An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1969 TV) -- part 2/8

[lisajason111]

omg the phantasmic brooch disappeared so suddenly... 4:55

[changingowl10]

"I like looking at geniuses" (swings head to stare at Jeremy) "and listening to beautiful people speak."

LOL!! Don't we all? She chose her "beautiful people" well. :DD

[Hartbeat4us]

Margaret Leighton is brilliant ...exceptional actress!

[ningcute2004]

Oh Jeremy...you're such a darling!

[SlakeDragon]

Jeremy Brett looks so hot! xD Seriously, and really skinny too. xDDDDD

[Lytton333]

I love the way the ladies waft their gloved-arms gracefully through the air in a kind of seductively poetic semaphore..

[syrka2000]

Rrrrrrremarkable Jeremy Brett :D

[spinozareader]

So "Bernie Madoff".....in it's sentiments/revelations.

[syrka2000]

Margaret Leighton is great. I did'nt know her. I'm delighted... And Jeremy Brett is always charming! ^_^

[frostylunetta]

I truly adore Margaret Leighton's acting and classy charm.

[081035jb]

@frostylunetta

any possibility of getting the whole production , with this cast of course.?

joe

[asmodeus585]

This is incredible! And Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Chevley is genuinely gorgeous :) What is quite strange, that I especially love Brett's enviable enunciation and pronuntiation. Generally their RP sounds a bit different than the current bbc speech. It is so sad, that nowadays the English changed their pronunciation so far. When you listen to a journalist from 80's he actually speaks in some another language than you can hear now on the London's streets ;)

[zimnaya]

Asmodeus, there is hardly a person in England today who can speak the language correctly. Even the BBC appears to take a perverse delight in hiring childrens' programmes presenters that speak, what is termed, 'Thames Estuarian' - a hideous thing with an extraordinarily restricted vocabulary.

[asmodeus585]

I know it and I find it very sad. What's even worse, when you try to speak corectly people regard you as a freak or unfairly call 'posh'. 'Posh' is someone who thinks is better than others, not someone trying to speak with the correct pronunciation.

[zimnaya]

They have taken Shakespeare off the school curriculum, lowered examination standards, and in general adopted the policy of pandering to 'the lowest common denominator'. The students to whom I teach English in Hong Kong often return from visits to London horrified at the way people speak. In many cases they are unable to understand the language 'as it is spoken'. It is little surprise that Chinese children are taking first place in English at schools like Harrow and Winchester...

[soccom8341576]

I come from HK.

I can say I enjoyed Shakespeare and got a lot of personal growth out of Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and Macbeth, but I didn't do very well on it, because I didn't like the way it was accessed.

It's well worth learning about, but to learn it for the sole purpose of assessment and forgetting it afterwards really would not have pleased Shakespeare at all.

[zimnaya]

I agree with you entirely. In a strange sort of way, one has to fall in love with Shakespeare, just be seduced and lifted by the absolute beauty (and truth) of what he wrote. I think that, in general, Shakespeare is taught badly, and perhaps he should not be 'taught' at all just with the aim of passing an examination, but rather taught as part of an enrichment of life. He seems to have done that for you, as he has for me.

[soccom8341576]

Yes, and my continued interest is pursuing Wilde's works now.

The internet is truly a marvelous playground for us to watch, play and learn.

[soccom8341576]

What do you mean by speaking a language correctly?

I do try to communicate in a varied and accurate manner, but I don't see what correctness would mean.

[sarraska]

Hehe, i've found a funny mistake^^ Look, at 05:01 Mrs. Cheveley still has her lovely brooch - and at 05:02... where is it?! :))))

But the whole thing is absolutely charming. Thank you very much! I'm in love with Jeremy again :)

[31FILMFAN]

Mrs. Cheveley looses the brooch, it is found later by Mabel Chiltern (Susan Hampshire) see part 3. Margaret Leighton is fantastic in this film so cold but equally vulnerable.

[GouAlex]

I wonder if they did that intentionally...

[1854wssh]

Thank you so much! One can never get enough of the lovely Jeremy Brett!

[LottLottie]

Thanks very much for posting this film.