I have to write an essay based on the book?Could watching the movie would help me to understand the book better because the book goes allover the place! So far a dislike the book!
@DiabeticL In the film, there are only four "Brodie" girls. Though the book has a few more. I think Mary's character is a combination of the novel verson of Mary and another girl who I can't remember. Plot wise there are a couiple of differences to the book, the biggest one being that Sandy openly confronts Miss Brodie however I would still say it is a very food adaptation.
I don't try to be opposite to you, but the word 'hot' sounds more suitable for actors and actresses these days.
I think 'sophisticated' is a more suitable word for classics like her. To me, 'sophisticated' sounds closer to 'beautiful', while 'hot' sounds rather like 'pretty'.
Well I own it and I currently reside in the US though I'm from the UK, bought my copy in the US off Barnes & Noble. Too easy. Brilliant play, brilliant film. Love Maggie. She earned the Oscar.
There are no words to fully describe how utterly amazing this film is - this role was written for Maggie Smith. In the harrowing final scene, she and Pamela Franklin are so brilliant - I cry every time I watch it. This film was one of the reasons I had Edinburgh University as my first choice
I have only just recently discovered this magnificent actor, as he was not from my generation...and while white men are hardly ever my preference, I have to say that this man was one of the most charming men to have walked this planet...it is quite a shame his life ended so shortly. :(
I adore this movie. I may be young (I wasn't alive when this movie came out - nowhere near it really) but I think this is one of the best movies ever.
I thought the brodie girls were classic! And Maggie Smith is amazing!
"The Marcia Blaine School. Much improved owing to the prime of one of its teachers who engages with her pupils and endeavors to avoid petrification." (Recent OFSTED inspection)
I love this movie. I've watched it at various stages of my life and so picked up different humour and subtleties each time. The actress (Anne Way) who played Miss Gaunt used to frighten the life out of me as a kid!
I love the movie. Maggie Smith is such a good actress. She has that Scottish accent. :) By the way the bike she uses to go t os chool in the opening is so nice. :) Great movie.
In the book, the affair between Teddy and Miss Brodie never happened. They liked each other, but resisted temptation. Teddy was a lot more nonchalant in the book. If I remember correctly, he didn't have an affair with Sandy either.
He does have an affair with Sandy in the book, even though she grows up to be a nun. The whole story is told through the firls eyes so the relationship between Teddy Lloyd and Miss Brodie is never absolutely stated. Plus in the book, Miss Brodie never finds out who betrays her, which is well done though the final confrontatio between Miss Brodie and Sandy is my favourite scene.
Another difference in the book is that there were other schools in Edinburgh ("crank" schools, according to Miss Brodie) where her unconventional ways would have fit right in. In the film, they made it seem like she would become destitute upon being fired from Blaine. But in the book you could easily assume that she would soon be accepted by one of the "crank" schools. Also, Miss McKye was not middle-aged, as in the film, but actually a year or two younger than Miss Brodie. Assassin!
And of course, you know that it wasn't Mary MacGregor but a new girl, a girl outside the "set", whom Miss Brodie encouraged to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The story of Mary in the book is actually a little sadder than in the film. And there were more "Brodie" girls in the book, six rather than the film's four, with the traits of Rose and Eunice being combined with Jenny and Monica, repsectively.
The book is excellent and yes the story of Mary MacGrergor is more tragic- their even nastier to her and the other characters have more of a background. Considering the book is quite short it is wonderful. The film I believe is closer to the stage play. Both are wonderful in their own right.
In my own case, it's rather disordered that the song "Jean" (by Oliver) was the first thing I knew. It was a fairly big hit on Top 40 radio and was a favorite of mine when it was current in 1969. It was probably ten years later when I finally saw the film, then a few years after that when I picked up the book. You've probably seen "Julia", haven't you? That's another good film (released 1977) with strong female leads, Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda, and also a strong political element.
You're right. I went back to the book and re-read the last chapters. Indeed, it was toward the end of the girls' time at school that the Teddy/Sandy affair occurred. I never saw the play, but the film is great and the book is actually quite a howl!
@missbabyice - Alice, your comment of today was removed, but I think it involved how old Sandy was when she had the affair with Teddy (in the film, of course). In both the film and book (as I remember them), it seemed to be during Sandy's last year at Marcia Blaine.
@webothlovesoup Are you talking seriously?Because i'm mexican,and our dvd region code is 4,what the heck?I know i can tacht it on internet,but being maggie one of my favourite actresses,i'd like to have her best perfomance on my dvd collection.
@gomamon100 I don't know if it is available in Region 4. I'm afraid thats something you'll need to look up yourself. I know it's not available in Region 0 or 2 but in the american region 2. As this is set in Britain, filmed in Britain but is unavailable in Britain I doubt it will be available elsewhere but I could be wrong.
i really wish theyd release this in england! ive got it on dvd bt its region 1 and it only plays on 1 dvd player in my house which means i dnt gt 2 watch it that much:( xxx
Professor McGongall, let's mimic a babbling, bumbling baboon.
BellaElsman 2 weeks ago
There really is only one Maggie Smith!
ejayinc 3 weeks ago
I have to write an essay based on the book?Could watching the movie would help me to understand the book better because the book goes allover the place! So far a dislike the book!
cat02345 3 months ago
when he pushes her through the door...lol..one of the best movie moments ever!!!
TunaEars 3 months ago
Sandy, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Eunice, Rose.
Weren't there six girls?? I only saw at least...4.
DiabeticL 4 months ago
@DiabeticL In the film, there are only four "Brodie" girls. Though the book has a few more. I think Mary's character is a combination of the novel verson of Mary and another girl who I can't remember. Plot wise there are a couiple of differences to the book, the biggest one being that Sandy openly confronts Miss Brodie however I would still say it is a very food adaptation.
webothlovesoup 4 months ago
i think its in marchmont cool2bceltic.......come into my arms ...bonnie jean...i love that song ..
sommy38 5 months ago
i am dedicated to you in my prime...
sommy38 5 months ago
ISN´T SHE PROFESSOR MCGONAGAL? GOD..SHE LOOKS SO HOT !!!!
renatoavatarian 5 months ago
Hey, professor McGonagall!! You're great!! :))
husseinahmed95 6 months ago
Trailers from back in the day are so hilarious. They give away literally the entire plot, there's no need to see the film now!
amyja89 8 months ago 2
love this film! love 1.09/ 1.10...great acting. that line about an impressionable age always brings a lump to my throat.
TunaEars 8 months ago
As a young actress, she is perfection to be striven for.
ClarinetMadeofSteele 10 months ago 2
Maggie Smith is superb, would like to watch the Geraldine McEwan's TV version 1978 too (the authour Muriel Spark's personal fav)
wincipoet 10 months ago
Maggie Smith is the absolute spit of my mother...honest. It's like watching my mother star in this film,..it's spooky.
martindonaldson 11 months ago
Looks like one person flunked Transfiguration class.
SaffaWaffa 11 months ago 4
@SaffaWaffa You just made me laugh out loud.
ClarinetMadeofSteele 10 months ago
Maggie Smith = extraordinary hotness
jaykerouac2 1 year ago
@jaykerouac2
I don't try to be opposite to you, but the word 'hot' sounds more suitable for actors and actresses these days.
I think 'sophisticated' is a more suitable word for classics like her. To me, 'sophisticated' sounds closer to 'beautiful', while 'hot' sounds rather like 'pretty'.
hugh0221 10 months ago
my grannie was taught by the teacher in real life, miss kay!
tadge72 1 year ago
Watch out Miss Brodie! that girl Sandy is trouble!
emmers57 1 year ago
Is that Professor Mcgonagall? My school just did this play! lol
brs320 1 year ago
I adore this movie.
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life"
One of the best!!!
Eedgit 1 year ago
Well I own it and I currently reside in the US though I'm from the UK, bought my copy in the US off Barnes & Noble. Too easy. Brilliant play, brilliant film. Love Maggie. She earned the Oscar.
Kiyraesyn 1 year ago
I'm playing Mr. Perry, the journalist, any tips?
happyjack585 1 year ago
There are no words to fully describe how utterly amazing this film is - this role was written for Maggie Smith. In the harrowing final scene, she and Pamela Franklin are so brilliant - I cry every time I watch it. This film was one of the reasons I had Edinburgh University as my first choice
sarahjane4eva 1 year ago
Well... looking for stuff with Maggie Smith, who in my opinion is simply fantastic.
and.. in fact i've never heard about this film :P
quite good, ya?
im gonna give a try, very good comments about in these posts.. and.. being with Maggie must be something great!
lol.. just remembering.. if u havent seen 'Murder by Death', u must see it
the scene when she wants to go away and find help because she was stang by a scorpion.. lol .. precious!
SDocklands 1 year ago
Neame made a masterpiece. Scary masterpiece, but still.
JoanWasQuizzical1 1 year ago
Sir Robert Stephens...what a talent!! :D
I have only just recently discovered this magnificent actor, as he was not from my generation...and while white men are hardly ever my preference, I have to say that this man was one of the most charming men to have walked this planet...it is quite a shame his life ended so shortly. :(
Shipuh 1 year ago
I see the window of the living room of my final year digs at Napier University in this clip.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic I love the shots of Edinburgh in this film. The city was well used.
webothlovesoup 1 year ago
this is sometimnes on film 4
clazza01 1 year ago
It is ALL about Miss Jean Brodie
GayGeisha 1 year ago
Maggie Smith is one of the best Best Actress winners ever1
oscarlover100 1 year ago
so good- classic camp fun! and Hudon from Upstairs Downstairs!!!!!
scarletbword 2 years ago
A Dame Maggie Smith masterpiece.
LOLFanme 2 years ago 3
this woman is great!
6Nora6 2 years ago
Coward..A Dirty word? Oh Come On! Sandy..Mr.Lloyd..Coward is not a dirty word.
143AC 2 years ago
Miss Jean Brodie was the first cougar.
ebf1957 2 years ago 2
I adore this movie. I may be young (I wasn't alive when this movie came out - nowhere near it really) but I think this is one of the best movies ever.
I thought the brodie girls were classic! And Maggie Smith is amazing!
witchywoman2008 2 years ago 3
I agree! :)
qdfjbmaria 2 years ago
@witchywoman2008
I wasn't alive when it came it out either and it is THE BEST!!!
Maggie is the best actress ever. No one can ever do the part better that her!!!
Cascas645 2 years ago
If Miss Jean Brodie wasn't making serious "Mistakes," without a doubt
there would be no need whatsoever for her to Cry
Out "Assassin!!!!!!!!!!!"
boomer4927 2 years ago
Being of the male gender, I have noooo comment.
boomer4927 2 years ago
Saw the stage show of this at the Edinburgh Festival recently. Fantastic!
poppylongstockings 2 years ago
This role was made for Maggie Smith, she is just awesome
sarahjane4eva 2 years ago 3
maggie smith is beautiful!
garden0fgraves 2 years ago 2
I loved the book, and I love Maggie Smith...why haven't I seen the film? Totally going and hiring this tomorrow!
alicetheactress 2 years ago
I am so Netflixing this
thatdrattedcat 2 years ago
is it just me or could she be Anne Hathaway's twin sister??
GhostOfABlackRose 2 years ago
I'm Only 14 but i played miss mackay in this play this yeah. it was really good!
CoolKiddox3 3 years ago
It's so hard not imagining Maggie smith as old in this picture.
pentime6 3 years ago 2
0:55 ... didn't know Bjork was in this film. (haha).
sabrinerweener 3 years ago
"The Marcia Blaine School. Much improved owing to the prime of one of its teachers who engages with her pupils and endeavors to avoid petrification." (Recent OFSTED inspection)
Phili4p 3 years ago 8
I love this movie. I've watched it at various stages of my life and so picked up different humour and subtleties each time. The actress (Anne Way) who played Miss Gaunt used to frighten the life out of me as a kid!
Phili4p 3 years ago 11
I need subtitles...='(...
Briserin 3 years ago
I love the movie. Maggie Smith is such a good actress. She has that Scottish accent. :) By the way the bike she uses to go t os chool in the opening is so nice. :) Great movie.
PeaceFrida 3 years ago 2
This is a long trailer
But its a good movie.
StrawberryRibonMagic 3 years ago
Teddy Lloyd is creepy! Ah, the olden day trailers, which put all the exciting bits of the film in regardless of spoiling!
missbabyice 3 years ago 4
In the book, the affair between Teddy and Miss Brodie never happened. They liked each other, but resisted temptation. Teddy was a lot more nonchalant in the book. If I remember correctly, he didn't have an affair with Sandy either.
57highland 3 years ago
He does have an affair with Sandy in the book, even though she grows up to be a nun. The whole story is told through the firls eyes so the relationship between Teddy Lloyd and Miss Brodie is never absolutely stated. Plus in the book, Miss Brodie never finds out who betrays her, which is well done though the final confrontatio between Miss Brodie and Sandy is my favourite scene.
webothlovesoup 3 years ago
Another difference in the book is that there were other schools in Edinburgh ("crank" schools, according to Miss Brodie) where her unconventional ways would have fit right in. In the film, they made it seem like she would become destitute upon being fired from Blaine. But in the book you could easily assume that she would soon be accepted by one of the "crank" schools. Also, Miss McKye was not middle-aged, as in the film, but actually a year or two younger than Miss Brodie. Assassin!
57highland 3 years ago
And of course, you know that it wasn't Mary MacGregor but a new girl, a girl outside the "set", whom Miss Brodie encouraged to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The story of Mary in the book is actually a little sadder than in the film. And there were more "Brodie" girls in the book, six rather than the film's four, with the traits of Rose and Eunice being combined with Jenny and Monica, repsectively.
57highland 3 years ago
The book is excellent and yes the story of Mary MacGrergor is more tragic- their even nastier to her and the other characters have more of a background. Considering the book is quite short it is wonderful. The film I believe is closer to the stage play. Both are wonderful in their own right.
webothlovesoup 3 years ago
In my own case, it's rather disordered that the song "Jean" (by Oliver) was the first thing I knew. It was a fairly big hit on Top 40 radio and was a favorite of mine when it was current in 1969. It was probably ten years later when I finally saw the film, then a few years after that when I picked up the book. You've probably seen "Julia", haven't you? That's another good film (released 1977) with strong female leads, Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda, and also a strong political element.
57highland 3 years ago
He had an affair with Sandy but not when she was 15 as the play and film shows. They have one later when she is 18.
I like the book but I think I prefer the play and film
missbabyice 3 years ago
You're right. I went back to the book and re-read the last chapters. Indeed, it was toward the end of the girls' time at school that the Teddy/Sandy affair occurred. I never saw the play, but the film is great and the book is actually quite a howl!
57highland 3 years ago
@missbabyice - Alice, your comment of today was removed, but I think it involved how old Sandy was when she had the affair with Teddy (in the film, of course). In both the film and book (as I remember them), it seemed to be during Sandy's last year at Marcia Blaine.
57highland 1 year ago
Comment removed
missbabyice 1 year ago
The DVD is only on Region One, which is annoying and quite pricey as well.
webothlovesoup 3 years ago
@webothlovesoup Are you talking seriously?Because i'm mexican,and our dvd region code is 4,what the heck?I know i can tacht it on internet,but being maggie one of my favourite actresses,i'd like to have her best perfomance on my dvd collection.
gomamon100 1 year ago
@gomamon100 I've only seen it on Region 1.
webothlovesoup 1 year ago
@webothlovesoup Ok,but it doesn't mean it is available just in region 1,does it?
gomamon100 1 year ago
@gomamon100 I don't know if it is available in Region 4. I'm afraid thats something you'll need to look up yourself. I know it's not available in Region 0 or 2 but in the american region 2. As this is set in Britain, filmed in Britain but is unavailable in Britain I doubt it will be available elsewhere but I could be wrong.
webothlovesoup 1 year ago
@webothlovesoup It's ok,thanks for tell me about it.
gomamon100 1 year ago
I watched it too for the first time and it was absolutely amazing. I am going to have to buy it!!
acechadwick 3 years ago 2
It was on TV yesterday!
missbabyice 3 years ago
I can't belive how young Maggie Smith looks in this!
Sibzlipz 3 years ago
i really wish theyd release this in england! ive got it on dvd bt its region 1 and it only plays on 1 dvd player in my house which means i dnt gt 2 watch it that much:( xxx
christinedaae87 3 years ago
It's most certainly not an exagerration or hype to call Maggie Smith extraordinary.
Cool2BCeltic 3 years ago
This movie owns so hard
nonent 3 years ago
i have to see that movie the full movie
GeoffreyRushLover 3 years ago
Yes, you should.
drval01 3 years ago
That's so great! I love Maggie Smith, she's such a great actress :)
kawaadshe 3 years ago
great stuff. she so deserved that oscar! i also love old trailers which actually spoil the film!
scarletbword 4 years ago 3
Also great to see clips of Sir Robert Stephens - not enough of him around in my opinion.
Vivaldia 4 years ago
Ms Jean Brody speaks just like my scottish teacher,that lass gave me hell !!
God bless her soul
I love that woman !
:)
iconiaam 4 years ago 2
Thank you very much for posting this, it is wonderful!
KattyScarlett 4 years ago 4