Maurice - Deleted Scenes - 6

Extended scene at the end of the film, where Maurice explains his feelings to Clive.

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• maurice
• james
• wilby
• hugh
• grant
• ivory

[billyguns2]

"I was yours 'til death once if you'd have cared to keep me..." Too bad that wasn't left in the final version of the movie.

[poelover37]

This is the best 'kiss off' scene in the history of film. It doesn't have any of the obligatory Hollywood 'bad guy gets hit with shit, kicked in the balls, thrown through a wall,' or whatever stupid breakup revenge crap Hollywood usually does with breakup scenes to make them funny. Merchant/Ivory and EM Forester are geniuses, and Hugh Grant and James Wilby are tremendously underrated actors. I love this film.

[fredocato]

If someday i found someone who loves me "a little bit" the way maurice loved clive, i swear to god ill never let him go

[OutrageousThings]

@newgeorge (Late reply/if you haven't already): Google Edward Carpenter + George Merrill. However, while these two inspired Forster to write Maurice, they were very different characters from Maurice/Alec. Carpenter was a beardy radical and proto-queer theorist (author of 'The Third Sex') who gathered a kind of commune around him in Derbyshire; Merrill was his working-class lover from the Sheffield slums. (Carpenter's own account of Merrill's earlier life is online, and interesting.)

[solidarity2205]

I was yours till death, if you'd cared to keep me once.

But I am someone else's now.

And he is mine in a way that shocks you.

Why don't you stop being shocked?

and attend to your own happiness.

[solidarity2205]

Why was this deleted? This scene is epic.

[skyblazer7]

This is so satisfying to see Maurice spell it all out for Clive.

[MrDohoanggiap1412]

I AM SO ANGRY THAT THESE SCENES GOT CUT!

[jimsed1964]

Maurice is radiant in the last section of this film. He is finally free of all of the restrictions that he grew up with. He really doesn't care what Clive thinks of him anymore. Maurice just needed to close this chapter of his life so that he an Alec can face their future without the ghosts from the past..

[jonflynn1]

Wonderful! James Wilby and Hugh Grant `play their roles magnificiently its such a tragedy it was cut like all the other scenes, the film would have been more dramatic, romantic and decisive.

[floatinroundmytincan]

why does everyone hate clive? I love the way things play out in the end, and I'm not suggesting maurice should've waited his entire life for clive, but I still feel emptiness in my gut whenever I think of clive and the lie he will live for the rest of his life. I guess it bugs me when any closeted gay man is called a coward--especially by people living a century after him, some of whom are straight.