0:00:02 > 0:00:11This film contains some strong language.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30HORSES GALLOPING
0:00:38 > 0:00:40HE WHISTLES
0:00:55 > 0:00:57He's comin', he's comin'!
0:01:12 > 0:01:14CROWD CHEERS
0:01:15 > 0:01:17GUNSHOTS
0:01:27 > 0:01:32All right, now, let's give a good Colorado welcome here!
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Hello, sir.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Thank you, thank you.
0:01:39 > 0:01:45Everybody, listen up. I want to introduce you to Oscar Wilde.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Welcome to the Matchless silver mine.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55Today we opened up a new seam. We're going to name it after you.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59How very kind. I look forward to collecting the royalties.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Now, why don't you follow me over here?
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Great lecture you gave last night.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11We're truly honoured to have you visit us.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13If you'd step in here. There.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24SHOOTING
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I thought I was descending into hell
0:02:35 > 0:02:39but with these angels to greet me, it must be paradise.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Is this the way to my seam? I should have preferred gold.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46But we live in a silver age, alas.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51So much that is exquisitely beautiful is wrought from suffering,
0:02:51 > 0:02:56from pain, from toil, broken bones and blistered skin.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Benvenuto Cellini understood silver.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02He transformed the metal that you mine so nobly into art
0:03:02 > 0:03:04for popes and princes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Cellini? Is he a wop?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08A Renaissance man. In every sense.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11The greatest silversmith the world has seen.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16A genius in life as well as art. He experimented with every vice.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19He committed murder.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19He killed a man?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22More than one.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Thank you.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Why didn't you bring Cellini with you?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36I'm afraid he's dead.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Who shot him?
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Is Miss Lloyd connected to Lloyd's Bank?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33No, no.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Pity.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39She's comfortable. A thousand a year.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41I congratulate you, Lady Wilde.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Now that Oscar's been to America, sown his Wildean oats,
0:04:45 > 0:04:47it's time he settled down.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Weren't they very rough?
0:04:48 > 0:04:50No, charming. Well, to me.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54They can be brusque. They hanged two men in the theatre
0:04:54 > 0:04:56just before I gave a lecture.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00I felt like the sorbet after a side of beef.
0:05:01 > 0:05:06I know your friend is famous, Ada. Notorious, at least.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08But I don't understand for what.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11For being himself, Lady Mount-Temple.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Americans talk wonderful slang.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18I did hear a lady say, "After the heel-lick, I shifted my day goods."
0:05:18 > 0:05:20What on earth did she mean?
0:05:20 > 0:05:24She changed her clothes after an afternoon dance.
0:05:24 > 0:05:29Connie, my love, Lady Mount-Temple is so anxious to meet you.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31I knew your father, Miss Lloyd.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35She's delightful. And not stupid. Not stupid at all.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Is that quite a reason to marry her?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Well, I must marry someone.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44And my mother has our future planned out in every detail.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48I'm to go into parliament, live a settled life.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Literature, lectures, the House.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55Receptions for the world at five o'clock.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55How dreary.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Your Sphinxiness will only be essential
0:05:58 > 0:06:00for our intimate dinners at eight.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03'Twill be a grand, charming life.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07I see Constance will be busy preparing the dinners.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11What will she contribute to the literature?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11She'll correct my proofs.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Oh, what a little sunbeam.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24I do love her, Ada. She's...
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Silent.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I find her very silent.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29But so sympathetic.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32And I do need an audience.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12I don't see how you can possibly take it in, reading at that speed.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Try me.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17I know better.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Where are we dining tonight?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24At the Leversons'.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28You must show yourself as a propagandist for dress reform.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Cinnamon cashmere trousers and the cape with the ends
0:07:32 > 0:07:35that turn up into sleeves.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38I don't think I can wear those trousers now.
0:07:44 > 0:07:50IRISH ACCENT: A new Wilde for the world! Another genius for Ireland!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55We shall have to buy you a whole new wardrobe.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Ernest proposed under that statue.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09The things that go on before works of art are appalling.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11The police should interfere.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13We were made not to marry,
0:08:13 > 0:08:17whereas you and Constance are happy. Everyone says so.
0:08:17 > 0:08:21It's monstrous how people say things behind one's back
0:08:21 > 0:08:23that are absolutely true.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26So your audience has proved responsive?
0:08:26 > 0:08:31Receptive, yes. Responsive... I always wonder what she's thinking.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I expect it's about the baby.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35She's such a natural mother
0:08:35 > 0:08:39she's invited Robbie home while his parents are abroad.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Robbie is Canadian. You can tell by his youth.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Have you been brought to England to mature, Mr Ross?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50It doesn't seem to be working.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55I've lived here since I was three and you see the pitiful result?
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Robbie comes from a line of imperial governors.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03His grandfather was prime minister of Upper Canada. Or was it Lower?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07The British apply their class system even to continents.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12Are you planning to govern a continent?
0:09:09 > 0:09:12I don't even plan to govern myself.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Hello, sir!
0:09:25 > 0:09:30Shall I give you these, my love? I'll see if I can find a cab.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Looking for someone?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00< Cab! Cab!
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Bed time.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Just one more cigarette.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Oscar?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Er, no, thanks, Robbie.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Don't stay up too late, Robbie.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Good night.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Good night, Oscar.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Good night, Robbie.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Shh.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57He's asleep.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02He's so beautiful.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Almost as beautiful as his mother.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13I don't know what I'd do without you.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15My constant Constance.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Good night, my dear.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Good night.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02A university education is admirable, if you remember
0:12:02 > 0:12:06that nothing worth knowing can be taught, least of all at Cambridge.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10But you told me in Greece, in ancient Greece,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13older men taught the younger. They drew them out.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17I look forward to being drawn out immensely.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Yes, well, Greek love, platonic love,
0:12:20 > 0:12:25is the highest form of affection known to man... Of course.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30You told me the Greeks put statues of Apollo in the bride's chamber
0:12:30 > 0:12:32so she would have beautiful sons.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38But I can't help noticing that here the statue's in your bedroom.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Constance prefers a bath.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02She was so beautiful when I married her, Robbie. Slim,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06white as a lily, such dancing eyes.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11I've never seen such love in a pair of eyes. She was...
0:13:41 > 0:13:44"Nothing should reveal the body...
0:13:44 > 0:13:46"but the body."
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Didn't you say?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03There has to be a first time for everything, Oscar.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Even for you.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20CHILD CRIES
0:14:18 > 0:14:20There's a good fella. Come on, now.
0:14:20 > 0:14:25There. Now, come on, Cyril, it's time for your bath.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Be a good boy.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Don't make such a fuss!
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Shh.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33You've got to get undressed.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36I know you hate it.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Boys never do what they're told.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42We're going to have a girl next time.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44I must go.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Good night, my dear.
0:14:49 > 0:14:55Behave, Cyril. A gentleman should take a bath at least once a year.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01I shan't be back till late. I'm dining with the Asquiths.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43D'you love me?
0:15:45 > 0:15:51I feel...like a city that's been under siege for twenty years.
0:15:53 > 0:15:59Suddenly the gates are thrown open, the citizens come pouring out...
0:16:01 > 0:16:06..to breathe the air, walk the fields and pluck the wild flowers.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10I feel...
0:16:09 > 0:16:12relieved.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17You don't worry about Constance?
0:16:17 > 0:16:21'Every afternoon, the children used to play
0:16:21 > 0:16:24'in the garden of the selfish giant.'
0:16:23 > 0:16:29Is that the garden where we play?
0:16:25 > 0:16:29No, it's larger and lovelier, with soft green grass.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32There's grass where we go.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34But are there twelve peach trees
0:16:34 > 0:16:39that have blossoms of pink and pearl in spring and rich fruit in autumn?
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Are there, Mama?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43I don't think there are, Cyril.
0:16:43 > 0:16:49Would you hand me a matchstick? I'll put the hussar's head back on.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly
0:16:55 > 0:16:59that the children used to stop their games to listen.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01"How happy we are here," they said.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06How could they be happy if there was a giant?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06There wasn't yet. He was away.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08You're always away.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14But I only go for a night or two and I always come back.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19The giant had been away for seven years, seeing an ogre in Cornwall.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24After he'd said all he had to say - his conversation was very limited -
0:17:24 > 0:17:28he decided to return home to his own castle.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31When he found the children, he was very angry.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34"What are you doing here?!" he cried
0:17:34 > 0:17:37and all the children ran away.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40"My own garden is my own garden,"
0:17:40 > 0:17:45said the giant, "and I won't allow anyone to play in it except myself!"
0:17:45 > 0:17:51He built a high wall, put up a large notice board on which was written,
0:17:51 > 0:17:53TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Arthur, you're trespassing.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Cyril will now eat you.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00It's Mr Ross, sir, with Mr Gray.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05I must fly. The horses of Apollo are pawing impatiently at the gates.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- I beg your pardon? - Papa must go.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14You will come back and finish the story?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Of course I will.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Come on, it's almost tea time.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24I don't know why people bother painting portraits now.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27You can get a better likeness with a photograph.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30But a photograph is just one moment in time,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32one gesture, one turn of the head.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Portraits are not likenesses. Painters show the soul
0:18:36 > 0:18:39of the subject, the essence.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42The essence of the sitter's vanity?
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Well, this is a portrait of Lady Battersby as a young woman.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50She's over there, as a matter of fact.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52I must go and console her.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Poor thing.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I expect in her heart
0:19:04 > 0:19:07she thinks she looks like this. To be young
0:19:07 > 0:19:09and innocent forever...
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Would we want to?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13If our souls were ugly, yes.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23Have we had enough of this? Shall we have dinner somewhere?
0:19:59 > 0:20:04'Dorian Gray is the most wonderful book I've ever read.'
0:20:04 > 0:20:07And the end, when the servants break in
0:20:07 > 0:20:12and find him wisened, old and dead and the picture young again!
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I fainted.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17My family say it's dull and wicked.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- Dull? - SHE LAUGHS
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Oh... It's sublime.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32It's about the masks we wear as faces.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36And the faces we wear as masks.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42That my son should have written a work of such...
0:20:41 > 0:20:45People say it's full of dangerous paradoxes.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Hardly anyone will speak to us any more.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51We're ceasing to be respectable.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Artists care nothing about respectability.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00It's only jealousy.
0:21:01 > 0:21:06It's the spite of the untalented for the men of genius.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Where is Oscar?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13He's in the Lake District, writing a play.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16A drama?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16A comedy.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Robbie Ross has gone to keep him company.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I do like Robbie.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26And they both love you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29It'll be a great success.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Oscar's made for the stage.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- <- Magnificent!
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Bravo!
0:22:15 > 0:22:20Ladies and gentleman, I have enjoyed this evening immensely.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25The actors have given us a charming rendering of a delightful play.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you
0:22:29 > 0:22:34on the great success of your performance, which persuades me
0:22:34 > 0:22:38that you think almost as highly of this play as I do myself.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Splendid, Oscar. An absolute triumph!
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Thank you so much.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58It went so well, Oscar.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Even better than I'd...
0:23:01 > 0:23:04They loved it, they absolutely loved it.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06And I, dear boy, love you.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- Congratulations, Oscar.- >
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Thank you.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Mr Wilde, wonderful.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Oscar.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Sphinx.
0:23:18 > 0:23:23You really must be careful. You're in grave danger of becoming rich.
0:23:23 > 0:23:29It was wonderful! Everyone wants to know who the real Lady Windermere is.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33The real one is every woman in this room. And most of the men.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34- Oscar. - Lionel.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38A wonderful play. My cousin, Lord Alfred Douglas, is here.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42He would very much like to congratulate you.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Oscar, this is Bosie Douglas.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59We met last year. Lionel brought me to tea at Tite Street.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02How could I possibly forget?
0:24:03 > 0:24:08I love your play. The audience didn't know if you meant your jokes.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12You shocked them. Especially with your speech.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15But the more frivolous you seem,
0:24:15 > 0:24:17the more serious you are. I love that.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Thank you. The young are the only critics
0:24:20 > 0:24:23with enough experience to judge my work.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25We need shocking.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28People are so banal. You use your wit like a foil.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33You cut through all the starched shirt fronts. You draw blood.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35It's magnificent.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38I wish you'd draw some blood down in Oxford.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42You'd need a miracle. All the dons have dust in their veins.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46At which college do you educate the fellows?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Magdalen.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50My own college. I shall claim the privilege of a graduate
0:24:50 > 0:24:52and take tutorials with you.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57Come soon, then. They're threatening to send me down.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02How could they be so cruel to one so beautiful?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Dons - they're so middle class.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10My dear Oscar,
0:25:09 > 0:25:14you've shocked London, smoking on stage.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Then we shall run for a year.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17You must say something to Marion Terry.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21She was good. So good that I think she wrote most of the lines herself.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Excuse me, Lord Alfred.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Bosie, please.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Bosie.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39'"My own garden is my own garden," said the giant.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43"So he built a high wall all around it and put up a notice board.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46"Trespassers will be prosecuted.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50"He was a very selfish giant.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53"The poor children had now nowhere to play.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55"They tried to play on the road
0:25:55 > 0:26:00"but the road was dusty and full of stones and they did not like it.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02"They used to wander around the wall
0:26:02 > 0:26:06"and talk about the beautiful garden inside.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10"'How happy we were there,' they said to each other."
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I hope he was a very beautiful boy.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Well, pretty, you know, in a street Arab sort of way.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21There's no point being blackmailed by an ugly one.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30What's tiresome is he's threatened to show my letters to my father.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35Who will show them to his friends for the excellence of their style.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39No. No. You don't know him. He's a brute.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Really.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43He carries a whip wherever he goes.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48He used to beat my mother.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51He beat my brothers.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54He thrashed me...
0:26:52 > 0:26:54My dear boy.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Course, he's practically illiterate.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Probably wouldn't understand the letters.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06By an unforgivable oversight, I've never been blackmailed
0:27:06 > 0:27:09but I believe £100 usually suffices.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Really? God! You promise?
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Hm. Leave it to Lewis, George Lewis, my solicitor.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19He knows what he's doing. He acts for the Prince of Wales.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22PIANO PLAYS
0:27:25 > 0:27:33- WEAKLY BUT TUNEFULLY: #- Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- #- No fate seemed fair as mine
0:27:38 > 0:27:44- #- No happiness so great...- #
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Isn't he killing, Mr Wilde?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49He's perfect.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51He's perfect in every way.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- #- And sung in accents clear
0:27:56 > 0:28:01- #- This joyous roundelay
0:28:01 > 0:28:05- #- He loves me
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- #- He is here
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- #- Fa la la la
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- #- Fa la la la
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- #- He loves me
0:28:19 > 0:28:21- #- He is here
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- #- Fa la la la
0:28:26 > 0:28:28- #- Fa la.- #
0:28:30 > 0:28:32APPLAUSE
0:28:32 > 0:28:35- It was lovely. Well done, Bosie.- >
0:28:35 > 0:28:37- Absolutely enchanting.- >
0:29:59 > 0:30:03I don't want to sit here. I want to sit there.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05You heard what Lord Alfred said.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08I want everyone to look at us.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12I want everyone to say, "There's Oscar Wilde with his boy."
0:30:20 > 0:30:24So, what shall we let people see us eating?
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Foie gras and lobster. And champagne.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31For two. We do everything together.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33Very good, Mr Wilde.
0:30:40 > 0:30:45- I think he enjoyed thrashing me. All my family are mad.- >
0:30:47 > 0:30:51My uncle slit his throat last year in a railway hotel.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52Which station?
0:30:54 > 0:30:55Euston.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00Ah. All life's really serious journeys involve a railway terminus.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05And now I must go to the station myself.
0:31:05 > 0:31:11Sarah Bernhardt thinks she knows better than I do how to play Salome.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Stay.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Please stay.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19At least until this evening.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23Sarah is divine, as you are.
0:31:23 > 0:31:28She will be wonderful at the play's climax when Salome kisses the head
0:31:28 > 0:31:30of John the Baptist.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34"Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan."
0:31:34 > 0:31:37Iokanaan is an old Hebrew name for John.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41"Well, I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth
0:31:41 > 0:31:43"as one bites a ripe fruit.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46"Yes, I will kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan.
0:31:46 > 0:31:50"Thy body is white, like the snows that lie on the mountains.
0:31:50 > 0:31:55"Like the snows that lie on the mountains of Judaea
0:31:54 > 0:31:57"and come down into the valleys.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00"The roses in the garden of the Queen of Arabia
0:32:00 > 0:32:03"are not so white as thy body."
0:32:09 > 0:32:12'I'm not good enough for him any more.'
0:32:12 > 0:32:15I'm just the son of a carpenter, while Bosie...
0:32:15 > 0:32:19Oscar's only ever been smitten before.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24He was smitten with me, he was smitten with you.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26I wasn't smitten.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33I loved him.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37Well, now he's fallen in love.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41I'm halfway to hellfire, I'm not joking.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Someone else was a carpenter's son.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49I've given in and become a Catholic.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52I find the confession...
0:32:52 > 0:32:54wonderfully consoling.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57I can't go to confession...
0:32:58 > 0:33:00..when I want to kill Bosie.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04And myself.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Oscar's furious.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16He knew the Lord Chamberlain
0:33:16 > 0:33:19wouldn't allow a play with Biblical characters in.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22Oscar thinks there should be no censorship.
0:33:22 > 0:33:27But there must be! If people said what they meant, where would we be?
0:33:27 > 0:33:30When is he coming?
0:33:28 > 0:33:30He's not.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33He's looking after Lord Alfred.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Douglases are always ill or demented.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38One roasted a kitchen boy on a spit.
0:33:38 > 0:33:43And Bosie's father, Lord Queensberry... He's a dreadful man!
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Doesn't believe in God or marriage.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48A marquess should set a proper example
0:33:48 > 0:33:51or what are the upper classes for?
0:33:51 > 0:33:57I tell you, I wouldn't want a daughter of mine to marry a Douglas.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00I haven't got a daughter.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03Plenty of time still, my dear.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09Oh.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Oh, I see.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13It's my fault.
0:34:13 > 0:34:18After Vyvyan was born, all I could think of was the children.
0:34:18 > 0:34:25Ah. So that's why Oscar spends so much time with his men friends.
0:34:25 > 0:34:30Oscar needs disciples. Lord Alfred is a poet, a fine one, Oscar says.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34He's studying Classics. They talk about Plato.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40There's nothing wrong. Really, there isn't.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43It's not whether there is anything wrong.
0:34:43 > 0:34:48It's whether there appears to be. That's all people care about.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52The Empire was not built by men like Bosie Douglas.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55"Then the spring came.
0:34:55 > 0:34:59"Only in the garden of the selfish giant, it was still winter.
0:34:59 > 0:35:04"The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children
0:35:03 > 0:35:06"and the trees forgot to blossom.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10"The snow covered up the grass with her white cloak
0:35:09 > 0:35:12"and the frost painted the trees silver."
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Let's go out.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06If you like.
0:36:10 > 0:36:14With renters you don't have to consider their feelings.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17But one should show gratitude, at least.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20No. Money. That's all they want.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24What's wonderful about Taylor's is no-one pretends.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27You do it and be done with it.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36I do love you, Oscar.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39But variety is the spice of life.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46You can watch me if you like.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51You must keep a grasp upon your sobriety.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55So I'll be sick on your suit?
0:36:53 > 0:36:55That is disgusting.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58- Evening. - Lord Alfred.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Alfred Taylor, this is Oscar.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03Delighted to make your acquaintance.
0:37:03 > 0:37:04Charles Parker.
0:37:05 > 0:37:10Hello, Oscar.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Good to see you again.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17- Do you smoke? - I do everything.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20- Everything that pays! - Expertly, I might add.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22- Got a lot of experience!- >
0:37:23 > 0:37:26Mr Wilde, some wine?
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Thank you.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29It's a nice case.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29I want you to keep it.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Thank you.
0:37:34 > 0:37:39So, this is a den of vice. I should call it more of a garden.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43Pretty flowers. Wise to keep the curtains closed. They would not grow
0:37:43 > 0:37:45in the common light of day.
0:37:45 > 0:37:51Who are you callin' common?
0:37:47 > 0:37:51Not you. You seem to be a flower of the rarest hue.
0:38:00 > 0:38:06Bosie never said that you were a botanist, Mr Taylor, that you climb
0:38:06 > 0:38:10the peaks of the Himalayas and plunge into the forests of Borneo
0:38:10 > 0:38:14to return to this conservatory by Westminster Abbey
0:38:14 > 0:38:17to exhibit your specimens.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20The boys are all Londoners actually.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23Impossible. I see Londoners every day
0:38:23 > 0:38:27but never such exotic blooms as these.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31Does he always talk like this?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Not when he's in bed.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33LAUGHTER
0:38:39 > 0:38:44- ROBBIE: - 'I am discreet. Bosie is too grand and well born for that.'
0:38:44 > 0:38:46'He wants everyone to know.'
0:38:46 > 0:38:53Oscar, you must understand...
0:38:48 > 0:38:53I must be with young people. They're so frank. They make me feel young.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57That's all very well. But what would you say if
0:38:57 > 0:38:59someone wanted to go to bed with your son?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Cyril's eight.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03What will you say when he's 18?
0:39:06 > 0:39:10Nothing. He must do as his nature dictates.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12'As I only wish I had done.'
0:39:12 > 0:39:16"'I do believe the spring has come at last,' said the giant.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19"He jumped out of bed and looked out of the window."
0:39:19 > 0:39:23What did he see?
0:39:20 > 0:39:23You tell me.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23No. You tell it.
0:39:23 > 0:39:27All right. "He saw the most wonderful sight.
0:39:27 > 0:39:31"Through a hole in the wall the children had crept into the garden
0:39:31 > 0:39:33"and were sitting in the trees.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36"In every tree there was a child.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40"The trees were so glad that..."
0:39:37 > 0:39:40"..they covered themselves with blossoms!"
0:39:40 > 0:39:41Blossoms!
0:39:41 > 0:39:45"..and were waving their arms above the children's heads.
0:39:45 > 0:39:50"The birds were twittering and singing above them in delight..."
0:39:50 > 0:39:51Oscar!
0:39:51 > 0:39:53"..and the flowers were laughing."
0:39:53 > 0:39:58Oscar, it's time the boys changed or we'll miss the train.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Papa, can't we stay?
0:40:00 > 0:40:02Papa's got to work.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04He's got to finish his play.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Yes. Poor, dear Papa.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Poor Papa.
0:40:08 > 0:40:12Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Papa!
0:40:14 > 0:40:16'Where is Oscar?'
0:40:16 > 0:40:19He's working. He is a writer, after all.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22I hear your father's threatening to shoot Lord Rosebery.
0:40:22 > 0:40:27He usually prefers the horsewhip.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27Says he's buggering your brother.
0:40:27 > 0:40:31Rosebery is Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33Francis is his Private Secretary.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Actually, Francis is about to get engaged.
0:40:36 > 0:40:40What's your father talking about, then?
0:40:40 > 0:40:45Oh, he's obsessed with sex. He thinks Oscar's buggering me.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47As though I'd allow anyone to do that.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00I'm sick of the country.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Let's go back to London.
0:41:10 > 0:41:14Why bother living together if you're always working?
0:41:14 > 0:41:18I have responsibilities, a family.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Oh, God, not that again.
0:41:19 > 0:41:23I ask my friends over from Oxford and you just disappear.
0:41:27 > 0:41:31I'd be better off at my mother's. At least she's there.
0:41:31 > 0:41:35You asked me to take this house...
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Well, I'm bored with it.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37And with you.
0:41:37 > 0:41:43I can't give it up. It's paid for in advance. Until I finish my new...
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Bosie, dear...
0:41:45 > 0:41:48You have beauty, breeding and, most gloriously, youth.
0:41:48 > 0:41:50But you are fantastical
0:41:50 > 0:41:54if you think that pleasures don't have to be paid for.
0:41:54 > 0:41:58When I want to do anything, you say you can't afford it.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01But you give the renters cigarette cases.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03I've lavished presents on you!
0:42:03 > 0:42:06Every penny from my play was spent on you!
0:42:06 > 0:42:08I'm sure you've been counting.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12You're so mean and penny-pinching and middle class.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16All you can think about is your bank balance.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16This is intolerable!
0:42:16 > 0:42:21No gentleman has the slightest idea what his bank balance is!
0:42:22 > 0:42:26You're absurd! Telling everyone how they ought to live!
0:42:26 > 0:42:28You're so vulgar!
0:42:28 > 0:42:31I never want to see you again, ever.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35All right, if that's what you want, then go! Get out!
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Get out!
0:42:38 > 0:42:42- CYRIL: - "But in the farthest corner
0:42:42 > 0:42:46"it was still winter, and in it was standing a little boy.
0:42:46 > 0:42:51"He was so small, he couldn't reach up to the branches of the tree.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54"'Climb up, little boy,' said the tree,
0:42:54 > 0:42:57"but the little boy was too tiny."
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Egypt is lovely this time of year.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02You mustn't idle your time away.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Mother...
0:43:03 > 0:43:07And I want you to promise me something.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Not to write to Oscar Wilde.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12I can't do that.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13- Bosie... - I love Oscar.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16I love him as a disciple loves his teacher.
0:43:16 > 0:43:20But he's not fit to teach anything. He's evil.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Do you think your own son could love someone evil?
0:43:23 > 0:43:26I just wish I could love Oscar
0:43:26 > 0:43:32as loyally, devotedly, unselfishly and purely as he loves me.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36But I'm not as good as he is.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40I probably never will be.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44Goodbye, then.
0:43:57 > 0:44:02'I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.'
0:44:02 > 0:44:05But, if you wish, let us stay here.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07Yes, let us stay here.
0:44:07 > 0:44:11The Book Of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13It ends with Revelations.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15Er, yes, er, Mr Tree, may I?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18I'm glad that you find my lines funny,
0:44:18 > 0:44:20but don't try to make the audience laugh.
0:44:20 > 0:44:26They must be spontaneous, natural, as if people always speak like that.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28Yes, of course.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30- <- Let's try again.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33You should break with Bosie more often, Oscar.
0:44:33 > 0:44:37Then we'd have more of your spontaneous and natural plays.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41Bosie was envious. That's why he stopped Oscar working.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43- It's not true. - Of course it is.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46His poems aren't as good as you pretend.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49And he knows it. He's just a shallow little...
0:44:49 > 0:44:51Rivulet.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56Bosie's a child, a vulnerable child. He needs love.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Oh, we all need love.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01But which of us can give it?
0:45:01 > 0:45:06# We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas
0:45:06 > 0:45:12# We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year!
0:45:12 > 0:45:17# Good tidings we bring To you and your king
0:45:17 > 0:45:21# We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year! #
0:45:23 > 0:45:26Cracker time!
0:45:24 > 0:45:26It is cracker time.
0:45:26 > 0:45:30"And the giant's heart melted as he looked out.
0:45:29 > 0:45:34"'How selfish I have been,' he said.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37"'Now I know why the spring would not come here.
0:45:37 > 0:45:42"'I will put the boy in the tree and knock down the wall and my garden
0:45:42 > 0:45:45"'will be a playground for ever.'"
0:45:45 > 0:45:49"He was really very sorry for what he had done.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54"So he crept downstairs and opened the door
0:45:54 > 0:45:56"and went out into the garden.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59"The little boy did not run away,
0:45:59 > 0:46:04"for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the giant.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08"The giant stole up behind him and took him gently by the hand
0:46:08 > 0:46:10"and put him up into the tree.
0:46:10 > 0:46:15"And the tree broke at once into blossom and the birds sang on it
0:46:15 > 0:46:19"and the little boy flung his arms around the giant's neck
0:46:19 > 0:46:21"and kissed him."
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Oscar!
0:46:52 > 0:46:55I don't care what people think. I love you!
0:46:55 > 0:47:00I love you. It's all that matters! It was agony being away from you!
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Well, here I am.
0:47:02 > 0:47:08Oh, Bosie, you're my catastrophe, my doom. Everyone says so, even me.
0:47:10 > 0:47:15I, er, thought you might like something to celebrate your return.
0:47:17 > 0:47:18Oscar...
0:47:20 > 0:47:22When I saw them in the window,
0:47:22 > 0:47:26they begged me on their knees to make them yours.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30I'll put them on now. They're superb.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44No, no. I'll sit there!
0:47:44 > 0:47:47Is there something wrong, my Lord?
0:47:47 > 0:47:52This fool wants me to sit by the service door.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52Oh, God, my father.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55I'm sorry. He's new and didn't know who you were.
0:47:56 > 0:47:59Bosie, you're not going to flee?
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Give me the menu.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12I'll have pea soup and then salmon.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15Will you have it with us?
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Bosie.
0:48:15 > 0:48:20I'm lunching with Oscar Wilde. Will you join us?
0:48:23 > 0:48:27I told you never to see that vile cur again.
0:48:27 > 0:48:31He's not vile or a cur. He's utterly delightful. Come and see.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35How do you know what he's like when you've never met him?
0:48:35 > 0:48:39Papa, you're not a man to be influenced by people's opinions.
0:48:48 > 0:48:51Oscar, you've never met my father, have you?
0:48:51 > 0:48:53Lord Queensberry.
0:48:55 > 0:49:00Bosie has told me so much about your exploits on the race track.
0:49:00 > 0:49:05I've never heard such bad luck as yours with the Grand National.
0:49:06 > 0:49:11Bosie says you would have won if your cousin had let you ride.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14Bloody fool said I was too old.
0:49:14 > 0:49:18You're never too old. I'd ridden her on the gallops.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20Came in at 40 to 1.
0:49:20 > 0:49:22No horse could ever have carried me
0:49:22 > 0:49:25over the jumps. What are you having?
0:49:25 > 0:49:29Pea soup and salmon.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Then I shall join you.
0:49:29 > 0:49:31Spring is the time to lunch on salmon.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35Though it tastes nicer if you've caught it yourself.
0:49:35 > 0:49:39You fish?
0:49:36 > 0:49:39I used to. When I was in Ireland.
0:49:39 > 0:49:42My father had a charming hunting lodge on an island.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46Do you know the west of Ireland?
0:49:44 > 0:49:46Not really.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Whereabouts exactly?
0:50:05 > 0:50:10The Christians pretend they know who God is. I've no time for that.
0:50:10 > 0:50:14I say that if you don't know something, you should say so,
0:50:14 > 0:50:17not pretend you believe in some mumbo-jumbo.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20I believe in anything incredible.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23I shall die a Catholic, though I couldn't live as one.
0:50:23 > 0:50:27Catholicism is a romantic religion, with saints and sinners.
0:50:27 > 0:50:31The Church of England has respectable people
0:50:31 > 0:50:33who believe in respectability.
0:50:33 > 0:50:38You get to be a bishop not by what you believe but by what you don't.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38That's true enough.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41It's the only church where a sceptic
0:50:40 > 0:50:46stands at the altar and St Thomas the Doubter is prince of apostles.
0:50:46 > 0:50:50No, I couldn't possibly die in the Church of England.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54Where do you stand on cremation?
0:50:51 > 0:50:54I'm not sure I have a position.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57I'm for it.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00I wrote a poem.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02"When I am dead, cremate me."
0:51:02 > 0:51:04That's how it begins.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08"When I am dead, cremate me."
0:51:08 > 0:51:11What do you think of that for an opening line?
0:51:12 > 0:51:14It's challenging.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18I'm a challenging man. That's why people don't like me.
0:51:18 > 0:51:23I don't go along with the ordinary ways of thinking.
0:51:21 > 0:51:23Then we are exactly alike.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26Another glass of brandy? I find that alcohol
0:51:26 > 0:51:31in sufficient quantities can produce all the effects of drunkenness.
0:51:33 > 0:51:37You were there for ages. You stayed talking till after four.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39I knew you'd like him.
0:51:39 > 0:51:41He's got charm, I admit that.
0:51:41 > 0:51:46But that's bad. Men shouldn't be charming. It's disgusting.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48I don't think much of his action.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Let's have a look at the bay.
0:51:51 > 0:51:56Mind you, Wilde's no fool. Talks wonderfully. Really wonderfully.
0:51:56 > 0:52:00But that means nothing when what he says is such rot.
0:52:00 > 0:52:01Worse than rot. Evil.
0:52:01 > 0:52:05Which is why I insist you stop seeing him forthwith.
0:52:05 > 0:52:11Insist? What does that mean?
0:52:07 > 0:52:11I will cut off your allowance if you don't do as I say.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14Trot him up and down a bit!
0:52:12 > 0:52:14Look, Father...
0:52:14 > 0:52:18You wasted Oxford, saying you'd go into the Foreign Office.
0:52:18 > 0:52:23Thank God you didn't, with that Jew queer Rosebery buggering the juniors.
0:52:23 > 0:52:27You just wrote obscene poetry.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27My poems aren't obscene.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30They're in the manner of Wilde. That's filthy enough.
0:52:30 > 0:52:36Have you ever read any of his poems?
0:52:32 > 0:52:36I wouldn't sully my mind with perverted trash.
0:52:36 > 0:52:40Tell him to pick his feet up! He's not straight!
0:52:40 > 0:52:45Are you calling Oscar a pervert? Because that's libellous!
0:52:45 > 0:52:49I'm not saying he is one. I'm saying he's posing as one!
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Which is worse.
0:52:51 > 0:52:55His wife's divorcing him. Did you know that? For sodomy.
0:52:55 > 0:52:59That's completely untrue!
0:52:57 > 0:52:59I hope it is.
0:52:59 > 0:53:03Because if it were true, I'd shoot him on sight.
0:53:04 > 0:53:09You will cease to see Wilde or I'll cut you off without a penny.
0:53:09 > 0:53:12As though I wanted your money.
0:53:12 > 0:53:15What little you have left from your tarts.
0:53:15 > 0:53:21How dare you speak to your father like that!
0:53:18 > 0:53:21What a funny little man you are!
0:53:21 > 0:53:25Bosie! Come back here, you filthy-minded cissy!
0:53:25 > 0:53:27You're absurd!
0:53:27 > 0:53:30And you're nothing but a bum boy!
0:53:30 > 0:53:32You're pathetic!
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Bosie!
0:53:35 > 0:53:39I'm a bloody good shot! I'll shoot him through the heart!
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Use a silver bullet.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44- Here's one for the Black Douglas! - HE FIRES
0:53:44 > 0:53:46Bosie, for God's sake!
0:53:46 > 0:53:51One for his liver! And his lights! And his stinking rotten soul!
0:53:51 > 0:53:53Bosie!
0:53:53 > 0:53:55I'll save one for myself.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00My own father. He wants to kill me.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17My life is everything I ever wanted.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21I have fame.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23I have recognition.
0:54:23 > 0:54:28With two plays about to open in London, I may even have money.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32The world is at my command.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36Yet I can't command myself.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41I can't command my feelings for you.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54Thank you.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56'Constance, my dear.'
0:54:56 > 0:54:59How nice.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02Constance!
0:55:04 > 0:55:05Bosie.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10I brought you your letters.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12You haven't been home for so long.
0:55:12 > 0:55:13Thank you.
0:55:18 > 0:55:22It's convenient for Oscar living in the West End
0:55:22 > 0:55:24when he has a play coming on.
0:55:24 > 0:55:29I'm like a northern businessman who must keep an eye on his factory.
0:55:29 > 0:55:33The boys keep asking for you. They're longing to see you.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36Oscar has to make sure the play's a success, Constance.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39I'll come round this afternoon. For tea.
0:55:40 > 0:55:44It's the dress rehearsal this afternoon.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50Tomorrow, then. I'll come tomorrow.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52Oh. Tomorrow, then.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01Goodbye, my dear.
0:56:01 > 0:56:02Goodbye.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12- Goodbye, Constance.- >
0:56:25 > 0:56:30Perhaps a cod fish. I've a strong feeling that cod fish live deeper.
0:56:30 > 0:56:34Do you think there's skate?
0:56:32 > 0:56:34Possibly.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41I don't think there'll be anything for our table tonight.
0:56:41 > 0:56:45I should stay. You have a cold.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45No, no, I'm all right.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48Let's get the boys some ices.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51Boys, you are to stay and look after Nanny.
0:56:54 > 0:56:59I could take the boys to the dentist on Thursday on their way to school.
0:56:58 > 0:57:02The point about them having dentistry now
0:57:02 > 0:57:07is that they can stuff themselves with sweets before we lose them.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10Are you quite sure?
0:57:08 > 0:57:10Bosie will look after me.
0:57:27 > 0:57:28'Oscar!'
0:57:28 > 0:57:30Oscar!
0:57:30 > 0:57:32Get your coat on, quick!
0:57:32 > 0:57:34I've got a present for you!
0:57:36 > 0:57:37Oh, God...
0:57:37 > 0:57:41You're not still seedy?
0:57:39 > 0:57:41Where have you been?
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I need looking after.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44Don't be so pathetic.
0:57:44 > 0:57:47I've found you the divinest boy.
0:57:47 > 0:57:50You promised Constance.
0:57:48 > 0:57:50Bugger Constance.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52I'm not your nanny. Come on!
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Bosie, please.
0:57:56 > 0:57:59You look such an idiot lying there. Revolting.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02Have you forgotten how to wash?
0:58:02 > 0:58:06I'm dying for a glass of water.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06You know where the jug is.
0:58:06 > 0:58:07Bosie, darling.
0:58:07 > 0:58:12It stinks in here. You'll want me to empty your chamber pot next.
0:58:12 > 0:58:18I emptied your chamber pot. I looked after you.
0:58:15 > 0:58:18Well, I'm not looking after you.
0:58:18 > 0:58:22You don't interest me when you're ill. You're just a boring man
0:58:22 > 0:58:24with a blocked-up nose.
0:58:24 > 0:58:27Bosie, dearest boy...
0:58:25 > 0:58:27Shut up!
0:58:27 > 0:58:32"Dearest boy. Darling Bosie." It doesn't mean anything.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34You don't love me.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37The only person you've ever loved is yourself.
0:58:37 > 0:58:42You like me, lust after me, you go about with me because of my title.
0:58:42 > 0:58:46You like to write about dukes but you know nothing about them.
0:58:46 > 0:58:51You're a snob! You think you're daring because you fuck boys.
0:58:50 > 0:58:56Bosie, you're killing me.
0:58:52 > 0:58:56You'll do when you're at your best. You're amusing.
0:58:56 > 0:58:59But when you're not, you're no-one.
0:58:59 > 0:59:02I just asked for a glass of water.
0:59:03 > 0:59:07For Christ's sake! There you are, then!
0:59:09 > 0:59:12Now will you shut up about the fucking water?!
0:59:16 > 0:59:21There are two boys out there. If you don't come, I'll fuck them both.
0:59:21 > 0:59:26I'll take them to the Grand and fuck them in front of the whole hotel.
0:59:26 > 0:59:28And I'll send you the bill.
0:59:42 > 0:59:44Drink this.
0:59:44 > 0:59:46It will help your fever.
0:59:46 > 0:59:49He's ashamed of loving men.
0:59:50 > 0:59:54His father bullies him, his mother spoils him
0:59:54 > 0:59:57then berates him for being spoiled.
0:59:57 > 1:00:01Neither of them gives him any love. They're torturing him.
1:00:01 > 1:00:04And what's truly dreadful
1:00:04 > 1:00:08is that when he can't bear it and he has one of his...
1:00:09 > 1:00:12..he becomes exactly like his father.
1:00:12 > 1:00:16And he hates himself for that.
1:00:14 > 1:00:16You're too kind about him.
1:00:16 > 1:00:21You can't be too kind about someone who's been so hurt.
1:00:23 > 1:00:28Yet if I go on trying to come between Bosie and his father,
1:00:28 > 1:00:30they'll destroy me.
1:00:30 > 1:00:34Bosie's quite capable of destroying you on his own.
1:00:34 > 1:00:38Look how much you wrote while he was away.
1:00:38 > 1:00:42Two wonderful plays which will run for years.
1:00:41 > 1:00:46Back comes Bosie and what have you written since?
1:00:50 > 1:00:52Oscar...
1:00:52 > 1:00:54You know how much I...
1:00:56 > 1:00:58..love and admire you.
1:00:59 > 1:01:02But you're throwing your genius away.
1:01:02 > 1:01:04For what?
1:01:04 > 1:01:06It's ironic. Queensberry thinks
1:01:06 > 1:01:09Bosie and I are locked in nightly embrace
1:01:09 > 1:01:13and in reality we've been the purest model of Greek love since...
1:01:15 > 1:01:18Bosie doesn't like doing it with me.
1:01:18 > 1:01:20But I've loved him.
1:01:20 > 1:01:23I've educated him.
1:01:21 > 1:01:23He's never grown up.
1:01:23 > 1:01:25And he never will.
1:01:27 > 1:01:30I'm not taking him back, Robbie.
1:01:30 > 1:01:32Not again.
1:01:35 > 1:01:37I can't.
1:01:37 > 1:01:40I've been very foolish, very fond.
1:01:41 > 1:01:43But, er, now I must grow up myself.
1:01:43 > 1:01:45Oh, please don't do that.
1:01:45 > 1:01:50You're an artist. Artists are always children at heart.
1:01:52 > 1:01:55Oh, Robbie, I sometimes wonder if...
1:01:58 > 1:02:00(Back page, sir.)
1:02:05 > 1:02:07My God. Francis Douglas.
1:02:07 > 1:02:08What?
1:02:08 > 1:02:11Bosie's brother.
1:02:11 > 1:02:14He's been found shot. He's dead.
1:02:14 > 1:02:16He's just got engaged.
1:02:19 > 1:02:20Bosie...
1:02:20 > 1:02:22Poor, poor Bosie.
1:02:23 > 1:02:25He'll be utterly distraught.
1:02:35 > 1:02:37'He killed himself.'
1:02:38 > 1:02:41It was my father. He drove him to it.
1:02:41 > 1:02:45I'm sure your father's just as upset as everyone else.
1:02:45 > 1:02:47No, he's not.
1:02:50 > 1:02:54He says it's a judgment on Rosebery and my mother.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56And me and you.
1:03:06 > 1:03:08We've got to stop him, Oscar.
1:03:10 > 1:03:13Before he drives my whole family to suicide.
1:03:13 > 1:03:19Bosie... Bosie, I promise you, I won't let him hurt you ever again.
1:03:19 > 1:03:21I promise.
1:03:27 > 1:03:30It's not enough. I want him stopped.
1:03:33 > 1:03:37I want...the whole world to know what he's done...
1:03:38 > 1:03:41..what an evil man he is.
1:03:44 > 1:03:46Table, my Lord?
1:03:46 > 1:03:51Is Lord Alfred here and that shit and sod, Wilde?
1:03:49 > 1:03:51No, my Lord. Not tonight.
1:03:51 > 1:03:53Bugger must be at Kettners.
1:04:08 > 1:04:10Is my son staying here?
1:04:12 > 1:04:15Is Lord Alfred Douglas staying here?
1:04:15 > 1:04:17Er, no, sir, he's not.
1:04:19 > 1:04:22What about Wilde?
1:04:20 > 1:04:22No, sir.
1:04:24 > 1:04:27If I find they have been staying here,
1:04:27 > 1:04:31I'll give you the biggest whipping of your life.
1:05:02 > 1:05:08Well, I expect you two would like a drink after your exertions.
1:05:13 > 1:05:17I must ask you to leave, Mr Wilde.
1:05:17 > 1:05:21What are you talking about?
1:05:19 > 1:05:21At once, please.
1:05:23 > 1:05:28What's the matter? My father cracking the whip downstairs, is he?
1:05:38 > 1:05:40- My Lord... - Bosie...
1:05:40 > 1:05:43You're not frightened of what this little man thinks?
1:05:43 > 1:05:49I think the pleasures of the evening should be resumed elsewhere.
1:05:51 > 1:05:55You're such a coward! You say you despise convention,
1:05:55 > 1:05:58but you're the most conventional man I know.
1:05:59 > 1:06:02Come on, then. We're going.
1:06:11 > 1:06:14Until tomorrow, Tommy.
1:06:13 > 1:06:14Good night, sir.
1:06:14 > 1:06:18- <- There's, like, all this tropical fruit laid out.
1:06:20 > 1:06:22Oscar!
1:06:22 > 1:06:24Wait a minute, Oscar!
1:06:24 > 1:06:27Alfred, how nice to see you. And Charlie, too.
1:06:27 > 1:06:31I'm busy this evening, but we must have dinner again soon.
1:06:31 > 1:06:34It's not a question of dinner.
1:06:34 > 1:06:37I got a letter of yours... to Lord Alfred.
1:06:36 > 1:06:38It's a nice letter.
1:06:38 > 1:06:42"Lips like roses. The madness of kisses in ancient Greece."
1:06:42 > 1:06:47I expect it's one of my prose poems.
1:06:44 > 1:06:47A gentleman's offered me £60 for it.
1:06:47 > 1:06:52You must accept. I've never received such a sum for a work of that length.
1:06:52 > 1:06:56I'm delighted that someone values my work so highly.
1:06:56 > 1:06:59He's gone away.
1:06:56 > 1:06:59To the country.
1:06:57 > 1:06:59I'm sure he'll be back.
1:06:59 > 1:07:00Oscar!
1:07:02 > 1:07:07Oscar! Look, you couldn't let us have something, could you?
1:07:07 > 1:07:09Bit short at the moment, you know.
1:07:09 > 1:07:12Of course. Here's half a sovereign.
1:07:12 > 1:07:14Take good care of that letter.
1:07:14 > 1:07:19Lord Alfred is going to publish it in sonnet form in his new magazine.
1:07:19 > 1:07:21For fuck's sake!
1:07:23 > 1:07:25Oscar!
1:07:25 > 1:07:30It's no good trying to rent you. You just laugh at us. Here.
1:07:30 > 1:07:32Thank you.
1:07:32 > 1:07:35He can be very careless, Lord Alfred.
1:07:36 > 1:07:39What a wonderfully wicked life you lead.
1:07:39 > 1:07:41You boys, you boys.
1:07:47 > 1:07:51- <- Where is he?
1:07:48 > 1:07:51- <- Mr Wilde is not...
1:07:49 > 1:07:51- <- Where is he?!
1:07:51 > 1:07:53- <- Get out of my way!
1:07:53 > 1:07:55- <- I'm sorry, sir!
1:07:56 > 1:07:59Excuse me, there's a gentleman...
1:07:59 > 1:08:00You!
1:08:00 > 1:08:02Listen to me.
1:08:03 > 1:08:06You're a bugger!
1:08:06 > 1:08:11I don't allow people to talk like that in my house, Lord Queensberry.
1:08:11 > 1:08:13Or anywhere else.
1:08:13 > 1:08:21I suppose you've come to apologise for the lies you're spreading?
1:08:17 > 1:08:21Leave my son alone, you sodomite!
1:08:21 > 1:08:25The Marquess seems obsessed with people's sexual activities.
1:08:25 > 1:08:30It must be to do with his new wife seeking divorce for non-consummation.
1:08:30 > 1:08:37Swear you'll have nothing to do with Bosie or I'll go to Scotland Yard!
1:08:34 > 1:08:37You can go to the devil, you and...
1:08:37 > 1:08:39Who is this gargoyle?
1:08:39 > 1:08:43You're a queer! And a sham! A poseur!
1:08:43 > 1:08:47If I catch you together, I'll give you such a thrashing.
1:08:47 > 1:08:51I believe you once invented some rules for boxing.
1:08:51 > 1:08:55I've no idea what they are. But my rule is to shoot on sight.
1:08:55 > 1:08:58Now kindly leave my house.
1:08:56 > 1:08:58You can shut up!
1:08:58 > 1:09:00I shall leave when I'm damn well ready!
1:09:04 > 1:09:07It's a scandal what you've been doing.
1:09:07 > 1:09:10All the scandal is your own.
1:09:10 > 1:09:15Your treatment of your wives, your neglect of your children
1:09:15 > 1:09:18and, above all, the depraved insistence
1:09:18 > 1:09:23that they be as tyrannical and unloving as you are yourself.
1:09:23 > 1:09:26Arthur, this is the Marquess of Queensberry,
1:09:26 > 1:09:31the most infamous brute and the least tender father in London.
1:09:31 > 1:09:34Never let him into my house again.
1:09:35 > 1:09:37Very well, then.
1:09:39 > 1:09:42Let's get out of this...stew.
1:10:25 > 1:10:27- Out the way, man! - I'm sorry, sir!
1:10:27 > 1:10:31I'm very sorry, but it's just not possible!
1:10:36 > 1:10:39What are you doing? Rotten vegetables?
1:10:39 > 1:10:42I want you to give that to Oscar Wilde.
1:10:42 > 1:10:45Thank you, sir. We'll take care of it.
1:10:45 > 1:10:49I wanted to give it to him personally, as a bouquet.
1:10:49 > 1:10:53I dare say you did, sir, but you're not going to.
1:10:54 > 1:10:56He's a cur.
1:10:55 > 1:10:57A sod.
1:10:57 > 1:10:59And a bugger!
1:10:59 > 1:11:02You remember that!
1:11:02 > 1:11:07I always told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I?
1:11:07 > 1:11:11Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean, it naturally is Ernest.
1:11:11 > 1:11:16Yes, I remember now that the General was called Ernest.
1:11:16 > 1:11:20I knew I had some particular reason for disliking the name.
1:11:20 > 1:11:22Ernest, my own Ernest!
1:11:22 > 1:11:27I knew from the first you could have had no other name.
1:11:27 > 1:11:31Gwendolen, it's a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly
1:11:31 > 1:11:36that all his life he's been speaking nothing but the truth.
1:11:36 > 1:11:40Can you forgive me?
1:11:37 > 1:11:40I can, for I feel you are sure to change.
1:11:40 > 1:11:42My own one!
1:11:42 > 1:11:44- Laetitia! - Frederick! At last!
1:11:44 > 1:11:49- Cecily! At last! - Gwendolen! At last!
1:11:50 > 1:11:55My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
1:11:55 > 1:11:57On the contrary, Aunt Augusta,
1:11:57 > 1:12:01I've now realised for the first time in my life
1:12:01 > 1:12:04the vital importance of being earnest.
1:12:30 > 1:12:34Allen, you were wonderful! Thank you all so much.
1:12:34 > 1:12:37They're calling for you, Oscar!
1:12:35 > 1:12:37No, no, George.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE
1:13:23 > 1:13:26Er, Mr Wilde, sir?
1:13:24 > 1:13:26Yes?
1:13:27 > 1:13:29For you.
1:13:29 > 1:13:31Thank you.
1:13:41 > 1:13:45"For Oscar Wilde...
1:13:45 > 1:13:48"Ponce," is it? "Ponce and somdomite."
1:13:48 > 1:13:52"Posing as a sodomite." He's illiterate, ignorant.
1:13:52 > 1:13:55It's hideous.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55We've got him now, Robbie.
1:13:55 > 1:13:59He wrote it, the porter read it. It's public libel.
1:13:59 > 1:14:02We can take him to court.
1:14:00 > 1:14:02For God's sake...
1:14:02 > 1:14:04Oscar!
1:14:04 > 1:14:07You mustn't do that. That would be...
1:14:07 > 1:14:09We've been waiting for a chance
1:14:09 > 1:14:12to get him in the dock and show what a swine he is.
1:14:12 > 1:14:14To me, my mother, my brothers...
1:14:14 > 1:14:19He'll plead justification. He'll call the renters as witnesses.
1:14:19 > 1:14:23Of course he won't. He doesn't know what a renter is.
1:14:22 > 1:14:27No? I hear he's had detectives following you since Egypt.
1:14:27 > 1:14:29He can't prove anything. We can.
1:14:29 > 1:14:33We can prove he's the vilest man that walked the Earth.
1:14:33 > 1:14:38Tear the card up, Oscar.
1:14:35 > 1:14:38Are you mad? That's our main evidence.
1:14:38 > 1:14:41If Oscar went abroad while your father calms down...
1:14:41 > 1:14:43Whose side are you on?
1:14:43 > 1:14:48If this goes to court, Oscar will have to tell lies, perjure himself!
1:14:48 > 1:14:53Everything will come out. Whatever the result, it'll be disaster!
1:14:53 > 1:14:56- You're an enemy, then. - Bosie...
1:14:56 > 1:15:02Robbie, you're a dear boy, but I can't think of leaving the country.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04I can't even leave this hotel.
1:15:04 > 1:15:07I can't pay the bill.
1:15:07 > 1:15:10We can raise you money! What about your royalties?
1:15:10 > 1:15:14We need all the money we can get for the libel case.
1:15:14 > 1:15:19My father can't go on making all our lives a torment like this.
1:15:18 > 1:15:22Oscar, I beg you.
1:15:22 > 1:15:24I'm not going to run away, Robbie.
1:15:24 > 1:15:27That would the English thing to do.
1:15:27 > 1:15:31If you take Queensberry to court, all hell will break loose.
1:15:31 > 1:15:35All my life I've fought against the English vice - hypocrisy.
1:15:35 > 1:15:37Not that that's the point.
1:15:37 > 1:15:42Queensberry's already caused the death of one of his sons.
1:15:42 > 1:15:46If I don't try and stop him now, who will he harm next?
1:15:47 > 1:15:49'He's avoiding me, Robbie.'
1:15:49 > 1:15:55I know what everyone's saying but it's not true. It's not true.
1:15:57 > 1:15:58Is it?
1:15:58 > 1:16:01Of course not.
1:16:03 > 1:16:06Oh, it's so shaming.
1:16:06 > 1:16:09I find it easier to stand.
1:16:09 > 1:16:13I'm going to Torquay for a month to get my back right.
1:16:12 > 1:16:14Oscar's been so busy.
1:16:14 > 1:16:17I'm sure he'll be terribly upset
1:16:17 > 1:16:21when he knows... you've been in so much pain.
1:16:23 > 1:16:25The truth is, I need some money.
1:16:25 > 1:16:28I'm not even sure where he is to ask for it.
1:16:28 > 1:16:32It does seem rather hard when he's having such success.
1:16:32 > 1:16:34I think I can find him.
1:16:36 > 1:16:40I keep hearing stories about Bosie and his father.
1:16:40 > 1:16:44I'm sure you don't want to.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44Oh, yes. I do.
1:16:46 > 1:16:50Men think women should be protected by not knowing.
1:16:50 > 1:16:53Not knowing only makes it worse.
1:16:56 > 1:16:59Is there going to be trouble?
1:17:00 > 1:17:02I hope not.
1:17:03 > 1:17:05I believe a prosecution
1:17:05 > 1:17:09would succeed provided there is no truth
1:17:09 > 1:17:12in the accusation made by Lord Queensberry.
1:17:12 > 1:17:16Of course there's no truth in it.
1:17:16 > 1:17:21Then so long as I have Mr Wilde's assurance that that is the case...
1:17:29 > 1:17:33There is no truth in the accusation whatever.
1:17:34 > 1:17:36Good.
1:17:37 > 1:17:38Excellent.
1:17:38 > 1:17:42The defence, I understand, will be led by Mr Edward Carson.
1:17:42 > 1:17:46Old Ned? I was at college with him in Dublin.
1:17:46 > 1:17:48No doubt he will perform his task
1:17:48 > 1:17:51with all the added bitterness of an old friend.
1:17:51 > 1:17:52LAUGHTER
1:17:52 > 1:17:56In writing a book, I'm concerned with literature,
1:17:56 > 1:17:59with art. I do not aim at doing good or evil,
1:17:59 > 1:18:04but at making a thing that will have some quality of beauty.
1:18:03 > 1:18:06Here is one of your pieces.
1:18:06 > 1:18:09"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people
1:18:09 > 1:18:13"to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
1:18:13 > 1:18:15LAUGHTER
1:18:15 > 1:18:17GAVEL BANGS
1:18:17 > 1:18:19Do you think that true?
1:18:19 > 1:18:21I rarely think what I write is true.
1:18:21 > 1:18:27"If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out."
1:18:27 > 1:18:29That is a pleasing paradox,
1:18:29 > 1:18:33but I do not set very high store by it as an axiom.
1:18:33 > 1:18:35Is it good for the young?
1:18:35 > 1:18:39Anything is good that stimulates thought at whatever age.
1:18:39 > 1:18:43Whether moral or immoral?
1:18:40 > 1:18:43There's no morality or immorality in thought.
1:18:43 > 1:18:49What about this, then? "Pleasure is the only thing one should live for."
1:18:48 > 1:18:53I think that the realisation of oneself is the prime aim of life
1:18:53 > 1:18:58and that to realise through pleasure is finer than to do so through pain.
1:18:58 > 1:19:02I am on this point on the side of the ancients, the Greeks.
1:19:02 > 1:19:04LAUGHTER
1:19:04 > 1:19:07'How long have you known Alfred Taylor?'
1:19:07 > 1:19:11'About two years, two and a half years.'
1:19:11 > 1:19:15Is he an intimate friend?
1:19:12 > 1:19:15I wouldn't call him that, no.
1:19:15 > 1:19:19But you went often to his rooms?
1:19:16 > 1:19:19About seven or eight times perhaps.
1:19:19 > 1:19:23Did you know Mr Taylor kept ladies' dresses in his rooms?
1:19:24 > 1:19:26No.
1:19:26 > 1:19:31Did you know he was notorious for introducing young men to older men?
1:19:31 > 1:19:34I never heard it in my life.
1:19:34 > 1:19:36Has he introduced young men to you?
1:19:36 > 1:19:38Yes.
1:19:39 > 1:19:43How many young men?
1:19:41 > 1:19:43About five.
1:19:43 > 1:19:46What were their occupations?
1:19:44 > 1:19:46I really don't know.
1:19:46 > 1:19:48Oh, well, let me tell you.
1:19:48 > 1:19:53You met a man called Charles Parker there, I believe.
1:19:54 > 1:19:55Yes.
1:19:55 > 1:19:58Charles Parker is... a gentleman's valet.
1:19:58 > 1:20:02You met his brother there, too, I believe.
1:20:02 > 1:20:03Yes.
1:20:03 > 1:20:05He is a groom.
1:20:07 > 1:20:11I didn't care tuppence what they were. I liked them.
1:20:11 > 1:20:14I have a passion to civilise the community.
1:20:14 > 1:20:17I recognise no social distinctions.
1:20:17 > 1:20:20To me, youth, the mere fact of youth,
1:20:20 > 1:20:25is so wonderful that I would sooner talk to a young man for half an hour
1:20:25 > 1:20:29than, well, than be cross-examined in court.
1:20:29 > 1:20:32So even a young boy you might pick up in the street
1:20:32 > 1:20:35would be a pleasing companion?
1:20:35 > 1:20:39I would talk to him with pleasure. If he would talk to me.
1:20:39 > 1:20:41Take him to your rooms?
1:20:40 > 1:20:41Yes.
1:20:41 > 1:20:47And commit improprieties with him?!
1:20:44 > 1:20:47SPECTATORS MURMUR
1:20:45 > 1:20:47Certainly not.
1:20:47 > 1:20:49Certainly not.
1:20:49 > 1:20:52You withdraw your libel action
1:20:51 > 1:20:55against Lord Queensberry, well and good.
1:20:55 > 1:20:59But there remains the question of the evidence.
1:20:59 > 1:21:02Lord Queensberry's evidence against you.
1:21:02 > 1:21:08My information is that the Crown wishes to pursue the matter.
1:21:08 > 1:21:13In which case, an arrest and a charge of gross indecency
1:21:13 > 1:21:15are certain to follow.
1:21:15 > 1:21:19The maximum sentence is two years' hard labour.
1:21:19 > 1:21:24Nine months is reckoned to be more than a man of our background
1:21:24 > 1:21:27can survive.
1:21:27 > 1:21:31Um, the children, er, the boys...
1:21:31 > 1:21:34I-I must go and see them.
1:21:32 > 1:21:34You have no time for that.
1:21:34 > 1:21:38But my wife... I-I... I have to say goodbye to my wife.
1:21:38 > 1:21:43Unless you wish to subject her to the shame of seeing you arrested
1:21:43 > 1:21:46and taken away in front of the gutter press,
1:21:46 > 1:21:48Mr Wilde, you must go.
1:21:54 > 1:21:57Oscar, you must take that train.
1:21:58 > 1:22:02Practically everyone you know will be on it.
1:22:02 > 1:22:06At least 600 single gentlemen all in abject terror of arrest.
1:22:06 > 1:22:08No.
1:22:10 > 1:22:14Where your life leads you, you must go.
1:22:14 > 1:22:16'I defy society.'
1:22:16 > 1:22:18Tell him to go.
1:22:20 > 1:22:22He must save himself.
1:22:25 > 1:22:27Tell him to go abroad.
1:22:27 > 1:22:29I've been telling him all day.
1:22:30 > 1:22:32He won't budge.
1:22:38 > 1:22:43People have never understood the courage he needed to be himself.
1:22:43 > 1:22:45You must go abroad, too.
1:22:45 > 1:22:47We must all go abroad.
1:22:47 > 1:22:49At once.
1:22:49 > 1:22:52Oscar says, will you tell the boys goodbye?
1:22:55 > 1:22:57I'm to go through his papers.
1:23:01 > 1:23:03I was always too silent.
1:23:03 > 1:23:05If I'd known...
1:23:08 > 1:23:10Bosie...
1:23:10 > 1:23:12If I'd only spoken up.
1:23:12 > 1:23:15It wouldn't have made any difference.
1:23:17 > 1:23:22Perhaps not. But at least I wouldn't blame myself now.
1:23:43 > 1:23:48- LADY WILDE: - 'You're an Irish gentleman. Of course you must stay.'
1:23:48 > 1:23:53Your father fought when he was libelled. I fought.
1:23:51 > 1:23:53Yes, I know.
1:23:53 > 1:23:57You will fight these English Philistines and you'll win.
1:23:57 > 1:24:03'And even if you lose, if you go to prison, you'll always be my son.'
1:24:03 > 1:24:07'Well, of course, it's too late to change that now.'
1:24:07 > 1:24:13If you go, Oscar, I'll never speak to you again.
1:24:13 > 1:24:17No-one will ever speak to me again whatever I do.
1:24:18 > 1:24:21Of course I'm your son, Madre.
1:24:21 > 1:24:26Which is why, even if I lose, the English will never forget me.
1:24:58 > 1:25:01Get out of my way! Get out, get out!
1:25:01 > 1:25:04Take me away as fast as you can!
1:25:11 > 1:25:17Lady Wilde! Have you anything to say about your son's disgrace?!
1:25:17 > 1:25:19'Have you anything to say?'
1:25:22 > 1:25:24KNOCK AT DOOR
1:25:26 > 1:25:28- KNOCK - Come in.
1:25:34 > 1:25:36Mr Wilde, I believe?
1:25:37 > 1:25:38Yes, yes.
1:25:38 > 1:25:44We have a warrant for your arrest on a charge of committing indecent acts.
1:25:48 > 1:25:53- LADY MOUNT-TEMPLE:- 'I recommend Switzerland as soon as possible.'
1:25:53 > 1:25:57You will have to change your name, of course.
1:25:57 > 1:25:59Oh, I can't...
1:25:59 > 1:26:03The name of Wilde will be a word of execration for 1,000 years.
1:26:03 > 1:26:08You can't let your boys grow up with people knowing who they are.
1:26:08 > 1:26:11Think of their lives at school.
1:26:11 > 1:26:13Thank you for your advice.
1:26:13 > 1:26:16I'm sorry our friendship has to end like this.
1:26:16 > 1:26:20Oh, you will always be my friend.
1:26:18 > 1:26:20I am still Oscar's wife.
1:26:20 > 1:26:24That must cease forthwith. Forthwith. Do you understand?
1:26:24 > 1:26:28Anybody who has anything to do with Oscar from now on
1:26:28 > 1:26:32will never be received in society again. Ever.
1:26:36 > 1:26:40Oh, God, Ada... What is going to happen to him?
1:26:48 > 1:26:50That's Oscar Wilde's boy.
1:26:50 > 1:26:55You must let me in the witness box. If the jury hear what I say...
1:26:55 > 1:26:59Bosie, as soon as they see you in all your golden youth
1:26:59 > 1:27:01and me in all my corruption...
1:27:01 > 1:27:05You didn't corrupt me. I corrupted you, if anything.
1:27:05 > 1:27:07That's not how it will seem.
1:27:07 > 1:27:10I must have my say! It's outrageous!
1:27:10 > 1:27:14Everyone has said anything that came into his head!
1:27:14 > 1:27:18I'm the person this is about. It's me my father wants to get at,
1:27:18 > 1:27:21not you! It's outrageous that I can't have my say!
1:27:21 > 1:27:25It won't help. It may actually make things worse.
1:27:25 > 1:27:27But my father will win.
1:27:27 > 1:27:30I can't endure my father winning.
1:27:31 > 1:27:33You must go away, dear boy.
1:27:33 > 1:27:36I couldn't bear for them to arrest you.
1:27:39 > 1:27:43I can't bear what they're saying about you in court.
1:27:43 > 1:27:44BELL RINGS
1:27:44 > 1:27:46Jesus Christ!
1:27:49 > 1:27:51Goodbye, Bosie, dear boy.
1:27:51 > 1:27:56Don't let anyone change your feeling for me, change your love.
1:27:57 > 1:27:59Time's up, my Lord.
1:27:59 > 1:28:05Oscar, never! They never will. I won't let them. I won't let them!
1:28:11 > 1:28:16'You've been a great deal in the company of Lord Alfred Douglas.'
1:28:16 > 1:28:18Oh, yes.
1:28:18 > 1:28:21Did he read his poems to you?
1:28:21 > 1:28:22Yes.
1:28:22 > 1:28:27So, you can perhaps understand that some of his verses
1:28:27 > 1:28:33would not be acceptable to a reader with an ordinary, balanced mind?
1:28:33 > 1:28:35I'm not prepared to say.
1:28:35 > 1:28:40It's a question of taste and temperament and individuality.
1:28:40 > 1:28:44I should say that one man's poetry is another man's poison.
1:28:44 > 1:28:46Yes, I daresay.
1:28:47 > 1:28:51But in this poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, "Two Loves",
1:28:51 > 1:28:53um, there is one love, true love,
1:28:53 > 1:28:55which, and I quote,
1:28:55 > 1:29:00"fills the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame"
1:29:00 > 1:29:08and there is another - "I am the love that dare not speak its name."
1:29:10 > 1:29:13Was that poem explained to you?
1:29:13 > 1:29:15I think it's clear.
1:29:15 > 1:29:19There's no question as to what it means?
1:29:17 > 1:29:19Most certainly not.
1:29:19 > 1:29:24So, is it not clear that the love described relates to natural
1:29:24 > 1:29:26and unnatural love?
1:29:25 > 1:29:27No.
1:29:27 > 1:29:29Oh.
1:29:29 > 1:29:34Then what is "the love that dare not speak its name"?
1:29:46 > 1:29:49The love that dare not speak its name,
1:29:49 > 1:29:51in this century...
1:29:52 > 1:29:57..is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man...
1:29:57 > 1:30:01as there was between David and Jonathan,
1:30:00 > 1:30:05such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy
1:30:05 > 1:30:07and such as you may find
1:30:07 > 1:30:11in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.
1:30:13 > 1:30:16It is in this century misunderstood.
1:30:16 > 1:30:19So much misunderstood that it may be described as
1:30:19 > 1:30:23"the love that dare not speak its name."
1:30:22 > 1:30:27And on account of it, I am placed where I am now.
1:30:27 > 1:30:29It is beautiful.
1:30:30 > 1:30:32It is fine.
1:30:32 > 1:30:35It is the noblest form of affection.
1:30:36 > 1:30:40There is nothing unnatural about it.
1:30:40 > 1:30:42It is intellectual
1:30:42 > 1:30:47and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man
1:30:47 > 1:30:51when the elder has intellect and the younger man...
1:30:51 > 1:30:57has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.
1:30:59 > 1:31:03That it should be so, the world does not understand.
1:31:03 > 1:31:06The world mocks at it...
1:31:06 > 1:31:10and, sometimes, puts one in the pillory for it.
1:31:18 > 1:31:21SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE AMIDST BOOING
1:31:26 > 1:31:28Oscar Wilde,
1:31:28 > 1:31:32the crime of which you have been convicted is so bad
1:31:32 > 1:31:38that I shall pass the severest sentence that the law
1:31:38 > 1:31:40will allow.
1:31:40 > 1:31:44In my judgment, it is totally inadequate for such a case as this.
1:31:44 > 1:31:47It is the worst case I have ever tried.
1:31:47 > 1:31:49The sentence of the court
1:31:49 > 1:31:53is that you be imprisoned
1:31:53 > 1:31:55and held to hard labour...
1:31:57 > 1:31:59..for two years.
1:31:59 > 1:32:03Shame.
1:32:00 > 1:32:03Pervert.
1:32:06 > 1:32:08Pervert!
1:32:14 > 1:32:16Shame on you!
1:32:36 > 1:32:37Disgusting!
1:33:01 > 1:33:03"A slim thing,
1:33:03 > 1:33:05"gold-haired like an angel,
1:33:05 > 1:33:07"stands always at my side.
1:33:07 > 1:33:11"He moves in the gloom like a white flower.
1:33:11 > 1:33:14"I thought but to defend him from his father.
1:33:14 > 1:33:17"I thought of nothing else.
1:33:31 > 1:33:34"Now my life seems to have gone from me.
1:33:34 > 1:33:37"I'm caught in a terrible net.
1:33:37 > 1:33:40"But so long as I think he is thinking of me,
1:33:40 > 1:33:44"my sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies,
1:33:44 > 1:33:48"it is in prison that I shall test the power of love.
1:33:48 > 1:33:52"I shall see if can't make the bitter waters sweet
1:33:52 > 1:33:55"by the intensity of the love I bear you."
1:34:06 > 1:34:10'He asked me not to change. Those were his last words to me.'
1:34:10 > 1:34:12"Don't change".
1:34:12 > 1:34:17Well, things are going to have to change when he comes out.
1:34:17 > 1:34:19He'll have no money at all.
1:34:19 > 1:34:23So you're blaming me too, are you?
1:34:21 > 1:34:23I'm not blaming anyone.
1:34:23 > 1:34:26You're not the only person Oscar cares about!
1:34:26 > 1:34:31You've always hated me. Because Oscar loved and still loves me
1:34:31 > 1:34:35when you were never more than one of his boys.
1:34:42 > 1:34:46I'm suffering just as much as he is, you know.
1:34:46 > 1:34:48My life's ruined, too.
1:34:48 > 1:34:53I'm younger than he is. I've hardly had a life and it's ruined.
1:34:53 > 1:34:57When Oscar gets out, we'll live together properly.
1:34:57 > 1:35:00We'll take a villa somewhere near here.
1:35:00 > 1:35:03Posillipo or Ischia.
1:35:01 > 1:35:03Or Capri.
1:35:05 > 1:35:07I'll take care of him.
1:35:07 > 1:35:10I'll give him everything he wants.
1:35:10 > 1:35:12I love him, Robbie.
1:35:14 > 1:35:18Oscar's mine and I'm going to have him.
1:35:34 > 1:35:39"Years went over and the giant grew very old and very feeble.
1:35:39 > 1:35:41"He couldn't play about any more,
1:35:41 > 1:35:45"so he sat and watched the children at their games
1:35:45 > 1:35:47"and admired his garden.
1:35:49 > 1:35:53"'I have have many beautiful flowers,' he said,
1:35:53 > 1:35:57"'but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.'"
1:36:32 > 1:36:36I'm afraid Cyril has got some idea of why you're here.
1:36:36 > 1:36:39I'm sending them to school in Germany.
1:36:42 > 1:36:45I can't manage them on my own.
1:36:48 > 1:36:51Your back isn't better, then?
1:36:51 > 1:36:53No, not really.
1:36:55 > 1:36:57I may have to have an operation.
1:36:59 > 1:37:01What I've done...
1:37:01 > 1:37:03to you and the boys, I can't...
1:37:04 > 1:37:07I shall never forgive myself.
1:37:09 > 1:37:12If we could choose our natures...
1:37:14 > 1:37:16If we could only choose.
1:37:16 > 1:37:18But it's no use.
1:37:21 > 1:37:25Whatever our natures are, we must fulfil them.
1:37:26 > 1:37:31Or our lives, my life, would have been filled with...dishonesty.
1:37:34 > 1:37:38Even more dishonesty than there actually was.
1:37:42 > 1:37:45I've always loved you, Constance.
1:37:45 > 1:37:47You must believe me.
1:37:50 > 1:37:53I don't see how you can have done. Not truly.
1:37:55 > 1:37:57Not if all the time...
1:37:57 > 1:37:59I didn't know.
1:38:01 > 1:38:04"Know thyself," I used to say.
1:38:06 > 1:38:08I didn't know myself.
1:38:10 > 1:38:12I-I didn't know.
1:38:14 > 1:38:17I suppose you want a divorce?
1:38:19 > 1:38:21You have every reason.
1:38:23 > 1:38:28I've been thinking, when you come out, when they let you out,
1:38:28 > 1:38:30you can go to Switzerland or Italy,
1:38:30 > 1:38:34write another play, get yourself back.
1:38:34 > 1:38:36You can.
1:38:37 > 1:38:39You're so clever. You can.
1:38:46 > 1:38:47Oscar...
1:38:49 > 1:38:52I don't want a divorce.
1:38:55 > 1:38:59Will you ever let me see the children again?
1:39:00 > 1:39:01Of course.
1:39:07 > 1:39:10But there must be one condition.
1:39:13 > 1:39:16Oscar, you must never seen Bosie again.
1:39:19 > 1:39:22If I saw Bosie now, I'd kill him.
1:39:26 > 1:39:28The children love you, Oscar.
1:39:37 > 1:39:39They'll always love you.
1:39:47 > 1:39:50Did anyone tell you?
1:39:49 > 1:39:53They've been performing Salome in Paris.
1:39:59 > 1:40:04"The giant hastened across the grass and came near to the child.
1:40:04 > 1:40:08"When he came quite close, his face grew red with anger
1:40:08 > 1:40:12"and he said, 'Who hath dared to wound thee?'
1:40:12 > 1:40:15"For on the palms of the child's hands
1:40:15 > 1:40:17"were the prints of two nails
1:40:17 > 1:40:21"and the prints of two nails were on his little feet.
1:40:34 > 1:40:38"'Who hath dared to wound thee?' cried the giant.
1:40:38 > 1:40:42"'Tell me that I may take my big sword and slay him.'
1:40:42 > 1:40:47"'Nay,' answered the child, 'for these are the wounds of love.'"
1:40:54 > 1:40:56Bosie thinks I'm jealous.
1:40:56 > 1:40:58It will come as a shock to Bosie
1:40:58 > 1:41:03to realise that even he is unimportant in the scheme of things.
1:41:03 > 1:41:08But no doubt he will be remembered as long as Oscar. Unfortunately.
1:41:13 > 1:41:15I sometimes wonder...
1:41:17 > 1:41:19..if I hadn't, um...
1:41:21 > 1:41:23..pushed him into...
1:41:23 > 1:41:30Don't. Oscar was very lucky to meet you, Robbie.
1:41:31 > 1:41:33Think who else it might have been.
1:41:33 > 1:41:35Oh, I'll have that one.
1:41:35 > 1:41:39Must you go abroad again at once?
1:41:37 > 1:41:39I shouldn't be here now.
1:41:41 > 1:41:45But has he got anywhere to go when he's released?
1:41:45 > 1:41:47It'll have to be in France.
1:41:47 > 1:41:50I'm going to see what I can arrange.
1:41:50 > 1:41:53But here...when he leaves prison?
1:42:00 > 1:42:03Goodbye, Mr Harris. Goodbye, Mr Snow.
1:42:03 > 1:42:05Thank you.
1:42:08 > 1:42:10Oscar.
1:42:10 > 1:42:12My dear Sphinx.
1:42:12 > 1:42:17How marvellous of you to know what hat to wear at seven in the morning
1:42:17 > 1:42:20to meet a friend who's been away.
1:42:20 > 1:42:21No, I'll keep this.
1:42:21 > 1:42:27What is it?
1:42:23 > 1:42:27A letter to Bosie, saying how I love him but cannot see him again.
1:42:27 > 1:42:31I'll ask Robbie to have it copied before I send it.
1:42:31 > 1:42:34I fear Bosie might throw it on the fire.
1:42:34 > 1:42:38I call it De Profundis. It comes from the very depths.
1:43:09 > 1:43:14"I know not whether laws be right or whether laws be wrong.
1:43:14 > 1:43:20"All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong
1:43:20 > 1:43:22"and that each day is like a year,
1:43:22 > 1:43:25"a year whose days are long."
1:43:30 > 1:43:33"Yet each man kills the thing he loves.
1:43:33 > 1:43:36"By each let this be heard.
1:43:35 > 1:43:41"Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word.
1:43:41 > 1:43:43"The coward does it with a kiss,
1:43:43 > 1:43:45"the brave man with a sword."
1:43:47 > 1:43:50"Some kill their love when they are young
1:43:50 > 1:43:53"and some when they are old.
1:43:53 > 1:43:57"Some strangle with the hands of lust, some with the hands of gold."
1:43:59 > 1:44:01"The kindest use a knife
1:44:01 > 1:44:04"because the dead so soon grow cold."
1:44:13 > 1:44:17I'm sure we can find an hotel near here.
1:44:19 > 1:44:21Somewhere where you can work.
1:44:28 > 1:44:31I've decided to see him again.
1:44:31 > 1:44:32Yes.
1:44:32 > 1:44:34I thought you might.
1:44:34 > 1:44:36I've nothing left.
1:44:38 > 1:44:41I've lost my wife, I've lost my children.
1:44:42 > 1:44:45They won't allow me to see them now.
1:44:45 > 1:44:48No-one will ever read my plays or books again.
1:44:48 > 1:44:50Yes, they will.
1:44:50 > 1:44:54Bosie loves me more than he loves anyone else.
1:44:56 > 1:44:58As much as he can love...
1:44:58 > 1:45:00and allow himself to be loved.
1:45:02 > 1:45:06I think we need some more wine.
1:45:10 > 1:45:15I find that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities...
1:45:18 > 1:45:22..can bring about all the effects of drunkenness.
1:45:31 > 1:45:33BELLS RING
1:45:38 > 1:45:40Subito!
1:46:03 > 1:46:05"Life cheats us with shadows.
1:46:05 > 1:46:08"We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us
1:46:08 > 1:46:13"with bitterness and disappointment in its train. And we find ourselves
1:46:13 > 1:46:18"looking with dull heart of stone at the tress of gold-flecked hair
1:46:18 > 1:46:20"that we had once so wildly worshipped
1:46:20 > 1:46:23"and so madly kissed."
1:46:21 > 1:46:23Oscar!
1:46:57 > 1:47:00"In this world there are only two tragedies.
1:47:00 > 1:47:03"One is not getting what one wants.
1:47:03 > 1:47:06"The other...is getting it."
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