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Does his foray into homophobia mean that he critiques the British for it or he bolsters it? The British have always seemed to be sexually repressed. I'm seeing this from afar, as an American, of course, but the repression of sexuality seems to seep through the books I read and even in their cinematic feats - the stereotype of the prudish Brit, as it were.

In the movie Maurice, there is a scene in which Maurice's friend goes to a therapist in London to discuss his "homosexual problem" and the therapist tells him to move to Greece or Italy. He states, "The British have always been disinclined to accept the natural inclination." I may be one word off in the quote. The movie takes place during the Edwardian period.

In the interest of transparency, I am an Anglophile. I watch almost every British movie I can get my hands on, especially the period films, and follow British online newspapers but the above is just an observation though one from afar, as I noted. I do not mean to offend.

Unfortunately he bolsters it, but I don't think he even realized what he was doing (which doesn't mitigate it, of course, but I don't think it was intentionally malicious). Aaah ... Maurice. Hugh Grant was very good in that film (is it all right to say that Grant was good in something?)

Ha, of course Hugh Grant was great in that film. I liked his counterpart better though I don't know his name, the tallish, redhead who bedded the stable boy & went off to America with him. I know I'm painting with a wide brush when I say this, but British film, in the main, seems to have more depth (more layers, more possible turns, twists, and interpretations) to it than American film. Sadly, my countrymen seem to produce a lot of brainless, action films with perfect-bodied people that resemble nobody in real life. It's like Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, "Is there a there, there?"

Beautiful James Wilby is the man you're thinking of, and he also played my favourite poet in Regeneration. But I have to tease you a bit now, Naftoli. The director of Maurice is James Ivory ... from Berkely, California :P

To be fair, though, his producer is from India, his screenwriter is an PolishGerman woman, and he spent most of his career turning the books of EM Forster into films, so he is an anglophile extraordinaire. But the man who makes such quintessentially English films is, in fact, a Yank.

Oh gosh, that color does not look good on me! LOL Well I am truly surprised that James Ivory, an American directed it.

But another amazing thing, the producer/director of Brokeback Mountain, can't recall his name, has produced one masterpiece movie after another and it is shocking that he's from Asia. He demonstrates a level of cultural awareness as sublime as that of Herman Hesse, the writer. Seems that, here and there, we find these unusually gifted individuals, outliers. Or perhaps the foreigner can see us better than we see ourselves.