1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,080 He's coming! He's coming! 3 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,960 All right, now. Let's give a good Colorado welcome here! 4 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,120 - Hello, sir. You're most welcome. - Thank you, thank you. 5 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,200 All right, everybody, listen up. 6 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:54,400 I want to introduce you to Oscar Wilde. 7 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,860 Welcome to the Matchless Silver Mine. 8 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,160 Today, we opened up a new seam. 9 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,340 We're gonna name it after you. 10 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:05,840 How very kind. 11 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,200 I look forward to collecting the royalties. 12 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,200 Now, why don't you follow me over here. 13 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,000 Great lecture you gave last night. We're honored to have you visit us. 14 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,120 If you'd just like to step in here. There ya go, sir. 15 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:43,820 I thought I was descending into hell... 16 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,760 but with these angel faces to greet me, it must be paradise. 17 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,080 Is this the way to my personal seam? 18 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,100 Of course, I should have preferred gold... purple and gold. 19 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,520 But we live in a Silver Age, alas. 20 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,440 So much that is exquisitely beautiful is wrought from suffering, from pain... 21 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,520 from toil... broken bones and blistered skin. 22 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,120 Benevenuto Cellini understood silver. 23 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,800 He took the metal that you mine so nobly down here... 24 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,980 and transformed it into works of art for popes and princes. 25 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,280 Cellini... is he a wop? 26 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,920 The Renaissance man, in every sense. 27 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,680 The greatest silversmith the world has ever seen... 28 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,360 but a genius in life as well as art. 29 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,640 He experimented with every vice known to man. 30 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,560 - He committed murder. - He killed a man? 31 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:30,080 More than one. 32 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,120 Thank you. 33 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,120 I'd like to meet Cellini. Why didn't you bring him with you? 34 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,880 I'm afraid he's dead. 35 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,640 Who shot him? 36 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,400 Is Miss Lloyd connected to Lloyd's Bank? 37 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,320 A pity. 38 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,380 But she's comfortable, Ada. 39 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,000 A thousand a year. 40 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,120 Then I congratulate you, Lady Wilde. 41 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,640 Now that Oscar's been to America and sown his Wildean oats... 42 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,400 it's time he settled down. 43 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,240 - But weren't they very rough? - No, charming. Well, charming to me. 44 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,400 With each other, it's true they could be a little brusque. 45 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,840 They hanged two men in the theater one night before I gave a lecture. 46 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,240 I felt like the sorbet after a side of beef. 47 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,860 I know your friend is famous, Ada... notorious, at least... 48 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,480 but I don't understand for what. 49 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,400 For being himself, Lady Mount-Temple. 50 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,760 Don't Americans talk the most wonderful slang, though? 51 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,980 Well, I did hear one lady say... 52 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,480 "After the heel-lick I shifted my day goods." 53 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,000 What on earth did she mean? 54 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,280 She meant that she changed her clothes after a dance. 55 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,200 Connie, my love, Lady Mount-Temple is so anxious to meet you. 56 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,040 I knew your father, Miss Lloyd. 57 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,140 She's delightful, and not stupid. Really, not stupid at all. 58 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,960 Is that quite a reason to marry her? 59 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,960 Well, I must marry someone. 60 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,520 And my mother has our future planned out in every detail: 61 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,000 I'm to go into Parliament, we're to have a nice house... 62 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,480 and live a proper, settled life... literature, lectures... 63 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,740 the House of Commons, receptions for the world in general at 5:00. 64 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:04,040 How dreary. 65 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,680 Your attendance will not be required at those. 66 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,000 But your sphinxiness will be essential for our intimate little dinners at 8:00. 67 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,760 It will be a grand life, a charming life. 68 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,280 I see Constance will be busy preparing the dinners... 69 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,720 but what will she contribute to the literature and lectures? 70 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:20,600 She'll correct the proofs of my articles. 71 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,560 Oh, what a little sunbeam. 72 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,300 I do love her, Ada. She's... 73 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,440 Silent. 74 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,680 - I find her very silent. - But so sympathetic. 75 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,560 And I do need an audience. 76 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:21,320 I don't see how you can possibly take it all in, reading at that speed. 77 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,080 Try me. 78 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,120 I know better. 79 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:32,240 Where are we dining tonight? 80 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,880 At the Leversons. 81 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,900 Then you must show your true colors as a propagandist for dress reform. 82 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,440 The cinnamon cashmere trousers, I think. 83 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,040 And the cape with the ends that turn up into sleeves. 84 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,200 I don't think I can wear those trousers anymore. 85 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,880 A new Wilde for the world! 86 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,800 Another genius for Ireland! 87 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,640 We shall have to buy you a whole new wardrobe. 88 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,860 Ernest proposed to me under that statue. 89 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,900 Really, the things that go on in front of works of art are quite appalling. 90 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,680 The police should interfere. 91 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,820 We were made not to marry, whereas you and Constance are so happy. 92 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,240 Everyone says so. 93 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,300 It's perfectly monstrous how people say things behind one's back... 94 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:30,880 that are absolutely true. 95 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,120 So your audience has proved as responsive as you hoped? 96 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,200 Receptive, yes. Responsive? 97 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,040 I always wonder what she's thinking. 98 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,320 I expect it's about the baby. 99 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,880 Yes. Well, Constance is such a natural mother. 100 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,640 She's invited Robbie into the nest while his parents are abroad. 101 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,720 Robbie is Canadian. You can tell by his youth. 102 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,560 Have you been brought to England to mature, Mr. Ross? 103 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,040 Well, that was the idea, but it doesn't seem to be working. 104 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,880 I've lived here since I was three, and you see the pitiful result. 105 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,520 Robbie comes from a long line of imperial governors. 106 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,920 His grandfather was Prime Minister of Upper Canada. 107 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,360 Or was it Lower Canada? 108 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,840 The British will take their class system with them wherever they go. 109 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,720 They apply it even to continents. 110 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:17,960 Are you planning to govern a continent? 111 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,280 No. I don't even plan to govern myself. 112 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,720 Very nicely turned leg. 113 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,040 Hello, sir. 114 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,120 Shall I give you these, my love? I'll see if I can find a cab. 115 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,480 Coming through there, gents. Mind your backs. 116 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,640 Can you move out of the way, please? 117 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:03,760 Looking for someone? 118 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,680 Cab, cab! 119 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,680 Bedtime. 120 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,120 Just one more cigarette. 121 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,920 No. No, thanks, Robbie. 122 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,120 Don't stay up too late, Robbie. 123 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,800 Good night. 124 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,920 Good night, Oscar. 125 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:48,400 Good night, Robbie. 126 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,200 He's asleep. 127 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,160 He's so beautiful. 128 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:16,960 Almost as beautiful as his mother. 129 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,760 I don't know what I'd do without you, my constant Constance. 130 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,720 Good night, my dear. 131 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:47,640 Good night. 132 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,120 A university education is an admirable thing, of course... 133 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,520 so long as you remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught... 134 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,280 least of all at Cambridge. 135 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,200 But you told me... 136 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,080 in ancient Greece the older men taught the younger. 137 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,720 They drew them out. 138 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,480 I look forward to being drawn out immensely. 139 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,440 Yes, well, Greek love... platonic love... 140 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,520 is the highest form of affection known to man, of course. 141 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,280 You also told me... 142 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,080 that the Greeks put statues of Apollo in the bride's chamber... 143 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,600 so she would have beautiful sons. 144 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,600 But I can't help noticing that here the statue's in your bedroom. 145 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:51,240 Constance prefers a bath. 146 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,000 She was so beautiful when I married her, Robbie. 147 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,560 Slim, white as a lily... 148 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:15,280 such dancing eyes. 149 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,420 I've never seen such love in a pair of eyes. 150 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,120 She was... 151 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,680 Nothing should reveal the body... 152 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,040 but the body. 153 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:58,920 Didn't you say? 154 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,360 There has to be a first time for everything, Oscar... 155 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,000 even for you. 156 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,280 Hush. There's a good little fellow. 157 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,960 Come on. Come on, now. There. 158 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,600 Now, come on, Cyril. It's time for your bath. 159 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,640 Be a good boy. Don't make such a fuss! 160 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,520 You've got to get undressed. Come on. 161 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,080 I know you hate it. 162 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,040 Boys, Mrs. Wilde, they never do what they're told. 163 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,320 Oh, we're going to have a girl next time. 164 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,840 - Aren't we, Oscar? - I must go. 165 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,640 Good night, my dear. Now you behave, Cyril. 166 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,360 Remember, a gentleman should take a bath at least once a year. 167 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:05,940 - Good night. - Come on, Cyril. 168 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,440 It's not that bad. 169 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,760 I shan't be back till late. I'm dining with the Asquiths. 170 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:12,200 Hush now. 171 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,400 Come on, now. 172 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,120 Do you love me? 173 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,200 I feel... 174 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,540 like a city that's been... 175 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,920 under siege for 20 years. 176 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,000 Suddenly the gates are thrown open... 177 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,600 and the citizens come pouring out... 178 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,680 to breathe the air and walk the fields... 179 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,400 and pluck the wildflowers. 180 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,400 I feel... 181 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:20,920 relieved. 182 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,080 You don't worry about Constance? 183 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,420 "Every afternoon, on their way home from school... 184 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,960 the children used to play in the garden of the selfish giant." 185 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,220 Is that the garden where we play? 186 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,920 No, this is much larger and lovelier than that, with soft green grass. 187 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:41,360 There's grass where we go. 188 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,920 Yes, but are there 12 peach trees that burst into delicate blossoms... 189 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,980 of pink and pearl every springtime and bear rich fruit in the autumn? 190 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,400 Are there, Mama? 191 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,600 I don't think there are, Cyril, no. 192 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,200 Would you hand me a matchstick, and I'll put this hussar's head back on? 193 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,840 Thank you. 194 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,080 "The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly... 195 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,480 that the children used to stop their games to listen. 196 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,960 'How happy we are here,' they said to each other." 197 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,520 I don't know how they could be happy if there was a giant. 198 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,560 There wasn't, you see, not yet. He was away, visiting a friend. 199 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:17,880 You're always away. 200 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,880 Yes, but I only go for a night or two at a time, and I always come back. 201 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,360 Whereas this giant, the one whose garden it was... 202 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,240 he'd been away for seven years, staying with an ogre in Cornwall. 203 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,880 "And after seven years, when he'd said all he had to say... 204 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,520 because his conversation was very limited... 205 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,200 he decided to return home to his own castle. 206 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:41,000 When he found the children playing in his garden, he was very angry. 207 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,720 'What are you doing here?' he cried. 208 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,080 And all the children ran away. 209 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,240 'My own garden... 210 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:51,080 is my own garden!' said the giant. 211 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,320 'And I won't allow anyone to play in it except myself.' 212 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,880 So he built a high wall all around... 213 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,080 put up a large notice board on which was written, in capital letters: 214 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,280 'Trespassers will be prosecuted."' 215 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,560 Arthur, you're trespassing. Cyril will now eat you. 216 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,840 It's Mr. Ross, sir, with Mr. Gray. 217 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,600 Heavens, I must fly. 218 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,440 The horses of Apollo are pawing impatiently at the gates. 219 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,000 I beg your pardon? 220 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:17,640 Papa must go. 221 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,560 You will come back and finish the story? 222 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,720 Of course I will. 223 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,560 Come on, Cyril. It's almost teatime. 224 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,240 I really don't know why people bother painting portraits anymore. 225 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,120 You can get a much better likeness with a photograph. 226 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,640 A photograph's just one moment in time... 227 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,080 one gesture, one turn of the head. 228 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,360 Yes, portraits are not likenesses, Mr. Gray. 229 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,440 Painters show the soul of the subject, the essence. 230 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,800 The essence of the sitter's vanity, you mean. 231 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,320 Well... 232 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,760 this is a portrait of Lady Battersby as a young woman. 233 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,320 She's over there, as a matter of fact. 234 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,200 I must go and console her. 235 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:08,840 How nice to see you. 236 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,660 Poor thing. 237 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:13,320 I expect in her heart... 238 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,660 she thinks she still looks like this. 239 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,960 If we could look young and innocent forever... 240 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,640 Do you think we'd want to? 241 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,860 If our souls were ugly, yes. 242 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,880 Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you the truth. 243 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,120 Have we had enough of this? Shall we go and have dinner somewhere? 244 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,720 Dorian Gray is the most wonderful book I've ever read. 245 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,160 And the end, when the servants break in... 246 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,280 and they find him wizened, old and dead... 247 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,160 and the picture young again... 248 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,200 I fainted. 249 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,520 My family say it's dull and wicked. 250 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,920 Dull? 251 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,480 It's sublime. 252 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,360 It's about the masks we wear as faces... 253 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,040 and the faces we wear as masks. 254 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,080 That my son should have written a work of such... 255 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,280 People say it's full of dangerous paradoxes. 256 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,580 Hardly anyone will speak to us anymore. 257 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,280 We're ceasing to be respectable. 258 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,400 Artists care nothing about respectability. 259 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,800 It's only jealousy. 260 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,280 It's the spite of the untalented for the men of genius. 261 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,120 Where is Oscar? 262 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,240 He's in the Lake District, writing a play. 263 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,880 - A drama? - A comedy. 264 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,440 Robbie Ross has gone to keep him company. 265 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,000 I do like Robbie. 266 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,000 And they both love you. 267 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,480 Oh, it'll be a great success. 268 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,440 Oscar's made for the stage. 269 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,840 - Author! Author! - Author! 270 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,120 Oscar, please! 271 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,720 - Magnificent! - Well done, everybody. 272 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,640 Ladies and gentlemen, I have enjoyed this evening immensely. 273 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,080 The actors have given us a charming rendering of a delightful play... 274 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,400 and your appreciation has been most intelligent. 275 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,560 I congratulate you on the great success of your performance... 276 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,820 which persuades me that you think almost as highly of this play... 277 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,680 as I do myself. 278 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,720 Absolutely splendid, Oscar. An absolute triumph! 279 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,160 - Thank you so much. Thank you. - Well done. 280 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,040 How sweet of you to say so. 281 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,480 It went so well, Oscar. 282 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,800 Even better than I'd... 283 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,360 They loved it. They absolutely loved it. 284 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,720 And I, dear boy, love you. 285 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,360 Congratulations, Oscar. 286 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,240 Thank you. 287 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,000 It's good to see you. 288 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,240 Hello. 289 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,840 Mr. Wilde. Wonderful, really wonderful. 290 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,800 - Oscar. - Sphinx! 291 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,360 You really must be careful. You're in grave danger of becoming rich. 292 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,640 - It was wonderful. I knew it would be. - Thank you, Robbie. 293 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,200 Everyone's dying to know who the real Lady Windermere is. 294 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,960 The real Lady Windermere is every woman in this room, and most of the men. 295 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,400 - Oscar! - Lionel! 296 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,620 It's a wonderful play. 297 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,480 My cousin Lord Alfred Douglas is here. 298 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,200 He would like very much to congratulate you. 299 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,000 - Wonderful. - Oscar, this is Bosie Douglas. 300 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,140 We met last year. Lionel brought me to tea at Tite Street. 301 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,000 How could I possibly forget? 302 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,320 I love your play. 303 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,420 The audience didn't know whether you meant your jokes or not. 304 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,240 You shocked them... 305 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,920 especially with your speech. 306 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,240 But the more frivolous you seem, the more serious you are, aren't you? 307 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,540 - I love that. - Thank you. 308 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,840 I always say, the young are the only critics... 309 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,920 with enough experience to judge my work. 310 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,480 - Splendid, Oscar. - We need shocking. 311 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,320 People are so banal. And you use your wit like a foil. 312 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,160 You cut through all those starched shirt fronts. 313 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,360 You draw blood. It's magnificent. 314 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,440 I wish you'd draw some blood down in Oxford... 315 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,000 though you'd need a miracle. 316 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,400 All the dons at my college have dust in their veins. 317 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,080 At which college do you educate the fellows? 318 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,680 Magdalen. 319 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,360 My own college. 320 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,920 I shall claim the privilege of a graduate and take tutorials with you. 321 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,440 Come soon, then. They're threatening to send me down. 322 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,560 How could they be so cruel to one so beautiful? 323 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,220 Dons... they're so middle class. 324 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,840 Oscar, you've shocked the whole of London, smoking on stage like that. 325 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,980 Excellent. Then we shall run for a year. 326 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,360 Oscar, you must say something to Marion Terry. 327 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,960 She was good, wasn't she? 328 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,000 So good, I think she wrote most of the lines herself. 329 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:33,560 - Excuse me, Lord Alfred. - Bosie, please. 330 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,000 - You must be so thrilled, Oscar. - I know. 331 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,040 Isn't it humiliating? 332 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,140 " 'My own garden is my own garden, ' said the giant. 333 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,520 So he built a high wall all round it... 334 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,480 and put up a notice board: 335 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,760 'Trespassers will be prosecuted.' 336 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,020 He was a very selfish giant. 337 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,160 The poor children had now nowhere to play. 338 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,000 They tried to play on the road... 339 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,880 but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it. 340 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,640 They used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over... 341 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,400 and talk about the beautiful garden inside. 342 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,560 'How happy we were there, ' they said to each other." 343 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,000 I hope he was a very beautiful boy. 344 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,320 Well, pretty, you know, in a street-Arab sort of way. 345 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000 There's no point being blackmailed by an ugly one. 346 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,840 What's tiresome is he's threatened to show my letters to my father. 347 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,080 Who will show them to all his friends for the excellence of their style. 348 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,080 You don't know him. He's a brute. 349 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,800 Really. He carries a whip wherever he goes. 350 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,200 He used to beat my mother. 351 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,240 He beat my brothers. He thrashed me from the age... 352 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,440 My dear boy. 353 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,560 Of course, he's practically illiterate. 354 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,880 He probably won't understand the letters anyway. 355 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,520 By an unforgivable oversight, I've never been blackmailed myself... 356 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,000 but my friends assure me that a hundred pounds will usually suffice. 357 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,440 Really? 358 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,680 God, I... You promise? 359 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,280 Leave it to Lewis... George Lewis... my solicitor. 360 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,640 He knows what he's doing. He acts for the Prince of Wales. 361 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,900 Leave me not to pine 362 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,880 Alone and desolate 363 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:48,080 No fate seem fair as mine 364 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,240 No happiness 365 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,040 So great 366 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,880 Isn't he killing, Mr. Wilde? 367 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,640 - And nature day by day - He's perfect. 368 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,680 He's perfect in every way. 369 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,520 In accents clear 370 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,080 This joyous roundelay 371 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,320 He loves me 372 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,520 He is here 373 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,160 He loves me 374 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,840 He is here 375 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,700 That was lovely. Well done, Bosie. 376 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,320 Yes, absolutely enchanting. 377 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,880 More tea, anyone? 378 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,980 I don't want to sit here. I want to sit there. 379 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,000 You heard what Lord Alfred said. 380 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,060 I want everyone to look at us. 381 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,840 I want everyone to say, "Look, there's Oscar Wilde with his boy." 382 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,200 So, what shall we let people see us eating? 383 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,580 Fois gras and lobster and champagne. 384 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,240 For two. We do everything together. 385 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,920 Very good, Mr. Wilde. 386 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,920 I think he enjoyed thrashing me. 387 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,760 All my family are mad. 388 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,680 My uncle slit his throat last year in a railway hotel. 389 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,080 Which station? 390 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,960 Euston. 391 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,120 All life's really serious journeys involve a railway terminus. 392 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,720 And now I must go to the station myself. 393 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,360 Sarah Bernhardt thinks she knows better than I do how to play Salome. 394 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,440 Stay. 395 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,840 Please stay. 396 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,320 At least till this evening. 397 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,240 Sarah is divine, as you are. 398 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,600 She will be wonderful at the play's climax when Salome kisses the lips... 399 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,080 of the severed head of John the Baptist. 400 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,480 "Ah, thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan." 401 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,360 Jokanaan is an old Hebrew name for John. 402 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,720 "Well, I will kiss it now. 403 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,480 I will bite it with my teeth as one bites a ripe fruit. 404 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,840 Yes, I will kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan. 405 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,840 Thy body is white like the snows that lie on the mountains... 406 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,560 like the snows that lie on the mountains of Judea... 407 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,440 and come down into the valleys. 408 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,780 The roses in the garden of the queen of Arabia... 409 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,040 are not so white as thy body." 410 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,160 I'm not good enough for him anymore. 411 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,780 I'm just the son of a carpenter, while Bosie... 412 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,640 Oscar's only ever been smitten before. 413 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,840 He was smitten with me. He was smitten with you. 414 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,920 I wasn't smitten. 415 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,360 I loved him. 416 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,800 Well, now he's fallen in love. 417 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,120 I'm halfway to hellfire. I'm not joking. 418 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,040 Someone else was a carpenter's son. 419 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,920 I've given in and become a Catholic. 420 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,200 I find confession... 421 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,760 wonderfully consoling. 422 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,360 I can't go to confession... 423 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,520 when I want to kill Bosie... 424 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,320 or myself. 425 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,840 - Oscar's furious. - He has no right to be. 426 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,520 He knew perfectly well the Lord Chamberlain would never allow... 427 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,400 a play with biblical characters. 428 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,000 Oscar doesn't think there should be censorship of plays at all. 429 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,040 Of course there must be censorship. 430 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,360 Or people would say what they meant, and then where should we be? 431 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,880 - When is he coming to join us? - He's not. 432 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000 He must stay and look after Lord Alfred. 433 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,200 Those Douglases are always ill, when they're not demented. 434 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,480 One of them roasted a kitchen boy on a spit. 435 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,880 And Bosie's father, Lord Queensberry... 436 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,360 he's a dreadful man, Constance... 437 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,920 doesn't believe in God or marriage. 438 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,400 A marquis should set a proper example... 439 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,500 or what are the upper classes for? 440 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,320 I tell you... 441 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,960 I wouldn't want a daughter of mine to marry a Douglas. 442 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,760 I haven't got a daughter. 443 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,080 Plenty of time still, my dear. 444 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,040 I see. 445 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,000 It's my fault. 446 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,080 After Vyvyan was born, all I could think of was the children. 447 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,040 So that's why Oscar spends so much time with his men friends. 448 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,640 Oscar needs disciples. 449 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,860 Lord Alfred's a poet. A very fine poet, Oscar says. 450 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,560 He's studying classics. Oscar and he talk about Plato. 451 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,560 There's nothing wrong. 452 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,440 Really, there isn't. 453 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,680 It's not whether there is anything wrong. 454 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,480 It's whether or not there appears to be. 455 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,400 That's all people care about. 456 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,160 The empire was not built by men like Bosie Douglas. 457 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,600 "Then the spring came... 458 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,800 only in the garden of the selfish giant it was still winter. 459 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,800 The birds did not care to sing in it, as there were no children. 460 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,280 And the trees forgot to blossom. 461 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,380 The snow covered up the grass with her great white cloak... 462 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,080 and the frost painted all the trees silver." 463 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,160 Let's go out. 464 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,600 If you like. 465 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,680 The thing about renters is you don't have to consider their feelings. 466 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,900 But if someone is willing to give one pleasure, one should show gratitude. 467 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,960 No. Money, that's all they want. 468 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,220 What's wonderful about going to Taylor's is no one pretends. 469 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,080 You just do it and be done with it. 470 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,400 I do love you, Oscar. 471 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,080 But variety is the spice of life. 472 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,760 You can watch me, if you like. 473 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,320 You must attempt to keep a grasp upon your sobriety. 474 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,320 That is disgusting. We'll have less of that. 475 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,660 - Good evening. - Lord Alfred. 476 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,360 Alfred Taylor, this is Oscar. 477 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,080 Delighted to make your acquaintance, Oscar. 478 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,960 Charles Parker. I remember you. 479 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:16,360 Hello, Oscar. 480 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,280 Charming to see you again. 481 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,080 - Do you smoke? - I do everything. 482 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,280 - Yeah, everything that pays. - Expertly, I might add. 483 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,960 Mr. Wilde, some wine. 484 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,880 Thank you. 485 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,040 - It's a nice case. - I want you to keep it. 486 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,920 Thank you. 487 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,120 So, this is a den of vice. I should call it more of a garden. 488 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,380 Such pretty flowers, Mr. Taylor. 489 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,880 How wise of you to keep the curtains closed. 490 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,760 They would never grow in the common light of day. 491 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,640 - Who are you calling common? - Certainly not you, dear boy. 492 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,840 You seem to be a flower of the rarest hue. 493 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,080 Bosie never told me that you were a botanist, Mr. Taylor... 494 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,180 that you roam the earth, climbing the highest peaks of the Himalayas... 495 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,380 and plunging into the darkest forests... 496 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,360 of Borneo to return triumphant... 497 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,200 to this delightful conservatory in the shadow of Westminster Abbey... 498 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,200 to exhibit your specimens. 499 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,000 The boys are all Londoners, actually. 500 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,640 Impossible. I see Londoners every day... 501 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,080 but never such exotic blooms as these. 502 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,220 Does he always talk like this? 503 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,240 Not when he's in bed. 504 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,600 I am discreet. 505 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,440 Bosie is far too grand for that. He wants everyone to know. 506 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,280 - You must understand... - I must be with young people, Robbie. 507 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,880 They're so frank and free. 508 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,760 They make me feel young myself. 509 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,100 That's all very well, but what would you say... 510 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,920 if someone wanted to go to bed with your son? 511 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,400 Cyril's eight. 512 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,760 What will you say when he's 18? 513 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,400 Nothing. He must do as his nature dictates... 514 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,040 as I only wish I had done. 515 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,600 "'I do believe the spring has come at last,' said the giant. 516 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,440 He jumped out of bed, and looked out of the window." 517 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,840 - What did he see? - You tell me. 518 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,440 No, you tell it. 519 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,440 All right. "He saw the most wonderful sight. 520 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,480 Through a little hole in the wall... 521 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,960 the children had crept back into the garden and were sitting... 522 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,840 on the branches of the trees. 523 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,060 And every tree that he could see, there was a little child. 524 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,920 The trees were so glad that they..." 525 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,680 They covered themselves with blossoms! 526 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,080 Blossoms! 527 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,680 "And were waving their arms gently above the children's heads. 528 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,320 And the birds were twittering and singing above them with delight. 529 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,160 And the flowers were looking up through the grass and laughing. 530 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,200 Oscar, it's time the boys changed, or we'll miss the train. 531 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,120 Come on, boys. 532 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,420 Papa, can't we stay? 533 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,040 Papa's got to work. He's got to finish his play. 534 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:15,680 Yes, poor dear Papa. 535 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,880 Poor Papa. 536 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,040 Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Papa. 537 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,480 Where is Oscar? We haven't seen him at all. 538 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,360 Where do you think he is? He's working. He is a writer, after all. 539 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,080 I hear your father's threatening to shoot Lord Roseberry. 540 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,760 Really? He usually prefers the horsewhip. 541 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,960 Says he's been buggering your brother. 542 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,800 Well, Roseberry is Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs... 543 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,320 and Francis is his private secretary. 544 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,800 Actually, Francis is about to get engaged. 545 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,080 What's your father talking about, then? 546 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,300 He's obsessed with sex. 547 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,200 He thinks Oscar's buggering me... 548 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,960 as though I'd allow anyone to do that. 549 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,760 I'm sick of the country. 550 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,040 Let's get back to London. 551 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,600 What's the point of us living together if you're always working? 552 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,120 - I have responsibilities... a family. - God, not that again! 553 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,560 I ask my friends over from Oxford, and you just disappear. 554 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,680 I'd be better off staying at my mother's. 555 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,920 - At least she's there. - You asked me to take this house... 556 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,520 Now I'm bored with it. 557 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,080 - And with you. - I can't give it up. 558 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,440 It's paid for in advance. Until I finish my new... 559 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,320 Bosie, dear... 560 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,620 you have beauty, you have breeding... 561 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,200 and, most glorious of all, you have youth. 562 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,760 But you are very fantastical if you think that pleasures... 563 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,320 don't have to be earned and paid for. 564 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,120 Whenever I want to do anything, you say you can't afford it... 565 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,480 but you give all those renters cigarette cases. 566 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,680 But I've lavished presents on you! 567 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,400 Every penny I've earned from my play I have spent on you! 568 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,120 I'm sure you've been counting. 569 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,260 You're so mean and penny-pinching... 570 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,840 and middle-class, all you can think about is your bank balance. 571 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,880 For God's sake! This is intolerable! 572 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:30,320 No gentleman ever has the slightest idea what his bank balance is! 573 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,400 You're absurd! 574 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,720 Telling everyone how they ought to live. 575 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,360 You're so vulgar! 576 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,960 I never want to see you again, ever. 577 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,520 All right, then. If that's what you want, then you go! 578 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,160 Get out! 579 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,160 "But in the farthest corner of the garden... 580 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,400 it was still winter, and in it was standing a little boy. 581 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,600 He was so small, he could not reach up to the branches of the tree. 582 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,480 'Climb up, little boy, ' said the tree. 583 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,840 But the little boy was too tiny." 584 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,520 Egypt is lovely this time of year. 585 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,840 - But you mustn't idle your time away. - Mother. 586 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,720 And I want you to promise me something: 587 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,400 not to write to Oscar Wilde. 588 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,920 I can't do that. I love Oscar. 589 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,080 I love him as a disciple loves his teacher. 590 00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:29,400 But he's not fit to teach anything. He's evil. 591 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,000 Do you really think your own son could love someone evil? 592 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,920 I just wish I could love Oscar as loyally, devotedly... 593 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,680 unselfishly and purely as he loves me. 594 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,840 But I'm not as good as he is. 595 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,440 I probably never will be. 596 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,760 Good-bye, then. 597 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,380 "I adore simple pleasures. 598 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,160 They are the last refuge of the complex. 599 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,640 But, if you wish, let us stay here. 600 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,600 Yes, let us stay here. 601 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,080 The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden." 602 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,960 "It ends with 'Revelations."' 603 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,640 Yes. Mr. Tree, may I? 604 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,240 I'm delighted, of course, that you find my lines funny... 605 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,680 but please don't try and make the audience laugh with them. 606 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,360 They should sound completely spontaneous and natural... 607 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,540 as though people spoke like that all the time. 608 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,880 Yes, of course. 609 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,320 Let's try again. 610 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,400 You should break with Bosie more often, Oscar. 611 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,600 Then we'd have more of your spontaneous and natural plays. 612 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,480 Bosie was envious. That's why he stopped Oscar working. 613 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,780 - That's not true. - Of course it is. 614 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,820 His poems aren't nearly as good as you pretend... 615 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,360 and he knows it. 616 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,280 - He's just a shallow little... - Rivulet. 617 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,080 Bosie's a child, a vulnerable child. He needs love. 618 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:07,880 We all need love. 619 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,020 But which of us can give it? 620 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,680 Wish you a merry Christmas 621 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,200 We wish you a merry Christmas 622 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,200 And a happy New Year 623 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,800 Good tidings we bring 624 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,320 To you and your kin 625 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,760 We wish you a merry Christmas 626 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,120 And a happy New Year 627 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,520 - Cracker time! - It is cracker time. 628 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,320 I won this time. Look. There. One for you, one for me. 629 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,800 "And the giant's heart melted as he looked out. 630 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,920 'How selfish I have been, ' he said. 631 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,000 'Now I know why the spring would not come here. 632 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,600 I will put that little boy on top of the tree... 633 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,800 and I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be... 634 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,440 the children's playground forever and ever. ' 635 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,360 He was really very sorry for what he had done." 636 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,680 This is really nice, even though... 637 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,320 "So he crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly... 638 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,360 and went out into the garden. 639 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,560 that he did not see the giant coming. 640 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,880 And the giant stole up behind him and took him gently by the hand... 641 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,980 and put him up into the tree. 642 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,000 And the tree broke at once into blossom... 643 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,600 and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy... 644 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,680 stretched out his two arms... 645 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,000 and flung them round the giant's neck... 646 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,680 and kissed him." 647 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,520 I don't care what people think. I love you. 648 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,000 It's all that matters to me. It was agony being away from you. 649 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,760 Well, here I am. 650 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,100 Oh, Bosie, you're my catastrophe, my doom. 651 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,960 Everyone says so, even me. 652 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:17,800 I missed you. 653 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,960 I thought you might like something to celebrate your return. 654 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,600 When I saw them in the window, they begged me on their knees... 655 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,240 to make them yours. 656 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,280 I'll put them on now. They're superb. 657 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,300 - I'll sit there. I want a proper table. - Is there something wrong, my lord? 658 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,080 This young fool wants me to sit by the service door. 659 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,080 Oh, God, my father. 660 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,680 I'm extremely sorry. He's new, and he didn't know who you were. 661 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,600 Bosie, you're not going to flee. 662 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,600 Give me the menu. 663 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,280 I'll have the pea soup and then the salmon. 664 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,200 Will you have it with us, Papa? 665 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,160 I'm lunching with Oscar Wilde. Will you join us? 666 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,240 I told you never to see that vile cur again. 667 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,720 He's not vile or a cur. He's utterly delightful. Come and see. 668 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,680 How do you know what he's like when you've never met him? 669 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,000 You're not a man to be influenced by other people's opinions. 670 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,160 Oscar, you've never met my father, have you? 671 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:02,680 Lord Queensberry. 672 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,480 Bosie has told me so much about your exploits on the racetrack. 673 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,680 I've never heard such bad luck as yours with the Grand National. 674 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,960 Bosie tells me that you would have won... 675 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,200 but that your cousin wouldn't let you ride the horse? 676 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,840 Bloody fool said I was too old. 677 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,480 Why, you're never too old. I'd ridden Old Joe on the gallops. 678 00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,720 Came in at 40 to 1. 679 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,120 No horse could ever have carried me over the jumps, I fear. 680 00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:34,560 What are you having? 681 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,280 - Pea soup and salmon. - Then I shall join you. 682 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,600 Spring is the time to lunch on salmon... 683 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:43,040 though I always think it tastes so much nicer if you've caught it yourself. 684 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,760 You fish? 685 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,840 I used to when I lived in Ireland. 686 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,160 My father had the most charming hunting lodge... 687 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,400 on an island in a lake. 688 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,360 - Do you know the west of Ireland? - Not really. 689 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,040 Whereabouts, exactly? 690 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,120 The Christians go around pretending they know who God is and how He works. 691 00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,040 I've got no time for that tomfoolery. 692 00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:22,920 If you don't know something, you should stand up and say so... 693 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,680 not go around pretending you believe in some mumbo jumbo. 694 00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,600 I can believe in anything, provided it's incredible. 695 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,760 That's why I intend to die a Catholic, though I couldn't possibly live as one. 696 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,920 Catholicism is such a romantic religion. It has saints and sinners. 697 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,120 The Church of England only has respectable people... 698 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:42,520 who believe in respectability. 699 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,520 You get to be a bishop not by what you believe but by what you don't. 700 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,480 That's true enough. 701 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,040 It's the only church where the skeptic stands at the altar... 702 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,920 and St. Thomas the Doubter is prince of the apostles. 703 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,400 No, I couldn't possibly die in the Church of England. 704 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,920 Where do you stand on cremation? 705 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,720 I'm not sure I have a position. 706 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,640 I'm for it. 707 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,760 I wrote a poem: 708 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,000 "When I am dead, cremate me." 709 00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,180 That's how it begins. 710 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,260 "When I am dead, cremate me." 711 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,520 What do you think of that for an opening line? 712 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,520 It's challenging. 713 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,780 I'm a challenging sort of man. 714 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,840 That's why people don't like me. 715 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,520 I don't go along with the ordinary ways of thinking. 716 00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,640 Then we are exactly alike. 717 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,840 Another glass of brandy? 718 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,680 I find that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities... 719 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,000 can produce all the effects of drunkenness. 720 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,000 You were there for ages. 721 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,840 You stayed talking till after 4:00. I knew you'd like him. 722 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,640 Well, he's got charm, I admit that. 723 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,120 But that's bad. 724 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:55,400 Men shouldn't be charming. 725 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,800 It's disgusting. I don't think much of his action. 726 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,600 Let's have a look at the bay. 727 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,720 Mind you, Wilde's no fool. 728 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,320 Talks wonderfully, really wonderfully. 729 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,800 But that means nothing when what he says is such rot. 730 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,480 Worse than rot... evil. 731 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,120 Which is why I insist you stop seeing him forthwith. 732 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,040 "Insist"? What's that supposed to mean? 733 00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:20,180 It means I will cut off your allowance if you don't do as I say. 734 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,340 - Trot him up and down a bit! - Look, Father. 735 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,480 You wasted time at Oxford pretending you were going into the Foreign Office. 736 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,720 Thank God you didn't when that Jew queer Roseberry... 737 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,560 can become Foreign Secretary and bugger all the juniors, including your brother. 738 00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:33,080 That's all lies. 739 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,480 You spent your whole time writing obscene poetry. 740 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,000 My poems aren't obscene. 741 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,880 They're in the manner of Wilde. That's filthy enough for me. 742 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,400 Have you ever actually read any of Oscar's poems? 743 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,280 I wouldn't sully my mind with perverted trash like that. 744 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,200 Tell him to pick his feet up! 745 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,360 He's not straight! 746 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,600 Are you calling Oscar a pervert? 747 00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:54,080 Because that's libelous. 748 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,440 I'm not saying he is one. I'm saying he's posing as one... 749 00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,720 which is worse. 750 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,640 His wife's divorcing him. 751 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,400 Did you know that? For sodomy! 752 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,240 - That's completely untrue! - I hope it is. 753 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,640 Because if it were true, I'd shoot him on sight. 754 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,680 You will cease to see Wilde, or I'll cut you off without a penny. 755 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,240 As though I wanted your money... 756 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,720 what little you have left from your tarts. 757 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,420 How dare you speak to your father like that. 758 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,840 What a funny little man you are. 759 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,140 Come back here, you filthy-minded sissy! 760 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:36,800 You're absurd! 761 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,440 And you're nothing but a bum-boy! 762 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,320 You're pathetic! 763 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,960 I'm a bloody good shot. Better than he is. 764 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,100 I'll shoot him through the heart if he threatens me. 765 00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,320 Hadn't you better use a silver bullet then? 766 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,160 Here's one for the Black Douglas. 767 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,340 Bosie, for God's sake! 768 00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,000 And one for his liver! One for his lights! 769 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,720 One for his stinking rotten soul! 770 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,680 I'll save one for myself. 771 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,680 My own father... he wants to kill me. 772 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,480 My life is everything I ever wanted. 773 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,160 I have fame. 774 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,080 I have recognition. 775 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,140 With two plays about to open in London... 776 00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:37,920 I may even have money. 777 00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,160 The world is at my command... 778 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,160 yet I can't command myself. 779 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,320 I can't command my feelings for you. 780 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,740 - Thank you. - Constance, my dear. 781 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,160 How nice. 782 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,760 I brought you your letters. 783 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,900 You haven't been home for so long. 784 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,480 Thank you. 785 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,560 It's so much more convenient for Oscar living in the West End... 786 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:33,780 when he has a play coming on. 787 00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,480 I'm like a northern businessman keeping an eye on his factory. 788 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:39,760 The boys ask for you all the time. 789 00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,440 They're longing to see you. 790 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,640 Oscar has to make sure the play's a success, Constance. 791 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,280 I'll come round this afternoon... 792 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,040 for tea. 793 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,160 It's the dress rehearsal this afternoon. 794 00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,280 Tomorrow then. I'll come tomorrow. 795 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,960 Well, tomorrow then. 796 00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,360 Good-bye, my dear. 797 00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,320 Good-bye. 798 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:20,960 Good-bye, Constance. 799 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,000 - Something like that. - I'm not trying to get anything. 800 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,880 I hope so. It would be rather fun. Perhaps a codfish. 801 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,720 Codfish. I've a strong feeling that codfish live rather deeper. 802 00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:41,920 - Do you think we'll have skate... - Possibly. 803 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,680 I don't think there'll be anything for our table tonight, my love. No luck. 804 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,100 I think I'd better stay. You're getting a cold. 805 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,140 No, no. I'm all right. Let's get the boys some ices. 806 00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:00,160 - Boys, you stay and look after nanny. - Oh, all right. 807 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:03,200 We'll look after nanny. 808 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,040 I could take the boys to the dentist on Thursday on their way back to school. 809 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,960 But the whole point of them having dentistry now... 810 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:13,280 is so they can stuff themselves with sweets for a week before we lose them. 811 00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,680 - Are you quite sure? - Bosie'll look after me. 812 00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,560 Get your coat on, quick! 813 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,640 I've got a present for you! 814 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,000 Oh, God. 815 00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,280 - You're not still seedy, are you? - Bosie, where have you been? 816 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,760 I've had no one to talk to, no one to look after me. 817 00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,400 Don't be so pathetic. I've found you the divinest boy. 818 00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,240 - Bosie, you promised Constance... - Bugger Constance. 819 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,760 I'm not your nanny. Come on. We're going out. 820 00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,880 Bosie, please. 821 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,280 You look such an idiot lying there. Revolting. 822 00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,480 - Have you forgotten how to wash? - As a matter of fact... 823 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,280 I'm dying for a glass of water. 824 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,200 - You know where the jug is. - Bosie, darling. 825 00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,920 It stinks in here. You'll be wanting me to empty your chamber pot next. 826 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,900 Well, I emptied your chamber pot. I looked after you. 827 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,200 Well, I'm not looking after you. Not now. 828 00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,720 You don't interest me. Not when you're ill. 829 00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,400 You're just a boring middle-aged man with a blocked-up nose. 830 00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:37,520 - Bosie, dearest boy. - Shut up! 831 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,240 "Dearest boy, darling Bosie." It doesn't mean anything. 832 00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,500 You don't love me. The only person you've ever loved is yourself. 833 00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,700 You like me. You lust after me. 834 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:51,200 You go about with me because I've got a title. That's all. 835 00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,560 You like to write about dukes and duchesses... 836 00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,080 but you know nothing about them. 837 00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:56,840 You're the biggest snob I've ever met... 838 00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,140 and you think you're so daring because you fuck the occasional boy. 839 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,380 Please, you're killing me. 840 00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,160 You'll just about do when you're at your best. 841 00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,360 You're amusing... very amusing... but when you're not at your best, you're no one. 842 00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:12,420 All I asked for was a glass of water. 843 00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,160 For Christ's sake! There you are then! 844 00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,760 Now will you shut up about the fucking water? 845 00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,400 There are two boys waiting out there. 846 00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,660 If you're not coming, I'll fuck them both myself. 847 00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:34,160 I'll take them to the Grand and fuck them in front of the whole hotel... 848 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,560 and I'll send you the bill. 849 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:53,840 Drink this. 850 00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:58,880 - It will help your fever. - He's ashamed of loving men. 851 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,440 His father bullies him, his mother spoils him... 852 01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,540 and then berates him for being spoiled. 853 01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:11,040 Neither of them gives him any real love. They're torturing him. 854 01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:16,040 And what's truly dreadful is that when... 855 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,680 he can't bear it and has one of his... 856 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,760 he becomes exactly like his father. 857 01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,960 - And he hates himself for that. - You're too kind about him. 858 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,240 You can't be too kind about someone who's been so hurt. 859 01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:37,320 Yet if I go on trying to come between Bosie and his father... 860 01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:40,800 that'll destroy me. 861 01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,640 Bosie's quite capable of destroying you on his own. 862 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,720 Look how much you wrote while he was away. 863 01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,120 Two wonderful plays which will run for years. 864 01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,960 Back comes Bosie, and what have you written since? 865 01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,320 You know how much I... 866 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,760 love and admire you... 867 01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:11,960 but you're throwing your genius away. 868 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,520 - For what? - It's highly ironic. 869 01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:19,000 Queensberry thinks Bosie and I are locked in nightly embrace... 870 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:23,080 and in reality, we've been the purest model of Greek love since... 871 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:29,920 Bosie doesn't like doing it with me, but I've loved him. 872 01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,600 - I've educated him. - But he's never grown up. 873 01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,520 And he never will. 874 01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,520 I'm not taking him back, Robbie. 875 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:42,160 Not again. 876 01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,320 I can't. 877 01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:49,360 I've been very foolish, very fond... 878 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:52,960 but now I must grow up myself. 879 01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,720 Oh, please, don't do that. 880 01:01:55,880 --> 01:02:00,040 You're an artist. Artists are always children at heart. 881 01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,840 Oh, Robbie, I sometimes I wonder if... 882 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,320 Back page, sir. 883 01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:18,240 My God. Francis Douglas. 884 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,160 - What? - Bosie's brother. 885 01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,640 He's been found shot. He's dead. 886 01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,680 But he's just got engaged. 887 01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:34,920 Poor, poor Bosie. He'll be utterly distraught. 888 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,400 He killed himself. 889 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,920 It was my father. He drove him to it. 890 01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,640 I'm sure your father's just as upset as everyone else. 891 01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:57,240 No, he's not. 892 01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:03,760 He says it's a judgment on Roseberry and my mother... 893 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,560 and me and you. 894 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,800 We've got to stop him, Oscar... 895 01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,320 before he drives my whole family to suicide. 896 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,980 I promise you, I won't let him hurt you ever again. 897 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,400 I promise. 898 01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,960 It's not enough. I want him stopped. 899 01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,720 I want the whole world to know what he's done... 900 01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,560 what an evil man he is. 901 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:55,760 Table, my lord? 902 01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,360 Is Lord Alfred here? And that shit and sod Wilde? 903 01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,480 No, my lord. Not tonight. 904 01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:03,600 Bugger must be at Kettner's. 905 01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:19,560 Is my son staying here? 906 01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,400 Is Lord Alfred Douglas staying here? 907 01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,960 No, sir, he's not. 908 01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,360 - What about Wilde? - No, sir. 909 01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,960 If I find they have been staying here... 910 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,200 I'll give you the biggest whipping of your life. 911 01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,200 Well, I expect you two would like a drink after your exertions. 912 01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,380 I must ask you to leave, Mr. Wilde. 913 01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,320 My dear man, what are you talking about? 914 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:30,640 At once, please. 915 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:37,320 What's the matter? My father cracking the whip downstairs, is he? 916 01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,280 - My lord. - Bosie. 917 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,840 You're not frightened of what this little man thinks, are you? 918 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,600 I think the pleasures of the evening should be resumed elsewhere. 919 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,560 You're such a coward. 920 01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,680 You say you despise convention... 921 01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:08,000 but you're the most conventional man I know. 922 01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,120 Come on then. If we're going, let's go. 923 01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,280 Until tomorrow, Tommy. 924 01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,320 Good-bye, sir. 925 01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:27,600 I goes in, and there's all this tropical fruit laid out. 926 01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,400 Wait a minute, Oscar! 927 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,640 Alfred, how nice to see you. And Charlie, looking so well. 928 01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,040 I'm afraid I'm busy this evening, but we must have dinner again soon. 929 01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:46,280 It's not a question of dinner. I got a letter of yours to Lord Alfred. 930 01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,000 It's a nice letter, Oscar. Beautiful. 931 01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,720 "Lips like roses. The madness of kisses in ancient Greece." 932 01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,860 Then I expect it's one of my prose poems. 933 01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:56,480 There's a gentleman's offered me 60 pounds for it. 934 01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:59,280 Then you must accept, Alfred. I've never received so large a sum... 935 01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,540 for a prose work of that length in all my life. 936 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:05,040 Tell him I'm delighted that someone in England values my work so highly. 937 01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:07,000 - Well, he's gone away. - He's gone to the country. 938 01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,160 Well, I'm sure he'll be back soon. 939 01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,980 Oscar, look. You couldn't let us have something, could you? 940 01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,800 Bit short at the moment. You know. 941 01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,440 Of course. Of course. 942 01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,200 Here's half a sovereign. Now you mind you take good care of that letter. 943 01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,680 Lord Alfred is going to publish it in sonnet form in his new magazine. 944 01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:30,920 For fuck's sake. 945 01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,400 It's no good trying to rent you. 946 01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,200 You just laugh at us. 947 01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,280 - Here. - Thank you. 948 01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:45,000 He can be very careless, Lord Alfred. 949 01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,000 What a wonderfully wicked life you lead. 950 01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,400 You boys. You boys. 951 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,640 - Where is he? - Mr. Wilde is not receiving visitors. 952 01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,080 - Where is he? - He's busy, sir. I cannot... 953 01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,680 I wish you would get out of my way. Get out of my way! 954 01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,360 Excuse me, sir, there's a gentleman... 955 01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:09,600 You! 956 01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:11,960 Listen to me. 957 01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:15,120 You're a bugger! 958 01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,420 I don't allow people to talk to me like that in my house, Lord Queensberry... 959 01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:22,840 or anywhere else. 960 01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,200 I suppose you've come to apologize for the lies you've been spreading about me? 961 01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:30,240 I've come to tell you to leave my son alone, you sodomite. 962 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:34,120 The marquis appears to be very obsessed with other people's sexual activities. 963 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:36,080 Has it anything to do with his new wife... 964 01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:39,560 I wonder, and the fact that she's seeking divorce for non-consummation? 965 01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:42,540 Unless you swear that you'll have nothing more to do with Bosie... 966 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,040 I shall go to Scotland Yard. 967 01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,340 You can go to the devil. 968 01:08:46,440 --> 01:08:48,760 You and your... Who is this gargoyle? 969 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:52,600 You're a queer! And a sham! A poseur! 970 01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,320 If I catch you and Bosie together again, I'll give you such a thrashing. 971 01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,680 I believe Lord Queensberry once invented some rules for boxing. 972 01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:02,480 I've no idea what they are... 973 01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,440 but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight. 974 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,120 - Now, kindly leave my house. - You can shut up! 975 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,040 I shall leave when I'm damn well ready. 976 01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,960 It's a scandal what you've been doing. 977 01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,100 All the scandal is your own. 978 01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,440 Your treatment of your wives... 979 01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:24,320 your neglect of your children... 980 01:09:24,480 --> 01:09:27,600 and, above all, the depraved insistence... 981 01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:31,520 that they be as tyrannical and unloving as you are yourself. 982 01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:35,620 Arthur, this is the Marquis of Queensberry... 983 01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:40,080 the most infamous brute and the least tender father in London. 984 01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:42,000 Never let him into my house again. 985 01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:46,840 Very well then. 986 01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:51,440 Let's get out of this stew. 987 01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:36,620 - Out of the way, then! - I'm sorry, sir! 988 01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:40,440 I'm very sorry, but it's just not possible! 989 01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:49,320 What are you doing? Rotten vegetables? 990 01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:51,120 Give that to Oscar Wilde. 991 01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,180 Thank you, sir. We'll take care of it. 992 01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:58,760 I wanted to give it to him personally as a bouquet. 993 01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,720 I daresay you did, sir, but you're not going to. 994 01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:06,800 He's a cur and a sod! 995 01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:08,480 And a bugger! 996 01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,320 You remember that! 997 01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,000 I always told you, Gwendolen, my name is Ernest, didn't I? 998 01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:18,280 Well, it is Ernest after all. 999 01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,320 I mean, it naturally is Ernest. 1000 01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:24,760 Yes, I remember now that the general was called Ernest. 1001 01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:28,840 I knew I had some particular reason for disliking the name. 1002 01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:33,760 Ernest! My own Ernest! 1003 01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:37,320 I knew from the first you could have had no other name. 1004 01:11:37,480 --> 01:11:40,420 Gwendolen, it's a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly... 1005 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:43,280 that all his life he's been speaking nothing but the truth. 1006 01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,160 Can you forgive me? 1007 01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:49,760 I can, for I feel you are sure to change. 1008 01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,280 - My own one! - Laetitia. 1009 01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:54,160 Frederick! At last! 1010 01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:58,240 - Cecily! At last! - Gwendolen! At last! 1011 01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:04,400 My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality. 1012 01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,740 On the contrary, Aunt Augusta... 1013 01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,800 I've now realized for the first time in my life... 1014 01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:13,200 the vital importance of being earnest. 1015 01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:42,600 Allen, you were wonderful! Thank you all so much. 1016 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,960 They're calling for you. You must come on. Curtain, curtain. 1017 01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:47,360 - No, no, George, no, no. - Come on! 1018 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,280 - Mr. Wilde, sir. - Yes? 1019 01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:39,600 - For you. - Thank you. 1020 01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:54,200 "For Oscar Wilde... 1021 01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:55,560 Ponce," is it? 1022 01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:57,860 "Ponce and 'somdomite."' 1023 01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,940 "Posing as a sodomite." He's illiterate... illiterate, ignorant. 1024 01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,900 - It's hideous. - We've got him now, Robbie. 1025 01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:06,760 He wrote it down. The porter read it. 1026 01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,480 That makes it a public libel. Now we can take him to court. 1027 01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:11,600 For God's sake. 1028 01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,640 Oscar, you mustn't do that. That would be... I mean... 1029 01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,000 We've just been waiting for a chance to get him in the dock... 1030 01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,760 and show the world what a swine and shit he's always been. 1031 01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:26,600 - To me, my mother, my brothers. - But he'll plead justification. 1032 01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,320 He'll call all the renters as witnesses for the defense. 1033 01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:32,120 Of course he won't. He doesn't know what a renter is. 1034 01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:36,520 I hear he's had detectives following you ever since you came back from Egypt. 1035 01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,120 He can't prove anything. But we can. 1036 01:14:40,480 --> 01:14:42,580 We can prove he's the vilest man that ever walked the earth. 1037 01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,440 Tear the card up, Oscar. Pretend you never got it. 1038 01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,460 Are you mad? That's our main piece of evidence. 1039 01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,960 I'm sure if Oscar went abroad for a few months... 1040 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,040 lived on royalties while your father calms down... 1041 01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,640 - Whose side are you on? - Bosie, if this goes to court... 1042 01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:56,680 Oscar will have to tell lies... 1043 01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:59,440 perjure himself... everything will come out. 1044 01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:02,240 Whatever the result, it will be utter disaster. 1045 01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:03,920 You're an enemy then. 1046 01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:07,880 No, no, Bosie, please. Robbie... 1047 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,360 you're a dear boy, but I can't even think of leaving the country. 1048 01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:16,360 As a matter of fact, I can't even leave this hotel. I can't pay the bill. 1049 01:15:16,480 --> 01:15:19,040 We can raise you money, for heaven's sake. 1050 01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:21,680 Anyway, what about your royalties? 1051 01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:23,640 We shall need all the money we can get for the libel case. 1052 01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,160 My father can't go on making all our lives a torment like this. 1053 01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,200 Oscar, I beg you. 1054 01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:33,840 I'm not going to run away, Robbie. 1055 01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,160 I'm not going to hide. That would be the English thing to do. 1056 01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:40,600 If you take Queensberry to court, all hell will break loose. 1057 01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:44,120 All my life I've fought against the English vice: 1058 01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:47,000 hypocrisy... not that that's the point. 1059 01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:51,360 The point is, Queensberry's already caused the death of one of his sons. 1060 01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:55,240 If I don't try and stop him now, whom will he harm next? 1061 01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,040 He's avoiding me, Robbie. 1062 01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,840 I know what everyone's saying, but it's not true. 1063 01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,760 It's not true. 1064 01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,360 - Is it? - Of course not. 1065 01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:13,640 Oh, it's so shaming. 1066 01:16:15,440 --> 01:16:19,540 No, I find it easier to stand. 1067 01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:23,760 I'm going to Torquay for a month, try to get my back right. 1068 01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:27,160 - Oscar's been so busy... - I'm sure he'll be terribly upset... 1069 01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,560 when he knows you've been in so much pain. 1070 01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:35,600 The truth is, I need some money. 1071 01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,400 Not even sure where he is to ask for it. 1072 01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,160 It does seem rather hard when he's having such an extraordinary success. 1073 01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:43,800 I think I can find him. 1074 01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:49,800 I keep hearing these stories about Bosie and his father. 1075 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:54,080 - I'm sure you don't want to... - Oh, yes. I do. 1076 01:16:55,880 --> 01:17:00,160 Men think women should be protected by not knowing. 1077 01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,600 Not knowing only makes it worse. 1078 01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:08,160 Is there going to be trouble? 1079 01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:11,960 I hope not. 1080 01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,280 I believe a prosecution would certainly succeed... 1081 01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,200 provided... and I stress this... 1082 01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:22,080 provided there is no truth whatever in the accusation made by Lord Queensberry. 1083 01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,000 Of course there's no truth in it. 1084 01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:30,880 Then so long as I have Mr. Wilde's assurance that that is indeed the case. 1085 01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,760 There is no truth in the accusation whatever. 1086 01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:47,440 Good. Excellent. 1087 01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:52,000 The defense, I understand, will be led by Mr. Edward Carson. 1088 01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:56,580 Old Ned? I was at college with him in Dublin. 1089 01:17:56,680 --> 01:18:00,920 No doubt he will perform his task with all the bitterness of an old friend. 1090 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,480 In writing a book or a play, I'm concerned entirely with literature... 1091 01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:09,580 with art... I do not aim at doing good or evil... 1092 01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:11,860 but at making a thing that will have some quality of beauty. 1093 01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:17,080 Well, listen, sir. Here is one of your pieces of literature. 1094 01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:19,880 "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people... 1095 01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,240 to account for the curious attractiveness of others." 1096 01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:28,280 Do you think that true? 1097 01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:30,680 Oh, I rarely think anything I write is true. 1098 01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:36,160 "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out." 1099 01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,400 That is a pleasing paradox, but I do not set store by it as an axiom. 1100 01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:44,840 Is it good for the young? 1101 01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,080 Anything is good that stimulates thought, at whatever age. 1102 01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:49,960 Whether moral or immoral? 1103 01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,840 There's no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. 1104 01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:54,560 What about this then? 1105 01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,240 "Pleasure is the only thing one should live for." 1106 01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:03,640 I think that the realization of one's self is the prime aim of life... 1107 01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,880 and that to realize through pleasure is finer than to do so through pain. 1108 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:11,720 I am, on this point, entirely on the side of the ancients, the Greeks. 1109 01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,640 How long have you known Alfred Taylor? 1110 01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:20,480 About two years, two-and-a-half years. 1111 01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:24,200 - Is he an intimate friend of yours? - I wouldn't call him that, no. 1112 01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,760 But you went often to his rooms? 1113 01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:29,100 About seven or eight times, perhaps. 1114 01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:33,280 Did you know Mr. Taylor kept ladies' dresses in his rooms? 1115 01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:40,720 Did you know he was notorious for introducing young men to older men? 1116 01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,980 I never heard it in my life. 1117 01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:45,920 Has he introduced young men to you? 1118 01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:48,800 Yes. 1119 01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,320 - How many young men? - About five. 1120 01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:56,880 - What were their occupations? - I really don't know. 1121 01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,520 Oh, well, let me tell you, Mr. Wilde. 1122 01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,320 You met a man called Charles Parker there, I believe. 1123 01:20:03,480 --> 01:20:04,480 Yes. 1124 01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,240 Charles Parker is... 1125 01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:09,160 a gentleman's valet. 1126 01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:12,440 You met his brother there too, I believe. 1127 01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:14,760 - Yes. - He is a groom. 1128 01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:18,980 I didn't care tuppence what they were. 1129 01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:23,520 I liked them. I have a passion to civilize the community. 1130 01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:27,800 I recognize no social distinctions at all of any kind. 1131 01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,840 To me, youth... the mere fact of youth... 1132 01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:33,940 is so wonderful that I would sooner talk to a young man for half an hour... 1133 01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:38,240 than, well, than be cross-examined in court. 1134 01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:41,220 So, do I understand that... 1135 01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,640 even a boy you might pick up in the street would be a pleasing companion? 1136 01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:48,780 I would talk to a street Arab with pleasure if he would talk to me. 1137 01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:50,640 - And take him to your rooms? - Yes. 1138 01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:53,280 And then commit improprieties with him? 1139 01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:56,240 Certainly not. 1140 01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,200 You withdraw your libel action against Lord Queensberry. 1141 01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,160 Well and good. 1142 01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:08,520 But there remains the question of the evidence... 1143 01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:11,960 Lord Queensberry's evidence against you. 1144 01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:16,160 My information is that the Crown wishes to pursue the matter. 1145 01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:22,400 In which case, an arrest and a charge of gross indecency... 1146 01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:24,420 are certain to follow. 1147 01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:28,200 The maximum sentence is two years hard labor. 1148 01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:32,080 Nine months hard labor is reckoned to be more... 1149 01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:34,000 than a man of our background... 1150 01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:35,840 can survive. 1151 01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:40,280 The children, the boys... 1152 01:21:40,440 --> 01:21:43,300 - I must go and see them. - You have no time for that. 1153 01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:47,560 But my wife... I have to say good-bye to my wife. 1154 01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,160 Unless you positively wish to subject her... 1155 01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,520 to the further humiliation of seeing you arrested... 1156 01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:55,720 and taken away in front of the gutter press... 1157 01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:57,600 Mr. Wilde, you must go. 1158 01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:08,140 Oscar, you must take that train. 1159 01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:11,000 Practically everyone you know will be on it. 1160 01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:15,520 At least 600 single gentlemen, all in abject terror of arrest. 1161 01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:23,600 Where your life leads you, you must go. 1162 01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:26,700 I defy society. 1163 01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:28,280 Tell him to go. 1164 01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,400 He must save himself. 1165 01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:36,080 Tell him to go abroad. 1166 01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:38,240 I've been telling him all day. 1167 01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:41,360 He won't budge. 1168 01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:52,300 People have never understood the courage he needed to be himself. 1169 01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:54,440 You must go abroad too. 1170 01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:57,520 We must all go abroad at once. 1171 01:22:59,920 --> 01:23:02,000 Oscar says, will you tell the boys good-bye. 1172 01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,040 I need to go through his papers. 1173 01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,720 You know, I was always too silent. 1174 01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:15,640 If I'd known... 1175 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,920 If I'd only spoken up. 1176 01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,040 It wouldn't have made any difference. 1177 01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:28,200 Perhaps not... 1178 01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:32,320 but at least I wouldn't blame myself now. 1179 01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:58,120 You're an Irish gentleman. Of course, you must stay. 1180 01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:00,420 Your father fought when he was libeled. 1181 01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:03,240 - I was in the courts myself. I fought... - Yes, I know, Madre. 1182 01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:07,000 You will fight these English philistines, and you'll win. 1183 01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:11,680 And even if you lose... if you go to prison... 1184 01:24:11,840 --> 01:24:14,700 you'll always be my son. 1185 01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,000 Of course, it's too late to change that now. 1186 01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:20,040 If you go, Oscar... 1187 01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:22,440 I'll never speak to you again. 1188 01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,640 No one will ever speak to me again, whatever I do. 1189 01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,440 Of course I'm your son, Madre... 1190 01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:33,640 which is why, even if I lose... 1191 01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:35,960 the English will never forget me. 1192 01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:40,360 My darling. 1193 01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:10,680 Get out of my way. Get out! Out! 1194 01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:13,760 Take me away at once! 1195 01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,780 Lady Wilde. Lady Wilde! 1196 01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,640 Have you anything to say about your son's disgrace, Lady Wilde? 1197 01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:28,560 Have you anything to say? 1198 01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:37,240 Come in. 1199 01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:45,600 Mr. Wilde, I believe. 1200 01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:48,140 Yes, yes. 1201 01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:50,340 We have a warrant here for your arrest... 1202 01:25:50,440 --> 01:25:53,240 on a charge of committing indecent acts. 1203 01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,020 I recommend Switzerland as soon as possible. 1204 01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,840 You will have to change your name, of course. 1205 01:26:08,200 --> 01:26:09,380 I can't. 1206 01:26:09,480 --> 01:26:11,960 My dear Constance, the name of Wilde will be... 1207 01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:14,060 a word of execration for the next thousand years. 1208 01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:17,600 You can't possibly let your boys grow up with people knowing who they are. 1209 01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,520 Think of their lives at school. 1210 01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:21,960 Thank you for your advice. 1211 01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,320 I'm sorry our friendship has to end like this. 1212 01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:29,420 - Oh, you will always be my friend. - I am still Oscar's wife. 1213 01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:33,620 That must cease forthwith. Forthwith. Do you understand? 1214 01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,400 Anybody who has anything to do with Oscar from now on... 1215 01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,320 will never be received in society again... 1216 01:26:39,480 --> 01:26:40,640 ever. 1217 01:26:45,640 --> 01:26:49,600 Oh, God, Ada. What is going to happen to him? 1218 01:26:57,760 --> 01:26:59,720 That's Oscar Wilde's boy. 1219 01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:02,240 Oscar, you must let me in the witness box. 1220 01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,600 If the jury can only hear what I have to say... 1221 01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:06,800 Bosie, darling boy. 1222 01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:09,680 As soon as they see you in all your golden youth... 1223 01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,880 and me in all my corruption... 1224 01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:15,200 You didn't corrupt me. I corrupted you, if anything. 1225 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,080 That's not how it will seem. 1226 01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:20,300 But I must have my say. It's outrageous. 1227 01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:23,360 Everyone else has said everything, anything that came into his head. 1228 01:27:23,480 --> 01:27:25,960 But I'm the person all this is about. 1229 01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,440 It's me my father wants to get at, not you. 1230 01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,840 It's outrageous that I can't have my say. 1231 01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:35,200 It won't help, Bosie. It may actually make things worse. 1232 01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:39,680 But my father will win. I can't endure my father winning. 1233 01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,500 You must go away, dear boy. 1234 01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:46,080 I couldn't bear for them to arrest you. 1235 01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:52,240 I can't bear what they're saying about you in court. 1236 01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:57,120 Jesus Christ. 1237 01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:01,160 Good-bye, Bosie, dear boy. 1238 01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,300 Don't let anyone, anything, ever change your feeling for me... 1239 01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:05,920 change your love. 1240 01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:08,800 - See you next time. - Time's up, my lord. 1241 01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:13,120 Oscar, never. They never will. I won't let them. 1242 01:28:23,440 --> 01:28:25,920 You've been a great deal in the company of Lord Alfred Douglas? 1243 01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:27,400 Oh, yes. 1244 01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:31,760 - Did he read his poems to you? - Yes. 1245 01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:35,040 So, you can perhaps understand that... 1246 01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:37,360 some of his verses... 1247 01:28:37,480 --> 01:28:42,720 would not be acceptable to a reader with an ordinary balance to mind? 1248 01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:45,320 I'm not prepared to say. 1249 01:28:45,480 --> 01:28:48,460 It's a question of taste and temperament... 1250 01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,600 and individuality. 1251 01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,600 I should say that one man's poetry is another man's poison. 1252 01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,040 Yes, I daresay. 1253 01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:58,560 But in this poem by Lord Alfred Douglas... 1254 01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:00,960 "Two Loves"... 1255 01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:02,840 there is one love, true love... 1256 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:06,480 which... and I quote... 1257 01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:10,120 "fills the hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame." 1258 01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:14,280 And, there is another: 1259 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:18,600 "I am the love that dare not speak its name." 1260 01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:22,640 Was that poem explained to you? 1261 01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:26,920 - I think it's clear. - There's no doubt as to what it means? 1262 01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:28,560 Most certainly not. 1263 01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:31,480 So, is it not clear that the love described... 1264 01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:35,120 relates to natural and unnatural love? 1265 01:29:39,440 --> 01:29:43,360 Then what is the love that dare not speak its name? 1266 01:29:55,440 --> 01:29:59,000 The love that dare not speak its name... 1267 01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:01,600 in this century... 1268 01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,160 is such a great affection... 1269 01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,560 of an elder for a younger man... 1270 01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,080 as there was between David and Jonathan... 1271 01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:14,760 such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy... 1272 01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,440 and such as you may find in the sonnets of Michelangelo... 1273 01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:20,000 and Shakespeare. 1274 01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:26,560 It is, in this century, misunderstood... 1275 01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:30,040 so much misunderstood that it may be described as... 1276 01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:32,800 the love that dare not speak its name. 1277 01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:36,400 And, on account of it, I am placed where I am now. 1278 01:30:38,080 --> 01:30:41,000 It is beautiful. It is fine. 1279 01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:44,680 It is the noblest form of affection. 1280 01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:48,160 There's nothing unnatural about it. 1281 01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:52,440 It is intellectual... 1282 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:56,200 and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man... 1283 01:30:56,360 --> 01:30:59,920 when the elder has intellect... 1284 01:31:00,080 --> 01:31:02,440 and the younger man... 1285 01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:06,960 has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him. 1286 01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:13,440 That it should be so, the world does not understand. 1287 01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:15,520 The world mocks at it... 1288 01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:19,600 and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it. 1289 01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:40,580 The crime of which you have been convicted... 1290 01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:42,700 is so bad... 1291 01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,960 that I shall pass the severest sentence... 1292 01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:49,200 that the law will allow. 1293 01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:53,920 In my judgment, it is totally inadequate for such a case as this. 1294 01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:58,020 It is the worst case I have ever tried! 1295 01:31:58,120 --> 01:32:00,760 The sentence of the court... 1296 01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:03,020 is that you will be imprisoned... 1297 01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:06,260 and held to hard labor... 1298 01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:08,960 - Stand aside, please. - for two years. 1299 01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:10,880 - Shame. - Pervert. 1300 01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:17,360 Pervert! 1301 01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:25,960 Shame on you! 1302 01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:47,080 Disgusting! 1303 01:33:11,760 --> 01:33:14,920 A slim thing, gold-haired like an angel... 1304 01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,320 stands always at my side. 1305 01:33:17,480 --> 01:33:21,080 He moves in the gloom like a white flower. 1306 01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:25,440 I thought but to defend him from his father. I thought of nothing else. 1307 01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:43,720 Now my life seems to have gone from me. 1308 01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:46,120 I'm caught in a terrible net. 1309 01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:48,840 But so long as I think he is thinking of me... 1310 01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:53,280 my sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies... 1311 01:33:53,440 --> 01:33:57,320 it is in prison that I shall test the power of love. 1312 01:33:57,440 --> 01:34:00,500 I shall see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet... 1313 01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:02,920 by the intensity of the love I bear you. 1314 01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:20,040 He asked me not to change. Those were his last words to me... 1315 01:34:20,200 --> 01:34:22,080 "Don't change." 1316 01:34:22,200 --> 01:34:25,640 Well, things are going to have to change when he comes out. 1317 01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:28,880 He'll have no money at all. 1318 01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:31,520 - So you're blaming me, too, are you? - I'm not blaming anyone. 1319 01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:35,120 Bosie, you're not the only person on this earth Oscar cares about. 1320 01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:39,140 You've always hated me, Robbie... 1321 01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,520 because Oscar loved and still loves me when you were just one of his boys. 1322 01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:54,720 I'm suffering just as much as he is, you know. 1323 01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:58,160 My life's ruined too. 1324 01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:02,600 I'm much younger than he is. I've hardly had any life, and it's ruined already. 1325 01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:06,240 When Oscar gets out, we'll live together properly. 1326 01:35:06,440 --> 01:35:09,960 We'll take a villa somewhere near here... Posilipo... 1327 01:35:10,120 --> 01:35:12,640 - or Ischia. - Or Capri. 1328 01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:17,000 I'll take care of him. 1329 01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,400 I'll give him everything he wants. 1330 01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:22,600 I love him, Robbie. 1331 01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:27,360 Oscar's mine, and I'm going to have him. 1332 01:35:43,440 --> 01:35:48,080 "Years went over, and the giant grew very old and very feeble. 1333 01:35:48,240 --> 01:35:52,000 He couldn't play about anymore, so he sat in a huge armchair... 1334 01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:55,600 and watched the children at their games and admired his garden. 1335 01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,440 'I have many beautiful flowers, ' he said. 1336 01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:06,240 'But the children are the most beautiful flowers of all."' 1337 01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,480 I'm afraid Cyril has got some idea why you're here. 1338 01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:49,320 I'm sending him to school in Germany. 1339 01:36:52,080 --> 01:36:54,360 I can't manage them on my own. 1340 01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:00,640 Your back isn't better then? 1341 01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:02,560 No, not really. 1342 01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:06,600 I may have to have an operation. 1343 01:37:08,480 --> 01:37:11,840 What I've done to you and the boys... 1344 01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:13,800 I can't... 1345 01:37:13,960 --> 01:37:16,680 I shall never forgive myself. 1346 01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:21,600 If we could choose our natures... 1347 01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:26,060 If we could only choose. 1348 01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:27,920 But it's no use. 1349 01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:34,560 Whatever our natures are, we must fulfill them... 1350 01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:37,860 or our lives... my life... 1351 01:37:37,960 --> 01:37:41,280 would have been filled with dishonesty. 1352 01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:46,320 Even more dishonesty than there actually was. 1353 01:37:51,520 --> 01:37:53,800 I've always loved you, Constance. 1354 01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,280 You must believe me. 1355 01:37:59,400 --> 01:38:01,800 I don't see how you can have done... 1356 01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:03,720 not truly. 1357 01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:06,600 Not if all the time... 1358 01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:08,200 I didn't know. 1359 01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:13,400 "Know thyself," I used to say. 1360 01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:17,720 I didn't know myself. 1361 01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:21,040 I didn't know. 1362 01:38:24,320 --> 01:38:26,560 I suppose you want a divorce. 1363 01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:30,400 You have every reason. 1364 01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:37,160 I've been thinking, when you do come out... 1365 01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:39,960 when they let you out... you can go to Switzerland or Italy... 1366 01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:42,840 write another play, get yourself back. 1367 01:38:44,040 --> 01:38:46,440 You can. 1368 01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:49,240 You're so clever. You can. 1369 01:38:59,480 --> 01:39:01,440 I don't want a divorce. 1370 01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:08,400 Will you ever let me see the children again? 1371 01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:11,200 Of course. 1372 01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:20,040 But there must be one condition: 1373 01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,120 Oscar, you must never see Bosie again. 1374 01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,840 If I saw Bosie now, I'd kill him. 1375 01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:38,000 The children love you, Oscar. 1376 01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:48,960 They'll always love you. 1377 01:39:57,480 --> 01:39:59,840 Did anyone tell you? 1378 01:39:59,960 --> 01:40:02,400 They've been performing Salome in Paris. 1379 01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:14,720 "The giant hastened across the grass and came near to the child. 1380 01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:17,440 And when he came quite close, his face grew red with anger. 1381 01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:21,800 And he said, 'Who hath dared to wound thee?' 1382 01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,000 For on the palms of the child's hands were the prints of two nails. 1383 01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:27,840 And the prints of two nails were on his little feet. 1384 01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:47,440 'Who hath dared to wound thee?' cried the giant. 1385 01:40:47,560 --> 01:40:51,080 'Tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him. ' 1386 01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:53,380 'Nay, 'answered the child. 1387 01:40:53,480 --> 01:40:55,760 'For these are the wounds of love."' 1388 01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:06,360 Bosie thinks I'm jealous. 1389 01:41:06,480 --> 01:41:08,460 I think it will come as a shock to Bosie to realize... 1390 01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:11,360 that even he is relatively unimportant in the scheme of things. 1391 01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:15,340 But, no doubt, Bosie will be remembered as long as Oscar... 1392 01:41:15,440 --> 01:41:17,040 unfortunately. 1393 01:41:22,360 --> 01:41:24,120 I sometimes wonder... 1394 01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:28,880 if I hadn't... 1395 01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:34,040 pushed him into... 1396 01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:35,360 Don't. 1397 01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:39,400 Oscar was very lucky to meet you, Robbie. 1398 01:41:40,200 --> 01:41:42,000 Think who else it might have been. 1399 01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:45,220 Oh, I'll have that one. Thank you. 1400 01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:49,040 - Must you go abroad again at once? - I shouldn't be here now. 1401 01:41:51,760 --> 01:41:54,660 But has he got anywhere to go when he's released? 1402 01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:56,520 It'll have to be in France. 1403 01:41:56,680 --> 01:41:59,240 I'm going to see what I can arrange. 1404 01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:01,520 But here... 1405 01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,560 when he leaves prison... 1406 01:42:09,280 --> 01:42:11,340 - Good-bye, Mr. Harris. - Good-bye, sir. 1407 01:42:11,440 --> 01:42:13,720 Good-bye, Mr. Snow. Thank you. 1408 01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:21,600 My dear Sphinx. 1409 01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:26,320 How marvelous of you to know what hat to wear at 7:00 in the morning... 1410 01:42:26,480 --> 01:42:29,280 to meet a friend who's been away. 1411 01:42:29,440 --> 01:42:32,200 - No, I'll keep this. - What is it. 1412 01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,840 It's a letter to Bosie telling him... 1413 01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:37,060 how I love him but can never see him again. 1414 01:42:37,160 --> 01:42:39,920 I'm going to ask Robbie to have it copied out before I send it. 1415 01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:43,280 I rather fear Bosie might throw it on the fire. 1416 01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:46,560 I call it De Profundis. It comes from the very depths. 1417 01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:22,640 "I know not whether laws be right... 1418 01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,080 or whether laws be wrong. 1419 01:43:25,200 --> 01:43:27,240 All that we know who lie in jail... 1420 01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:29,420 is that the wall is strong... 1421 01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:32,520 and that each day is like a year... 1422 01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:34,920 a year whose days are long. 1423 01:43:39,440 --> 01:43:42,880 Yet each man kills the thing he loves. 1424 01:43:43,040 --> 01:43:45,280 By each, let this be heard. 1425 01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:47,240 Some do it with a bitter look... 1426 01:43:47,400 --> 01:43:50,320 some with a flattering word. 1427 01:43:50,440 --> 01:43:52,760 The coward does it with a kiss... 1428 01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:55,160 the brave man with a sword. 1429 01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,040 Some kill their love when they are young... 1430 01:44:00,160 --> 01:44:02,800 and some when they are old. 1431 01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:06,120 Some strangle with the hands of lust... 1432 01:44:06,240 --> 01:44:08,840 some with the hands of gold. 1433 01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:11,720 The kindest use a knife... 1434 01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:15,000 because the dead so soon grow cold." 1435 01:44:22,880 --> 01:44:25,600 I'm sure we can find an hotel near here. 1436 01:44:28,440 --> 01:44:30,880 Somewhere where you can work. 1437 01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:41,800 - I've decided to see him again, Robbie. - Yes. 1438 01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:45,840 - I thought you might. - I've nothing left. 1439 01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:49,240 I've lost my wife. 1440 01:44:49,360 --> 01:44:51,360 I've lost my children. 1441 01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:54,960 They won't allow me to see them now. 1442 01:44:56,680 --> 01:44:58,360 No one will ever read my plays or books again. 1443 01:44:58,520 --> 01:45:00,000 Yes, they will. 1444 01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:03,040 Bosie loves me more than he loves anyone else... 1445 01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,440 as much as he can love... 1446 01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:10,280 and allow himself to be loved. 1447 01:45:13,880 --> 01:45:16,200 I think we need some more wine. 1448 01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:22,120 I find that alcohol... 1449 01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,640 taken in sufficient quantities... 1450 01:45:28,320 --> 01:45:31,680 Can bring about all the effects of drunkenness. 1451 01:46:13,080 --> 01:46:14,600 "Life cheats us with shadows. 1452 01:46:14,760 --> 01:46:18,080 We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us... 1453 01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:21,400 with bitterness and disappointment in its train. 1454 01:46:21,520 --> 01:46:24,520 And we find ourselves looking with dull heart of stone... 1455 01:46:24,640 --> 01:46:26,660 at the tress of gold-flecked hair... 1456 01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:29,280 that we had once so wildly worshipped... 1457 01:46:29,400 --> 01:46:31,400 and so madly kissed." 1458 01:47:06,480 --> 01:47:09,920 In this world, there are only two tragedies. 1459 01:47:10,080 --> 01:47:12,200 One is not getting what one wants. 1460 01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:14,880 The other is getting it. 1460 01:47:15,305 --> 01:47:21,463 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org