I haven't read the article yet (nor seen the movie), but it's good to see you around these parts, Aloysius!
Thanks, Katherine!
John, this was a truly wonderful interview to read! Maurice was historic. . .and timeless! ![Kiss :-*](http://bettermost.net/forum/Smileys/cowboy/kiss.gif)
Thank you. Lee--it IS wonderful, isn't it?--the article, I mean. Lots to say (by me) but will take time to process. In the meanwhile, re Forster's
Maurice as historic and timely--
well, yup!
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I guess I'm just a thick-headed philistine. I saw the film once, in the theater, when it came out, and it seems to have made so little an impression on me that almost the only thing I can remember about it is how the English pronounce "Maurice."
How do they?
Like "Morris".
Thanks Paul--I'm a "Morris" Maurice myself, an Irish one (come to think of it, it's not only the whole of the British Isles that uses that pronunciation, there's the German
Moritz, the Dutch
Maurits, and probably others as well).
I remember nothing of the happy ending, only Maurice getting his heart broken.
Here it is, Jeff--
MAURICE: "Alec--"ALEC: "You got the word, then?"MAURICE: "What word?"ALEC: "The word I sent to your house--tellin' you--sorry, I'm a bit tired with one thing or another--
Tellin' you to come here to the boathouse at Pendersleigh without fail--"[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p0wzNZTa6g[/youtube]
Maurice (1987)
Published on Apr 26, 2014
ALEC: "Now we shan't never be parted. It's finished."Last word:
See the film; it's important.
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