Gormenghast (2000) - A Gothic Fantasy Epic
Gormenghast (2000) is a visually stunning and richly atmospheric miniseries based on the classic novels by Mervyn Peake. Set in the sprawling, decaying castle of Gormenghast, the story follows the life of Titus Groan, heir to the ancient Groan dynasty, as he navigates the treacherous and bizarre world of the castle's inhabitants.
Directed by Andy Wilson, this gothic fantasy series is a masterpiece of dark, surreal storytelling, filled with eccentric characters, elaborate sets, and intricate plots. The miniseries explores themes of power, tradition, and rebellion as the inhabitants of Gormenghast are caught in a web of intrigue, madness, and dark secrets.
With its captivating performances, stunning production design, and a hauntingly beautiful score, Gormenghast transports viewers into a world unlike any other, where reality and fantasy blend in a mesmerizing tale of ambition and fate.
#Gormenghast2000 #GothicFantasy #EpicMiniseries #MervynPeake #SurrealStorytelling #DarkAtmosphere #AncientDynasty #IntricatePlots #EccentricCharacters #ElaborateSets #HauntinglyBeautiful #PowerAndTradition ⚔️ #DarkSecrets #VisualMasterpiece #FantasyEpic #MesmerizingTale #MustWatchMiniseries #AndyWilson
Gormenghast (2000) is a visually stunning and richly atmospheric miniseries based on the classic novels by Mervyn Peake. Set in the sprawling, decaying castle of Gormenghast, the story follows the life of Titus Groan, heir to the ancient Groan dynasty, as he navigates the treacherous and bizarre world of the castle's inhabitants.
Directed by Andy Wilson, this gothic fantasy series is a masterpiece of dark, surreal storytelling, filled with eccentric characters, elaborate sets, and intricate plots. The miniseries explores themes of power, tradition, and rebellion as the inhabitants of Gormenghast are caught in a web of intrigue, madness, and dark secrets.
With its captivating performances, stunning production design, and a hauntingly beautiful score, Gormenghast transports viewers into a world unlike any other, where reality and fantasy blend in a mesmerizing tale of ambition and fate.
#Gormenghast2000 #GothicFantasy #EpicMiniseries #MervynPeake #SurrealStorytelling #DarkAtmosphere #AncientDynasty #IntricatePlots #EccentricCharacters #ElaborateSets #HauntinglyBeautiful #PowerAndTradition ⚔️ #DarkSecrets #VisualMasterpiece #FantasyEpic #MesmerizingTale #MustWatchMiniseries #AndyWilson
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00:00:00Hold fast to the law of the last cold tome
00:00:09Where the earth of the truth lies thick upon the page
00:00:17And the loam of faith in the ink long fled
00:00:23From the drool of the nip-blows on
00:00:29To the last of the first depart
00:00:34And the least of the past is dust
00:00:39And the dust, the dust is lost
00:00:49Hold fast, golden dust, golden dust
00:01:19Ancient time of the 23rd though
00:01:38Did he?
00:01:41Ah, ah, reading of the laureate
00:01:47Tenure meditation on art
00:01:55Damned art, damned poetry, damned poetic ass
00:01:59You won't have finished it, and you want to change it at the last minute, damned
00:02:02Ass
00:02:04Don't worry, damned asswipe
00:02:06Your assistant knows the ritual of the poet of my heart
00:02:10He'll do it for you
00:02:13Like he does everything else
00:02:22Excuse me, Lord Shepherd
00:02:24Titus, Titus Grone
00:02:34This is no racetrack, young sir
00:02:36I am allowed to ride after breakfast
00:02:38And in the castle between eight and nine on a Monday morning
00:02:41That's the rules, Professor Belgrove, sir
00:02:43Well, quite, quite so
00:02:44But no permission to trample your old schoolmaster half to death
00:02:47Am I correct?
00:02:48Yes, I am
00:02:50You look pale, young lordship
00:02:53Are you all right?
00:02:54Been riding over somebody's ghost, have you?
00:02:56There's no such thing, sir
00:02:59Pontuality, Titus
00:03:01Tiredness is next to cleanliness
00:03:04Don't be late
00:03:05They were floating about 30 yards out
00:03:08I think about two hats
00:03:11And a letter
00:03:22What do you make of that?
00:03:24No more fire
00:03:26Our lips are sealed
00:03:28Our power is in water
00:03:31Clarice and Cora
00:03:34The appearance given, Mr. Secretary
00:03:36Is that the two ladyships have drowned themselves
00:03:39Good riddance, if you ask me
00:03:53Do you have a goat?
00:03:55A goat, ladieship
00:03:57Milk, for the cats
00:03:59Ah!
00:04:01See what you mean, a goat
00:04:03Have I got a goat?
00:04:11No!
00:04:13No!
00:04:15No!
00:04:17No!
00:04:19No!
00:04:22That's better
00:04:24Bring my goat
00:04:26Your goat?
00:04:28The goat man, bring it
00:04:32We haven't got a goat
00:04:34I require service, not sophistry
00:04:36Get my goat!
00:04:42I'm amazed, ladyship
00:04:44Where are the traditions of service?
00:04:46How old are you?
00:04:4838, madam
00:04:50Sit down
00:04:52How long since we've seen each other?
00:04:56Five years, madam
00:04:59I've been thinking
00:05:01Since the burning of the library
00:05:03And the disappearance of my husband
00:05:05Things have been wrong for years
00:05:07Something uneasy
00:05:09Do you feel it, squire?
00:05:11And now Clarice and Cora
00:05:13Bodies not found, not buried
00:05:15Their note mentioned burning, ladyship
00:05:17Perhaps it was they who
00:05:19Burned the library?
00:05:21A groan, burn, a groan
00:05:23Never!
00:05:25Made me think of it all again
00:05:27There is something among us
00:05:29There is stench
00:05:31I can smell it
00:05:33Do you mean
00:05:35Rebellion, ladyship?
00:05:37Rebellion?
00:05:39Who would dare rebel against Gormenghast?
00:05:43Forgive me, madam
00:05:45I want you to watch
00:05:47If there is such a thing as rebellion
00:05:49We shall find it
00:05:51Do you understand me, squire?
00:05:53I have no doubt, ladyship
00:06:03I've found one, doctor
00:06:05Wrong sex, you idiot
00:06:07You bring the female goat
00:06:09You fool
00:06:11Female goat?
00:06:13Take it away
00:06:17Come on
00:06:25I have a faith in you, squire
00:06:27I don't know why
00:06:29I'm honoured, madam
00:06:31Mark my words, if this thing exists
00:06:33It shall be crushed
00:06:35Steerpike!
00:06:39Steerpike, you're a pest
00:06:41Never mind, I need you
00:06:43Yes, sir
00:06:45I hope you don't mean it, you obsequious rat
00:06:47Double suicide
00:06:49No bodies, no bodies, no funeral
00:06:51Where are we then?
00:06:53We could bury their hat, sir
00:06:55I'll wipe that grin off your clock
00:06:57Damn slug
00:06:59Get me corpses
00:07:01And quick
00:07:03Stop
00:07:13As a matter of fact
00:07:15I don't think I will
00:07:17Mr Secretary Barkentine
00:07:19Asswipe and shitlicker
00:07:21Sir
00:07:33Dog it
00:07:43Dog it!
00:07:45Is that really you behind that mask of grime and ink?
00:07:47And if it is
00:07:49Were you trying to carve your name
00:07:51In your desk
00:07:53When you thought your master was asleep
00:07:55Yes, sir
00:07:57Haven't you dealt with the whole thing, have you, dog it?
00:07:59Only done the first three letters, sir
00:08:01Yes, well, you can leave the second G till later, boy
00:08:03The second G, sir?
00:08:05Yes, there are two G's in...
00:08:07Damn it, boy!
00:08:09Don't you know how to spell your own name?
00:08:13Come on, off you go
00:08:23It's break, young lordship
00:08:25Milk and a biscuit
00:08:31Stop
00:08:39Stop playing with your teeth, Belgrove
00:08:41It's damn rude
00:08:43I'm in pain, Mr Perch
00:08:45And what the hell have my teeth got to do with you?
00:08:47You're a hoarder
00:08:49You damn pedant
00:08:51Get them extracted
00:08:55Oh, poor old Fangs
00:08:57Fangs?
00:08:59I'll remind you that 15 short years ago
00:09:01I was considered for headmaster
00:09:03Yes, Fluke, headmaster
00:09:05Ow!
00:09:07Pain doesn't exist, dear boy
00:09:09It is merely an expression of inner disturbance
00:09:11The fact that you imagine it
00:09:13To be in your teeth is interesting
00:09:15Have you said something you regret lately?
00:09:17Ow!
00:09:19Pain doesn't exist, dear boy
00:09:21Perhaps we've put our foot in it lately, have we?
00:09:25Death!
00:09:27Death!
00:09:29I can hear it squeak
00:09:31Here he comes
00:09:33My wife again
00:09:35My wife again
00:09:37He has a name
00:09:39It's the headmaster
00:09:41Get out of it
00:09:43He's got something to say
00:09:45A notice for you all
00:09:47Oh
00:09:49Who are all these people?
00:09:51It's your staff, headmaster
00:09:53Oh
00:09:55Shall I get Belgrove to read the edict?
00:09:57Why not?
00:09:59What an honour, headmaster
00:10:01Thank you
00:10:03Read it, hurry up
00:10:05Get your teeth into it, Belgrove
00:10:07Yes, can he understand more than seven words in a row?
00:10:09Silence!
00:10:11Professor Belgrove
00:10:13Reference Lord Titus
00:10:1577th Earl
00:10:17I, being Secretary Barkentine
00:10:19give notice to remind you
00:10:21that no privileges of caste, class or title
00:10:23shall be afforded, therefore said Lord
00:10:25according to the ironclad precedence of Gormenghast
00:10:27He shall be of the ordinary
00:10:29no more, no less
00:10:31until his time of reason and puberty
00:10:33Take note
00:10:35You exist to teach, not fawn
00:10:37Fawn?
00:10:39Barkentine, you bastard bugger
00:10:41Headmaster Death
00:10:43I would have you impress upon your staff
00:10:45the magnitude of their office
00:10:47and in particular
00:10:49those who confuse their calling
00:10:51with indolence
00:10:53signed as for Barkentine, Steerpike
00:10:55Steerpike?
00:10:57It's you, Belgrove
00:10:59The whole damn thing's aimed at you
00:11:01Oh dear
00:11:03But you teach his lordship, don't you?
00:11:05Who did you say all these people were?
00:11:09Nothing you need be concerned with, headmaster
00:11:11Out!
00:11:13Out!
00:11:15Get out!
00:11:17Out!
00:11:19Steerpike, you bastard bugger!
00:11:47It's worse
00:11:49300 dead and rising
00:11:53And what a way to die
00:11:55The fever
00:11:57The boils
00:11:59The blood
00:12:01Most of them beg for the mercy of death
00:12:03What about Gertrude?
00:12:05She's quarantined like you
00:12:07Are you saying she's not even dead yet?
00:12:09Not even ill?
00:12:11Headless
00:12:13Headless
00:12:15Not even ill?
00:12:17I hear the Lady of Fuchsia's looking feverish
00:12:19So there's hope yet
00:12:21Surely the time for you to emerge
00:12:23and claim your rightful power
00:12:25cannot be far away
00:12:27We want some servants
00:12:29If I knew they weren't infected
00:12:31I'd bring you a hundred
00:12:33But what would be more tragic
00:12:35for you to be struck down
00:12:37at the very moment when you were to mount your golden thrones?
00:12:39Are they ready?
00:12:41We want to see them
00:12:43Ladyships!
00:12:45I am trying to keep the plague from your door
00:12:49How dare you make these demands on me?
00:12:53How dare you!
00:12:55I won't tolerate it!
00:12:57Get under the carpet!
00:13:01Get under the carpet now!
00:13:07Get under it
00:13:09and you'll get nothing
00:13:11No servants
00:13:13No crowns
00:13:15No thrones
00:13:17Nothing!
00:13:19Get under the carpet!
00:13:25Thank you
00:13:27Now I shall continue to protect you
00:13:29and return with provisions by and by
00:13:39Oh
00:13:51We could, couldn't we?
00:13:53We could do it together
00:13:57Next time he comes
00:13:59We could, couldn't we?
00:14:01We could kill him
00:14:05The ninth day of the month
00:14:09The ninth, Mr. Secretary
00:14:11That's what I said
00:14:13The egg should be blue
00:14:15not red
00:14:17The ninth, you don't
00:14:19Didn't I say the ninth?
00:14:21The egg should be blue
00:14:23not red
00:14:25In addition to your daily scholastic
00:14:27duties, Lordship
00:14:29Eleven o'clock
00:14:31Release of the five hawks
00:14:33from the northeast turret
00:14:35One fifteen, the groaning
00:14:37of the dungeon with your sister
00:14:39Lady Fuchsia
00:14:43Four o'clock
00:14:45Blessing of the meat rugs
00:14:47Five o'clock
00:14:49The ceremony of the laureate
00:14:51The reading of the ten year meditation on art
00:14:53Most important, Lordship
00:15:07Four o'clock
00:15:25Four o'clock
00:15:37Four o'clock
00:15:53Lesson
00:15:55Lesson over
00:16:01Lordship, he said to you
00:16:03We must rehearse the ceremony of the laureate
00:16:05Cut back!
00:16:07The rigors of ancient learning
00:16:09Where's the boy?
00:16:11Boy, sir? What boy?
00:16:13Don't bop boy me
00:16:15There was a boy here in this corridor just now
00:16:17I saw him. Where is he?
00:16:19With respect, Mr. Secretary
00:16:21You are here confronted with the greatest group of experts on boys
00:16:23possibly ever assembled
00:16:25We know what a boy looks like, what he sounds like
00:16:27What the idiot had for dinner
00:16:29If I may, Professor Perry
00:16:31Where's the sodding boy?
00:16:33I apologize for the tone of my colleague, Mr. Secretary
00:16:35But not necessarily his intention
00:16:41You have
00:16:43protected a boy
00:16:45with insolence
00:16:47If I may say, sir, it was not I
00:16:49Let me just say, Belgrove
00:16:51that this afternoon is the ceremony
00:16:53of the laureate
00:16:55If every boy, and I mean
00:16:57every boy is not there
00:16:59assembled, I will personally
00:17:01twist your malodorous
00:17:03intestines around
00:17:05your brainless skull
00:17:07Stand back, sir
00:17:15Titus
00:17:17I know where you went, boy
00:17:19Come on
00:17:27Titus
00:17:29Titus
00:17:31Titus, come back
00:17:35It's the ceremony
00:17:37Titus
00:17:41Oh, me, an expert
00:17:43on boys
00:17:45You silly old fool, Professor Belgrove
00:17:59Titus
00:18:17The Hall of Bright Colourings
00:18:19I must be near to the castle wall
00:18:29Titus
00:18:59Titus
00:19:15Out
00:19:17I'm out of it
00:19:29Titus
00:19:55All boys ready for the day of the laureate, Headmaster
00:19:57Barkentine wants them counted
00:20:05Is he asleep?
00:20:07Famous for somnolent awareness, sir
00:20:11Once a kitchen slug
00:20:13always a kitchen slug
00:20:17All boys, Headmaster
00:20:21Every single one of them
00:20:23Drainage
00:20:27Drainage
00:20:35All clear
00:20:41Yes
00:20:49All clear
00:20:53Yes
00:20:57All clear
00:21:01Look out! It's the Headmaster
00:21:03Look out!
00:21:05Death is coming
00:21:07Headcount, Secretary Barkentine
00:21:09has ordered a headcount
00:21:11All boys to be counted
00:21:13Headmaster
00:21:17Headmaster
00:21:19Headmaster
00:21:21Headmaster
00:21:27What?
00:21:29What?
00:21:33What happened?
00:21:35Asleep?
00:21:37Are you accusing me
00:21:39of dereliction of duty?
00:21:41I'll have you retract those words
00:21:43I was cogitating a particularly deep problem
00:21:45on the nature of ambition, as it happens
00:21:47Besides
00:21:49what were you all doing in my inner sanctum?
00:21:51En masse, may I add
00:21:53It's the young Earl, sir
00:21:55He's gone missing
00:21:57Supposed to be in your class, wasn't he?
00:21:59My class?
00:22:01And you mean he wasn't?
00:22:03Oh, bless my soul
00:22:05What do you suggest we do about it?
00:22:07I suggest
00:22:11Why should it be I who does the suggesting?
00:22:13Stupid bugger
00:22:15Doesn't get it, does he?
00:22:17Headmaster, what are we going to do?
00:22:19Headmaster
00:22:21The previous
00:22:23you have existed at all
00:22:25now, without any doubt, doesn't
00:22:27And as the most senior member of staff
00:22:29Belgrove
00:22:31whatever your qualifications
00:22:33the burden now falls
00:22:35on you
00:22:37Me?
00:22:39Headmaster?
00:22:41What do you mean
00:22:43whatever my qualifications?
00:22:45Upstart, sluggard
00:22:47Pass
00:22:49And you could stop that fluke
00:22:51Yes, things are
00:22:53going to change around here, you know
00:22:55A new order has begun
00:22:57and the first thing you will all do
00:22:59is listen to your new
00:23:01headmaster
00:23:03Out with it then
00:23:05Out with what, Mule?
00:23:07The Earl, tosspot
00:23:09He's gone missing, what do we do?
00:23:11Calm, we stay calm, gentlemen
00:23:13Your headmaster is here
00:23:15Authority at last
00:23:17Search, search for him, that's what we do
00:23:19Yes, never fear, gentlemen
00:23:21The young Earl shall be found
00:23:23and I, Belgrove, shall find him
00:23:49Titus
00:24:03Titus
00:24:05She will be your little sister
00:24:07and you will love her
00:24:19No, wait
00:24:21Come back
00:24:25Wait, I think I know you
00:24:27I won't hurt you, wait
00:24:33Come on
00:24:35Come on
00:24:43Where is he?
00:24:45Mr. Secretary, I would have you know that I've risen somewhat
00:24:47in my profession, and now, as you might say
00:24:49the zenith of it, and as head of our proud school
00:24:51I would be grateful if you did not address me in such
00:24:53disrespectful tones
00:24:55Shut up, you useless, elongated fart
00:24:59I'm damned if I'll see the tradition of a thousand years
00:25:01ruined by some
00:25:03damned little
00:25:05Oh, madam, little Earl
00:25:11Where is he?
00:25:13No sign, Mr. Secretary, I'm afraid
00:25:17We'll do it without him
00:25:19Take a boy, any boy
00:25:21put the ribbon in his hair, stand him down there
00:25:23and when I say so
00:25:25tell him to give the laureate
00:25:27his idiot poem
00:25:29We'll do it, sit there like some
00:25:31turd-stuck crumb, do it
00:25:33Doggies, doggies, get up, boys
00:25:35Yes, yes, come on
00:25:37Stand still, come on
00:25:39Find him, bitter brain
00:25:41Earl or no Earl
00:25:43I'll teach him to flout the traditions of this place
00:25:45There we are, now, look lively
00:25:47Over there, go, go, go
00:25:49Take it out, up the steps, boy
00:25:51But don't show off, doggie
00:25:53Come on, you ass of a child, up the steps
00:25:55Up the steps, boy
00:25:57Come on
00:25:59No, no, my eyes, my work
00:26:01Ten years
00:26:03Ten years of crap, no doubt
00:26:05Leave it, leave it
00:26:09Damn his lordship
00:26:11Damn him, damn, damn
00:26:13Where is he?
00:26:15Where in hell is he?
00:26:19I'm lost
00:26:27Where are you?
00:26:43Who are you?
00:26:49Flay
00:26:51I've heard of you, Mr. Flay
00:26:53You were my father's servant
00:26:59Where is this?
00:27:01It's my own lordship
00:27:05Are you ill?
00:27:07Not ill, boy
00:27:09Banished
00:27:11Banished?
00:27:13Why?
00:27:17Knew you right away, lordship
00:27:21The eyes
00:27:23Eat rabbit
00:27:25I snare, see
00:27:27New life
00:27:31Look after Flay
00:27:33That's it
00:27:35Duty gone
00:27:39I'm very sorry, Mr. Flay
00:27:43Mr. Flay
00:27:45I saw something in a forest of trees made of stone
00:27:47She was on a branch
00:27:49She? Small thing, fast
00:27:51She moved like lightning, Mr. Flay
00:27:53Don't go near her
00:27:55Why, Mr. Flay?
00:27:57She seemed to me to be very free and easy
00:27:59Leave her
00:28:01Leave her
00:28:03Leave her
00:28:05Free
00:28:07Duty, lordship
00:28:09Ancient duty
00:28:11All there is
00:28:13Your father said
00:28:15I never saw my father
00:28:17You did, boy
00:28:19You saw him
00:28:21What was he like?
00:28:23Earl of Gormenghast
00:28:25Did he love me?
00:28:27Why would he say
00:28:29Leave the girl alone, Mr. Flay?
00:28:31Not girl, wild thing
00:28:33Comes from carvers
00:28:35Steals from own
00:28:37Not of the stones
00:28:41Bad, lordship
00:28:43Bad
00:28:45Sleep
00:28:47Take you back
00:28:51Eat
00:28:53Eat
00:29:09I like you very much, Mr. Flay
00:29:15This whelp has searched
00:29:17No sign, your ladyship
00:29:19Then search again
00:29:21And this time you'll succeed, Barkentine
00:29:23Or I'll have your head on a spike
00:29:25Yes, madam
00:29:29He turned up in my room ten minutes ago
00:29:31Mr. Flay brought me back
00:29:33Why was he banished, mother?
00:29:35I know no Flay
00:29:37Mother? I know no Flay
00:29:41What do you do with him, Mr. Secretary?
00:29:43What can be done? He's gone
00:29:45A faithful servant
00:29:47We don't have many
00:29:49What do you do with his lordship?
00:29:51He ran
00:29:53What's his punishment?
00:29:55In you go, young sir
00:29:57You brought it on your own head, remember
00:30:01Use the time to think
00:30:07Banished
00:30:19Six for searching
00:30:21Seven for heaven
00:30:23Eight for aching
00:30:33Nine for nothing
00:30:35Ten for less
00:30:37Lady Fuchsia
00:30:39May I join you?
00:30:41What do you want?
00:30:43Just to walk with you
00:30:45If it would please you
00:30:47Nothing else
00:30:49The wood is free
00:30:51I can't stop you, can I?
00:30:53You can walk behind me if you like
00:30:59Nothing's free, Lady Fuchsia
00:31:03You said the wood is free
00:31:05I don't believe anything is free
00:31:07Except dreams
00:31:09What do you know of dreams?
00:31:11We all dream
00:31:13I dream of equality
00:31:15I believe there should be no poor
00:31:17No rich
00:31:19No strong or weak
00:31:21Equality is everything
00:31:23Don't you think?
00:31:25Lady Fuchsia
00:31:29I wouldn't know anything about it
00:31:37Don't you think it's wrong?
00:31:39If some people starve and other people have so much they waste it
00:31:41Don't you think the brave and the skillful should be rewarded?
00:31:45Don't you think talent is as important as wealth?
00:31:47It's raining
00:31:49Don't you think cruelty and greed should be stopped for good?
00:31:55I'm getting wet
00:32:01No
00:32:03I'm getting soaked
00:32:05I'm getting soaked
00:32:11No, Lady Fuchsia, not that way
00:32:15Lady Fuchsia
00:32:19Lady Fuchsia
00:32:35Where does it hurt?
00:32:37I'm all right
00:32:39Don't be a hero
00:32:41I know you're brave
00:32:43I want to know exactly where it hurts
00:32:47It's my leg
00:32:49I'm cold
00:32:55Gently, gently, come on
00:32:59Head wound, Doctor
00:33:01Leg might be broken
00:33:03Show me quickly, dear boy
00:33:05Fetch men and a stretcher, I'll get my bag
00:33:07Don't move
00:33:09Perfect
00:33:13You are magnificent
00:33:15Why, thank you, Madam
00:33:17At your service
00:33:19At my service
00:33:25Don't you try not to joke, sir
00:33:27Steady, steady there
00:33:29This is no ordinary cargo
00:33:31It's precious
00:33:33Not you, kitchen boy
00:33:47Life is amusing
00:33:49Isn't it?
00:33:55Not a bone in the least broken
00:33:57Anatomically quite sound, Your Ladyship
00:33:59Where's dear Pike?
00:34:01You don't want to see that horrid thing, do you?
00:34:03No, no, not at all
00:34:13I hate them
00:34:15I hate them
00:34:17Who, my agitato sister?
00:34:19Why do you
00:34:21never listen to me?
00:34:23Place of my flesh, to cut me
00:34:25would be to carve at the very marrow of yourself
00:34:27Wouldn't the flap of an envelope be more appropriate?
00:34:29Why should I be punished like this?
00:34:31Am I without charm or grace
00:34:33or intellect?
00:34:35Bulging bag of all three, my talented Tyro
00:34:37Then why do I never have any advances paid to me?
00:34:39Are you speaking financially?
00:34:41No, Alfred, I am not
00:34:43And well you know it
00:34:45I mean, what's wrong with your sex?
00:34:47Can't they see my neck, my hair?
00:34:49I move well, don't I?
00:34:51Can't they see my carriage?
00:34:53You're too powerful, sweet white of egg
00:34:55I'm sorry to say, but that carriage, as you put it
00:34:57supercharged as it is
00:34:59terrifies them, my spasmic wife
00:35:01I hate them
00:35:03men
00:35:05blind, stupid, clumsy
00:35:07horrible, vulgar, heavy things
00:35:09and you
00:35:11are one of them
00:35:13Oh, my dear
00:35:15I'm going to have a party
00:35:17Bodily functions are nothing to be ashamed of, dear wind
00:35:19A party, Alfred, a party
00:35:21I am a prune squalor
00:35:23Oh, can we have one?
00:35:25A party, my dear? Are you the type to give a party?
00:35:27Indeed are you the type to go to one
00:35:29Oh, but I see you're determined
00:35:31May I have the knife?
00:35:33Oh, you're going to be the host
00:35:35Have I told you, Alfred, that I am thinking of getting married?
00:35:37To one of those you hate?
00:35:39We'll find just the man for you, my avenging angel
00:35:41Now, have you thought who to invite?
00:35:43What they are to wear?
00:35:45Oh, that simple, evening dress
00:35:47Such things can be cruel, my fashionato
00:35:49Few ladies have such resplendent gowns as you
00:35:51Oh, who cares? There won't be any women
00:35:53No ladies?
00:35:55I must be alone, Alfred, with them
00:35:57The mayor
00:35:59I see, and have you considered who they might be?
00:36:01These rams, these tomcats, these bulls, oh, thicker than water
00:36:03I have in mind a gathering of forty
00:36:05Forty men?
00:36:07It is my last chance, Alfred
00:36:09Listen to me, my dear, listen to an affectionate brother
00:36:11You see, in a smaller party
00:36:13you will find more time to size up the qualities of those present
00:36:15Thirty?
00:36:17A dozen
00:36:19I'm merely trying to put myself in your place, my dear
00:36:21It takes an effort
00:36:23I can't do it
00:36:25Any idea who this gallant score might be?
00:36:27Oh
00:36:29The professors
00:36:31Oh, it's so obvious
00:36:33Why didn't I think of it before?
00:36:35Unless you recall
00:36:37A soiree
00:36:39Rams, soirees, professors
00:36:41Are not these terms mutually exclusive?
00:36:43I shall issue invitations in blue and gold
00:36:45We shall soiree in ten days, Alfred
00:36:47Oh, Lord
00:36:49In ten days' time
00:36:51a man of learning will be mine to keep
00:36:53I shall understand him
00:36:55administer to him
00:36:57and keep him clean
00:36:59Irma, my dear, do not think
00:37:01No, Alfred, I do not think
00:37:03Thought is for mortals
00:37:05I am a woman
00:37:09An invitation
00:37:11from Miss Prunescroller
00:37:13She has invited us
00:37:15Shut up, fluke
00:37:17This is a damned crisis
00:37:19Nothing less
00:37:21Crisis? Stupid bastard
00:37:23How long is it since you've seen a woman?
00:37:25And how long is it since you have
00:37:27Or have not, Professor Muir
00:37:29She wants a husband
00:37:31Long-necked Irma
00:37:33wants a husband
00:37:37No, no, no, no, no, no, gentlemen
00:37:39Please, please, I will not have a lady's name
00:37:41Oh, bloody bugger
00:37:43She wants him
00:37:45Oh, no
00:37:47Oh, yes
00:37:49Gentlemen, please, stop it at once
00:37:51Nonsense
00:37:53There's no way to talk of a lady
00:37:55Or of a headmaster
00:37:57Him, the very him
00:37:59The very head
00:38:01No, no, no, no, no, no
00:38:03No, no, me
00:38:05I think it is you, Balbo
00:38:07No, no
00:38:09Oh, shush, nonsense
00:38:11Where?
00:38:13Oh
00:38:19Perfect
00:38:31Only three days
00:38:33to go, Alfred
00:38:35Tempest
00:38:37Fugit, my seismic one
00:38:39Tempest, Fugit
00:38:51Titus
00:38:53Titus
00:38:55Fuchsia
00:38:57Here, I brought you some sweets
00:39:03I miss you, Titus
00:39:05And I miss you
00:39:07What about the party?
00:39:09All your professors are going
00:39:11Yuck
00:39:13I hate them
00:39:15Mother, Buckingham, I hate all of them
00:39:17I hate them for locking you up
00:39:19And I hate them for ignoring me
00:39:23Titus
00:39:25I spat out of my window today
00:39:27I spat on the stones
00:39:29I hate them all that much
00:39:33Titus, can you hear me?
00:39:36And I spit on the stones, too
00:39:40Can you feel my fingers?
00:39:46Titus, you're my brother, and I love you
00:39:48You're my sister, and I love you
00:39:53Bye, Titus
00:39:55Remember what we said
00:39:57Fuchsia, Fuchsia
00:39:59I hate them, too
00:40:01All of them
00:40:03All of them
00:40:05Well
00:40:07Tonight's the night
00:40:09Will I or won't I?
00:40:11Irma Prunschwaller
00:40:13Statement made in the staff room
00:40:15She's passionate about me
00:40:19Consider
00:40:21One, it's poppycock
00:40:23Two, my damned staff are damned interferers
00:40:25Call themselves teachers
00:40:27They lie to add zest to the party
00:40:29Three, I haven't questioned their lies
00:40:31So they don't know that I've seen through it
00:40:33Four
00:40:35So far, so good
00:40:37Five
00:40:39How do I turn the tables against these spoilers
00:40:41Of all that is young and wonderful
00:40:43And let's face it, lamb-like
00:40:45Six
00:40:47What's wrong with Irma Prunschwaller anyway?
00:40:49Noses must be some shape or other
00:40:51Or as that damned idiot Shredd would say
00:40:53They wouldn't exist at all
00:40:55Seven
00:40:57No bosoms to speak of
00:40:59True, but then what are bosoms
00:41:01Weighed against
00:41:03Quite
00:41:05Eight
00:41:07I'm lonely
00:41:09Oh, Belgrove, such scouring
00:41:11Not to say moving, honesty
00:41:13Nine
00:41:15What a catch I am
00:41:17For any woman
00:41:19Ten
00:41:21Oh, God, please make her mine
00:41:23Lord, help my soul
00:41:27Morlocks!
00:41:31Morlocks!
00:41:33It's I, Jew, madam
00:41:35Why don't you make a sound? Can't you see I wear no spectacles?
00:41:37Don't go, Morlocks, it's dust
00:41:39Dust and dust again
00:41:41I tell you what, sister
00:41:43If you ain't a work of art, I don't know what is
00:41:45Alfred, how do I seem to you?
00:41:47I'm over here, my dear
00:41:49Turn round, turn round
00:41:51Oh, to think the same blood
00:41:53Batters our veins
00:41:55What do you mean? I thought you were praising me
00:41:57And so I was, but tell me now, what is it that's somehow different
00:41:59My pneumatic one
00:42:01You've gained a bosom
00:42:03Alfred, you've always said that busts are what you make of them
00:42:05My dear
00:42:07Well, I've made one from a hot water bottle
00:42:09A very expensive one
00:42:11Don't you think it gives me pride of bearing
00:42:13Just tell me, tell me exactly
00:42:15Morlocks!
00:42:17Be a dear, go and talk to cook
00:42:21Dear sister
00:42:23No, Alfred, I won't listen
00:42:25Wait, there's something else, wait
00:42:27No
00:42:29Well
00:42:31Alfred
00:42:33What flair you have
00:42:35Don't spare me
00:42:39My only thought, my Arabic one
00:42:41Is that having so precisely positioned
00:42:43Such a pair of watery protuberances as it were
00:42:45Is it not spitting in the face of the divine
00:42:47To conceal them
00:42:49You're going to ruin it, Alfred
00:42:51I know you are
00:42:53The vivacity of the visage, sweet nicotine
00:42:55And the twin peaks of paradise
00:42:57Are, shall we say, hidden beneath net
00:42:59Dearest
00:43:01Paradise
00:43:03Hidden
00:43:05Never
00:43:07It is I
00:43:09Oh, let them come
00:43:11My men from the mountains
00:43:13Come along, gentlemen
00:43:15Come along, gentlemen
00:43:17Shoelaces, mule, shoelaces
00:43:19Step lively like Lance the Slaughter
00:43:21Don't dawdle, mule
00:43:23Come on
00:43:25The bickering, the bickering is unnecessary
00:43:27Come along
00:43:29This way
00:43:31Follow me
00:43:33Come on, gentlemen
00:43:45Poor old nanny
00:43:47You're the easiest
00:43:49So you can go first
00:43:55All in the course of science, you understand
00:44:07Good night, nanny
00:44:15Sleep tight
00:44:21Professor Mule
00:44:23That's a mule
00:44:25Chop, chop
00:44:27Professor Mule
00:44:31Evening
00:44:35Bastard
00:44:39Bug
00:44:41Pardon us
00:44:43Yes, professor
00:44:45Female of the species
00:44:47Strange
00:44:49But true
00:44:51Care for a canopy
00:44:53Now
00:44:57The last of them
00:44:59Just a minute
00:45:01Professor Belgrove
00:45:03Headmaster
00:45:09Eve
00:45:11Eve
00:45:13Head
00:45:15Madam
00:45:17Master
00:45:23Booger
00:45:27Booger
00:45:29No way to behave in front of a woman
00:45:31Bloody booger bastard
00:45:33Gentlemen
00:45:35Pass that arm there
00:45:37Help me get him into it
00:45:39Eve
00:45:43One more
00:45:45Stand back
00:45:47Give him air
00:45:49Forgive him, madam
00:45:51He's extended before you as a sign of weakness
00:45:53We are all mere men
00:45:55Is this not how we all feel
00:45:57Church, Luke, Throttlebound
00:45:59Convey the professor to his quarters where he may recover
00:46:01Headmaster
00:46:03I understand utterly
00:46:05He has honoured me
00:46:07Alfred, do something
00:46:09He shall not be removed from this room
00:46:11It's a full-blown spasm, dearest
00:46:13Spasm or no spasm, he shall remain
00:46:15Bollocks
00:46:17Fetch my silver hammer
00:46:19And scissors
00:46:21We'll need to snip his clothes off
00:46:23This is no place for you
00:46:25Headmaster, it is for you to speak and me to listen
00:46:27Take my arm
00:46:29Such as it is
00:46:31I shall accompany you, professor
00:46:33Excellent
00:46:35Well
00:46:37The garden
00:46:39The garden?
00:46:41It shall be our first promenade together
00:46:43But I hardly know you, headmaster
00:46:45Let's see
00:46:51Um, uh, lilac
00:46:53Can you not smell the lilac, my dear madam
00:46:55I have a cold
00:46:57Ah, yes, women are such sensitive creatures
00:46:59And require light, headmaster
00:47:01Light? Certainly
00:47:03I'm afraid you cannot see me here
00:47:05I would have you sit on my right
00:47:07Ah, well, um
00:47:09What you would have
00:47:11You shall be given
00:47:13Shall we rise together
00:47:15Hmm
00:47:17At last
00:47:19How could you use such a word in front of a lady
00:47:21Silence, am I not your headmaster
00:47:23Oh, um
00:47:25Do forgive me, I
00:47:33Ah
00:47:35Right, turn him over
00:47:37Over
00:47:39I am so heavy
00:47:41I knew it
00:47:43So did I
00:47:49My dear
00:47:51You're cold
00:47:53It's this damnable armour
00:47:55I will not have you use
00:47:57Strong language
00:47:59In our sacred place
00:48:01You must forgive
00:48:03An old fool
00:48:05But I was just trying to
00:48:07To dam this dark
00:48:09Which prevents me
00:48:11From seeing the proud beauty
00:48:13Of your face
00:48:15Ah
00:48:17Ah
00:48:23Quiet
00:48:25Oh, um, uh
00:48:27Ah
00:48:29Ah
00:48:31Ah
00:48:33Man, man
00:48:35Ah
00:48:37Ah
00:48:39Ah
00:48:41Ah
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00:48:45Ah
00:48:47Ah
00:48:49Ah
00:48:51Ah
00:48:53Nanny
00:48:55Nanny
00:48:57Oh
00:48:59My weak heart
00:49:03Nanny
00:49:05Help, someone, help
00:49:07Nanny, Nanny, what's wrong
00:49:09Let me see
00:49:11No, not you, you get the doctor
00:49:13Yes, ladyship, at once
00:49:15Nanny
00:49:19Something
00:49:21Wrong
00:49:23All
00:49:25Wrong
00:49:29Nanny
00:49:41See it as a gift from the kitchen boy
00:49:43Nanny
00:49:51Have her buried in the graveyard
00:49:53For select retainers, squalor
00:50:03I don't feel anything, mother
00:50:05Am I wicked
00:50:07She was a good servant, you'll miss her
00:50:09See to it, squalor
00:50:11Ladyship
00:50:17You are not wicked, my dear
00:50:23When are they going to let Titus out of the fort
00:50:27It's not fair
00:50:29He's just a little boy
00:50:31He'll be out like a jack-in-the-box in no time at all
00:50:33He must
00:50:37And I want to see my daddy
00:50:41My dear
00:50:45Where did he go, Doctor Poo
00:50:47He was a very sick man
00:50:49Who knows what happened to him
00:50:53Mr. Flay is still alive
00:50:55Mr. Flay
00:50:57Titus has seen him
00:50:59And he also sells something else
00:51:01A wild thing
00:51:03A wild girl
00:51:05And now he says he's in love with her
00:51:07Enough, Nanny
00:51:09I'm sorry, Nanny
00:51:15I can't stand it
00:51:17I can't
00:51:23I can't stand it
00:51:35Now, learn, lordship
00:51:37Learn the code
00:51:39Learn the canon
00:51:41Learn who you are
00:51:43Learn Gormenghast
00:51:49It's my family, Mr. Secretary
00:51:51I'll learn what I'll learn in my own time
00:52:21Stop
00:52:43Starve, then
00:52:51It's him
00:52:57It's him
00:52:59I hate him, don't you
00:53:09This way
00:53:21Titus, I'm frightened
00:53:23I know what I'm doing
00:53:25I want to show you something
00:53:27This way
00:53:45It's her
00:53:47The wild girl
00:53:49She was there
00:53:51I saw her
00:53:53She must be able to get in and out of the castle whenever she wants
00:53:55I didn't come all this way just to see her
00:53:57Calm down
00:53:59You said we were going to go and see Mr. Flay
00:54:01To find out what happened to Father
00:54:03The stupid wild girl
00:54:05Why are you so interested in her?
00:54:07You can't be like her in any way
00:54:09And if Mother knew, what would she say?
00:54:11I don't care what she says
00:54:13She never talks to me anyway
00:54:15She's got her stupid birds, hasn't she?
00:54:17And that's what they don't like
00:54:19They think they know everything
00:54:21Well, now I know something that they don't
00:54:23And I'll tell you something else, Fuchsia
00:54:25I want to be just like her
00:54:27Gone again
00:54:29He's in your charge
00:54:31I'm not his keeper, ladyship
00:54:33Barkentine, find the boy
00:54:35And his sister, though you needn't waste too much time on that
00:54:37Go away
00:54:39I'll have you pinned to the rock
00:54:41With your eyes out, Barkentine
00:54:43Believe me
00:54:45Come, and lordships go
00:54:47Ladyship
00:54:49Gormenghast stays put
00:54:53This wild thing
00:54:55You think that's what this is all about?
00:54:57It would appear to be, madam
00:54:59It's the brat from his foster mother, isn't it?
00:55:01I would hypothesize
00:55:03That quite possibly, given the history
00:55:05Why can you not use one word
00:55:07When one will do, Squalor?
00:55:09Yes
00:55:11This thing stealing from the carvers
00:55:13They say she steals only the best
00:55:15Only the most beautiful, your ladyship
00:55:17What's that got to do with it?
00:55:19The carvers loathe her
00:55:21And he is the male heir, Squalor
00:55:23Yes
00:55:25That infested rag
00:55:27Barkentine is right
00:55:29Gormenghast is o'er
00:55:31I don't know what's worse
00:55:33You clammed up
00:55:35Or you in full flow
00:55:37Go away
00:55:39I prefer my birds
00:55:41The owls
00:55:43They killed my father
00:55:45In the Tower of Flint
00:55:47What he wanted, ladyship
00:55:49Cook, slug, swelter, you went too, same time
00:55:51Oh
00:55:53Noble man
00:55:55Why didn't anybody tell me?
00:55:57Only I knew, ladyship
00:55:59Lordship now, look to duty
00:56:01Come back with us, Mr. Flay
00:56:03Can't
00:56:05I could show you the tunnel
00:56:07You could live in the east wing
00:56:09But
00:56:11Look out for Steerpike
00:56:13Why? Why always Steerpike?
00:56:15It's not fair
00:56:17People don't like him just because
00:56:19He's more brilliant than them, that's all
00:56:21At least he talks to me
00:56:23And at least he's better than this wild thing
00:56:29Please come back with us, Mr. Flay
00:56:31Be ready, lordship
00:56:33No tunnel, we'll watch
00:56:35Come when you need me
00:56:37You, sir
00:56:43Now you'll learn
00:56:45Because you'll stay there till you do
00:56:53I'm so sorry, Nanny
00:56:55I don't know what to do
00:57:01No one loves me
00:57:03Not me
00:57:07What shall I do?
00:57:11I can't dream forever
00:57:25Lady Fuchsia
00:57:27I had no idea you'd be here
00:57:29I
00:57:31I didn't know her well but I thought
00:57:35I'm sure your flowers will please her most
00:57:39It's all stupid anyway
00:57:43And I didn't think you were so sentimental
00:57:45I have my moods too
00:57:47How dare you
00:57:53You please yourself
00:57:55Why can't I?
00:57:59I
00:58:01I understand
00:58:03No you don't
00:58:05If I understand anything
00:58:07I understand anger
00:58:09And that's because I understand what it feels like to be rejected
00:58:13And don't think I don't understand loneliness too
00:58:15I'm sorry
00:58:17No
00:58:29No, no
00:58:31This is horrible
00:58:33You're horrible
00:58:37You leave me alone
00:58:39Never come near me
00:58:47I can wait
00:58:53Stones
00:58:55Stones
00:58:57Stone
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00:59:03I hate
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