Noel Coward's Brief Encounter

[GayLad87]

Who else has seen this? It's my all-time fave. Really romantic with hidden gay undertones.

 

[braex27]

I watched it a few years ago. A wonderful film. Celia Johnson was amazing and David Lean is one of my all time favourite directors.

I love the ambiguity of the closing line.

 

[kallipolis]

For those of us who lack pretentious oversight I believe that there is nothing pretentious in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948) or, even his blockbusters calculated to impress those of us who are not seeking hidden gay signals concealed in a war time romantic drama starring a railway station as "Brief Encounter's" most redeeming feature.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Who else has seen this? It's my all-time fave. Really romantic with hidden gay undertones.

(((( 1945 ))))

act 2 end act 1 not even finish ans act 3 with no intermission start ans add da many acts same time in many countrys
still a goin taday

it wonda

did da movie snake oil sales folk help or create even moreeeeee da amazin worlds taday

if ya wanna stroke da movie nice
humans of worlds drown in mad all ova world like see YEAH fa second on plastic folk can figure out somethang in da private deep of self no matta how a confuse it is away froms da salt of many MAN ans theys customs ans ways goin this what it is keepin da lines nice ans tidy

but fa folk go ooh must buy da hat she wear

for gay overtones dat buzz word not ivent but ya got a mean of it me thinks

ans 1945 1946 1947 MILLLLLLIONNNNNS of soulsssss go find their body parts ans wot left of any life ans crawl home ans

anyway

so many movies condem da cultures make um it a wonda modern? publics still no idea fields of people still feed um their comfy ways

there go

maybe all world snake oil makers meet up one day ans watch same movie

cause world taday need ------ as fast as Universitys close ans do somethang usefull
ans professions fill with adults still in fantasy land discova their feet not got gorund under um

there go

if no figure ma posty not a worry
folk back 100000 year ago might get lookin when da escapees die ans go

 

[kallipolis]

^Brief Encounter speaks much more to Noel Coward's snobbish understandings of the complexities of British society as it once was than it does to David Lean's directing abilities.

Contrary to the opinion you attribute to Patalas the 1948 Lean version of Oliver Twist represents the most authentic rendering of everything that Dickens insisted represented the dark side of Victorian England.

Here's David Lean's 1948 version of Oliver Twist:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vlB9EQJQ8&feature=related[/ame]

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

content no escape it impotent be big screen or tiny winny screen

if folk like dickins whateva of world taday wanna make reaaaaaaal impact

no do repeat of 19th or 20th century ways

folk die before movies come out so bit late ta buy tickets watch umselfs

if see ma driftin bones

thankyou

 

[GayLad87]

I wasn't seeking gay undertones. They are there in Still Life, the play that it is based on. Noel was gay. The film is about two people who are married, who meet the partners they really should be with. It works on two levels - you can read it at face-value or as an analogy of gay people during that time.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

whateva folk wanna make movie be

it a bit of intrestin one
countrys

etc so on

 

[braex27]

David Lean was so magnificent with his epics, and also with his more personal films.

One of his lesser known films, Summertime with Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brassi, is just magnificent. And beautifully shot in Venice.

 

[kallipolis]

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[kallipolis]

^I agree.

An absolutely riveting romance despite being dated by today's requirements.

Loved the Venetian scenery.

Here's a clip:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8URs8f2jZU&feature=related[/ame]