Production Details
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vardathemessagescript:
Mandy sighs. A faint melody rises with the waves.
MANDY
Listen, once – of course – there was a gorgeous gorgeous time. And we were living our dreams, [indifferent to all life that was not social life]. But you see all that went away – all of it –
(quietly)
- with Curt.
Arthur has gotten Mandy to tell more about the times in question but then they get too close to his experience and he flinches when she says, "a gorgeous gorgeous time", followed by a smile of recognition. He can't trust his feelings about the past and he wants to hear but also fears what Mandy has to say. Editor James Lyons, Christian Bale has an uncanny ability to register subtle shifts of emotion without speaking a line. As Arthur he spends most of the film listening to Cecil and Mandy tell their stories while he remembers his youth. Without this faculty, his character would have been lost; with it, he takes his rightful place as the emotional center of the film. As we watch him listen, we see how much what he's hearing makes him feel. First, we are intrigued, then, as we learn more about him, moved.
That phrase between brackets is in the script but not in the film; it is from Richard Ellmann, who said it of Wilde himself.
Mandy sighs. A faint melody rises with the waves.
Listen, once – of course – there was a gorgeous gorgeous time. And we were living our dreams, [indifferent to all life that was not social life]. But you see all that went away – all of it –
(quietly)
- with Curt.
Arthur has gotten Mandy to tell more about the times in question but then they get too close to his experience and he flinches when she says, "a gorgeous gorgeous time", followed by a smile of recognition. He can't trust his feelings about the past and he wants to hear but also fears what Mandy has to say. Editor James Lyons, Christian Bale has an uncanny ability to register subtle shifts of emotion without speaking a line. As Arthur he spends most of the film listening to Cecil and Mandy tell their stories while he remembers his youth. Without this faculty, his character would have been lost; with it, he takes his rightful place as the emotional center of the film. As we watch him listen, we see how much what he's hearing makes him feel. First, we are intrigued, then, as we learn more about him, moved.
That phrase between brackets is in the script but not in the film; it is from Richard Ellmann, who said it of Wilde himself.
