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This film contains some strong language.

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HORSES GALLOPING

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HE WHISTLES

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He's comin', he's comin'!

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CROWD CHEERS

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GUNSHOTS

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All right, now, let's give a good Colorado welcome here!

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Hello, sir.

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Thank you, thank you.

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Everybody, listen up. 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. We're going to name it after you.

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How very kind. 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.

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We're truly honoured to have you visit us.

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If you'd step in here. There.

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SHOOTING

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I thought I was descending into hell

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but with these angels to greet me, it must be paradise.

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Is this the way to my seam? I should have preferred 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,

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from pain, from toil, broken bones and blistered skin.

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Benvenuto Cellini understood silver.

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He transformed the metal that you mine so nobly into art

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for popes and princes.

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Cellini? Is he a wop?

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A Renaissance man. In every sense.

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The greatest silversmith the world has seen.

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A genius in life as well as art. He experimented with every vice.

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He committed murder.

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He killed a man?

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More than one.

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Thank you.

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Why didn't you bring Cellini 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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No, no.

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Pity.

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She's comfortable. A thousand a year.

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I congratulate you, Lady Wilde.

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Now that Oscar's been to America, sown his Wildean oats,

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it's time he settled down.

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Weren't they very rough?

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No, charming. Well, to me.

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They can be brusque. They hanged two men in the theatre

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just 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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Americans talk wonderful slang.

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I did hear a lady say, "After the heel-lick, I shifted my day goods."

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What on earth did she mean?

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She changed her clothes after an afternoon 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. 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, live a settled life.

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Literature, lectures, the House.

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Receptions for the world at five o'clock.

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How dreary.

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Your Sphinxiness will only be essential

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for our intimate dinners at eight.

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'Twill be a grand, charming life.

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I see Constance will be busy preparing the dinners.

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What will she contribute to the literature?

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She'll correct my proofs.

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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.

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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 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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You must show yourself as a propagandist for dress reform.

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Cinnamon cashmere trousers and the cape with the ends

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that turn up into sleeves.

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I don't think I can wear those trousers now.

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IRISH ACCENT: A new Wilde for the world! Another genius for Ireland!

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We shall have to buy you a whole new wardrobe.

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Ernest proposed under that statue.

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The things that go on before works of art are appalling.

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The police should interfere.

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We were made not to marry,

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whereas you and Constance are happy. Everyone says so.

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It's 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 responsive?

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Receptive, yes. Responsive... I always wonder what she's thinking.

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I expect it's about the baby.

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She's such a natural mother

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she's invited Robbie home 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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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 line of imperial governors.

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His grandfather was prime minister of Upper Canada. Or was it Lower?

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The British apply their class system even to continents.

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Are you planning to govern a continent?

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I don't even plan to govern myself.

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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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Looking for someone?

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< Cab! Cab!

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Bed time.

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Just one more cigarette.

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Oscar?

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Er, 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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Shh.

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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.

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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 admirable, if you remember

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that nothing worth knowing can be taught, least of all at Cambridge.

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But you told me in Greece, in ancient Greece,

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older men taught the younger. 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 told me 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. Slim,

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white as a lily, such dancing eyes.

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I've never seen such love in a pair of eyes. 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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CHILD CRIES

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There's a good fella. Come on, now.

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There. Now, come on, Cyril, it's time for your bath.

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Be a good boy.

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Don't make such a fuss!

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Shh.

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You've got to get undressed.

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I know you hate it.

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Boys never do what they're told.

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We're going to have a girl next time.

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I must go.

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Good night, my dear.

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Behave, Cyril. A gentleman should take a bath at least once a year.

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I shan't be back till late. I'm dining with the Asquiths.

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D'you love me?

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I feel...like a city that's been under siege for twenty years.

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Suddenly the gates are thrown open, the citizens come pouring out...

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..to breathe the air, walk the fields and pluck the wild flowers.

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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, the children used to play

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'in the garden of the selfish giant.'

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Is that the garden where we play?

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No, it's larger and lovelier, with soft green grass.

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There's grass where we go.

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But are there twelve peach trees

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that have blossoms of pink and pearl in spring and rich fruit in autumn?

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Are there, Mama?

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I don't think there are, Cyril.

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Would you hand me a matchstick? I'll put the hussar's head back on.

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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.

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How could they be happy if there was a giant?

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There wasn't yet. He was away.

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You're always away.

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But I only go for a night or two and I always come back.

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The giant had been away for seven years, seeing an ogre in Cornwall.

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After he'd said all he had to say - 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, 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 is my own garden,"

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said the giant, "and I won't allow anyone to play in it except myself!"

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He built a high wall, put up a large notice board on which was written,

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TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED.

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Arthur, you're trespassing.

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Cyril will now eat you.

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It's Mr Ross, sir, with Mr Gray.

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I must fly. The horses of Apollo are pawing impatiently at the gates.

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-I beg your pardon?

-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, it's almost tea time.

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I don't know why people bother painting portraits now.

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You can get a better likeness with a photograph.

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But a photograph is just one moment in time,

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one gesture, one turn of the head.

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Portraits are not likenesses. Painters show the soul

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of the subject, the essence.

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The essence of the sitter's vanity?

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Well, 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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Poor thing.

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I expect in her heart

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she thinks she looks like this. To be young

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and innocent forever...

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Would we 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 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

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and find him wisened, old and dead and the picture young again!

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I fainted.

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My family say it's dull and wicked.

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-Dull?

-SHE LAUGHS

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Oh... It's sublime.

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It's about the masks we wear as faces.

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And the faces we wear as masks.

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That my son should have written a work of such...

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People say it's full of dangerous paradoxes.

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Hardly anyone will speak to us any more.

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We're ceasing to be respectable.

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Artists care nothing about respectability.

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It's only jealousy.

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It's the spite of the untalented for the men of genius.

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Where is Oscar?

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He's in the Lake District, writing a play.

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A drama?

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A comedy.

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Robbie Ross has gone to keep him company.

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I do like Robbie.

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And they both love you.

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It'll be a great success.

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Oscar's made for the stage.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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-<

-Magnificent!

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Bravo!

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Ladies and gentleman, I have enjoyed this evening immensely.

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The actors have given us a charming rendering of a delightful play.

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Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you

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on the great success of your performance, which persuades me

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that you think almost as highly of this play as I do myself.

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Splendid, Oscar. An absolute triumph!

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Thank you so much.

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It went so well, Oscar.

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Even better than I'd...

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They loved it, they absolutely loved it.

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And I, dear boy, love you.

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-Congratulations, Oscar.

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Thank you.

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Mr Wilde, wonderful.

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Oscar.

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Sphinx.

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You really must be careful. You're in grave danger of becoming rich.

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It was wonderful! Everyone wants to know who the real Lady Windermere is.

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The real one is every woman in this room. And most of the men.

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-Oscar.

-Lionel.

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A wonderful play. My cousin, Lord Alfred Douglas, is here.

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He would very much like to congratulate you.

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Oscar, this is Bosie Douglas.

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We met last year. Lionel brought me to tea at Tite Street.

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How could I possibly forget?

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I love your play. The audience didn't know if you meant your jokes.

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You shocked them. Especially with your speech.

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But the more frivolous you seem,

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the more serious you are. I love that.

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Thank you. The young are the only critics

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with enough experience to judge my work.

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We need shocking.

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People are so banal. You use your wit like a foil.

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You cut through all the starched shirt fronts. You draw blood.

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It's magnificent.

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I wish you'd draw some blood down in Oxford.

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You'd need a miracle. All the dons have dust in their veins.

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At which college do you educate the fellows?

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Magdalen.

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My own college. I shall claim the privilege of a graduate

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and take tutorials with you.

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Come soon, then. They're threatening to send me down.

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How could they be so cruel to one so beautiful?

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Dons - they're so middle class.

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My dear Oscar,

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you've shocked London, smoking on stage.

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Then we shall run for a year.

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You must say something to Marion Terry.

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She was good. So good that I think she wrote most of the lines herself.

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Excuse me, Lord Alfred.

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Bosie, please.

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Bosie.

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'"My own garden is my own garden," said the giant.

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"So he built a high wall all around it and put up a notice board.

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"Trespassers will be prosecuted.

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"He was a very selfish giant.

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"The poor children had now nowhere to play.

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"They tried to play on the road

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"but the road was dusty and full of stones and they did not like it.

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"They used to wander around the wall

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"and talk about the beautiful garden inside.

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"'How happy we were there,' they said to each other."

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I hope he was a very beautiful boy.

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Well, pretty, you know, in a street Arab sort of way.

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There's no point being blackmailed by an ugly one.

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What's tiresome is he's threatened to show my letters to my father.

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Who will show them to his friends for the excellence of their style.

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No. No. You don't know him. He's a brute.

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Really.

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He carries a whip wherever he goes.

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He used to beat my mother.

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He beat my brothers.

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He thrashed me...

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My dear boy.

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Course, he's practically illiterate.

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Probably wouldn't understand the letters.

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By an unforgivable oversight, I've never been blackmailed

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but I believe £100 usually suffices.

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Really? God! You promise?

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Hm. Leave it to Lewis, George Lewis, my solicitor.

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He knows what he's doing. He acts for the Prince of Wales.

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PIANO PLAYS

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-WEAKLY BUT TUNEFULLY: #

-Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate

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-#

-No fate seemed fair as mine

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-#

-No happiness so great...

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Isn't he killing, Mr Wilde?

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He's perfect.

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He's perfect in every way.

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-#

-And sung in accents clear

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-#

-This joyous roundelay

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-#

-He loves me

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-#

-He is here

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-#

-Fa la la la

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-#

-Fa la la la

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-#

-He loves me

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-#

-He is here

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-#

-Fa la la la

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-#

-Fa la.

-#

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APPLAUSE

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-It was lovely. Well done, Bosie.

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-Absolutely enchanting.

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I don't want to sit here. I want to sit there.

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You heard what Lord Alfred said.

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I want everyone to look at us.

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I want everyone to say, "There's Oscar Wilde with his boy."

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So, what shall we let people see us eating?

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Foie gras and lobster. And champagne.

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For two. We do everything together.

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Very good, Mr Wilde.

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-I think he enjoyed thrashing me. All my family are mad.

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My uncle slit his throat last year in a railway hotel.

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Which station?

0:30:510:30:52

Euston.

0:30:540:30:55

Ah. All life's really serious journeys involve a railway terminus.

0:30:550:31:00

And now I must go to the station myself.

0:31:020:31:05

Sarah Bernhardt thinks she knows better than I do how to play Salome.

0:31:050:31:11

Stay.

0:31:110:31:13

Please stay.

0:31:130:31:15

At least until this evening.

0:31:160:31:19

Sarah is divine, as you are.

0:31:200:31:23

She will be wonderful at the play's climax when Salome kisses the head

0:31:230:31:28

of John the Baptist.

0:31:280:31:30

"Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan."

0:31:300:31:34

Iokanaan is an old Hebrew name for John.

0:31:340:31:37

"Well, I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth

0:31:370:31:41

"as one bites a ripe fruit.

0:31:410:31:43

"Yes, I will kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan.

0:31:430:31:46

"Thy body is white, like the snows that lie on the mountains.

0:31:460:31:50

"Like the snows that lie on the mountains of Judaea

0:31:500:31:55

"and come down into the valleys.

0:31:540:31:57

"The roses in the garden of the Queen of Arabia

0:31:570:32:00

"are not so white as thy body."

0:32:000:32:03

'I'm not good enough for him any more.'

0:32:090:32:12

I'm just the son of a carpenter, while Bosie...

0:32:120:32:15

Oscar's only ever been smitten before.

0:32:150:32:19

He was smitten with me, he was smitten with you.

0:32:210:32:24

I wasn't smitten.

0:32:240:32:26

I loved him.

0:32:310:32:33

Well, now he's fallen in love.

0:32:330:32:37

I'm halfway to hellfire, I'm not joking.

0:32:370:32:41

Someone else was a carpenter's son.

0:32:410:32:44

I've given in and become a Catholic.

0:32:470:32:49

I find the confession...

0:32:490:32:52

wonderfully consoling.

0:32:520:32:54

I can't go to confession...

0:32:540:32:57

..when I want to kill Bosie.

0:32:580:33:00

And myself.

0:33:020:33:04

Oscar's furious.

0:33:110:33:13

He knew the Lord Chamberlain

0:33:130:33:16

wouldn't allow a play with Biblical characters in.

0:33:160:33:19

Oscar thinks there should be no censorship.

0:33:190:33:22

But there must be! If people said what they meant, where would we be?

0:33:220:33:27

When is he coming?

0:33:270:33:30

He's not.

0:33:280:33:30

He's looking after Lord Alfred.

0:33:300:33:33

Douglases are always ill or demented.

0:33:330:33:35

One roasted a kitchen boy on a spit.

0:33:350:33:38

And Bosie's father, Lord Queensberry... He's a dreadful man!

0:33:380:33:43

Doesn't believe in God or marriage.

0:33:430:33:45

A marquess should set a proper example

0:33:450:33:48

or what are the upper classes for?

0:33:480:33:51

I tell you, I wouldn't want a daughter of mine to marry a Douglas.

0:33:510:33:57

I haven't got a daughter.

0:33:580:34:00

Plenty of time still, my dear.

0:34:000:34:03

Oh.

0:34:070:34:09

Oh, I see.

0:34:090:34:11

It's my fault.

0:34:110:34:13

After Vyvyan was born, all I could think of was the children.

0:34:130:34:18

Ah. So that's why Oscar spends so much time with his men friends.

0:34:180:34:25

Oscar needs disciples. Lord Alfred is a poet, a fine one, Oscar says.

0:34:250:34:30

He's studying Classics. They talk about Plato.

0:34:300:34:34

There's nothing wrong. Really, there isn't.

0:34:360:34:40

It's not whether there is anything wrong.

0:34:400:34:43

It's whether there appears to be. That's all people care about.

0:34:430:34:48

The Empire was not built by men like Bosie Douglas.

0:34:480:34:52

"Then the spring came.

0:34:530:34:55

"Only in the garden of the selfish giant, it was still winter.

0:34:550:34:59

"The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children

0:34:590:35:04

"and the trees forgot to blossom.

0:35:030:35:06

"The snow covered up the grass with her white cloak

0:35:060:35:10

"and the frost painted the trees silver."

0:35:090:35:12

Let's go out.

0:36:030:36:06

If you like.

0:36:040:36:06

With renters you don't have to consider their feelings.

0:36:100:36:14

But one should show gratitude, at least.

0:36:140:36:17

No. Money. That's all they want.

0:36:170:36:20

What's wonderful about Taylor's is no-one pretends.

0:36:200:36:24

You do it and be done with it.

0:36:240:36:27

I do love you, Oscar.

0:36:340:36:36

But variety is the spice of life.

0:36:370:36:39

You can watch me if you like.

0:36:440:36:46

You must keep a grasp upon your sobriety.

0:36:480:36:51

So I'll be sick on your suit?

0:36:510:36:55

That is disgusting.

0:36:530:36:55

-Evening.

-Lord Alfred.

0:36:560:36:58

Alfred Taylor, this is Oscar.

0:36:580:37:00

Delighted to make your acquaintance.

0:37:000:37:03

Charles Parker.

0:37:030:37:04

Hello, Oscar.

0:37:050:37:10

Good to see you again.

0:37:070:37:10

-Do you smoke?

-I do everything.

0:37:140:37:17

-Everything that pays!

-Expertly, I might add.

0:37:170:37:20

-Got a lot of experience!

->

0:37:200:37:22

Mr Wilde, some wine?

0:37:230:37:26

Thank you.

0:37:240:37:26

It's a nice case.

0:37:260:37:29

I want you to keep it.

0:37:270:37:29

Thank you.

0:37:320:37:34

So, this is a den of vice. I should call it more of a garden.

0:37:340:37:39

Pretty flowers. Wise to keep the curtains closed. They would not grow

0:37:390:37:43

in the common light of day.

0:37:430:37:45

Who are you callin' common?

0:37:450:37:51

Not you. You seem to be a flower of the rarest hue.

0:37:470:37:51

Bosie never said that you were a botanist, Mr Taylor, that you climb

0:38:000:38:06

the peaks of the Himalayas and plunge into the forests of Borneo

0:38:060:38:10

to return to this conservatory by Westminster Abbey

0:38:100:38:14

to exhibit your specimens.

0:38:140:38:17

The boys are all Londoners actually.

0:38:170:38:20

Impossible. I see Londoners every day

0:38:200:38:23

but never such exotic blooms as these.

0:38:230:38:27

Does he always talk like this?

0:38:270:38:31

Not when he's in bed.

0:38:290:38:31

LAUGHTER

0:38:310:38:33

-ROBBIE:

-'I am discreet. Bosie is too grand and well born for that.'

0:38:390:38:44

'He wants everyone to know.'

0:38:440:38:46

Oscar, you must understand...

0:38:460:38:53

I must be with young people. They're so frank. They make me feel young.

0:38:480:38:53

That's all very well. But what would you say if

0:38:530:38:57

someone wanted to go to bed with your son?

0:38:570:38:59

Cyril's eight.

0:38:590:39:01

What will you say when he's 18?

0:39:010:39:03

Nothing. He must do as his nature dictates.

0:39:060:39:10

'As I only wish I had done.'

0:39:100:39:12

"'I do believe the spring has come at last,' said the giant.

0:39:120:39:16

"He jumped out of bed and looked out of the window."

0:39:160:39:19

What did he see?

0:39:190:39:23

You tell me.

0:39:200:39:23

No. You tell it.

0:39:210:39:23

All right. "He saw the most wonderful sight.

0:39:230:39:27

"Through a hole in the wall the children had crept into the garden

0:39:270:39:31

"and were sitting in the trees.

0:39:310:39:33

"In every tree there was a child.

0:39:330:39:36

"The trees were so glad that..."

0:39:360:39:40

"..they covered themselves with blossoms!"

0:39:370:39:40

Blossoms!

0:39:400:39:41

"..and were waving their arms above the children's heads.

0:39:410:39:45

"The birds were twittering and singing above them in delight..."

0:39:450:39:50

Oscar!

0:39:500:39:51

"..and the flowers were laughing."

0:39:510:39:53

Oscar, it's time the boys changed or we'll miss the train.

0:39:530:39:58

Papa, can't we stay?

0:39:580:40:00

Papa's got to work.

0:40:000:40:02

He's got to finish his play.

0:40:020:40:04

Yes. Poor, dear Papa.

0:40:040:40:06

Poor Papa.

0:40:060:40:08

Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Papa!

0:40:080:40:12

'Where is Oscar?'

0:40:140:40:16

He's working. He is a writer, after all.

0:40:160:40:19

I hear your father's threatening to shoot Lord Rosebery.

0:40:180:40:22

He usually prefers the horsewhip.

0:40:220:40:27

Says he's buggering your brother.

0:40:240:40:27

Rosebery is Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

0:40:270:40:31

Francis is his Private Secretary.

0:40:310:40:33

Actually, Francis is about to get engaged.

0:40:330:40:36

What's your father talking about, then?

0:40:360:40:40

Oh, he's obsessed with sex. He thinks Oscar's buggering me.

0:40:400:40:45

As though I'd allow anyone to do that.

0:40:450:40:47

I'm sick of the country.

0:40:580:41:00

Let's go back to London.

0:41:030:41:05

Why bother living together if you're always working?

0:41:100:41:14

I have responsibilities, a family.

0:41:140:41:18

Oh, God, not that again.

0:41:160:41:18

I ask my friends over from Oxford and you just disappear.

0:41:190:41:23

I'd be better off at my mother's. At least she's there.

0:41:270:41:31

You asked me to take this house...

0:41:310:41:35

Well, I'm bored with it.

0:41:330:41:35

And with you.

0:41:350:41:37

I can't give it up. It's paid for in advance. Until I finish my new...

0:41:370:41:43

Bosie, dear...

0:41:430:41:45

You have beauty, breeding and, most gloriously, youth.

0:41:450:41:48

But you are fantastical

0:41:480:41:50

if you think that pleasures don't have to be paid for.

0:41:500:41:54

When I want to do anything, you say you can't afford it.

0:41:540:41:58

But you give the renters cigarette cases.

0:41:580:42:01

I've lavished presents on you!

0:42:010:42:03

Every penny from my play was spent on you!

0:42:030:42:06

I'm sure you've been counting.

0:42:060:42:08

You're so mean and penny-pinching and middle class.

0:42:080:42:12

All you can think about is your bank balance.

0:42:120:42:16

This is intolerable!

0:42:140:42:16

No gentleman has the slightest idea what his bank balance is!

0:42:160:42:21

You're absurd! Telling everyone how they ought to live!

0:42:220:42:26

You're so vulgar!

0:42:260:42:28

I never want to see you again, ever.

0:42:280:42:31

All right, if that's what you want, then go! Get out!

0:42:310:42:35

Get out!

0:42:350:42:37

-CYRIL:

-"But in the farthest corner

0:42:380:42:42

"it was still winter, and in it was standing a little boy.

0:42:420:42:46

"He was so small, he couldn't reach up to the branches of the tree.

0:42:460:42:51

"'Climb up, little boy,' said the tree,

0:42:510:42:54

"but the little boy was too tiny."

0:42:540:42:57

Egypt is lovely this time of year.

0:42:570:42:59

You mustn't idle your time away.

0:42:590:43:02

Mother...

0:43:020:43:04

And I want you to promise me something.

0:43:030:43:07

Not to write to Oscar Wilde.

0:43:080:43:10

I can't do that.

0:43:100:43:12

-Bosie...

-I love Oscar.

0:43:110:43:13

I love him as a disciple loves his teacher.

0:43:130:43:16

But he's not fit to teach anything. He's evil.

0:43:160:43:20

Do you think your own son could love someone evil?

0:43:200:43:23

I just wish I could love Oscar

0:43:230:43:26

as loyally, devotedly, unselfishly and purely as he loves me.

0:43:260:43:32

But I'm not as good as he is.

0:43:330:43:36

I probably never will be.

0:43:380:43:40

Goodbye, then.

0:43:420:43:44

'I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.'

0:43:570:44:02

But, if you wish, let us stay here.

0:44:020:44:05

Yes, let us stay here.

0:44:050:44:07

The Book Of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.

0:44:070:44:11

It ends with Revelations.

0:44:110:44:13

Er, yes, er, Mr Tree, may I?

0:44:130:44:15

I'm glad that you find my lines funny,

0:44:150:44:18

but don't try to make the audience laugh.

0:44:180:44:20

They must be spontaneous, natural, as if people always speak like that.

0:44:200:44:26

Yes, of course.

0:44:260:44:28

-<

-Let's try again.

0:44:280:44:30

You should break with Bosie more often, Oscar.

0:44:300:44:33

Then we'd have more of your spontaneous and natural plays.

0:44:330:44:37

Bosie was envious. That's why he stopped Oscar working.

0:44:370:44:41

-It's not true.

-Of course it is.

0:44:410:44:43

His poems aren't as good as you pretend.

0:44:430:44:46

And he knows it. He's just a shallow little...

0:44:460:44:49

Rivulet.

0:44:490:44:51

Bosie's a child, a vulnerable child. He needs love.

0:44:520:44:56

Oh, we all need love.

0:44:560:44:58

But which of us can give it?

0:44:580:45:01

# We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas

0:45:010:45:06

# We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year!

0:45:060:45:12

# Good tidings we bring To you and your king

0:45:120:45:17

# We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year! #

0:45:170:45:21

Cracker time!

0:45:230:45:26

It is cracker time.

0:45:240:45:26

"And the giant's heart melted as he looked out.

0:45:260:45:30

"'How selfish I have been,' he said.

0:45:290:45:34

"'Now I know why the spring would not come here.

0:45:340:45:37

"'I will put the boy in the tree and knock down the wall and my garden

0:45:370:45:42

"'will be a playground for ever.'"

0:45:420:45:45

"He was really very sorry for what he had done.

0:45:450:45:49

"So he crept downstairs and opened the door

0:45:510:45:54

"and went out into the garden.

0:45:540:45:56

"The little boy did not run away,

0:45:560:45:59

"for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the giant.

0:45:590:46:04

"The giant stole up behind him and took him gently by the hand

0:46:040:46:08

"and put him up into the tree.

0:46:080:46:10

"And the tree broke at once into blossom and the birds sang on it

0:46:100:46:15

"and the little boy flung his arms around the giant's neck

0:46:150:46:19

"and kissed him."

0:46:190:46:21

Oscar!

0:46:490:46:51

I don't care what people think. I love you!

0:46:520:46:55

I love you. It's all that matters! It was agony being away from you!

0:46:550:47:00

Well, here I am.

0:47:000:47:02

Oh, Bosie, you're my catastrophe, my doom. Everyone says so, even me.

0:47:020:47:08

I, er, thought you might like something to celebrate your return.

0:47:100:47:15

Oscar...

0:47:170:47:18

When I saw them in the window,

0:47:200:47:22

they begged me on their knees to make them yours.

0:47:220:47:26

I'll put them on now. They're superb.

0:47:260:47:30

No, no. I'll sit there!

0:47:420:47:44

Is there something wrong, my Lord?

0:47:440:47:47

This fool wants me to sit by the service door.

0:47:470:47:52

Oh, God, my father.

0:47:500:47:52

I'm sorry. He's new and didn't know who you were.

0:47:520:47:55

Bosie, you're not going to flee?

0:47:560:47:59

Give me the menu.

0:48:040:48:06

I'll have pea soup and then salmon.

0:48:100:48:12

Will you have it with us?

0:48:120:48:15

Bosie.

0:48:130:48:15

I'm lunching with Oscar Wilde. Will you join us?

0:48:150:48:20

I told you never to see that vile cur again.

0:48:230:48:27

He's not vile or a cur. He's utterly delightful. Come and see.

0:48:270:48:31

How do you know what he's like when you've never met him?

0:48:310:48:35

Papa, you're not a man to be influenced by people's opinions.

0:48:350:48:39

Oscar, you've never met my father, have you?

0:48:480:48:51

Lord Queensberry.

0:48:510:48:53

Bosie has told me so much about your exploits on the race track.

0:48:550:49:00

I've never heard such bad luck as yours with the Grand National.

0:49:000:49:05

Bosie says you would have won if your cousin had let you ride.

0:49:060:49:11

Bloody fool said I was too old.

0:49:120:49:14

You're never too old. I'd ridden her on the gallops.

0:49:140:49:18

Came in at 40 to 1.

0:49:180:49:20

No horse could ever have carried me

0:49:200:49:22

over the jumps. What are you having?

0:49:220:49:25

Pea soup and salmon.

0:49:250:49:29

Then I shall join you.

0:49:270:49:29

Spring is the time to lunch on salmon.

0:49:290:49:31

Though it tastes nicer if you've caught it yourself.

0:49:310:49:35

You fish?

0:49:350:49:39

I used to. When I was in Ireland.

0:49:360:49:39

My father had a charming hunting lodge on an island.

0:49:390:49:42

Do you know the west of Ireland?

0:49:420:49:46

Not really.

0:49:440:49:46

Whereabouts exactly?

0:49:490:49:51

The Christians pretend they know who God is. I've no time for that.

0:50:050:50:10

I say that if you don't know something, you should say so,

0:50:100:50:14

not pretend you believe in some mumbo-jumbo.

0:50:140:50:17

I believe in anything incredible.

0:50:170:50:20

I shall die a Catholic, though I couldn't live as one.

0:50:200:50:23

Catholicism is a romantic religion, with saints and sinners.

0:50:230:50:27

The Church of England has respectable people

0:50:270:50:31

who believe in respectability.

0:50:310:50:33

You get to be a bishop not by what you believe but by what you don't.

0:50:330:50:38

That's true enough.

0:50:360:50:38

It's the only church where a sceptic

0:50:380:50:41

stands at the altar and St Thomas the Doubter is prince of apostles.

0:50:400:50:46

No, I couldn't possibly die in the Church of England.

0:50:460:50:50

Where do you stand on cremation?

0:50:500:50:54

I'm not sure I have a position.

0:50:510:50:54

I'm for it.

0:50:550:50:57

I wrote a poem.

0:50:580:51:00

"When I am dead, cremate me."

0:51:000:51:02

That's how it begins.

0:51:020:51:04

"When I am dead, cremate me."

0:51:060:51:08

What do you think of that for an opening line?

0:51:080:51:11

It's challenging.

0:51:120:51:14

I'm a challenging man. That's why people don't like me.

0:51:140:51:18

I don't go along with the ordinary ways of thinking.

0:51:180:51:23

Then we are exactly alike.

0:51:210:51:23

Another glass of brandy? I find that alcohol

0:51:230:51:26

in sufficient quantities can produce all the effects of drunkenness.

0:51:260:51:31

You were there for ages. You stayed talking till after four.

0:51:330:51:37

I knew you'd like him.

0:51:370:51:39

He's got charm, I admit that.

0:51:390:51:41

But that's bad. Men shouldn't be charming. It's disgusting.

0:51:410:51:46

I don't think much of his action.

0:51:460:51:48

Let's have a look at the bay.

0:51:480:51:51

Mind you, Wilde's no fool. Talks wonderfully. Really wonderfully.

0:51:510:51:56

But that means nothing when what he says is such rot.

0:51:560:52:00

Worse than rot. Evil.

0:52:000:52:01

Which is why I insist you stop seeing him forthwith.

0:52:010:52:05

Insist? What does that mean?

0:52:050:52:11

I will cut off your allowance if you don't do as I say.

0:52:070:52:11

Trot him up and down a bit!

0:52:110:52:14

Look, Father...

0:52:120:52:14

You wasted Oxford, saying you'd go into the Foreign Office.

0:52:140:52:18

Thank God you didn't, with that Jew queer Rosebery buggering the juniors.

0:52:180:52:23

You just wrote obscene poetry.

0:52:230:52:27

My poems aren't obscene.

0:52:250:52:27

They're in the manner of Wilde. That's filthy enough.

0:52:270:52:30

Have you ever read any of his poems?

0:52:300:52:36

I wouldn't sully my mind with perverted trash.

0:52:320:52:36

Tell him to pick his feet up! He's not straight!

0:52:360:52:40

Are you calling Oscar a pervert? Because that's libellous!

0:52:400:52:45

I'm not saying he is one. I'm saying he's posing as one!

0:52:450:52:49

Which is worse.

0:52:490:52:51

His wife's divorcing him. Did you know that? For sodomy.

0:52:510:52:55

That's completely untrue!

0:52:550:52:59

I hope it is.

0:52:570:52:59

Because if it were true, I'd shoot him on sight.

0:52:590:53:03

You will cease to see Wilde or I'll cut you off without a penny.

0:53:040:53:09

As though I wanted your money.

0:53:090:53:12

What little you have left from your tarts.

0:53:120:53:15

How dare you speak to your father like that!

0:53:150:53:21

What a funny little man you are!

0:53:180:53:21

Bosie! Come back here, you filthy-minded cissy!

0:53:210:53:25

You're absurd!

0:53:250:53:27

And you're nothing but a bum boy!

0:53:270:53:30

You're pathetic!

0:53:300:53:32

Bosie!

0:53:330:53:35

I'm a bloody good shot! I'll shoot him through the heart!

0:53:350:53:39

Use a silver bullet.

0:53:390:53:41

-Here's one for the Black Douglas!

-HE FIRES

0:53:410:53:44

Bosie, for God's sake!

0:53:440:53:46

One for his liver! And his lights! And his stinking rotten soul!

0:53:460:53:51

Bosie!

0:53:510:53:53

I'll save one for myself.

0:53:530:53:55

My own father. He wants to kill me.

0:53:560:54:00

My life is everything I ever wanted.

0:54:140:54:17

I have fame.

0:54:180:54:21

I have recognition.

0:54:210:54:23

With two plays about to open in London, I may even have money.

0:54:230:54:28

The world is at my command.

0:54:300:54:32

Yet I can't command myself.

0:54:330:54:36

I can't command my feelings for you.

0:54:380:54:41

Thank you.

0:54:530:54:54

'Constance, my dear.'

0:54:540:54:56

How nice.

0:54:560:54:59

Constance!

0:55:000:55:02

Bosie.

0:55:040:55:05

I brought you your letters.

0:55:070:55:10

You haven't been home for so long.

0:55:100:55:12

Thank you.

0:55:120:55:13

It's convenient for Oscar living in the West End

0:55:180:55:22

when he has a play coming on.

0:55:220:55:24

I'm like a northern businessman who must keep an eye on his factory.

0:55:240:55:29

The boys keep asking for you. They're longing to see you.

0:55:290:55:33

Oscar has to make sure the play's a success, Constance.

0:55:330:55:36

I'll come round this afternoon. For tea.

0:55:360:55:39

It's the dress rehearsal this afternoon.

0:55:400:55:44

Tomorrow, then. I'll come tomorrow.

0:55:470:55:50

Oh. Tomorrow, then.

0:55:500:55:52

Goodbye, my dear.

0:55:590:56:01

Goodbye.

0:56:010:56:02

-Goodbye, Constance.

->

0:56:100:56:12

Perhaps a cod fish. I've a strong feeling that cod fish live deeper.

0:56:250:56:30

Do you think there's skate?

0:56:300:56:34

Possibly.

0:56:320:56:34

I don't think there'll be anything for our table tonight.

0:56:370:56:41

I should stay. You have a cold.

0:56:410:56:45

No, no, I'm all right.

0:56:430:56:45

Let's get the boys some ices.

0:56:450:56:48

Boys, you are to stay and look after Nanny.

0:56:480:56:51

I could take the boys to the dentist on Thursday on their way to school.

0:56:540:56:59

The point about them having dentistry now

0:56:580:57:02

is that they can stuff themselves with sweets before we lose them.

0:57:020:57:07

Are you quite sure?

0:57:070:57:10

Bosie will look after me.

0:57:080:57:10

'Oscar!'

0:57:270:57:28

Oscar!

0:57:280:57:30

Get your coat on, quick!

0:57:300:57:32

I've got a present for you!

0:57:320:57:34

Oh, God...

0:57:360:57:37

You're not still seedy?

0:57:370:57:41

Where have you been?

0:57:390:57:41

I need looking after.

0:57:410:57:44

Don't be so pathetic.

0:57:420:57:44

I've found you the divinest boy.

0:57:440:57:47

You promised Constance.

0:57:470:57:50

Bugger Constance.

0:57:480:57:50

I'm not your nanny. Come on!

0:57:500:57:52

Bosie, please.

0:57:520:57:54

You look such an idiot lying there. Revolting.

0:57:560:57:59

Have you forgotten how to wash?

0:57:590:58:02

I'm dying for a glass of water.

0:58:020:58:06

You know where the jug is.

0:58:040:58:06

Bosie, darling.

0:58:060:58:07

It stinks in here. You'll want me to empty your chamber pot next.

0:58:070:58:12

I emptied your chamber pot. I looked after you.

0:58:120:58:18

Well, I'm not looking after you.

0:58:150:58:18

You don't interest me when you're ill. You're just a boring man

0:58:180:58:22

with a blocked-up nose.

0:58:220:58:24

Bosie, dearest boy...

0:58:240:58:27

Shut up!

0:58:250:58:27

"Dearest boy. Darling Bosie." It doesn't mean anything.

0:58:270:58:32

You don't love me.

0:58:320:58:34

The only person you've ever loved is yourself.

0:58:340:58:37

You like me, lust after me, you go about with me because of my title.

0:58:370:58:42

You like to write about dukes but you know nothing about them.

0:58:420:58:46

You're a snob! You think you're daring because you fuck boys.

0:58:460:58:51

Bosie, you're killing me.

0:58:500:58:56

You'll do when you're at your best. You're amusing.

0:58:520:58:56

But when you're not, you're no-one.

0:58:560:58:59

I just asked for a glass of water.

0:58:590:59:02

For Christ's sake! There you are, then!

0:59:030:59:07

Now will you shut up about the fucking water?!

0:59:090:59:12

There are two boys out there. If you don't come, I'll fuck them both.

0:59:160:59:21

I'll take them to the Grand and fuck them in front of the whole hotel.

0:59:210:59:26

And I'll send you the bill.

0:59:260:59:28

Drink this.

0:59:420:59:44

It will help your fever.

0:59:440:59:46

He's ashamed of loving men.

0:59:460:59:49

His father bullies him, his mother spoils him

0:59:500:59:54

then berates him for being spoiled.

0:59:540:59:57

Neither of them gives him any love. They're torturing him.

0:59:571:00:01

And what's truly dreadful

1:00:011:00:04

is that when he can't bear it and he has one of his...

1:00:041:00:08

..he becomes exactly like his father.

1:00:091:00:12

And he hates himself for that.

1:00:121:00:16

You're too kind about him.

1:00:141:00:16

You can't be too kind about someone who's been so hurt.

1:00:161:00:21

Yet if I go on trying to come between Bosie and his father,

1:00:231:00:28

they'll destroy me.

1:00:281:00:30

Bosie's quite capable of destroying you on his own.

1:00:301:00:34

Look how much you wrote while he was away.

1:00:341:00:38

Two wonderful plays which will run for years.

1:00:381:00:42

Back comes Bosie and what have you written since?

1:00:411:00:46

Oscar...

1:00:501:00:52

You know how much I...

1:00:521:00:54

..love and admire you.

1:00:561:00:58

But you're throwing your genius away.

1:00:591:01:02

For what?

1:01:021:01:04

It's ironic. Queensberry thinks

1:01:041:01:06

Bosie and I are locked in nightly embrace

1:01:061:01:09

and in reality we've been the purest model of Greek love since...

1:01:091:01:13

Bosie doesn't like doing it with me.

1:01:151:01:18

But I've loved him.

1:01:181:01:20

I've educated him.

1:01:201:01:23

He's never grown up.

1:01:211:01:23

And he never will.

1:01:231:01:25

I'm not taking him back, Robbie.

1:01:271:01:30

Not again.

1:01:301:01:32

I can't.

1:01:351:01:37

I've been very foolish, very fond.

1:01:371:01:40

But, er, now I must grow up myself.

1:01:411:01:43

Oh, please don't do that.

1:01:431:01:45

You're an artist. Artists are always children at heart.

1:01:451:01:50

Oh, Robbie, I sometimes wonder if...

1:01:521:01:55

(Back page, sir.)

1:01:581:02:00

My God. Francis Douglas.

1:02:051:02:07

What?

1:02:071:02:08

Bosie's brother.

1:02:081:02:11

He's been found shot. He's dead.

1:02:111:02:14

He's just got engaged.

1:02:141:02:16

Bosie...

1:02:191:02:20

Poor, poor Bosie.

1:02:201:02:22

He'll be utterly distraught.

1:02:231:02:25

'He killed himself.'

1:02:351:02:37

It was my father. He drove him to it.

1:02:381:02:41

I'm sure your father's just as upset as everyone else.

1:02:411:02:45

No, he's not.

1:02:451:02:47

He says it's a judgment on Rosebery and my mother.

1:02:501:02:54

And me and you.

1:02:541:02:56

We've got to stop him, Oscar.

1:03:061:03:08

Before he drives my whole family to suicide.

1:03:101:03:13

Bosie... Bosie, I promise you, I won't let him hurt you ever again.

1:03:131:03:19

I promise.

1:03:191:03:21

It's not enough. I want him stopped.

1:03:271:03:30

I want...the whole world to know what he's done...

1:03:331:03:37

..what an evil man he is.

1:03:381:03:41

Table, my Lord?

1:03:441:03:46

Is Lord Alfred here and that shit and sod, Wilde?

1:03:461:03:51

No, my Lord. Not tonight.

1:03:491:03:51

Bugger must be at Kettners.

1:03:511:03:53

Is my son staying here?

1:04:081:04:10

Is Lord Alfred Douglas staying here?

1:04:121:04:15

Er, no, sir, he's not.

1:04:151:04:17

What about Wilde?

1:04:191:04:22

No, sir.

1:04:201:04:22

If I find they have been staying here,

1:04:241:04:27

I'll give you the biggest whipping of your life.

1:04:271:04:31

Well, I expect you two would like a drink after your exertions.

1:05:021:05:08

I must ask you to leave, Mr Wilde.

1:05:131:05:17

What are you talking about?

1:05:171:05:21

At once, please.

1:05:191:05:21

What's the matter? My father cracking the whip downstairs, is he?

1:05:231:05:28

-My Lord...

-Bosie...

1:05:381:05:40

You're not frightened of what this little man thinks?

1:05:401:05:43

I think the pleasures of the evening should be resumed elsewhere.

1:05:431:05:49

You're such a coward! You say you despise convention,

1:05:511:05:55

but you're the most conventional man I know.

1:05:551:05:58

Come on, then. We're going.

1:05:591:06:02

Until tomorrow, Tommy.

1:06:111:06:14

Good night, sir.

1:06:131:06:14

-<

-There's, like, all this tropical fruit laid out.

1:06:141:06:18

Oscar!

1:06:201:06:22

Wait a minute, Oscar!

1:06:221:06:24

Alfred, how nice to see you. And Charlie, too.

1:06:241:06:27

I'm busy this evening, but we must have dinner again soon.

1:06:271:06:31

It's not a question of dinner.

1:06:311:06:34

I got a letter of yours... to Lord Alfred.

1:06:341:06:37

It's a nice letter.

1:06:361:06:38

"Lips like roses. The madness of kisses in ancient Greece."

1:06:381:06:42

I expect it's one of my prose poems.

1:06:421:06:47

A gentleman's offered me £60 for it.

1:06:441:06:47

You must accept. I've never received such a sum for a work of that length.

1:06:471:06:52

I'm delighted that someone values my work so highly.

1:06:521:06:56

He's gone away.

1:06:561:06:59

To the country.

1:06:561:06:59

I'm sure he'll be back.

1:06:571:06:59

Oscar!

1:06:591:07:00

Oscar! Look, you couldn't let us have something, could you?

1:07:021:07:07

Bit short at the moment, you know.

1:07:071:07:09

Of course. Here's half a sovereign.

1:07:091:07:12

Take good care of that letter.

1:07:121:07:14

Lord Alfred is going to publish it in sonnet form in his new magazine.

1:07:141:07:19

For fuck's sake!

1:07:191:07:21

Oscar!

1:07:231:07:25

It's no good trying to rent you. You just laugh at us. Here.

1:07:251:07:30

Thank you.

1:07:301:07:32

He can be very careless, Lord Alfred.

1:07:321:07:35

What a wonderfully wicked life you lead.

1:07:361:07:39

You boys, you boys.

1:07:391:07:41

-<

-Where is he?

1:07:471:07:51

-<

-Mr Wilde is not...

1:07:481:07:51

-<

-Where is he?!

1:07:491:07:51

-<

-Get out of my way!

1:07:511:07:53

-<

-I'm sorry, sir!

1:07:531:07:55

Excuse me, there's a gentleman...

1:07:561:07:59

You!

1:07:591:08:00

Listen to me.

1:08:001:08:02

You're a bugger!

1:08:031:08:06

I don't allow people to talk like that in my house, Lord Queensberry.

1:08:061:08:11

Or anywhere else.

1:08:111:08:13

I suppose you've come to apologise for the lies you're spreading?

1:08:131:08:21

Leave my son alone, you sodomite!

1:08:171:08:21

The Marquess seems obsessed with people's sexual activities.

1:08:211:08:25

It must be to do with his new wife seeking divorce for non-consummation.

1:08:251:08:30

Swear you'll have nothing to do with Bosie or I'll go to Scotland Yard!

1:08:301:08:37

You can go to the devil, you and...

1:08:341:08:37

Who is this gargoyle?

1:08:371:08:39

You're a queer! And a sham! A poseur!

1:08:391:08:43

If I catch you together, I'll give you such a thrashing.

1:08:431:08:47

I believe you once invented some rules for boxing.

1:08:471:08:51

I've no idea what they are. But my rule is to shoot on sight.

1:08:511:08:55

Now kindly leave my house.

1:08:551:08:58

You can shut up!

1:08:561:08:58

I shall leave when I'm damn well ready!

1:08:581:09:00

It's a scandal what you've been doing.

1:09:041:09:07

All the scandal is your own.

1:09:071:09:10

Your treatment of your wives, your neglect of your children

1:09:101:09:15

and, above all, the depraved insistence

1:09:151:09:18

that they be as tyrannical and unloving as you are yourself.

1:09:181:09:23

Arthur, this is the Marquess of Queensberry,

1:09:231:09:26

the most infamous brute and the least tender father in London.

1:09:261:09:31

Never let him into my house again.

1:09:311:09:34

Very well, then.

1:09:351:09:37

Let's get out of this...stew.

1:09:391:09:42

-Out the way, man!

-I'm sorry, sir!

1:10:251:10:27

I'm very sorry, but it's just not possible!

1:10:271:10:31

What are you doing? Rotten vegetables?

1:10:361:10:39

I want you to give that to Oscar Wilde.

1:10:391:10:42

Thank you, sir. We'll take care of it.

1:10:421:10:45

I wanted to give it to him personally, as a bouquet.

1:10:451:10:49

I dare say you did, sir, but you're not going to.

1:10:491:10:53

He's a cur.

1:10:541:10:56

A sod.

1:10:551:10:57

And a bugger!

1:10:571:10:59

You remember that!

1:10:591:11:02

I always told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn't I?

1:11:021:11:07

Well, it is Ernest after all. I mean, it naturally is Ernest.

1:11:071:11:11

Yes, I remember now that the General was called Ernest.

1:11:111:11:16

I knew I had some particular reason for disliking the name.

1:11:161:11:20

Ernest, my own Ernest!

1:11:201:11:22

I knew from the first you could have had no other name.

1:11:221:11:27

Gwendolen, it's a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly

1:11:271:11:31

that all his life he's been speaking nothing but the truth.

1:11:311:11:36

Can you forgive me?

1:11:361:11:40

I can, for I feel you are sure to change.

1:11:371:11:40

My own one!

1:11:401:11:42

-Laetitia!

-Frederick! At last!

1:11:421:11:44

-Cecily! At last!

-Gwendolen! At last!

1:11:441:11:49

My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.

1:11:501:11:55

On the contrary, Aunt Augusta,

1:11:551:11:57

I've now realised for the first time in my life

1:11:571:12:01

the vital importance of being earnest.

1:12:011:12:04

Allen, you were wonderful! Thank you all so much.

1:12:301:12:34

They're calling for you, Oscar!

1:12:341:12:37

No, no, George.

1:12:351:12:37

RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE

1:12:371:12:39

Er, Mr Wilde, sir?

1:13:231:13:26

Yes?

1:13:241:13:26

For you.

1:13:271:13:29

Thank you.

1:13:291:13:31

"For Oscar Wilde...

1:13:411:13:45

"Ponce," is it? "Ponce and somdomite."

1:13:451:13:48

"Posing as a sodomite." He's illiterate, ignorant.

1:13:481:13:52

It's hideous.

1:13:521:13:55

We've got him now, Robbie.

1:13:531:13:55

He wrote it, the porter read it. It's public libel.

1:13:551:13:59

We can take him to court.

1:13:591:14:02

For God's sake...

1:14:001:14:02

Oscar!

1:14:021:14:04

You mustn't do that. That would be...

1:14:041:14:07

We've been waiting for a chance

1:14:071:14:09

to get him in the dock and show what a swine he is.

1:14:091:14:12

To me, my mother, my brothers...

1:14:121:14:14

He'll plead justification. He'll call the renters as witnesses.

1:14:141:14:19

Of course he won't. He doesn't know what a renter is.

1:14:191:14:23

No? I hear he's had detectives following you since Egypt.

1:14:221:14:27

He can't prove anything. We can.

1:14:271:14:29

We can prove he's the vilest man that walked the Earth.

1:14:291:14:33

Tear the card up, Oscar.

1:14:331:14:38

Are you mad? That's our main evidence.

1:14:351:14:38

If Oscar went abroad while your father calms down...

1:14:381:14:41

Whose side are you on?

1:14:411:14:43

If this goes to court, Oscar will have to tell lies, perjure himself!

1:14:431:14:48

Everything will come out. Whatever the result, it'll be disaster!

1:14:481:14:53

-You're an enemy, then.

-Bosie...

1:14:531:14:56

Robbie, you're a dear boy, but I can't think of leaving the country.

1:14:561:15:02

I can't even leave this hotel.

1:15:021:15:04

I can't pay the bill.

1:15:041:15:07

We can raise you money! What about your royalties?

1:15:071:15:10

We need all the money we can get for the libel case.

1:15:101:15:14

My father can't go on making all our lives a torment like this.

1:15:141:15:19

Oscar, I beg you.

1:15:181:15:22

I'm not going to run away, Robbie.

1:15:221:15:24

That would the English thing to do.

1:15:241:15:27

If you take Queensberry to court, all hell will break loose.

1:15:271:15:31

All my life I've fought against the English vice - hypocrisy.

1:15:311:15:35

Not that that's the point.

1:15:351:15:37

Queensberry's already caused the death of one of his sons.

1:15:371:15:42

If I don't try and stop him now, who will he harm next?

1:15:421:15:46

'He's avoiding me, Robbie.'

1:15:471:15:49

I know what everyone's saying but it's not true. It's not true.

1:15:491:15:55

Is it?

1:15:571:15:58

Of course not.

1:15:581:16:01

Oh, it's so shaming.

1:16:031:16:06

I find it easier to stand.

1:16:061:16:09

I'm going to Torquay for a month to get my back right.

1:16:091:16:13

Oscar's been so busy.

1:16:121:16:14

I'm sure he'll be terribly upset

1:16:141:16:17

when he knows... you've been in so much pain.

1:16:171:16:21

The truth is, I need some money.

1:16:231:16:25

I'm not even sure where he is to ask for it.

1:16:251:16:28

It does seem rather hard when he's having such success.

1:16:281:16:32

I think I can find him.

1:16:321:16:34

I keep hearing stories about Bosie and his father.

1:16:361:16:40

I'm sure you don't want to.

1:16:401:16:44

Oh, yes. I do.

1:16:411:16:44

Men think women should be protected by not knowing.

1:16:461:16:50

Not knowing only makes it worse.

1:16:501:16:53

Is there going to be trouble?

1:16:561:16:59

I hope not.

1:17:001:17:02

I believe a prosecution

1:17:031:17:05

would succeed provided there is no truth

1:17:051:17:09

in the accusation made by Lord Queensberry.

1:17:091:17:12

Of course there's no truth in it.

1:17:121:17:16

Then so long as I have Mr Wilde's assurance that that is the case...

1:17:161:17:21

There is no truth in the accusation whatever.

1:17:291:17:33

Good.

1:17:341:17:36

Excellent.

1:17:371:17:38

The defence, I understand, will be led by Mr Edward Carson.

1:17:381:17:42

Old Ned? I was at college with him in Dublin.

1:17:421:17:46

No doubt he will perform his task

1:17:461:17:48

with all the added bitterness of an old friend.

1:17:481:17:51

LAUGHTER

1:17:511:17:52

In writing a book, I'm concerned with literature,

1:17:521:17:56

with art. I do not aim at doing good or evil,

1:17:561:17:59

but at making a thing that will have some quality of beauty.

1:17:591:18:04

Here is one of your pieces.

1:18:031:18:06

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people

1:18:061:18:09

"to account for the curious attractiveness of others."

1:18:091:18:13

LAUGHTER

1:18:131:18:15

GAVEL BANGS

1:18:151:18:17

Do you think that true?

1:18:171:18:19

I rarely think what I write is true.

1:18:191:18:21

"If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out."

1:18:211:18:27

That is a pleasing paradox,

1:18:271:18:29

but I do not set very high store by it as an axiom.

1:18:291:18:33

Is it good for the young?

1:18:331:18:35

Anything is good that stimulates thought at whatever age.

1:18:351:18:39

Whether moral or immoral?

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There's no morality or immorality in thought.

1:18:401:18:43

What about this, then? "Pleasure is the only thing one should live for."

1:18:431:18:49

I think that the realisation of oneself is the prime aim of life

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and that to realise through pleasure is finer than to do so through pain.

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I am on this point on the side of the ancients, the Greeks.

1:18:581:19:02

LAUGHTER

1:19:021:19:04

'How long have you known Alfred Taylor?'

1:19:041:19:07

'About two years, two and a half years.'

1:19:071:19:11

Is he an intimate friend?

1:19:111:19:15

I wouldn't call him that, no.

1:19:121:19:15

But you went often to his rooms?

1:19:151:19:19

About seven or eight times perhaps.

1:19:161:19:19

Did you know Mr Taylor kept ladies' dresses in his rooms?

1:19:191:19:23

No.

1:19:241:19:26

Did you know he was notorious for introducing young men to older men?

1:19:261:19:31

I never heard it in my life.

1:19:311:19:34

Has he introduced young men to you?

1:19:341:19:36

Yes.

1:19:361:19:38

How many young men?

1:19:391:19:43

About five.

1:19:411:19:43

What were their occupations?

1:19:431:19:46

I really don't know.

1:19:441:19:46

Oh, well, let me tell you.

1:19:461:19:48

You met a man called Charles Parker there, I believe.

1:19:481:19:53

Yes.

1:19:541:19:55

Charles Parker is... a gentleman's valet.

1:19:551:19:58

You met his brother there, too, I believe.

1:19:581:20:02

Yes.

1:20:021:20:03

He is a groom.

1:20:031:20:05

I didn't care tuppence what they were. I liked them.

1:20:071:20:11

I have a passion to civilise the community.

1:20:111:20:14

I recognise no social distinctions.

1:20:141:20:17

To me, youth, the mere fact of youth,

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is so wonderful that I would sooner talk to a young man for half an hour

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than, well, than be cross-examined in court.

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So even a young boy you might pick up in the street

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would be a pleasing companion?

1:20:321:20:35

I would talk to him with pleasure. If he would talk to me.

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Take him to your rooms?

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Yes.

1:20:401:20:41

And commit improprieties with him?!

1:20:411:20:47

SPECTATORS MURMUR

1:20:441:20:47

Certainly not.

1:20:451:20:47

Certainly not.

1:20:471:20:49

You withdraw your libel action

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against Lord Queensberry, well and good.

1:20:511:20:55

But there remains the question of the evidence.

1:20:551:20:59

Lord Queensberry's evidence against you.

1:20:591:21:02

My information is that the Crown wishes to pursue the matter.

1:21:021:21:08

In which case, an arrest and a charge of gross indecency

1:21:081:21:13

are certain to follow.

1:21:131:21:15

The maximum sentence is two years' hard labour.

1:21:151:21:19

Nine months is reckoned to be more than a man of our background

1:21:191:21:24

can survive.

1:21:241:21:27

Um, the children, er, the boys...

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I-I must go and see them.

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You have no time for that.

1:21:321:21:34

But my wife... I-I... I have to say goodbye to my wife.

1:21:341:21:38

Unless you wish to subject her to the shame of seeing you arrested

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and taken away in front of the gutter press,

1:21:431:21:46

Mr Wilde, you must go.

1:21:461:21:48

Oscar, you must take that train.

1:21:541:21:57

Practically everyone you know will be on it.

1:21:581:22:02

At least 600 single gentlemen all in abject terror of arrest.

1:22:021:22:06

No.

1:22:061:22:08

Where your life leads you, you must go.

1:22:101:22:14

'I defy society.'

1:22:141:22:16

Tell him to go.

1:22:161:22:18

He must save himself.

1:22:201:22:22

Tell him to go abroad.

1:22:251:22:27

I've been telling him all day.

1:22:271:22:29

He won't budge.

1:22:301:22:32

People have never understood the courage he needed to be himself.

1:22:381:22:43

You must go abroad, too.

1:22:431:22:45

We must all go abroad.

1:22:451:22:47

At once.

1:22:471:22:49

Oscar says, will you tell the boys goodbye?

1:22:491:22:52

I'm to go through his papers.

1:22:551:22:57

I was always too silent.

1:23:011:23:03

If I'd known...

1:23:031:23:05

Bosie...

1:23:081:23:10

If I'd only spoken up.

1:23:101:23:12

It wouldn't have made any difference.

1:23:121:23:15

Perhaps not. But at least I wouldn't blame myself now.

1:23:171:23:22

-LADY WILDE:

-'You're an Irish gentleman. Of course you must stay.'

1:23:431:23:48

Your father fought when he was libelled. I fought.

1:23:481:23:53

Yes, I know.

1:23:511:23:53

You will fight these English Philistines and you'll win.

1:23:531:23:57

'And even if you lose, if you go to prison, you'll always be my son.'

1:23:571:24:03

'Well, of course, it's too late to change that now.'

1:24:031:24:07

If you go, Oscar, I'll never speak to you again.

1:24:071:24:13

No-one will ever speak to me again whatever I do.

1:24:131:24:17

Of course I'm your son, Madre.

1:24:181:24:21

Which is why, even if I lose, the English will never forget me.

1:24:211:24:26

Get out of my way! Get out, get out!

1:24:581:25:01

Take me away as fast as you can!

1:25:011:25:04

Lady Wilde! Have you anything to say about your son's disgrace?!

1:25:111:25:17

'Have you anything to say?'

1:25:171:25:19

KNOCK AT DOOR

1:25:221:25:24

-KNOCK

-Come in.

1:25:261:25:28

Mr Wilde, I believe?

1:25:341:25:36

Yes, yes.

1:25:371:25:38

We have a warrant for your arrest on a charge of committing indecent acts.

1:25:381:25:44

-LADY MOUNT-TEMPLE:

-'I recommend Switzerland as soon as possible.'

1:25:481:25:53

You will have to change your name, of course.

1:25:531:25:57

Oh, I can't...

1:25:571:25:59

The name of Wilde will be a word of execration for 1,000 years.

1:25:591:26:03

You can't let your boys grow up with people knowing who they are.

1:26:031:26:08

Think of their lives at school.

1:26:081:26:11

Thank you for your advice.

1:26:111:26:13

I'm sorry our friendship has to end like this.

1:26:131:26:16

Oh, you will always be my friend.

1:26:161:26:20

I am still Oscar's wife.

1:26:181:26:20

That must cease forthwith. Forthwith. Do you understand?

1:26:201:26:24

Anybody who has anything to do with Oscar from now on

1:26:241:26:28

will never be received in society again. Ever.

1:26:281:26:32

Oh, God, Ada... What is going to happen to him?

1:26:361:26:40

That's Oscar Wilde's boy.

1:26:481:26:50

You must let me in the witness box. If the jury hear what I say...

1:26:501:26:55

Bosie, as soon as they see you in all your golden youth

1:26:551:26:59

and me in all my corruption...

1:26:591:27:01

You didn't corrupt me. I corrupted you, if anything.

1:27:011:27:05

That's not how it will seem.

1:27:051:27:07

I must have my say! It's outrageous!

1:27:071:27:10

Everyone has said anything that came into his head!

1:27:101:27:14

I'm the person this is about. It's me my father wants to get at,

1:27:141:27:18

not you! It's outrageous that I can't have my say!

1:27:181:27:21

It won't help. It may actually make things worse.

1:27:211:27:25

But my father will win.

1:27:251:27:27

I can't endure my father winning.

1:27:271:27:30

You must go away, dear boy.

1:27:311:27:33

I couldn't bear for them to arrest you.

1:27:331:27:36

I can't bear what they're saying about you in court.

1:27:391:27:43

BELL RINGS

1:27:431:27:44

Jesus Christ!

1:27:441:27:46

Goodbye, Bosie, dear boy.

1:27:491:27:51

Don't let anyone change your feeling for me, change your love.

1:27:511:27:56

Time's up, my Lord.

1:27:571:27:59

Oscar, never! They never will. I won't let them. I won't let them!

1:27:591:28:05

'You've been a great deal in the company of Lord Alfred Douglas.'

1:28:111:28:16

Oh, yes.

1:28:161:28:18

Did he read his poems to you?

1:28:181:28:21

Yes.

1:28:211:28:22

So, you can perhaps understand that some of his verses

1:28:221:28:27

would not be acceptable to a reader with an ordinary, balanced mind?

1:28:271:28:33

I'm not prepared to say.

1:28:331:28:35

It's a question of taste and temperament and individuality.

1:28:351:28:40

I should say that one man's poetry is another man's poison.

1:28:401:28:44

Yes, I daresay.

1:28:441:28:46

But in this poem by Lord Alfred Douglas, "Two Loves",

1:28:471:28:51

um, there is one love, true love,

1:28:511:28:53

which, and I quote,

1:28:531:28:55

"fills the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame"

1:28:551:29:00

and there is another - "I am the love that dare not speak its name."

1:29:001:29:08

Was that poem explained to you?

1:29:101:29:13

I think it's clear.

1:29:131:29:15

There's no question as to what it means?

1:29:151:29:19

Most certainly not.

1:29:171:29:19

So, is it not clear that the love described relates to natural

1:29:191:29:24

and unnatural love?

1:29:241:29:26

No.

1:29:251:29:27

Oh.

1:29:271:29:29

Then what is "the love that dare not speak its name"?

1:29:291:29:34

The love that dare not speak its name,

1:29:461:29:49

in this century...

1:29:491:29:51

..is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man...

1:29:521:29:57

as there was between David and Jonathan,

1:29:571:30:01

such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy

1:30:001:30:05

and such as you may find

1:30:051:30:07

in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare.

1:30:071:30:11

It is in this century misunderstood.

1:30:131:30:16

So much misunderstood that it may be described as

1:30:161:30:19

"the love that dare not speak its name."

1:30:191:30:23

And on account of it, I am placed where I am now.

1:30:221:30:27

It is beautiful.

1:30:271:30:29

It is fine.

1:30:301:30:32

It is the noblest form of affection.

1:30:321:30:35

There is nothing unnatural about it.

1:30:361:30:40

It is intellectual

1:30:401:30:42

and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man

1:30:421:30:47

when the elder has intellect and the younger man...

1:30:471:30:51

has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.

1:30:511:30:57

That it should be so, the world does not understand.

1:30:591:31:03

The world mocks at it...

1:31:031:31:06

and, sometimes, puts one in the pillory for it.

1:31:061:31:10

SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE AMIDST BOOING

1:31:181:31:21

Oscar Wilde,

1:31:261:31:28

the crime of which you have been convicted is so bad

1:31:281:31:32

that I shall pass the severest sentence that the law

1:31:321:31:38

will allow.

1:31:381:31:40

In my judgment, it is totally inadequate for such a case as this.

1:31:401:31:44

It is the worst case I have ever tried.

1:31:441:31:47

The sentence of the court

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is that you be imprisoned

1:31:491:31:53

and held to hard labour...

1:31:531:31:55

..for two years.

1:31:571:31:59

Shame.

1:31:591:32:03

Pervert.

1:32:001:32:03

Pervert!

1:32:061:32:08

Shame on you!

1:32:141:32:16

Disgusting!

1:32:361:32:37

"A slim thing,

1:33:011:33:03

"gold-haired like an angel,

1:33:031:33:05

"stands always at my side.

1:33:051:33:07

"He moves in the gloom like a white flower.

1:33:071:33:11

"I thought but to defend him from his father.

1:33:111:33:14

"I thought of nothing else.

1:33:141:33:17

"Now my life seems to have gone from me.

1:33:311:33:34

"I'm caught in a terrible net.

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"But so long as I think he is thinking of me,

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"my sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies,

1:33:401:33:44

"it is in prison that I shall test the power of love.

1:33:441:33:48

"I shall see if can't make the bitter waters sweet

1:33:481:33:52

"by the intensity of the love I bear you."

1:33:521:33:55

'He asked me not to change. Those were his last words to me.'

1:34:061:34:10

"Don't change".

1:34:101:34:12

Well, things are going to have to change when he comes out.

1:34:121:34:17

He'll have no money at all.

1:34:171:34:19

So you're blaming me too, are you?

1:34:191:34:23

I'm not blaming anyone.

1:34:211:34:23

You're not the only person Oscar cares about!

1:34:231:34:26

You've always hated me. Because Oscar loved and still loves me

1:34:261:34:31

when you were never more than one of his boys.

1:34:311:34:35

I'm suffering just as much as he is, you know.

1:34:421:34:46

My life's ruined, too.

1:34:461:34:48

I'm younger than he is. I've hardly had a life and it's ruined.

1:34:481:34:53

When Oscar gets out, we'll live together properly.

1:34:531:34:57

We'll take a villa somewhere near here.

1:34:571:35:00

Posillipo or Ischia.

1:35:001:35:03

Or Capri.

1:35:011:35:03

I'll take care of him.

1:35:051:35:07

I'll give him everything he wants.

1:35:071:35:10

I love him, Robbie.

1:35:101:35:12

Oscar's mine and I'm going to have him.

1:35:141:35:18

"Years went over and the giant grew very old and very feeble.

1:35:341:35:39

"He couldn't play about any more,

1:35:391:35:41

"so he sat and watched the children at their games

1:35:411:35:45

"and admired his garden.

1:35:451:35:47

"'I have have many beautiful flowers,' he said,

1:35:491:35:53

"'but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.'"

1:35:531:35:57

I'm afraid Cyril has got some idea of why you're here.

1:36:321:36:36

I'm sending them to school in Germany.

1:36:361:36:39

I can't manage them on my own.

1:36:421:36:45

Your back isn't better, then?

1:36:481:36:51

No, not really.

1:36:511:36:53

I may have to have an operation.

1:36:551:36:57

What I've done...

1:36:591:37:01

to you and the boys, I can't...

1:37:011:37:03

I shall never forgive myself.

1:37:041:37:07

If we could choose our natures...

1:37:091:37:12

If we could only choose.

1:37:141:37:16

But it's no use.

1:37:161:37:18

Whatever our natures are, we must fulfil them.

1:37:211:37:25

Or our lives, my life, would have been filled with...dishonesty.

1:37:261:37:31

Even more dishonesty than there actually was.

1:37:341:37:38

I've always loved you, Constance.

1:37:421:37:45

You must believe me.

1:37:451:37:47

I don't see how you can have done. Not truly.

1:37:501:37:53

Not if all the time...

1:37:551:37:57

I didn't know.

1:37:571:37:59

"Know thyself," I used to say.

1:38:011:38:04

I didn't know myself.

1:38:061:38:08

I-I didn't know.

1:38:101:38:12

I suppose you want a divorce?

1:38:141:38:17

You have every reason.

1:38:191:38:21

I've been thinking, when you come out, when they let you out,

1:38:231:38:28

you can go to Switzerland or Italy,

1:38:281:38:30

write another play, get yourself back.

1:38:301:38:34

You can.

1:38:341:38:36

You're so clever. You can.

1:38:371:38:39

Oscar...

1:38:461:38:47

I don't want a divorce.

1:38:491:38:52

Will you ever let me see the children again?

1:38:551:38:59

Of course.

1:39:001:39:01

But there must be one condition.

1:39:071:39:10

Oscar, you must never seen Bosie again.

1:39:131:39:16

If I saw Bosie now, I'd kill him.

1:39:191:39:22

The children love you, Oscar.

1:39:261:39:28

They'll always love you.

1:39:371:39:39

Did anyone tell you?

1:39:471:39:50

They've been performing Salome in Paris.

1:39:491:39:53

"The giant hastened across the grass and came near to the child.

1:39:591:40:04

"When he came quite close, his face grew red with anger

1:40:041:40:08

"and he said, 'Who hath dared to wound thee?'

1:40:081:40:12

"For on the palms of the child's hands

1:40:121:40:15

"were the prints of two nails

1:40:151:40:17

"and the prints of two nails were on his little feet.

1:40:171:40:21

"'Who hath dared to wound thee?' cried the giant.

1:40:341:40:38

"'Tell me that I may take my big sword and slay him.'

1:40:381:40:42

"'Nay,' answered the child, 'for these are the wounds of love.'"

1:40:421:40:47

Bosie thinks I'm jealous.

1:40:541:40:56

It will come as a shock to Bosie

1:40:561:40:58

to realise that even he is unimportant in the scheme of things.

1:40:581:41:03

But no doubt he will be remembered as long as Oscar. Unfortunately.

1:41:031:41:08

I sometimes wonder...

1:41:131:41:15

..if I hadn't, um...

1:41:171:41:19

..pushed him into...

1:41:211:41:23

Don't. Oscar was very lucky to meet you, Robbie.

1:41:231:41:30

Think who else it might have been.

1:41:311:41:33

Oh, I'll have that one.

1:41:331:41:35

Must you go abroad again at once?

1:41:351:41:39

I shouldn't be here now.

1:41:371:41:39

But has he got anywhere to go when he's released?

1:41:411:41:45

It'll have to be in France.

1:41:451:41:47

I'm going to see what I can arrange.

1:41:471:41:50

But here...when he leaves prison?

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Goodbye, Mr Harris. Goodbye, Mr Snow.

1:42:001:42:03

Thank you.

1:42:031:42:05

Oscar.

1:42:081:42:10

My dear Sphinx.

1:42:101:42:12

How marvellous of you to know what hat to wear at seven in the morning

1:42:121:42:17

to meet a friend who's been away.

1:42:171:42:20

No, I'll keep this.

1:42:201:42:21

What is it?

1:42:211:42:27

A letter to Bosie, saying how I love him but cannot see him again.

1:42:231:42:27

I'll ask Robbie to have it copied before I send it.

1:42:271:42:31

I fear Bosie might throw it on the fire.

1:42:311:42:34

I call it De Profundis. It comes from the very depths.

1:42:341:42:38

"I know not whether laws be right or whether laws be wrong.

1:43:091:43:14

"All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong

1:43:141:43:20

"and that each day is like a year,

1:43:201:43:22

"a year whose days are long."

1:43:221:43:25

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves.

1:43:301:43:33

"By each let this be heard.

1:43:331:43:36

"Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word.

1:43:351:43:41

"The coward does it with a kiss,

1:43:411:43:43

"the brave man with a sword."

1:43:431:43:45

"Some kill their love when they are young

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"and some when they are old.

1:43:501:43:53

"Some strangle with the hands of lust, some with the hands of gold."

1:43:531:43:57

"The kindest use a knife

1:43:591:44:01

"because the dead so soon grow cold."

1:44:011:44:04

I'm sure we can find an hotel near here.

1:44:131:44:17

Somewhere where you can work.

1:44:191:44:21

I've decided to see him again.

1:44:281:44:31

Yes.

1:44:311:44:32

I thought you might.

1:44:321:44:34

I've nothing left.

1:44:341:44:36

I've lost my wife, I've lost my children.

1:44:381:44:41

They won't allow me to see them now.

1:44:421:44:45

No-one will ever read my plays or books again.

1:44:451:44:48

Yes, they will.

1:44:481:44:50

Bosie loves me more than he loves anyone else.

1:44:501:44:54

As much as he can love...

1:44:561:44:58

and allow himself to be loved.

1:44:581:45:00

I think we need some more wine.

1:45:021:45:06

I find that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities...

1:45:101:45:15

..can bring about all the effects of drunkenness.

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BELLS RING

1:45:311:45:33

Subito!

1:45:381:45:40

"Life cheats us with shadows.

1:46:031:46:05

"We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us

1:46:051:46:08

"with bitterness and disappointment in its train. And we find ourselves

1:46:081:46:13

"looking with dull heart of stone at the tress of gold-flecked hair

1:46:131:46:18

"that we had once so wildly worshipped

1:46:181:46:20

"and so madly kissed."

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Oscar!

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"In this world there are only two tragedies.

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"One is not getting what one wants.

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"The other...is getting it."

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