Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson and Robert Stephens. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie DVD : amzn.to/3OKys0G The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Blu-ray : amzn.to/3I0xvha
It is actually quite deceiving as the film has completely different feel. Not to mention when they say "whole rebellious generation of Jean Brodies..." - it is an utter nonsense.
Ahhhhhh one of my favorite movies of all time. I often yell "assasin" at someone jokingly but I've yet to say it to anyone who knew that it came from this movie when Ms Brody screamed it down the stairwell at her pupil who ruined her.
RIP Dame Celia Johnson (December 18, 1908 - April 26, 1982), aged 73 RIP Gordon Jackson (December 12, 1923 - January 15, 1990), aged 66 RIP Sir Robert Stephens (July 14, 1931 - November 12, 1995), aged 64 You will be remembered as legends.
I didn't realize that it was Celia Johnson who played the headmistress. She was the female lead in "Brief Encounter," 1945, a wonderful film reflecting the moods and attitudes of the post-war era in Britain.
True that. But also reminds me of the quality of the that confrontation between Barbara (Judi Dench) and Sheba (Cate Blanchette) in Notes on a Scandal.
Yes, it’s electrifying and of supreme importance, yet it’s just a headmistress and a teacher one day at school. Miss Brodie would be thrilled that the everyday was elevated to literature and high art
I loved the novel by Muriel Spark, I didn't know until today that they had made a movie in the 1960s out of it (or rather, the stage version) and that Maggie Smith won an Oscar for it.
The play by Jay Presson Allen, who also did the screenplay for the film, was a success in London (with Vanessa Redgrave) and on Broadway (with Zoe Caldwell). There is a later 7-part TV adaptation of the novel (Geraldine McEwan, another great choice!); I don't know how closely it follows the novel.
Here's a fun fact. In The Dance Sequence there was a Young Girl who was an Extra who in 1974 debuted on Coronation Street. It was none other than Helen Worth (Wigglesworth) as Gail. She's practically grown up on The Street.
OMG, watching this trailer is like watching Downton Abbey v. Upstairs Downstairs! In this corner we have the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley, and this corner we have loyal butler to the Bellamys, Angus Hudson.
I saw this when I was 12. I had always wanted to be a teacher. Although I didn't pick up on all the nuances Spark captured on paper ... This confirmed the type of Educator I wanted to be ... it is a calling and a gift to lead younger people out to find their Inspirations.
No its not. Its a job with certain requirements. The teachers who think "they are the chosen ones" and got "called to lead younger people" are usually amongst the worst and highly irritating ones.
The scenes of the art teacher and the underaged student would garner some rebuke in today’s atmosphere though i sure ... and the way he also assaulted Jean in the ladies room as well .... my have times changed
A BEAUTIFUL film Gordon Jackson.i p. Magie Smith .Robert Stephensr.i.p.ri.p .exetra .films of those days were beautiful 💖 the music absolutely beautiful. Great song writer🙏👍💖🕊🦋🌹rest in peace Rod mc kuen Amen.🙏
Well, the film and the trailer have that wretched song by Rod McKuen, which is a bit misleading. The actual film has a good deal more toughness to it, thanks in part to Jay Presson Allen's script and to the actors, especially Maggie Smith, Celia Johnson and Pamela Franklin, who are all superb.
This film is strange. The first half has not aged well and it was a bit boring but the second half vindicates the whole film. It is quite funny how the trailer is deceiving in what the whole atmosphere and meaning of the whole film is.
Seems like some good performances here, but it's just hard for me to sympathize with a character who admires fascist dictators. It'd be like dating a confused woman who supports Trump.
An uncle of mine has a sister-in-law who reminds me SO much of Ms. Brodie that she's also a staunch Trump supporter. She's also against abortions, too.
The curious thing is Jean Brodie was "progressive" and was enthralled with Fascism as many progressives were at the time. She is considered by head mistress Miss Mackay to be too progressive for the conservative school Marcia Blaine and is ultimately dismissed.
@@danielwinner3735 Um, maybe "progressive" in terms of teaching philosophy. But the leftist reformers (including those who wanted to soften the stranglehold Catholicism had on the country's public life) were firmly on the side of the Republic, as I understand it. Franco was stoutly aligned with the Right. Not sure what you mean by that term here.
@@markw4206 Leftists were not necessarily progressives and progressives in the 1930s certainly had different objectives than they do today, but Fascism WAS considered a progressive movement at the time as strange as it seems. The new fascist movement was a progressive ideology; progressive in that it rejected the status quo while conservatives wanted to maintain it. In the 30s, progressives embraced racist theories that included eugenics as well as nationalism. Today we associate those things with ultra conservatism, just like how the Republicans in America were anti-slavery and the Democrats were pro slavery/Jim Crow, these parties symbolize the opposite today.
