Oh my God! That plush, unbelieveably-red lips, bright blue eyes, soft-looking pale skin, rosy cheeks, dark eyebrows... aaaaah! Just look at him! It's hard to believe such beauty can exist in real life. He looks like an elegant paitnting or a living porcelian doll with brightly painted eyes, lips and cheeks) Oh, yeah, did i need to talk about the acting, or about that scene, or... nevermind, i just feel like i can write a book about young James's beauty. Or... oh, can i write a book about his eyes only? Or about his lips?))
I like how, in the director's commentary, Stephen Frye talkes about the film editor wondering why James McAvoy keeps breaking into that thick Scotish braugh in between takes of this scene. She couldn't believe he really was Scotish and was just doing a posh 30's accent. :-D
good thing i watched your video. I almost bought this dvd last week and thought "maybe not"...cuz i thought he only has a bit role in it. Now I am decided. Thank you much.
I loved him from the very first time I saw him as Simon - though that makes me embarrassed to admit that I hadn't recognised him from the very first episode of Foyle's War.
@Moviesoundtrackguy Ahh right that one. I think that was composed by Anne Dudley. She has a few examples of the stuff she did on The Bright Young Things on her website.
Such a great cast here. James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, and Peter O Tool. The only determent in the cast department is Dan Akyroyd. He is terrible in this. There are better actors in the United States then him.
he's madly in love with the things he writes and then it gets him into so much trouble that they off him before the second act - only David Tennant is as good in this from fry, I think it was his first time, though he'd already been Wilde in Wilde? Great movie. Better than the book - Vile Bodies.
I just watched the film and was wondering about the same thing... though i think he committed/was committing suicide? He rly "put an end to it all" after missing out on the party... ):
His social life was over, he was about to be fired, and he had nothing else. So he killed himself. I think he stands for all the upperclassmen who committed suicide in those years.The old world was falling apart leaving them in chaos.
He was like 23 or 22 here although he can pass for 18 in this scene definitely doesn't look 12, he didn't even look 12 in his film debut The Near Room when he was 15, lol.
