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YOUR FAVORITE SCENE (!!may contain spoilers!!)

posted 18 years ago by ladytron72
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I'm curious so... Which is your favorite scene in the film "Maurice"??

Mine (if I have to choose one) is the one that starts with a bird view of the university with religious choral singing...it leedsus to Maurice's room where he is found sitting on a sofa, Clive at his knees... the are interupted by Chapman and his chaps who "want some tea" who "demand tea!!"...

This scene is simply very emotional, sensitive, sensual and the acting is so deep and intelligent. A cinematographic pearl.

So which is yours?
I'm waiting for you answers!

[–] imatkinson 18 years ago

I have just finished watching it and thought it was fab although slow to start. I have to say the scene which sticks out inmy mind was Scutter coming through the window to Maurice because you are just willing him to do it! Come on!
I think Rupert Graves and James Wilby are more convincing and portray the homo-eroticism more convincingly than Hugh Grant or maybe that's just because I've seen the film after the Bridget Jones films where he is very heterosexual?

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

I guess the thing about this film is that ity manages to portray diffrents aspects of homosexuality...

[–] opdiva 18 years ago

it was the scene where clive and maurice were in the clearing. clive holds out his hand to maurice and pulls him down. maurice is trying to kiss him, but clive resists and maurice says, "why can't you kiss me?"

oh yes....

[–] keyser_soze_wales 18 years ago

The hair-stroking scene is definitely my favourite of the movie too. Every aspect of it is just beautiful-the setting, the music, the atmosphere, the boys

I have to disagree with the poster who said that James Wilby and Rupert Graves managed the homoerotic scenes better than Hugh Grant-the scene above just proves that. I found that scene more erotic than the more sexual scenes James and Rupert had, but I suppose it's down to personal taste. Also, Hugh's character was meant to be sexually reserved so obviously he didn't have the more explicit scenes.

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

exactly!
I guess we agree on this one.

[–] keyser_soze_wales 18 years ago

Definitely

[–] patheticdisaster 18 years ago

"it leedsus to Maurice's room where he is found sitting on a sofa, Clive at his knees... the are interupted by Chapman and his chaps who "want some tea" who "demand tea!!"... "

Yes I really liked it too!
Yesterday night I've seen it on gay.tv and I didn't think it would be so deep...
I love Hugh Grant! His acting was wonderful, and he was so nice... that scene was the sweetest :)

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

yes!
I didn't know either... well I really love him as Chopin in "Impromptu" too...

glad to know I'm not the only one to love this scene specially.

cheers!

[–] chiviscandacegpna 18 years ago

This is an odd one- Where James Wilby(Maurice) is sitting on the bed naked and
Scudder is getting dressed- he hasn't got his pants on yet, and he just turns and hugs Maurice- It's so romantic. You're just like" AWW"

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[–] Angel2121 18 years ago

I just saw this movie for the first time about a couple of weeks ago. My favorite seen, I think, would have to be when Clive is telling Maurice about his rotten vac,. . .and then Maurice hits him over the head and says something like, "Oh, it was rotten, was it?" (paraphrased, of course) with a nice smile on his face, and then he roles Clive up in the rug. I don't know why, but there's something very touching about that scene to me, and it's kind of a fun scene, and I like their blissful smiles. Just a nice moment.

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."---Tolstoy

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

Love this scene too... It's my sister's fav' of the film.

Happy you disovered Maurice. ;-)

[–] frobodo 18 years ago

I've always found that one to be sooo cheesy. XD

But then again I just love the cheesy romantic ending when Maurice finally comes to Alec in the boathouse and he gives him that cheesy romantic kiss. I love it. It's so super romantic and happy. I love a happy ending.

[–] keyser_soze_wales 18 years ago

Aw, it's not cheesy! Well, maybe in a good way. It's sweet

I adore the touchy-feely scenes in Maurice, they're more touching than most others I've seen for some reason...

[–] creativepseudonym 18 years ago

I love the Clive scenes, but my favorite is when Maurice doesn't want Alec to leave his bed in the morning. Or the deleted scene wherein Maurice asks Scudder for his first name in bed, that one's quite cute.

[–] jubinne 18 years ago

Towards the end of the movie, when Hugh's wife asks him to come to bed, he goes to close the windows and for a moment sees Maurice out there, a scene from their past. I always think of this scene as very profound and I think it makes one wonder, if Hugh Grant was thinking if he had made a right decision.

[–] Latinfilms 18 years ago

When Maurice and Alec are in the boathouse and kiss. I think they seriously used tongue. And then there is a close-up of Alec looking hot and flushed. He looked so hot. Now, he is an old prune. Rubert aged horribly. I wish our young looks froze in time.

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

this scene is one of my fav too, it's very faithfull to the novel, actually it is exactly the way the novel ends. The hero is Maurice (it's the novel's title) but the last character depicted is Clive.

The music is wonderfull in that scene too, I guess it helps.

God! this film is a treasure!

[–] keyser_soze_wales 18 years ago

That scene always gets me emotional! And yep, the music is very moving. I think that part of the book is quite tragic as well-that it was the last time Clive would ever speak to Maurice, and that he'd never know what became of him. And then there's the image of Clive growing older at Penge (or Pendersleigh), only having his memories of their time together in "some eternal Cambridge"...

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

"To the end of his life Clive was not sure of the exact moment of departure, and with the approach old age he grew uncertain wether the moment had yet occured. The Blue Room would glimmer, ferns undulate. Out of some eternal Cambridge his friend began beckonning to him, clothed in the sun, and shaking out the scents and sounds of the May Term.
But at the time he was merely offended at a discourtesy, and compared it with similar lapses in the past. He did not realize that this was the end, without twilight or compromise, that he should never cross Maurice's track again, nor speak to those who had seen him. He waited for a little in the alley, then returned to the house, to correct his proofs and to devise some method of concealing the truth from Anne."
E. M. FORSTER, Maurice.

[–] ellen74 18 years ago

I think my favourite scene is when Scudder visits Maurice in London, much to maurice's horror as he believes he is being blackmailed. Maurice is confused about Scudder's motivation and Scudder interprets this as rejection because of his inferior status. This hurts Scudder and leads him to threaten Maurice. It is resolved when they realise the attraction they have for eachother is genuine and reciprocated. I like this scene because it shows how vulnerable they each are.

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[–] keyser_soze_wales 18 years ago

Yeah, that's the passage. I just think it's really sad in a way

[–] ladytron72 18 years ago

very sad but very beautiful.

[–] altyn 18 years ago

This last glimpse of Maurice is the definite killer for me. The perfect way to end the film on Clive's doubts, while Maurice "has stopped being shocked and attends to his own happiness" (to paraphrase from the book).

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[–] Eldancairo 17 years ago

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Jubine>>>Towards the end of the movie, when Hugh's wife asks him to come to bed, he goes to close the windows and for a moment sees Maurice out there, a scene from their past. I always think of this scene as very profound and I think it makes one wonder, if Hugh Grant was thinking if he had made a right decision.
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I think this is exactly what he was thinking. Clive didn't realize what he could have had until Maurice chose another...and was gone.

Clive was in love with Maurice, however, he chose position and reputation in society over, whom I believe, the love of his life. He also had a fear of being arrested. We know Clive was number 1 in Maurice's life, but I also believe Maurice was first in Clive's life, even over Clive's wife. She was merely for appearances and to help convince Clive he could change and convince him he was heterosexual.

But subconsciously he felt Maurice would always be there, perhaps marry a woman, but still there for him only. At the window he watched his beloved exit his life...permanently, leaving him behind to live his false and untrue existence without the one who meant the most to him.

Yes, I believe Clive may have been realizing he made the wrong decision.

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[–] heat22000 18 years ago

Without a doubt it is the crackling kiss-in-the-boathouse at the end. I'm a sucker for class-divide relationships I guess.

[–] killhilvolume2 17 years ago

It is really hard to pick to a favorite.

I love every scene with Maurice and Alec, but the one between them that really gets me is their reunion at the boathouse in the end. My heart just melts and I can't help but smile. I love the look of adoration Maurice gives Alec after the "Now we shan't never be parted. It's finished." line.