. Thomas the Doubter
is prince of the apostles.
704
00:53:06,308 --> 00:53:08,742
No, I couldn't possibly die
in the Church of England.
705
00:53:10,912 --> 00:53:13,437
Where do you stand on cremation?
706
00:53:13,581 --> 00:53:16,345
I'm not sure I have a position.
707
00:53:18,086 --> 00:53:20,452
I'm for it.
708
00:53:20,588 --> 00:53:22,681
I wrote a poem:
709
00:53:22,791 --> 00:53:24,986
"When I am dead, cremate me."
710
00:53:26,094 --> 00:53:28,324
That's how it begins.
711
00:53:28,430 --> 00:53:31,524
"When I am dead, cremate me."
712
00:53:31,633 --> 00:53:33,863
What do you think of that
for an opening line?
713
00:53:35,637 --> 00:53:37,002
It's challenging.
714
00:53:37,138 --> 00:53:39,368
I'm a challenging sort of man.
715
00:53:39,474 --> 00:53:41,533
That's why people don't like me.
716
00:53:41,643 --> 00:53:44,305
I don't go along with
the ordinary ways of thinking.
717
00:53:44,479 --> 00:53:46,504
Then we are exactly alike.
718
00:53:47,349 --> 00:53:49,840
Another glass of brandy?
719
00:53:49,984 --> 00:53:52,817
I find that alcohol,
taken in sufficient quantities...
720
00:53:52,987 --> 00:53:55,251
can produce all the effects
of drunkenness.
721
00:53:57,125 --> 00:53:59,423
You were there for ages.
722
00:53:59,561 --> 00:54:03,395
You stayed talking till after 4:00.
I knew you'd like him.
723
00:54:03,565 --> 00:54:06,329
Well, he's got charm,
I admit that.
724
00:54:06,501 --> 00:54:07,866
But that's bad.
725
00:54:08,002 --> 00:54:10,232
Men shouldn't be charming.
726
00:54:10,372 --> 00:54:12,772
It's disgusting.
I don't think much of his action.
727
00:54:12,907 --> 00:54:15,671
Let's have a look at the bay.
728
00:54:15,844 --> 00:54:17,903
Mind you, Wilde's no fool.
729
00:54:18,012 --> 00:54:20,606
Talks wonderfully,
really wonderfully.
730
00:54:20,749 --> 00:54:24,207
But that means nothing
when what he says is such rot.
731
00:54:24,386 --> 00:54:27,014
Worse than rot... evil.
732
00:54:27,188 --> 00:54:29,782
Which is why I insist
you stop seeing him forthwith.
733
00:54:29,958 --> 00:54:31,789
"Insist"?
What's that supposed to mean?
734
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:36,090
It means I will cut off your allowance
if you don't do as I say.
735
00:54:36,197 --> 00:54:39,394
- Trot him up and down a bit!
- Look, Father.
736
00:54:39,501 --> 00:54:42,664
You wasted time at Oxford pretending
you were going into the Foreign Office.
737
00:54:42,771 --> 00:54:45,001
Thank God you didn't
when thatJew queer Roseberry...
738
00:54:45,106 --> 00:54:47,939
can become Foreign Secretary and bugger
all the juniors, including your brother.
739
00:54:48,109 --> 00:54:49,542
That's all lies.
740
00:54:49,677 --> 00:54:52,043
You spent your whole time
writing obscene poetry.
741
00:54:52,180 --> 00:54:53,647
My poems aren't obscene.
742
00:54:53,782 --> 00:54:56,615
They're in the manner of Wilde.
That's filthy enough for me.
743
00:54:56,785 --> 00:54:59,253
Have you ever actually read
any of Oscar's poems?
744
00:54:59,421 --> 00:55:03,289
I wouldn't sully my mind
with perverted trash like that.
745
00:55:03,458 --> 00:55:05,289
Tell him to pick his feet up!
746
00:55:05,460 --> 00:55:07,553
He's not straight!
747
00:55:07,662 --> 00:55:09,892
Are you calling Oscar a pervert?
748
00:55:09,998 --> 00:55:11,431
Because that's libelous.
749
00:55:11,566 --> 00:55:14,933
I'm not saying he is one.
I'm saying he's posing as one...
750
00:55:15,069 --> 00:55:17,299
which is worse.
751
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:19,304
His wife's divorcing him.
752
00:55:19,474 --> 00:55:22,204
Did you know that?
For sodomy!
753
00:55:23,378 --> 00:55:26,211
- That's completely untrue!
- I hope it is.
754
00:55:26,381 --> 00:55:29,748
Because if it were true,
I'd shoot him on sight.
755
00:55:32,821 --> 00:55:37,087
You will cease to see Wilde,
or I'll cut you off without a penny.
756
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,819
As though I wanted your money...
757
00:55:40,929 --> 00:55:43,397
what little you have left
from your tarts.
758
00:55:44,265 --> 00:55:47,257
How dare you speak
to your father like that.
759
00:55:47,368 --> 00:55:49,768
What a funny little man you are.
760
00:55:51,272 --> 00:55:54,264
Come back here,
you filthy-minded sissy!
761
00:55:54,375 --> 00:55:55,967
You're absurd!
762
00:55:56,110 --> 00:55:58,738
And you're nothing but a bum-boy!
763
00:55:58,913 --> 00:56:00,710
You're pathetic!
764
00:56:04,352 --> 00:56:06,582
I'm a bloody good shot.
Better than he is.
765
00:56:06,688 --> 00:56:08,815
I'll shoot him through the heart
if he threatens me.
766
00:56:08,923 --> 00:56:11,118
Hadn't you better use
a silver bullet then?
767
00:56:11,226 --> 00:56:13,057
Here's one for the Black Douglas.
768
00:56:13,228 --> 00:56:15,321
Bosie, for God's sake!
769
00:56:15,430 --> 00:56:17,057
And one for his liver!
One for his lights!
770
00:56:17,232 --> 00:56:19,894
One for his stinking rotten soul!
771
00:56:23,438 --> 00:56:26,100
I'll save one for myself.
772
00:56:26,274 --> 00:56:30,267
My own father...
he wants to kill me.
773
00:56:45,193 --> 00:56:48,822
My life is everything
I ever wanted.
774
00:56:48,997 --> 00:56:50,589
I have fame.
775
00:56:52,166 --> 00:56:53,633
I have recognition.
776
00:56:54,869 --> 00:56:57,861
With two plays
about to open in London...
777
00:56:57,972 --> 00:56:59,701
I may even have money.
778
00:57:01,175 --> 00:57:03,075
The world is at my command...
779
00:57:05,013 --> 00:57:07,243
yet I can't command myself.
780
00:57:09,551 --> 00:57:12,645
I can't command
my feelings for you.
781
00:57:25,733 --> 00:57:28,725
- Thank you.
- Constance, my dear.
782
00:57:28,836 --> 00:57:31,236
How nice.
783
00:57:40,048 --> 00:57:43,347
I brought you your letters.
784
00:57:43,451 --> 00:57:46,614
You haven't been home
for so long.
785
00:57:46,721 --> 00:57:48,245
Thank you.
786
00:57:53,127 --> 00:57:55,652
It's so much more convenient
for Oscar living in the West End...
787
00:57:55,797 --> 00:57:57,958
when he has a play coming on.
788
00:57:58,066 --> 00:58:01,797
I'm like a northern businessman
keeping an eye on his factory.
789
00:58:01,970 --> 00:58:04,200
The boys ask for you
all the time.
790
00:58:04,305 --> 00:58:06,967
They're longing to see you.
791
00:58:07,141 --> 00:58:10,338
Oscar has to make sure
the play's a success, Constance.
792
00:58:10,445 --> 00:58:12,037
I'll come round this afternoon...
793
00:58:12,213 --> 00:58:13,874
for tea.
794
00:58:16,184 --> 00:58:18,175
It's the dress rehearsal
this afternoon.
795
00:58:22,757 --> 00:58:24,554
Tomorrow then.
I'll come tomorrow.
796
00:58:24,726 --> 00:58:27,354
Well, tomorrow then.
797
00:58:34,268 --> 00:58:36,099
Good-bye, my dear.
798
00:58:37,372 --> 00:58:39,203
Good-bye.
799
00:58:45,647 --> 00:58:47,137
Good-bye, Constance.
800
00:58:57,392 --> 00:58:59,724
- Something like that.
- I'm not trying to get anything.
801
00:58:59,861 --> 00:59:03,763
I hope so. It would be rather fun.
Perhaps a codfish.
802
00:59:03,931 --> 00:59:06,729
Codfish. I've a strong feeling
that codfish live rather deeper.
803
00:59:06,901 --> 00:59:09,028
- Do you think we'll have skate...
- Possibly.
804
00:59:13,808 --> 00:59:17,107
I don't think there'll be anything
for our table tonight, my love. No luck.
805
00:59:18,413 --> 00:59:20,677
I think I'd better stay.
You're getting a cold.
806
00:59:20,782 --> 00:59:24,878
No, no. I'm all right.
Let's get the boys some ices.
807
00:59:24,986 --> 00:59:28,046
- Boys, you stay and look after nanny.
- Oh, all right.
808
00:59:29,323 --> 00:59:31,188
We'll look after nanny.
809
00:59:31,359 --> 00:59:35,193
I could take the boys to the dentist
on Thursday on their way back to school.
810
00:59:35,363 --> 00:59:37,194
But the whole point of them
having dentistry now...
811
00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:41,699
is so they can stuff themselves with
sweets for a week before we lose them.
812
00:59:44,605 --> 00:59:48,371
- Are you quite sure?
- Bosie'll look after me.
813
01:00:09,397 --> 01:00:11,194
Get your coat on, quick!
814
01:00:11,365 --> 01:00:13,356
I've got a present for you!
815
01:00:15,002 --> 01:00:16,867
Oh, God.
816
01:00:17,038 --> 01:00:20,303
- You're not still seedy, are you?
- Bosie, where have you been?
817
01:00:20,408 --> 01:00:22,876
I've had no one to talk to,
no one to look after me.
818
01:00:23,010 --> 01:00:26,673
Don't be so pathetic.
I've found you the divinest boy.
819
01:00:26,848 --> 01:00:29,612
- Bosie, you promised Constance...
- Bugger Constance.
820
01:00:29,784 --> 01:00:32,275
I'm not your nanny.
Come on. We're going out.
821
01:00:32,420 --> 01:00:34,479
Bosie, please.
822
01:00:36,491 --> 01:00:40,086
You look such an idiot
lying there. Revolting.
823
01:00:40,228 --> 01:00:42,389
- Have you forgotten how to wash?
- As a matter of fact...
824
01:00:42,497 --> 01:00:44,260
I'm dying for a glass of water.
825
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,401
- You know where the jug is.
- Bosie, darling.
826
01:00:49,537 --> 01:00:53,268
It stinks in here. You'll be wanting me
to empty your chamber pot next.
827
01:00:53,441 --> 01:00:57,434
Well, I emptied your chamber pot.
I looked after you.
828
01:00:57,545 --> 01:00:59,843
Well, I'm not looking after you.
Not now.
829
01:00:59,947 --> 01:01:02,472
You don't interest me.
Not when you're ill.
830
01:01:02,617 --> 01:01:05,245
You're just a boring middle-aged man
with a blocked-up nose.
831
01:01:05,419 --> 01:01:09,549
- Bosie, dearest boy.
- Shut up!
832
01:01:09,657 --> 01:01:13,423
"Dearest boy, darling Bosie."
It doesn't mean anything.
833
01:01:13,594 --> 01:01:16,825
You don't love me. The only person
you've ever loved is yourself.
834
01:01:16,931 --> 01:01:19,126
You like me.
You lust after me.
835
01:01:19,233 --> 01:01:23,829
You go about with me because
I've got a title. That's all.
836
01:01:23,971 --> 01:01:26,269
You like to write about
dukes and duchesses...
837
01:01:26,407 --> 01:01:27,840
but you know nothing about them.
838
01:01:27,975 --> 01:01:29,670
You're the biggest snob
I've ever met...
839
01:01:29,844 --> 01:01:33,143
and you think you're so daring
because you fuck the occasional boy.
840
01:01:33,247 --> 01:01:35,477
Please, you're killing me.
841
01:01:35,583 --> 01:01:37,312
You'll just about do
when you're at your best.
842
01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:41,683
You're amusing... very amusing... but when
you're not at your best, you're no one.
843
01:01:41,823 --> 01:01:45,953
All I asked for
was a glass of water.
844
01:01:46,060 --> 01:01:49,826
For Christ's sake!
There you are then!
845
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,660
Now will you shut up
about the fucking water?
846
01:02:00,775 --> 01:02:02,606
There are two boys
waiting out there.
847
01:02:02,777 --> 01:02:04,972
If you're not coming,
I'll fuck them both myself.
848
01:02:05,079 --> 01:02:08,606
I'll take them to the Grand and
fuck them in front of the whole hotel...
849
01:02:09,784 --> 01:02:12,150
and I'll send you the bill.
850
01:02:27,768 --> 01:02:29,133
Drink this.
851
01:02:29,270 --> 01:02:34,367
- It will help your fever.
- He's ashamed of loving men.
852
01:02:37,345 --> 01:02:40,178
His father bullies him,
his mother spoils him...
853
01:02:40,348 --> 01:02:42,373
and then berates him
for being spoiled.
854
01:02:42,483 --> 01:02:47,079
Neither of them gives him any real love.
They're torturing him.
855
01:02:48,689 --> 01:02:52,284
And what's truly dreadful
is that when...
856
01:02:52,426 --> 01:02:56,055
he can't bear it
and has one of his...
857
01:02:56,230 --> 01:02:58,255
he becomes
exactly like his father.
858
01:02:58,366 --> 01:03:02,632
- And he hates himself for that.
- You're too kind about him.
859
01:03:04,038 --> 01:03:07,098
You can't be too kind about
someone who's been so hurt.
860
01:03:10,177 --> 01:03:14,443
Yet if I go on trying to come
between Bosie and his father...
861
01:03:16,550 --> 01:03:18,108
that'll destroy me.
862
01:03:18,252 --> 01:03:21,050
Bosie's quite capable
of destroying you on his own.
863
01:03:22,623 --> 01:03:25,319
Look how much you wrote
while he was away.
864
01:03:25,493 --> 01:03:28,860
Two wonderful plays
which will run for years.
865
01:03:28,996 --> 01:03:31,794
Back comes Bosie,
and what have you written since?
866
01:03:39,974 --> 01:03:43,671
You know how much I...
867
01:03:43,844 --> 01:03:46,210
Iove and admire you...
868
01:03:48,082 --> 01:03:50,573
but you're throwing
your genius away.
869
01:03:50,718 --> 01:03:54,313
- For what?
- It's highly ironic.
870
01:03:54,455 --> 01:03:57,913
Queensberry thinks Bosie and I
are locked in nightly embrace...
871
01:03:58,059 --> 01:04:02,189
and in reality, we've been
the purest model of Greek love since...
872
01:04:04,432 --> 01:04:09,301
Bosie doesn't like doing it with me,
but I've loved him.
873
01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:12,098
- I've educated him.
- But he's never grown up.
874
01:04:14,008 --> 01:04:16,169
And he never will.
875
01:04:17,478 --> 01:04:19,309
I'm not taking him back, Robbie.
876
01:04:20,481 --> 01:04:22,073
Not again.
877
01:04:24,218 --> 01:04:26,413
I can't.
878
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,580
I've been very foolish,
very fond...
879
01:04:30,858 --> 01:04:33,326
but now I must grow up myself.
880
01:04:33,461 --> 01:04:36,191
Oh, please, don't do that.
881
01:04:36,364 --> 01:04:40,698
You're an artist.
Artists are always children at heart.
882
01:04:42,269 --> 01:04:45,727
Oh, Robbie,
I sometimes I wonder if...
883
01:04:48,642 --> 01:04:50,405
Back page, sir.
884
01:04:56,050 --> 01:04:59,679
My God. Francis Douglas.
885
01:04:59,854 --> 01:05:01,685
- What?
- Bosie's brother.
886
01:05:01,856 --> 01:05:05,314
He's been found shot.
He's dead.
887
01:05:07,228 --> 01:05:09,526
But he's just got engaged.
888
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:17,100
Poor, poor Bosie.
He'll be utterly distraught.
889
01:05:27,214 --> 01:05:29,045
He killed himself.
890
01:05:30,317 --> 01:05:33,753
It was my father.
He drove him to it.
891
01:05:33,888 --> 01:05:37,654
I'm sure your father's
just as upset as everyone else.
892
01:05:38,826 --> 01:05:40,350
No, he's not.
893
01:05:43,597 --> 01:05:47,158
He says it's a judgment
on Roseberry and my mother...
894
01:05:47,301 --> 01:05:49,030
and me and you.
895
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,805
We've got to stop him, Oscar...
896
01:06:03,284 --> 01:06:06,515
before he drives
my whole family to suicide.
897
01:06:09,290 --> 01:06:12,418
I promise you, I won't let him
hurt you ever again.
898
01:06:12,526 --> 01:06:13,891
I promise.
899
01:06:21,569 --> 01:06:23,867
It's not enough.
I want him stopped.
900
01:06:27,508 --> 01:06:30,909
I want the whole world
to know what he's done...
901
01:06:33,481 --> 01:06:35,972
what an evil man he is.
902
01:06:40,020 --> 01:06:41,385
Table, my lord?
903
01:06:41,522 --> 01:06:44,082
Is Lord Alfred here?
And that shit and sod Wilde?
904
01:06:44,225 --> 01:06:46,318
No, my lord. Not tonight.
905
01:06:47,561 --> 01:06:49,552
Bugger must be at Kettner's.
906
01:07:04,345 --> 01:07:06,176
Is my son staying here?
907
01:07:08,682 --> 01:07:11,242
Is Lord Alfred Douglas
staying here?
908
01:07:11,385 --> 01:07:13,910
No, sir, he's not.
909
01:07:15,422 --> 01:07:18,482
- What about Wilde?
- No, sir.
910
01:07:21,862 --> 01:07:25,389
If I find
they have been staying here...
911
01:07:25,533 --> 01:07:27,694
I'll give you the biggest
whipping of your life.
912
01:08:01,101 --> 01:08:05,231
Well, I expect you two would
like a drink after your exertions.
913
01:08:13,747 --> 01:08:15,874
I must ask you to leave,
Mr. Wilde.
914
01:08:15,983 --> 01:08:17,883
My dear man,
what are you talking about?
915
01:08:18,919 --> 01:08:20,318
At once, please.
916
01:08:22,690 --> 01:08:27,286
What's the matter? My father
cracking the whip downstairs, is he?
917
01:08:38,072 --> 01:08:39,733
- My lord.
- Bosie.
918
01:08:40,908 --> 01:08:43,468
You're not frightened of what
this little man thinks, are you?
919
01:08:43,611 --> 01:08:46,341
I think the pleasures of the evening
should be resumed elsewhere.
920
01:08:52,553 --> 01:08:54,646
You're such a coward.
921
01:08:54,755 --> 01:08:56,848
You say you despise convention...
922
01:08:56,957 --> 01:08:59,255
but you're the most
conventional man I know.
923
01:09:00,561 --> 01:09:03,553
Come on then.
If we're going, let's go.
924
01:09:11,905 --> 01:09:14,169
Until tomorrow, Tommy.
925
01:09:14,275 --> 01:09:16,300
Good-bye, sir.
926
01:09:16,410 --> 01:09:19,709
I goes in, and there's
all this tropical fruit laid out.
927
01:09:24,218 --> 01:09:25,742
Wait a minute, Oscar!
928
01:09:27,221 --> 01:09:31,214
Alfred, how nice to see you.
And Charlie, looking so well.
929
01:09:31,325 --> 01:09:33,725
I'm afraid I'm busy this evening,
but we must have dinner again soon.
930
01:09:33,861 --> 01:09:39,197
It's not a question of dinner.
I got a letter of yours to Lord Alfred.
931
01:09:39,333 --> 01:09:41,995
It's a nice letter, Oscar.
Beautiful.
932
01:09:42,169 --> 01:09:45,900
"Lips like roses. The madness
of kisses in ancient Greece."
933
01:09:46,073 --> 01:09:48,132
Then I expect
it's one of my prose poems.
934
01:09:48,242 --> 01:09:49,800
There's a gentleman's
offered me 60 pounds for it.
935
01:09:49,943 --> 01:09:52,741
Then you must accept, Alfred.
I've never received so large a sum...
936
01:09:52,913 --> 01:09:55,108
for a prose work of that length
in all my life.
937
01:09:55,215 --> 01:09:58,742
Tell him I'm delighted that someone
in England values my work so highly.
938
01:09:58,886 --> 01:10:00,786
- Well, he's gone away.
- He's gone to the country.
939
01:10:00,954 --> 01:10:03,047
Well, I'm sure
he'll be back soon.
940
01:10:05,859 --> 01:10:10,159
Oscar, look. You couldn't
let us have something, could you?
941
01:10:10,264 --> 01:10:13,097
Bit short at the moment.
You know.
942
01:10:14,435 --> 01:10:16,903
Of course. Of course.
943
01:10:17,037 --> 01:10:19,767
Here's half a sovereign. Now you mind
you take good care of that letter.
944
01:10:19,940 --> 01:10:23,398
Lord Alfred is going to publish it
in sonnet form in his new magazine.
945
01:10:24,345 --> 01:10:25,710
For fuck's sake.
946
01:10:29,283 --> 01:10:31,444
It's no good
trying to rent you.
947
01:10:31,552 --> 01:10:34,350
You just laugh at us.
948
01:10:34,521 --> 01:10:36,512
- Here.
- Thank you.
949
01:10:37,624 --> 01:10:40,422
He can be very careless,
Lord Alfred.
950
01:10:42,229 --> 01:10:44,561
What a wonderfully
wicked life you lead.
951
01:10:44,698 --> 01:10:47,064
You boys. You boys.
952
01:10:51,805 --> 01:10:54,638
- Where is he?
- Mr. Wilde is not receiving visitors.
953
01:10:54,808 --> 01:10:57,174
- Where is he?
- He's busy, sir. I cannot...
954
01:10:57,311 --> 01:10:59,905
I wish you would get out of my way.
Get out of my way!
955
01:11:02,383 --> 01:11:04,783
Excuse me, sir,
there's a gentleman...
956
01:11:04,918 --> 01:11:06,044
You!
957
01:11:07,287 --> 01:11:08,515
Listen to me.
958
01:11:10,224 --> 01:11:11,816
You're a bugger!
959
01:11:14,128 --> 01:11:17,359
I don't allow people to talk to me like
that in my house, Lord Queensberry...
960
01:11:17,464 --> 01:11:19,864
or anywhere else.
961
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,367
I suppose you've come to apologize for
the lies you've been spreading about me?
962
01:11:23,504 --> 01:11:27,600
I've come to tell you
to leave my son alone, you sodomite.
963
01:11:27,708 --> 01:11:31,610
The marquis appears to be very obsessed
with other people's sexual activities.
964
01:11:31,779 --> 01:11:33,679
Has it anything to do
with his new wife...
965
01:11:33,847 --> 01:11:37,283
I wonder, and the fact that she's
seeking divorce for non-consummation?
966
01:11:37,418 --> 01:11:40,410
Unless you swear that you'll have
nothing more to do with Bosie...
967
01:11:40,521 --> 01:11:41,954
I shall go to Scotland Yard.
968
01:11:42,089 --> 01:11:44,387
You can go to the devil.
969
01:11:44,491 --> 01:11:46,891
You and your...
Who is this gargoyle?
970
01:11:47,027 --> 01:11:50,895
You're a queer!
And a sham! A poseur!
971
01:11:51,064 --> 01:11:54,761
If I catch you and Bosie together again,
I'll give you such a thrashing.
972
01:11:56,069 --> 01:11:59,300
I believe Lord Queensberry
once invented some rules for boxing.
973
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:01,203
I've no idea what they are...
974
01:12:01,375 --> 01:12:03,240
but the Oscar Wilde rule
is to shoot on sight.
975
01:12:03,444 --> 01:12:06,038
- Now, kindly leave my house.
- You can shut up!
976
01:12:06,213 --> 01:12:09,080
I shall leave
when I'm damn well ready.
977
01:12:13,754 --> 01:12:16,279
It's a scandal
what you've been doing.
978
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:19,585
All the scandal is your own.
979
01:12:19,693 --> 01:12:21,991
Your treatment of your wives...
980
01:12:22,129 --> 01:12:23,960
your neglect of your children...
981
01:12:24,131 --> 01:12:27,396
and, above all,
the depraved insistence...
982
01:12:27,501 --> 01:12:31,494
that they be as tyrannical
and unloving as you are yourself.
983
01:12:32,773 --> 01:12:35,765
Arthur, this is
the Marquis of Queensberry...
984
01:12:35,876 --> 01:12:40,404
the most infamous brute
and the least tender father in London.
985
01:12:40,547 --> 01:12:42,412
Never let him
into my house again.
986
01:12:45,619 --> 01:12:47,450
Very well then.
987
01:12:49,256 --> 01:12:52,248
Let's get out of this stew.
988
01:13:37,204 --> 01:13:39,365
- Out of the way, then!
- I'm sorry, sir!
989
01:13:39,473 --> 01:13:43,341
I'm very sorry,
but it's just not possible!
990
01:13:49,783 --> 01:13:52,581
What are you doing?
Rotten vegetables?
991
01:13:52,753 --> 01:13:54,482
Give that to Oscar Wilde.
992
01:13:54,655 --> 01:13:57,681
Thank you, sir.
We'll take care of it.
993
01:13:57,791 --> 01:14:02,455
I wanted to give it to him
personally as a bouquet.
994
01:14:02,629 --> 01:14:05,530
I daresay you did, sir,
but you're not going to.
995
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,834
He's a cur and a sod!
996
01:14:11,004 --> 01:14:12,596
And a bugger!
997
01:14:12,739 --> 01:14:14,502
You remember that!
998
01:14:17,578 --> 01:14:20,411
I always told you, Gwendolen,
my name is Ernest, didn't I?
999
01:14:20,581 --> 01:14:22,811
Well, it is Ernest after all.
1000
01:14:22,916 --> 01:14:25,976
I mean, it naturally is Ernest.
1001
01:14:26,086 --> 01:14:29,544
Yes, I remember now
that the general was called Ernest.
1002
01:14:29,690 --> 01:14:33,820
I knew I had some particular reason
for disliking the name.
1003
01:14:35,495 --> 01:14:38,953
Ernest! My own Ernest!
1004
01:14:39,099 --> 01:14:42,660
I knew from the first
you could have had no other name.
1005
01:14:42,803 --> 01:14:45,897
Gwendolen, it's a terrible thing
for a man to find out suddenly...
1006
01:14:46,006 --> 01:14:48,873
that all his life he's been
speaking nothing but the truth.
1007
01:14:50,043 --> 01:14:51,874
Can you forgive me?
1008
01:14:52,045 --> 01:14:55,606
I can, for I feel
you are sure to change.
1009
01:14:55,749 --> 01:14:58,240
- My own one!
- Laetitia.
1010
01:14:58,385 --> 01:15:00,216
Frederick! At last!
1011
01:15:00,387 --> 01:15:04,483
- Cecily! At last!
- Gwendolen! At last!
1012
01:15:05,626 --> 01:15:10,893
My nephew, you seem to be
displaying signs of triviality.
1013
01:15:11,031 --> 01:15:13,329
On the contrary, Aunt Augusta...
1014
01:15:13,433 --> 01:15:16,527
I've now realized
for the first time in my life...
1015
01:15:16,637 --> 01:15:20,073
the vital importance
of being earnest.
1016
01:15:48,335 --> 01:15:50,701
Allen, you were wonderful!
Thank you all so much.
1017
01:15:50,837 --> 01:15:53,169
They're calling for you.
You must come on. Curtain, curtain.
1018
01:15:53,306 --> 01:15:55,672
- No, no, George, no, no.
- Come on!
1019
01:16:43,290 --> 01:16:45,656
- Mr. Wilde, sir.
- Yes?
1020
01:16:48,328 --> 01:16:50,159
- For you.
- Thank you.
1021
01:17:01,875 --> 01:17:05,367
"For Oscar Wilde...
1022
01:17:05,512 --> 01:17:06,809
Ponce," is it?
1023
01:17:06,947 --> 01:17:09,211
"Ponce and 'somdomite."'
1024
01:17:09,316 --> 01:17:13,446
"Posing as a sodomite."
He's illiterate... illiterate, ignorant.
1025
01:17:13,553 --> 01:17:16,545
- It's hideous.
- We've got him now, Robbie.
1026
01:17:16,656 --> 01:17:18,453
He wrote it down.
The porter read it.
1027
01:17:18,625 --> 01:17:21,321
That makes it a public libel.
Now we can take him to court.
1028
01:17:21,495 --> 01:17:23,520
For God's sake.
1029
01:17:26,833 --> 01:17:29,825
Oscar, you mustn't do that.
That would be... I mean...
1030
01:17:29,936 --> 01:17:32,268
We've just been waiting for a chance
to get him in the dock...
1031
01:17:32,405 --> 01:17:35,169
and show the world what a swine
and shit he's always been.
1032
01:17:35,342 --> 01:17:39,176
- To me, my mother, my brothers.
- But he'll plead justification.
1033
01:17:39,346 --> 01:17:42,008
He'll call all the renters
as witnesses for the defense.
1034
01:17:42,182 --> 01:17:44,912
Of course he won't.
He doesn't know what a renter is.
1035
01:17:45,085 --> 01:17:49,522
I hear he's had detectives following you
ever since you came back from Egypt.
1036
01:17:49,656 --> 01:17:52,216
He can't prove anything.
But we can.
1037
01:17:53,627 --> 01:17:55,822
We can prove he's the vilest man
that ever walked the earth.
1038
01:17:55,929 --> 01:17:57,760
Tear the card up, Oscar.
Pretend you never got it.
1039
01:17:57,931 --> 01:18:00,923
Are you mad?
That's our main piece of evidence.
1040
01:18:01,034 --> 01:18:03,525
I'm sure if Oscar went abroad
for a few months...
1041
01:18:03,670 --> 01:18:05,695
lived on royalties
while your father calms down...
1042
01:18:05,806 --> 01:18:08,400
- Whose side are you on?
- Bosie, if this goes to court...
1043
01:18:08,542 --> 01:18:10,533
Oscar will have to tell lies...
1044
01:18:10,644 --> 01:18:13,408
perjure himself...
everything will come out.
1045
01:18:13,580 --> 01:18:16,310
Whatever the result,
it will be utter disaster.
1046
01:18:16,483 --> 01:18:18,075
You're an enemy then.
1047
01:18:18,218 --> 01:18:22,211
No, no, Bosie, please.
Robbie...
1048
01:18:22,322 --> 01:18:25,849
you're a dear boy, but I can't
even think of leaving the country.
1049
01:18:25,992 --> 01:18:31,055
As a matter of fact, I can't even
leave this hotel. I can't pay the bill.
1050
01:18:31,164 --> 01:18:33,826
We can raise you money,
for heaven's sake.
1051
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,594
Anyway, what about
your royalties?
1052
01:18:36,736 --> 01:18:38,636
We shall need all the money
we can get for the libel case.
1053
01:18:39,940 --> 01:18:43,341
My father can't go on making
all our lives a torment like this.
1054
01:18:44,611 --> 01:18:46,511
Oscar, I beg you.
1055
01:18:47,681 --> 01:18:49,273
I'm not going to run away, Robbie.
1056
01:18:49,449 --> 01:18:52,748
I'm not going to hide.
That would be the English thing to do.
1057
01:18:52,886 --> 01:18:56,322
If you take Queensberry to court,
all hell will break loose.
1058
01:18:56,456 --> 01:18:59,983
All my life I've fought
against the English vice:
1059
01:19:00,126 --> 01:19:02,993
Hypocrisy...
not that that's the point.
1060
01:19:03,163 --> 01:19:07,532
The point is, Queensberry's already
caused the death of one of his sons.
1061
01:19:07,667 --> 01:19:11,569
If I don't try and stop him now,
whom will he harm next?
1062
01:19:13,707 --> 01:19:15,538
He's avoiding me, Robbie.
1063
01:19:16,877 --> 01:19:20,540
I know what everyone's saying,
but it's not true.
1064
01:19:20,714 --> 01:19:22,545
It's not true.
1065
01:19:24,251 --> 01:19:27,345
- Is it?
- Of course not.
1066
01:19:28,922 --> 01:19:30,787
Oh, it's so shaming.
1067
01:19:32,659 --> 01:19:36,925
No, I find it easier to stand.
1068
01:19:37,030 --> 01:19:41,330
I'm going to Torquay for a month,
try to get my back right.
1069
01:19:41,434 --> 01:19:44,870
- Oscar's been so busy...
- I'm sure he'll be terribly upset...
1070
01:19:45,005 --> 01:19:48,406
when he knows you've been
in so much pain.
1071
01:19:49,843 --> 01:19:53,677
The truth is,
I need some money.
1072
01:19:53,847 --> 01:19:57,613
Not even sure where he is
to ask for it.
1073
01:19:57,784 --> 01:20:00,514
It does seem rather hard when he's
having such an extraordinary success.
1074
01:20:00,687 --> 01:20:02,211
I think I can find him.
1075
01:20:06,026 --> 01:20:08,494
I keep hearing these stories
about Bosie and his father.
1076
01:20:08,628 --> 01:20:12,928
- I'm sure you don't want to...
- Oh, yes. I do.
1077
01:20:14,801 --> 01:20:19,295
Men think women should be
protected by not knowing.
1078
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:21,805
Not knowing only makes it worse.
1079
01:20:24,878 --> 01:20:27,608
Is there going to be trouble?
1080
01:20:29,883 --> 01:20:31,578
I hope not.
1081
01:20:33,653 --> 01:20:36,087
I believe a prosecution
would certainly succeed...
1082
01:20:36,222 --> 01:20:38,087
provided...
and I stress this...
1083
01:20:38,258 --> 01:20:42,126
provided there is no truth whatever in
the accusation made by Lord Queensberry.
1084
01:20:42,295 --> 01:20:44,126
Of course
there's no truth in it.
1085
01:20:46,232 --> 01:20:51,329
Then so long as I have Mr. Wilde's
assurance that that is indeed the case.
1086
01:21:01,014 --> 01:21:03,710
There is no truth
in the accusation whatever.
1087
01:21:04,918 --> 01:21:08,581
Good. Excellent.
1088
01:21:10,290 --> 01:21:13,350
The defense, I understand,
will be led by Mr. Edward Carson.
1089
01:21:14,127 --> 01:21:18,120
Old Ned? I was at college
with him in Dublin.
1090
01:21:18,231 --> 01:21:22,634
No doubt he will perform his task with
all the bitterness of an old friend.
1091
01:21:24,804 --> 01:21:27,398
In writing a book or a play,
I'm concerned entirely with literature...
1092
01:21:27,540 --> 01:21:31,670
with art... I do not aim
at doing good or evil...
1093
01:21:31,778 --> 01:21:34,042
but at making a thing that will have
some quality of beauty.
1094
01:21:34,147 --> 01:21:39,483
Well, listen, sir. Here is
one of your pieces of literature.
1095
01:21:39,619 --> 01:21:42,383
"Wickedness is a myth
invented by good people...
1096
01:21:42,555 --> 01:21:44,853
to account for the curious
attractiveness of others."
1097
01:21:49,629 --> 01:21:51,153
Do you think that true?
1098
01:21:51,297 --> 01:21:53,663
Oh, I rarely think
anything I write is true.
1099
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:59,397
"If one tells the truth, one is sure,
sooner or later, to be found out."
1100
01:22:02,308 --> 01:22:05,903
That is a pleasing paradox, but
I do not set store by it as an axiom.
1101
01:22:06,046 --> 01:22:08,446
Is it good for the young?
1102
01:22:08,581 --> 01:22:11,812
Anything is good that stimulates
thought, at whatever age.
1103
01:22:11,918 --> 01:22:13,749
Whether moral or immoral?
1104
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,787
There's no such thing
as morality or immorality in thought.
1105
01:22:16,956 --> 01:22:18,548
What about this then?
1106
01:22:19,993 --> 01:22:22,393
"Pleasure is the only thing
one should live for."
1107
01:22:24,531 --> 01:22:28,023
I think that the realization of
one's self is the prime aim of life...
1108
01:22:28,168 --> 01:22:32,468
and that to realize through pleasure is
finer than to do so through pain.
1109
01:22:32,572 --> 01:22:36,440
I am, on this point, entirely on
the side of the ancients, the Greeks.
1110
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:42,642
How long have you known
Alfred Taylor?
1111
01:22:42,749 --> 01:22:45,582
About two years,
two-and-a-half years.
1112
01:22:45,752 --> 01:22:49,449
- Is he an intimate friend of yours?
- I wouldn't call him that, no.
1113
01:22:49,622 --> 01:22:52,147
But you went often to his rooms?
1114
01:22:52,292 --> 01:22:54,590
About seven or eight times,
perhaps.
1115
01:22:54,694 --> 01:22:58,926
Did you know Mr. Taylor kept
ladies' dresses in his rooms?
1116
01:23:01,935 --> 01:23:06,702
Did you know he was notorious
for introducing young men to older men?
1117
01:23:06,873 --> 01:23:10,104
I never heard it in my life.
1118
01:23:10,210 --> 01:23:12,110
Has he introduced
young men to you?
1119
01:23:13,279 --> 01:23:15,110
Yes.
1120
01:23:15,281 --> 01:23:18,808
- How many young men?
- About five.
1121
01:23:18,952 --> 01:23:23,548
- What were their occupations?
- I really don't know.
1122
01:23:23,690 --> 01:23:26,284
Oh, well, let me tell you,
Mr. Wilde.
1123
01:23:26,459 --> 01:23:30,259
You met a man called
Charles Parker there, I believe.
1124
01:23:30,430 --> 01:23:31,488
Yes.
1125
01:23:31,598 --> 01:23:34,362
Charles Parker is...
1126
01:23:34,534 --> 01:23:36,365
a gentleman's valet.
1127
01:23:37,937 --> 01:23:39,768
You met his brother there
too, I believe.
1128
01:23:39,939 --> 01:23:42,203
- Yes.
- He is a groom.
1129
01:23:44,310 --> 01:23:46,608
I didn't care tuppence
what they were.
1130
01:23:46,713 --> 01:23:51,309
I liked them. I have a passion
to civilize the community.
1131
01:23:51,484 --> 01:23:55,784
I recognize no social distinctions
at all of any kind.
1132
01:23:55,922 --> 01:23:57,913
To me, youth...
the mere fact of youth...
1133
01:23:58,024 --> 01:24:02,188
is so wonderful that I would sooner
talk to a young man for half an hour...
1134
01:24:02,295 --> 01:24:06,664
than, well, than be
cross-examined in court.
1135
01:24:06,799 --> 01:24:09,791
So, do I understand that...
1136
01:24:09,903 --> 01:24:13,339
even a boy you might pick up in the
street would be a pleasing companion?
1137
01:24:13,473 --> 01:24:17,671
I would talk to a street Arab
with pleasure if he would talk to me.
1138
01:24:17,777 --> 01:24:19,608
- And take him to your rooms?
- Yes.
1139
01:24:19,779 --> 01:24:22,339
And then commit
improprieties with him?
1140
01:24:24,217 --> 01:24:25,445
Certainly not.
1141
01:24:29,088 --> 01:24:32,683
You withdraw your libel action
against Lord Queensberry.
1142
01:24:32,859 --> 01:24:34,759
Well and good.
1143
01:24:34,928 --> 01:24:38,227
But there remains the question
of the evidence...
1144
01:24:38,364 --> 01:24:41,822
Lord Queensberry's evidence
against you.
1145
01:24:41,968 --> 01:24:46,200
My information is that the Crown
wishes to pursue the matter.
1146
01:24:47,707 --> 01:24:52,735
In which case, an arrest
and a charge of gross indecency...
1147
01:24:52,845 --> 01:24:54,836
are certain to follow.
1148
01:24:54,948 --> 01:24:58,782
The maximum sentence
is two years hard labor.
1149
01:24:58,952 --> 01:25:02,820
Nine months hard labor
is reckoned to be more...
1150
01:25:02,989 --> 01:25:04,820
than a man of our background...
1151
01:25:04,991 --> 01:25:06,720
can survive.
1152
01:25:09,495 --> 01:25:11,360
The children, the boys...
1153
01:25:11,531 --> 01:25:14,523
- I must go and see them.
- You have no time for that.
1154
01:25:14,634 --> 01:25:18,934
But my wife...
I have to say good-bye to my wife.
1155
01:25:19,072 --> 01:25:21,666
Unless you positively wish
to subject her...
1156
01:25:21,841 --> 01:25:24,139
to the further humiliation
of seeing you arrested...
1157
01:25:24,244 --> 01:25:27,475
and taken away
in front of the gutter press...
1158
01:25:27,580 --> 01:25:29,411
Mr. Wilde, you must go.
1159
01:25:36,256 --> 01:25:40,420
Oscar, you must take that train.
1160
01:25:40,526 --> 01:25:43,393
Practically everyone
you know will be on it.
1161
01:25:43,563 --> 01:25:48,091
At least 600 single gentlemen,
all in abject terror of arrest.
1162
01:25:52,839 --> 01:25:56,536
Where your life leads you,
you must go.
1163
01:25:57,710 --> 01:25:59,769
I defy society.
1164
01:25:59,879 --> 01:26:01,403
Tell him to go.
1165
01:26:03,349 --> 01:26:05,715
He must save himself.
1166
01:26:07,553 --> 01:26:09,544
Tell him to go abroad.
1167
01:26:09,656 --> 01:26:11,817
I've been telling him all day.
1168
01:26:13,426 --> 01:26:15,053
He won't budge.
1169
01:26:22,235 --> 01:26:26,467
People have never understood
the courage he needed to be himself.
1170
01:26:26,572 --> 01:26:28,699
You must go abroad too.
1171
01:26:28,808 --> 01:26:31,902
We must all go abroad at once.
1172
01:26:34,414 --> 01:26:36,575
Oscar says, will you
tell the boys good-bye.
1173
01:26:39,252 --> 01:26:41,846
I need to go through his papers.
1174
01:26:45,124 --> 01:26:48,787
You know,
I was always too silent.
1175
01:26:48,961 --> 01:26:50,792
If I'd known...
1176
01:26:56,402 --> 01:26:58,393
If I'd only spoken up.
1177
01:26:58,504 --> 01:27:00,597
It wouldn't have made
any difference.
1178
01:27:02,342 --> 01:27:03,900
Perhaps not...
1179
01:27:05,078 --> 01:27:08,172
but at least I wouldn't
blame myself now.
1180
01:27:31,838 --> 01:27:35,103
You're an Irish gentleman.
Of course, you must stay.
1181
01:27:35,208 --> 01:27:37,506
Your father fought
when he was libeled.
1182
01:27:37,610 --> 01:27:40,443
- I was in the courts myself. I fought...
- Yes, I know, Madre.
1183
01:27:40,613 --> 01:27:44,344
You will fight these
English philistines, and you'll win.
1184
01:27:44,517 --> 01:27:49,216
And even if you lose...
if you go to prison...
1185
01:27:49,389 --> 01:27:52,381
you'll always be my son.
1186
01:27:52,492 --> 01:27:54,790
Of course, it's too late
to change that now.
1187
01:27:56,295 --> 01:27:57,956
If you go, Oscar...
1188
01:27:58,131 --> 01:28:00,463
I'll never speak to you again.
1189
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:03,797
No one will ever speak
to me again, whatever I do.
1190
01:28:05,571 --> 01:28:08,802
Of course I'm your son, Madre...
1191
01:28:08,908 --> 01:28:12,139
which is why,
even if I lose...
1192
01:28:12,245 --> 01:28:14,543
the English
will never forget me.
1193
01:28:17,617 --> 01:28:19,141
My darling.
1194
01:28:48,381 --> 01:28:50,747
Get out of my way.
Get out! Out!
1195
01:28:52,118 --> 01:28:53,949
Take me away at once!
1196
01:29:02,328 --> 01:29:04,421
Lady Wilde. Lady Wilde!
1197
01:29:04,530 --> 01:29:07,397
Have you anything to say about
your son's disgrace, Lady Wilde?
1198
01:29:07,567 --> 01:29:09,398
Have you anything to say?
1199
01:29:17,076 --> 01:29:18,441
Come in.
1200
01:29:25,284 --> 01:29:27,149
Mr. Wilde, I believe.
1201
01:29:28,754 --> 01:29:29,812
Yes, yes.
1202
01:29:29,922 --> 01:29:32,117
We have a warrant here
for your arrest...
1203
01:29:32,225 --> 01:29:35,126
on a charge
of committing indecent acts.
1204
01:29:43,169 --> 01:29:45,330
I recommend Switzerland
as soon as possible.
1205
01:29:45,438 --> 01:29:48,271
You will have to change
your name, of course.
1206
01:29:50,743 --> 01:29:51,971
I can't.
1207
01:29:52,078 --> 01:29:54,638
My dear Constance,
the name of Wilde will be...
1208
01:29:54,780 --> 01:29:56,839
a word of execration
for the next thousand years.
1209
01:29:56,949 --> 01:30:00,544
You can't possibly let your boys grow up
with people knowing who they are.
1210
01:30:00,686 --> 01:30:02,517
Think of their lives at school.
1211
01:30:02,688 --> 01:30:05,054
Thank you for your advice.
1212
01:30:06,459 --> 01:30:08,586
I'm sorry our friendship
has to end like this.
1213
01:30:08,694 --> 01:30:12,858
- Oh, you will always be my friend.
- I am still Oscar's wife.
1214
01:30:12,965 --> 01:30:17,231
That must cease forthwith.
Forthwith. Do you understand?
1215
01:30:17,336 --> 01:30:20,134
Anybody who has anything
to do with Oscar from now on...
1216
01:30:20,306 --> 01:30:23,173
will never be received
in society again...
1217
01:30:23,342 --> 01:30:24,570
ever.
1218
01:30:29,749 --> 01:30:33,879
Oh, God, Ada.
What is going to happen to him?
1219
01:30:42,395 --> 01:30:44,454
That's Oscar Wilde's boy.
1220
01:30:44,564 --> 01:30:47,055
Oscar, you must let me
in the witness box.
1221
01:30:47,199 --> 01:30:49,531
If the jury can only hear
what I have to say...
1222
01:30:49,669 --> 01:30:51,830
Bosie, darling boy.
1223
01:30:51,938 --> 01:30:54,839
As soon as they see you
in all your golden youth...
1224
01:30:55,007 --> 01:30:57,134
and me in all my corruption...
1225
01:30:57,243 --> 01:31:00,576
You didn't corrupt me.
I corrupted you, if anything.
1226
01:31:00,713 --> 01:31:02,544
That's not how it will seem.
1227
01:31:02,715 --> 01:31:05,912
But I must have my say.
It's outrageous.
1228
01:31:06,018 --> 01:31:09,112
Everyone else has said everything,
anything that came into his head.
1229
01:31:09,221 --> 01:31:11,815
But I'm the person
all this is about.
1230
01:31:11,991 --> 01:31:14,391
It's me my father wants
to get at, not you.
1231
01:31:14,527 --> 01:31:16,893
It's outrageous
that I can't have my say.
1232
01:31:17,029 --> 01:31:21,432
It won't help, Bosie.
It may actually make things worse.
1233
01:31:21,601 --> 01:31:26,095
But my father will win.
I can't endure my father winning.
1234
01:31:27,907 --> 01:31:30,102
You must go away, dear boy.
1235
01:31:30,209 --> 01:31:32,803
I couldn't bear for them
to arrest you.
1236
01:31:36,616 --> 01:31:39,210
I can't bear what they're
saying about you in court.
1237
01:31:42,388 --> 01:31:44,288
Jesus Christ.
1238
01:31:46,392 --> 01:31:48,519
Good-bye, Bosie, dear boy.
1239
01:31:48,628 --> 01:31:51,791
Don't let anyone, anything,
ever change your feeling for me...
1240
01:31:51,897 --> 01:31:53,489
change your love.
1241
01:31:53,633 --> 01:31:56,466
- See you next time.
- Time's up, my lord.
1242
01:31:56,636 --> 01:32:00,970
Oscar, never. They never will.
I won't let them.
1243
01:32:11,751 --> 01:32:14,345
You've been a great deal
in the company of Lord Alfred Douglas?
1244
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:15,885
Oh, yes.
1245
01:32:17,390 --> 01:32:20,416
- Did he read his poems to you?
- Yes.
1246
01:32:20,526 --> 01:32:23,825
So, you can perhaps
understand that...
1247
01:32:23,963 --> 01:32:26,261
some of his verses...
1248
01:32:26,399 --> 01:32:31,837
would not be acceptable to a reader
with an ordinary balance to mind?
1249
01:32:32,772 --> 01:32:34,569
I'm not prepared to say.
1250
01:32:34,740 --> 01:32:37,834
It's a question of taste
and temperament...
1251
01:32:37,943 --> 01:32:40,070
and individuality.
1252
01:32:40,179 --> 01:32:43,205
I should say that one man's poetry
is another man's poison.
1253
01:32:43,315 --> 01:32:45,715
Yes, I daresay.
1254
01:32:45,851 --> 01:32:48,376
But in this poem
by Lord Alfred Douglas...
1255
01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:50,853
"Two Loves"...
1256
01:32:50,990 --> 01:32:52,821
there is one love,
true love...
1257
01:32:52,992 --> 01:32:56,621
which... and I quote...
1258
01:32:56,796 --> 01:33:00,425
"fills the hearts of boy and girl
with mutual flame."
1259
01:33:00,599 --> 01:33:04,763
And, there is another:
1260
01:33:04,870 --> 01:33:09,239
"I am the love
that dare not speak its name."
1261
01:33:11,444 --> 01:33:13,469
Was that poem explained to you?
1262
01:33:14,580 --> 01:33:17,913
- I think it's clear.
- There's no doubt as to what it means?
1263
01:33:18,050 --> 01:33:19,642
Most certainly not.
1264
01:33:19,819 --> 01:33:22,686
So, is it not clear
that the love described...
1265
01:33:22,855 --> 01:33:26,484
relates to natural
and unnatural love?
1266
01:33:30,996 --> 01:33:35,092
Then what is the love
that dare not speak its name?
1267
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:51,377
The love that dare not
speak its name...
1268
01:33:51,550 --> 01:33:54,075
in this century...
1269
01:33:54,220 --> 01:33:56,745
is such a great affection...
1270
01:33:56,889 --> 01:34:00,325
of an elder for a younger man...
1271
01:34:00,459 --> 01:34:02,927
as there was between
David and Jonathan...
1272
01:34:03,062 --> 01:34:07,829
such as Plato made
the very basis of his philosophy...
1273
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:11,663
and such as you may find in
the sonnets of Michelangelo...
1274
01:34:11,837 --> 01:34:13,270
and Shakespeare.
1275
01:34:15,608 --> 01:34:20,102
It is, in this century,
misunderstood...
1276
01:34:20,246 --> 01:34:23,738
so much misunderstood
that it may be described as...
1277
01:34:23,883 --> 01:34:26,613
the love that dare not
speak its name.
1278
01:34:26,786 --> 01:34:30,381
And, on account of it,
I am placed where I am now.
1279
01:34:32,124 --> 01:34:35,184
It is beautiful.
It is fine.
1280
01:34:36,562 --> 01:34:38,996
It is the noblest form
of affection.
1281
01:34:40,132 --> 01:34:42,657
There's nothing unnatural
about it.
1282
01:34:44,703 --> 01:34:47,103
It is intellectual...
1283
01:34:47,239 --> 01:34:51,005
and it repeatedly exists
between an elder and a younger man...
1284
01:34:51,177 --> 01:34:54,908
when the elder has intellect...
1285
01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:57,514
and the younger man...
1286
01:34:57,650 --> 01:35:02,246
has all the joy, hope
and glamour of life before him.
1287
01:35:04,089 --> 01:35:08,992
That it should be so,
the world does not understand.
1288
01:35:09,161 --> 01:35:11,186
The world mocks at it...
1289
01:35:11,297 --> 01:35:15,427
and sometimes puts one
in the pillory for it.
1290
01:35:34,253 --> 01:35:37,313
The crime of which
you have been convicted...
1291
01:35:37,423 --> 01:35:39,516
is so bad...
1292
01:35:39,625 --> 01:35:42,924
that I shall pass
the severest sentence...
1293
01:35:43,028 --> 01:35:46,293
that the law will allow.
1294
01:35:46,398 --> 01:35:51,199
In my judgment, it is totally
inadequate for such a case as this.
1295
01:35:52,404 --> 01:35:55,498
It is the worst case
I have ever tried!
1296
01:35:55,608 --> 01:35:58,338
The sentence of the court...
1297
01:35:58,510 --> 01:36:00,705
is that you will be imprisoned...
1298
01:36:00,813 --> 01:36:04,078
and held to hard labor...
1299
01:36:04,183 --> 01:36:06,879
- Stand aside, please.
- for two years.
1300
01:36:07,052 --> 01:36:08,883
- Shame.
- Pervert.
1301
01:36:14,426 --> 01:36:15,654
Pervert!
1302
01:36:22,801 --> 01:36:24,632
Shame on you!
1303
01:36:45,124 --> 01:36:46,648
Disgusting!
1304
01:37:12,384 --> 01:37:15,683
A slim thing,
gold-haired like an angel...
1305
01:37:15,788 --> 01:37:18,188
stands always at my side.
1306
01:37:18,324 --> 01:37:22,090
He moves in the gloom
like a white flower.
1307
01:37:22,261 --> 01:37:26,630
I thought but to defend him from
his father. I thought of nothing else.
1308
01:37:43,082 --> 01:37:45,710
Now my life seems
to have gone from me.
1309
01:37:45,884 --> 01:37:48,182
I'm caught in a terrible net.
1310
01:37:48,320 --> 01:37:51,050
But so long as I think
he is thinking of me...
1311
01:37:51,223 --> 01:37:55,683
my sweet rose, my delicate flower,
my lily of lilies...
1312
01:37:55,828 --> 01:37:59,889
it is in prison that I shall
test the power of love.
1313
01:37:59,999 --> 01:38:03,196
I shall see if I can't make
the bitter waters sweet...
1314
01:38:03,302 --> 01:38:05,702
by the intensity of the love
I bear you.
1315
01:38:19,284 --> 01:38:23,584
He asked me not to change.
Those were his last words to me...
1316
01:38:23,722 --> 01:38:25,713
"Don't change."
1317
01:38:25,824 --> 01:38:29,419
Well, things are going to have
to change when he comes out.
1318
01:38:30,596 --> 01:38:32,791
He'll have no money at all.
1319
01:38:32,898 --> 01:38:35,526
- So you're blaming me, too, are you?
- I'm not blaming anyone.
1320
01:38:35,701 --> 01:38:39,296
Bosie, you're not the only person
on this earth Oscar cares about.
1321
01:38:40,472 --> 01:38:43,498
You've always hated me,
Robbie...
1322
01:38:43,609 --> 01:38:47,010
because Oscar loved and still loves me
when you were just one of his boys.
1323
01:38:56,889 --> 01:38:59,722
I'm suffering just as much
as he is, you know.
1324
01:39:01,593 --> 01:39:03,322
My life's ruined too.
1325
01:39:03,495 --> 01:39:07,932
I'm much younger than he is. I've hardly
had any life, and it's ruined already.
1326
01:39:08,067 --> 01:39:11,764
When Oscar gets out,
we'll live together properly.
1327
01:39:11,937 --> 01:39:15,634
We'll take a villa
somewhere near here... Posilipo...
1328
01:39:15,808 --> 01:39:18,436
- or Ischia.
- Or Capri.
1329
01:39:20,546 --> 01:39:22,946
I'll take care of him.
1330
01:39:23,082 --> 01:39:25,448
I'll give him
everything he wants.
1331
01:39:26,752 --> 01:39:28,811
I love him, Robbie.
1332
01:39:31,256 --> 01:39:33,781
Oscar's mine,
and I'm going to have him.
1333
01:39:50,542 --> 01:39:55,377
"Years went over, and the giant
grew very old and very feeble.
1334
01:39:55,547 --> 01:39:59,449
He couldn't play about anymore,
so he sat in a huge armchair...
1335
01:39:59,618 --> 01:40:03,213
and watched the children at their games
and admired his garden.
1336
01:40:07,860 --> 01:40:10,351
'I have many beautiful flowers, '
he said.
1337
01:40:10,496 --> 01:40:14,296
'But the children are
the most beautiful flowers of all. "'
1338
01:40:52,638 --> 01:40:55,232
I'm afraid Cyril has got
some idea why you're here.
1339
01:40:56,875 --> 01:40:59,241
I'm sending him
to school in Germany.
1340
01:41:02,114 --> 01:41:04,480
I can't manage them on my own.
1341
01:41:08,287 --> 01:41:11,017
Your back isn't better then?
1342
01:41:11,190 --> 01:41:13,021
No, not really.
1343
01:41:14,860 --> 01:41:17,226
I may have to have an operation.
1344
01:41:19,198 --> 01:41:22,725
What I've done
to you and the boys...
1345
01:41:22,868 --> 01:41:24,733
I can't...
1346
01:41:24,903 --> 01:41:27,736
I shall never forgive myself.
1347
01:41:30,275 --> 01:41:32,903
If we could choose
our natures...
1348
01:41:35,380 --> 01:41:37,541
If we could only choose.
1349
01:41:37,649 --> 01:41:39,480
But it's no use.
1350
01:41:42,554 --> 01:41:46,388
Whatever our natures are,
we must fulfill them...
1351
01:41:47,759 --> 01:41:49,852
or our lives... my life...
1352
01:41:49,962 --> 01:41:53,420
would have been filled
with dishonesty.
1353
01:41:55,834 --> 01:41:58,667
Even more dishonesty
than there actually was.
1354
01:42:04,076 --> 01:42:06,442
I've always loved you,
Constance.
1355
01:42:08,547 --> 01:42:10,071
You must believe me.
1356
01:42:12,317 --> 01:42:14,808
I don't see
how you can have done...
1357
01:42:14,953 --> 01:42:16,784
not truly.
1358
01:42:17,990 --> 01:42:19,787
Not if all the time...
1359
01:42:19,958 --> 01:42:21,482
I didn't know.
1360
01:42:24,529 --> 01:42:26,895
"Know thyself,"
I used to say.
1361
01:42:28,867 --> 01:42:31,392
I didn't know myself.
1362
01:42:33,038 --> 01:42:34,869
I didn't know.
1363
01:42:38,277 --> 01:42:40,609
I suppose you want a divorce.
1364
01:42:43,081 --> 01:42:44,605
You have every reason.
1365
01:42:48,287 --> 01:42:51,654
I've been thinking,
when you do come out...
1366
01:42:51,790 --> 01:42:54,588
when they let you out...
you can go to Switzerland or Italy...
1367
01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:57,593
write another play,
get yourself back.
1368
01:42:58,830 --> 01:43:01,355
You can.
1369
01:43:01,500 --> 01:43:04,264
You're so clever.
You can.
1370
01:43:14,946 --> 01:43:17,005
I don't want a divorce.
1371
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:24,250
Will you ever let me
see the children again?
1372
01:43:25,957 --> 01:43:27,185
Of course.
1373
01:43:34,533 --> 01:43:36,364
But there must be one condition:
1374
01:43:40,405 --> 01:43:42,703
Oscar, you must never
see Bosie again.
1375
01:43:44,509 --> 01:43:48,707
If I saw Bosie now,
I'd kill him.
1376
01:43:52,918 --> 01:43:55,113
The children love you, Oscar.
1377
01:44:03,962 --> 01:44:06,556
They'll always love you.
1378
01:44:15,440 --> 01:44:17,874
Did anyone tell you?
1379
01:44:18,009 --> 01:44:20,569
They've been performing
Salome in Paris.
1380
01:44:29,588 --> 01:44:33,388
"The giant hastened across the grass
and came near to the child.
1381
01:44:33,558 --> 01:44:36,220
And when he came quite close,
his face grew red with anger.
1382
01:44:36,395 --> 01:44:40,798
And he said,
'Who hath dared to wound thee? '
1383
01:44:40,932 --> 01:44:44,129
For on the palms of the child's hands
were the prints of two nails.
1384
01:44:44,236 --> 01:44:47,069
And the prints of two nails
were on his little feet.
1385
01:45:03,255 --> 01:45:07,521
'Who hath dared to wound thee? '
Cried the giant.
1386
01:45:07,626 --> 01:45:11,323
'Tell me, that I may take
my big sword and slay him. '
1387
01:45:11,496 --> 01:45:13,726
'Nay, 'answered the child.
1388
01:45:13,832 --> 01:45:16,198
'For these are
the wounds of love. "'
1389
01:45:24,743 --> 01:45:27,234
Bosie thinks I'm jealous.
1390
01:45:27,379 --> 01:45:29,438
I think it will come as a shock
to Bosie to realize...
1391
01:45:29,548 --> 01:45:32,449
that even he is relatively unimportant
in the scheme of things.
1392
01:45:32,617 --> 01:45:36,610
But, no doubt, Bosie will be
remembered as long as Oscar...
1393
01:45:36,721 --> 01:45:38,382
unfortunately.
1394
01:45:43,929 --> 01:45:45,760
I sometimes wonder...
1395
01:45:48,900 --> 01:45:50,731
if I hadn't...
1396
01:45:54,372 --> 01:45:56,101
pushed him into...
1397
01:45:56,274 --> 01:45:57,502
Don't.
1398
01:45:59,244 --> 01:46:01,678
Oscar was very lucky
to meet you, Robbie.
1399
01:46:02,547 --> 01:46:04,412
Think who else
it might have been.
1400
01:46:05,584 --> 01:46:07,779
Oh, I'll have that one.
Thank you.
1401
01:46:07,886 --> 01:46:11,754
- Must you go abroad again at once?
- I shouldn't be here now.
1402
01:46:14,593 --> 01:46:17,619
But has he got anywhere to go
when he's released?
1403
01:46:17,729 --> 01:46:19,526
It'll have to be in France.
1404
01:46:19,698 --> 01:46:22,394
I'm going to see
what I can arrange.
1405
01:46:22,567 --> 01:46:24,762
But here...
1406
01:46:24,870 --> 01:46:26,895
when he leaves prison...
1407
01:46:32,844 --> 01:46:35,005
- Good-bye, Mr. Harris.
- Good-bye, sir.
1408
01:46:35,113 --> 01:46:37,479
Good-bye, Mr. Snow.
Thank you.
1409
01:46:43,522 --> 01:46:45,717
My dear Sphinx.
1410
01:46:47,792 --> 01:46:50,625
How marvelous of you to know what hat
to wear at 7:00 in the morning...
1411
01:46:50,795 --> 01:46:53,696
to meet a friend
who's been away.
1412
01:46:53,865 --> 01:46:56,732
- No, I'll keep this.
- What is it.
1413
01:46:56,902 --> 01:46:59,496
It's a letter to Bosie
telling him...
1414
01:46:59,638 --> 01:47:01,833
how I love him
but can never see him again.
1415
01:47:01,940 --> 01:47:04,807
I'm going to ask Robbie
to have it copied out before I send it.
1416
01:47:04,976 --> 01:47:08,309
I rather fear Bosie
might throw it on the fire.
1417
01:47:08,446 --> 01:47:11,711
I call it De Profundis.
It comes from the very depths.
1418
01:47:46,952 --> 01:47:49,352
"I know not whether laws
be right...
1419
01:47:49,487 --> 01:47:51,887
or whether laws be wrong.
1420
01:47:52,023 --> 01:47:54,150
All that we know
who lie in jail...
1421
01:47:54,259 --> 01:47:56,420
is that the wall is strong...
1422
01:47:56,528 --> 01:47:59,656
and that each day
is like a year...
1423
01:47:59,764 --> 01:48:02,130
a year whose days are long.
1424
01:48:06,871 --> 01:48:10,466
Yet each man kills
the thing he loves.
1425
01:48:10,609 --> 01:48:12,941
By each, let this be heard.
1426
01:48:13,078 --> 01:48:14,978
Some do it with a bitter look...
1427
01:48:15,146 --> 01:48:18,206
some with a flattering word.
1428
01:48:18,316 --> 01:48:20,750
The coward does it
with a kiss...
1429
01:48:20,885 --> 01:48:23,251
the brave man with a sword.
1430
01:48:26,091 --> 01:48:28,355
Some kill their love
when they are young...
1431
01:48:28,460 --> 01:48:31,224
and some when they are old.
1432
01:48:31,396 --> 01:48:34,695
Some strangle
with the hands of lust...
1433
01:48:34,799 --> 01:48:37,529
some with the hands of gold.
1434
01:48:37,702 --> 01:48:40,535
The kindest use a knife...
1435
01:48:40,705 --> 01:48:43,936
because the dead
so soon grow cold. "
1436
01:48:52,150 --> 01:48:54,983
I'm sure we can find
an hotel near here.
1437
01:48:57,956 --> 01:49:00,481
Somewhere where you can work.
1438
01:49:08,333 --> 01:49:11,894
- I've decided to see him again, Robbie.
- Yes.
1439
01:49:12,904 --> 01:49:16,101
- I thought you might.
- I've nothing left.
1440
01:49:17,242 --> 01:49:19,642
I've lost my wife.
1441
01:49:19,778 --> 01:49:21,837
I've lost my children.
1442
01:49:23,782 --> 01:49:25,613
They won't allow me
to see them now.
1443
01:49:27,385 --> 01:49:29,148
No one will ever read
my plays or books again.
1444
01:49:29,320 --> 01:49:30,878
Yes, they will.
1445
01:49:31,022 --> 01:49:34,048
Bosie loves me more
than he loves anyone else...
1446
01:49:36,461 --> 01:49:38,622
as much as he can love...
1447
01:49:38,730 --> 01:49:41,597
and allow himself to be loved.
1448
01:49:45,336 --> 01:49:47,736
I think we need
some more wine.
1449
01:49:50,809 --> 01:49:53,937
I find that alcohol...
1450
01:49:54,045 --> 01:49:56,536
taken in
sufficient quantities...
1451
01:50:00,385 --> 01:50:03,877
Can bring about
all the effects of drunkenness.
1452
01:50:47,065 --> 01:50:48,657
"Life cheats us with shadows.
1453
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:52,292
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us...
1454
01:50:52,437 --> 01:50:55,736
with bitterness
and disappointment in its train.
1455
01:50:55,874 --> 01:50:59,002
And we find ourselves looking
with dull heart of stone...
1456
01:50:59,110 --> 01:51:01,237
at the tress
of gold-flecked hair...
1457
01:51:01,346 --> 01:51:03,940
that we had once
so wildly worshipped...
1458
01:51:04,082 --> 01:51:06,175
and so madly kissed. "
1459
01:51:42,754 --> 01:51:46,349
In this world, there are
only two tragedies.
1460
01:51:46,491 --> 01:51:48,721
One is not getting
what one wants.
1461
01:51:48,827 --> 01:51:51,489
The other is getting it.
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