The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) - Cigarette Case

[Azlak0507]

I absolutely love this. How can anyone dislike anything about this film/play?!

[uranus2359]

Best cast ever! Gwendolyn and Algernon are exactly how I pictured them in Oscar Wilde's play!! And I love Reese! And Colin Firth...aaahhh...

[gOthiCviOLet1]

If Oscar Wilde was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would not have wanted his plays or/and stories to be cast without Colin Firth.

[erinn1992]

I don't like this version nearly as much as the other (1951 I think?). They take it much to seriously...

[darkblueyank]

Colin Firth looks like he's trying not to laugh in a couple of shots.

[TheTalentedMrArashi]

The line "it is a very ungentlemanly thing to read someone's private ciagarette case" always makes me crack up. Just the way he says it, like everyone has something private written in their cigarette case. Lol, I love this scene.

[teeger66]

I love his explanation i.e. his made-up lies! lol How suave and how cool...Oscar Wilde was a great writer...but Colin Firth has extraordinary talent in delivering these lines.

[gOthiCviOLet1]

@teeger66 Touche! I cannot imagine anyone who could do it better than Colin Firth!

[ThePythonfan]

Does anyone know what's the name of the musci the two of them play near the end.With the piano and the guitar? Thanks!

[Moontheblueneko]

trololo problem?

[AcidMadGirl]

The only gay here is Rupert Everett!!! :D

[reflectingnatureh32]

ohh this is excellent :) oscar wilde is a genius

[dogwiskers]

I'm performing Jack today!

[mathieu7936]

pfff, they forgot the best part of the scene...

-But why does she call herself little Cecily if she is your aunt and lives at Tunbridge Wells? [Reading.] ‘From little Cecily with her fondest love.’

-My dear fellow, what on earth is there in that? Some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall. That is a matter that surely an aunt may be allowed to decide for herself. You seem to think that every aunt should be exactly like your aunt! That is absurd!

[anotheryellowfog]

0:10 Aubrey Beardsley-ish guy on the left :D

[daphs23]

is Colin Firth gay or is it simply a flavour for Oscar Wilde's novellas?

(i.e. The Picture of Dorian Grey)

[kpfell]

@daphs23 Haha! Although he has played homosexual characters onscreen, Colin Firth himself is not gay. He is married and has a couple of biological children.

And, if you've ever seen the ending of the play/film, you know that Jack ends up with a lovely female companion, as well. ;)

[GlitteringCyclone]

@daphs23 Most of Oscar Wilde's male characters are quite androgynous, it's just the way he wrote... The language is really well put together (in the words of the play, 'It has a music of its own. It produces vibrations!) I heard somewhere that the androgyny was one of the reasons for his not getting a Nobel prize for literature.

[brupey]

@daphs23 Wilde wrote one novel... so i don't know what you mean by novellas

[ficko39]

@daphs23 Wilde was possibly homosexual,although many have tried to refute this,because he was married and with two children.Nonetheless,it's widely recognized that he had an affair with a teenage nobleman,and it's also quite obvious from his work that he was,to say the least,interested in close male relationships with a shade of romance (never explicitly gay,though). So,I guess,his sexual orientation is not established with complete certainty,but its probable that he was gay..