An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1969 TV) -- part 3/8

[HanshDunbdgf]

A couple meet online using this mworld5.info

[changingowl10]

He is so dead, when the scandal comes out. :)

[Lytton333]

@postmoderna7 Indeed .. she is captivating, and he is the captured capturer.

[Lytton333]

Brett AND Hampshire.. now which one should I fall in love with?

Errmm..

[silverbud]

Funny assumption of the English nobility in the era of colonialism that politics could be honourable. Gertrud's education has been surreal indead.

[beaugar22]

I think sometimes we, as Wilde admirers, read too much into his paradoxes and rhetorical tomfoolery. In most cases, as with Lord Goring, Algernon, and Dorian Gray, the monologue is intended for sheer humor - to parody English society and mock its lack of morals. Lord Goring says: "The best society is oneself." A clear paradox, but a true reflection of aristocratic conceit.

[beaugar22]

@matttheshark Viscount Goring is only a courtesy title, as the gentleman's father is both Earl of Caversham and Viscount Goring. Goring jr. Won't become an actual viscount until his father dies. Then he becomes Lord Caversham and HIS eldest son can be called Lord Goring.

[Sadatjabeen]

There is wisdom in most of Lord Goring's seemingly superflous witticisms!

8:05: No man should have a secret from his own wife; she invariably finds it out!

9:17: I prefer a gentalmanly fool anyday. There's far more to be said of stupidity than people imagine...

I'm still trying to figure out the following:

8:33: Life is never fair; And perhaps for most of us it is just as well that it is not!

Love Lord Goring and Jeremy Brett!

[presidentOrangutan]

He may be referring to how we need a certain amount of misfortune to keep ourselves occupied. Too docile a life would be a rather boring proposition!

[LabLE4]

I'm not sure but i thought it's related to what sir Robert said.. means that if life was fair, those who did wrong (as sir Robert) will get away with it. But "Life is never fair; And perhaps for most of us it is just as well that it is not!"

[thesanantoniokid]

@LabLE4 and Sadatjabeen - pretty sure what he's implying is that if we all got what we deserved, most of us wouldn't get anything good, ie everyone's done *something* that they deserve to be punished for. You cynic, Oscar.

[McCoyFan]

@Sadatjabeen I know, I find myself amused everytime he speaks.

[nokomarie1963]

Margaret Leighton is so wonderfully venomous in this.

[matttheshark]

"Jeremy Brett ... Viscount Goring"

Is Goring a Viscount? I only remember him being referred to as Lord Goring in the play.

[jimmbo13]

A viscount is a Lord...take Lord Palmerston for example

[jocelynanne1567]

thank god for this video or i would fail english

[poliador]

A very well written and witty play, charming in it's depiction of late victorian London high society! It is surely the best filmed version, the actors are the best.

[renethel]

i love this play!