Desperate Romantics BBC TV Miniseries The rise of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood E04 2009 Subtitles
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Whilst Hunt is in Syria, getting stoned and painting 'The Scapegoat', Fred is charged to keep Annie away from other men. But he falls into the river whilst taking her punting and has to take his clothes off, giving her the opportunity to do the same and seduce him. Hunt is - initially - none the wiser on return but breaks off his engagenent to Annie because she will not do as he asks and gives up her elocution lessons. She takes up with wealthy Lord Rosterley, a celebrated womanizer, and refuses Hunt's pleas to return to him. Lizzie and Rossetti have more luck,getting engaged, and Ruskin acting as patron to both. He is impressed by Lizzie's drawings and paintings, which he buys, and gets Rossetti a teaching post and a commission to paint a mural. Millais, now married to Effie, and a commercial success, shows his friends his sketch for 'Bubbles', which they greet with hoots of derision.
Starring: Tom Hollander, Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Sam Crane, Samuel Barnett
Whilst Hunt is in Syria, getting stoned and painting 'The Scapegoat', Fred is charged to keep Annie away from other men. But he falls into the river whilst taking her punting and has to take his clothes off, giving her the opportunity to do the same and seduce him. Hunt is - initially - none the wiser on return but breaks off his engagenent to Annie because she will not do as he asks and gives up her elocution lessons. She takes up with wealthy Lord Rosterley, a celebrated womanizer, and refuses Hunt's pleas to return to him. Lizzie and Rossetti have more luck,getting engaged, and Ruskin acting as patron to both. He is impressed by Lizzie's drawings and paintings, which he buys, and gets Rossetti a teaching post and a commission to paint a mural. Millais, now married to Effie, and a commercial success, shows his friends his sketch for 'Bubbles', which they greet with hoots of derision.
Starring: Tom Hollander, Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Sam Crane, Samuel Barnett
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00:00This is not something I'm used to.
00:28While Hunt is tested and tormented out in a wild, hot wilderness with the express intention
00:34of getting closer to God, he has given me the onerous task of preserving Annie Miller's
00:44purity.
00:45A task that would test the mettle of the Light Brigade, let alone a lonely writer who attracts
00:52looks of pity from the fairest ex and little else.
00:58Alas, the true object of my desire is locked into a passion so great that she virtually
01:03needs no other, which makes my attraction to Annie all the more explicable, even though
01:11it would be a cad who would take advantage of such a girl.
01:24So while her fiancé struggles in the Holy Land, Old Testament style with his conscience,
01:30his sanity and a goat, I stand guard against a dangerous world, and danger is near.
01:55We need no help, thank you, sir.
01:57Thank you, sir. I fear a soaking, for it may render my dress dire for this.
02:03I can imagine.
02:04I'm sure you're too much of a gentleman to imagine, sir.
02:10Do I know you?
02:11I don't know. Do you?
02:13Royal Academy. Holman Hunt, Awakening Conscience. I'm right, aren't I?
02:19That was one of mine, I do concur.
02:23Lord Rosterley, I'm very pleased to have met you.
02:27Annie Miller, and I you.
02:34Sir? Sir?
02:53Sir?
03:24The lessons must be working, then, to turn me into a lady.
03:28Deportment. Elocution. Protocol.
03:34Rosterley is a well-known rake.
03:36But a lord, and I snagged him.
03:40Did you see his breeches? Rode like a mast when he caught my accent.
03:44He was walking away with a limp.
03:46I don't think it was your elocution or deportment that was the source of his tumescence.
03:50Tumescence?
03:52Natural, natural gifts.
03:54Oh. And what might they be?
03:58I think they are all too evident.
04:01Oh, Fred.
04:03I do wish you'd take your job as my jailer a little less seriously.
04:07I'm not your jailer, Annie. I'm your moral compass.
04:14Annie! I can't swim!
04:19Feeling better now?
04:21Yes, thank you. If a little humiliated.
04:25I was supposed to be protecting you.
04:27You were distracted.
04:30There. All done.
04:37You are a good man, Fred.
04:40Afraid we don't live in an era where good men are rewarded.
04:43Hunt has been away for months now, and you haven't laid a finger on me.
04:47Well, thank you for noticing.
04:49It's because you are good and not because you find me unattractive.
04:53I scarcely think it possible for a man not to be attracted to you, Annie.
04:56However, you are not free to receive my attention, as we both know.
05:01And your heart belongs to Lizzie. Of course.
05:06Is it so terribly obvious?
05:09Not easy being ignored and abandoned by the one you love, is it?
05:15How do you think Hunt has abandoned you?
05:18So, here we are. Two people.
05:23Deserted by the ones they love.
05:26Traited to each other. Time on our hands.
05:29What you are suggesting would be a terrible betrayal.
05:31For Hunt to abandon me and then for you to refuse me, Fred,
05:34would hurt my feelings beyond repair.
05:36Oh, I see.
05:39It's surely your task to keep my spirits up.
05:43In fact, I would suggest that it is your duty as a gentleman.
05:49Duty?
05:55Oh, well...
05:59Better do our duty, then.
06:00Indeed it does.
06:03You launched her?
06:04The way Annie explained it, I was doing it in order that she did not sink into despair.
06:09Oh, well then, I'm sure that when she explains that to Maniac,
06:12he'll be shaking your hand.
06:14He might be clutching your bloody, severed cock in his other hand,
06:17but I'm sure you'll have a fine future as a carnival actor.
06:20Oh, I don't know.
06:21Disgust!
06:22I find the self-loathing tends to leave when a fresh erection arrives.
06:25Johnny, get a jug of the best gin, will you?
06:27Merrick, a jug of your finest gin.
06:29You know how much Johnny sold Peace Concluded for last week.
06:32900 pounds.
06:35Really?
06:36He's got tin like you've got crabs.
06:38You don't think...?
06:39No, of course not.
06:42Although the gin is good for those too, I find.
06:45Hey, come here.
06:49There is a solution to your dilemma.
06:53Annie sits for me.
06:55Hunt has expressly forbidden that very thing.
06:58If she sits for me and you escort her as her chaperone,
07:01then I'll be protecting you from your desires
07:04and she'll be protecting me from mine.
07:08And so he has me again with his special blend of charm and blackmail.
07:13Gabriel has sold a scheme to me that I know to be wrong,
07:16yet is somehow so appealing that it is impossible to resist.
07:20I'm not sure that Annie's nakedness is absolutely necessary.
07:23It's a tip I got from Hunt.
07:25If you paint the nude first and then add the clothes,
07:27it makes for a better painting.
07:29Gabriel is quite right, Fred.
07:31This is a most professional arrangement.
07:34Annie's nudity is, in fact,
07:37confirmation of the absolute innocence of our endeavours.
07:41Would Lizzie be convinced of this argument if she were to walk in right now?
07:45Lizzie's so obsessed with her own work
07:47that I fear she would hardly bat an eyelid.
07:51Did you remember charcoal?
07:54Hmm?
08:04I'm afraid I don't know when Gabriel will be returning.
08:08You could try the chop house or the academy.
08:11I'm afraid I don't know when Gabriel will be returning.
08:14I'm afraid I don't know when Gabriel will be returning.
08:17You could try the chop house or the academy.
08:20I was back in town.
08:22I thought I should check on what progress Gabriel was making.
08:26Oh.
08:30Are you quite well?
08:33I am.
08:35Just distracted. Forgive me.
08:38I see he's not been idle in my absence.
08:40No, indeed. We spend each day drawing and painting.
08:44I see. I thought you were Gabriel's model.
08:46I am. But I'm also his pupil.
08:50The first question he asks is if I have an idea in my head.
08:54I see, I see.
08:56May I? Yes.
09:00Then he asks if I can express it with refinement
09:04and with a sentiment of nature.
09:07Gabriel says that?
09:09He's not really so trivial as he likes to pretend.
09:13Well, tell him I called and tell him that...
09:18I'll call again.
09:20Of course.
09:22I urgently need to discuss his future.
09:24Of course.
09:35So, Annie, what do you do for amusement
09:38What do you do for amusement
09:40while Mr Fun is in the Holy Land?
09:43I continue with my lessons.
09:45How to read, how to write,
09:48how to talk, how to walk.
09:50Surely it's your duty to give the world the benefits of those lessons.
09:54An evening with me at the Cremorne Gardens bar.
09:57Oh, Gabriel, don't leave!
09:59I'm only talking about Annie showing off her new social attributes.
10:03I'm not going to be drinking champagne out of a slipper now.
10:07It's damn inappropriate!
10:09You are very light on your feet.
10:11Stop! Stop saying that!
10:13Please, Gabriel, stop!
10:15You're afraid to look in any way suspicious or sordid to you.
10:19You please show some decorum!
10:24Well, bugger me, if it isn't Ali Baba.
10:31This isn't as bad as it looks, maniac.
10:37No!
10:39It is fair to say that Gabriel fought for our lives with words alone.
10:43His relentless eloquence persuaded Hunt
10:46that this compromising scenario was in fact entirely innocent.
10:50We sustained one or two flesh wounds,
10:52but survived in the main thanks to Gabriel's powers of persuasion,
10:56Millet's arrival, and a large supply of hashish straight from Syria.
11:01I had to leave the Dead Sea because of angry tribesmen.
11:05And then in Palestine, a war breaks out.
11:07And then another war in Syria. It's like everywhere I went...
11:10A war broke out. Now, why doesn't that surprise me?
11:13What do you call this?
11:15Hashish.
11:17And is it good for every ailment?
11:19Every except hunger.
11:21And did the consumption of this hashish...
11:25Did it improve your art?
11:27Well, I'll let you, my brothers, be the judge of that.
11:36HE SOBS
11:46The goat's skinnier than Lizzy Siddle.
11:49Kept forgetting to feed it. Poor creature died on me.
11:52A maniac? That's amazing.
11:56It's stupendous, the colours.
11:58Gabriel.
11:59What can I say?
12:01It's the work of a maniac, maniac.
12:05What's that writing on the top?
12:07Oh, let me read it.
12:09No, I'm afraid it is quite complicated scripture, Annie.
12:12Let me read it.
12:18And the goat shall bear upon him...
12:24..all their inequities...
12:29..unto a land...
12:32..not inhabited.
12:36You're reading tonight. It enchanted me.
12:39You've made such progress. I'm proud of you.
12:41And it was worth all the pain.
12:43You'll have to forgive my ruffles.
12:45Six months in the company of Ottoman tribesmen is not big for a gentleman.
12:48And yet I have become quite the lady in your absence.
12:51Do that again.
12:53What would you have me do again, sir?
12:55Talk like a lady and romp like a horse?
13:03And again.
13:04Sir, I do not know what possesses me to talk in such vulgar terms.
13:12Ruskin came here? What did he say?
13:14He said he wanted to discuss your future.
13:16My future? Did he comment on my work?
13:18I don't remember. He was surprised that I was drawing.
13:21Ruskin came round and you don't remember?
13:23Did he seem to prefer the Dante or the Tennessee?
13:25He didn't linger.
13:27He said to tell you that he called and will call again.
13:30Did he say when?
13:31I think it will be soon.
13:33Did the words patron or mentor or tin pass his lips?
13:37No, but what else could he possibly mean if he wishes to discuss your future?
13:41Oh, Lizzie!
13:43Oh, this will change everything!
13:46I've landed Ruskin.
13:50Lizzie Siddle, marry me.
13:56What?
13:57Please say yes.
14:01Is this what you desire?
14:04Lizzie Siddle, please marry me.
14:11Yes.
14:14Yes.
14:21Marry you! Marry you.
14:24Oh, what about bloody time, eh?
14:27You made a solemn promise some time ago
14:29and you have done everything required of you,
14:31entertaining manners and deportment,
14:33reading and writing skills,
14:35and you've remained pure in my absence.
14:37Oh, Auntie, I want nothing more than to be your wife.
14:41All right.
14:45Oh, hang on.
14:48What is it?
14:49I just can't seem to quite...
14:51Come here, I'll get him interested.
14:53Oh, thank you. Thanks.
14:55Come on, little maniac, let's be having you...
15:00...at night.
15:03Shall I talk posh again while I do the trick?
15:06Oh, yeah, good idea.
15:08Oh, sir, you are exceedingly large.
15:21No.
15:22No?
15:23No, I think maybe the journey and the hashish have taken their toll.
15:29Don't worry.
15:32We've got all our lives to get it right!
15:35I'm not worried.
15:40Nothing at all?
15:42Not even a pulse that could be worked up into a twitch?
15:45Nothing.
15:47Most puzzling.
15:49Once there's a twitch, you can get a flaccid fellow upright in no time, I find.
15:54What do you think, Fred?
15:56I really feel discussing this in such detail isn't the poorest of tastes.
15:59Well, congratulations, Hunt.
16:01I'm glad I have converted one of the Brotherhood to the joys of matrimony.
16:04No, Annie converted me.
16:07She's quite transformed.
16:09I think it's safe to say that it's the thought of marriage
16:11that has inhibited the flow of blood.
16:13No, I am still marrying her.
16:16This doesn't change anything.
16:18You said you'd marry her because she'd learn to read.
16:21I'm not certain you'll be able to live with a woman who can read.
16:24I think you liked Annie because of her inferiority.
16:27She will always be inferior, won't she?
16:29I sense, Johnny, that your outrageous success
16:31is blunting your revolutionary fervour.
16:33How many damned paintings have you got in this exhibition?
16:36Just the three.
16:38I asked Annie to marry me because she's made great strides,
16:40and in doing so, she has repaid my trust to her.
16:43Do you know what I think?
16:45That a posh woman who is shameless and bad
16:48will always ultimately be more exciting than a commoner.
16:51It's nothing to do with my animal instincts.
16:53I trust her.
16:55And because I trust her,
16:57I feel like I can dedicate my heart and my life to her.
17:00Will you just stop going on about women and trust and so forth
17:03for one precious minute?
17:05If you think I seduced Annie, then just say so, would you?
17:07Just come out and say it!
17:10Fred?
17:15Dear, dear, Fred,
17:17no-one believes you behaved anything but impeccably with Annie.
17:20Nobody.
17:22In fact, I would go so far as to say you are the last man in London.
17:25Anyone would suspect of betraying me in such a way.
17:28And have you any idea how that makes me feel?
17:40Oh, for...
17:42When did this happen?
17:44They've hung the scapegoat.
17:46On the line, too.
17:48You know, maniac,
17:51I hope your cock stays limp for a very long time.
17:59Arms by your side.
18:01Arms by your side.
18:08Now, shoulders back, Violet.
18:17And, Grace, dear, chin up.
18:24No, no, no, Grace.
18:26Lift your chin up, please.
18:32And how does my fiancée today?
18:38Hmm. Let's see if we can put a smile on hubby's face.
18:48Oh.
18:50We can still a little eliminate him, can't we?
18:53No.
18:55No, no, no, no.
18:57No, no, no, no, no.
18:59Been still a little limp down here?
19:03Are you still feeling tired or unwell?
19:06No. No, it is because my mind is elsewhere.
19:10Actually, I was just wondering
19:12why my future bride is no longer attending her classes.
19:15Don't lie to me.
19:17Why would I...? I know you didn't attend this morning.
19:20Why would I need to go to my lessons now that you've proposed to me?
19:24Now that you think me worthy of being your bloody wife?
19:27If you've not been to your lessons, where have you been?
19:30What have you been doing? I pass the time as a lady might.
19:33For all I know, you've been engaged in your former profession.
19:36I read!
19:39All right, yes, I have learnt to read.
19:43Or I visit the academy and I gaze at the paintings.
19:49Because I can't get enough of this world that you've opened up to me.
19:54And you damn me for that.
19:58And you expect me to believe that, do you?
20:01I expect a man to believe his wife!
20:04Or perhaps it is the prospect of marriage that is shrunking you.
20:09It is, isn't it?
20:17See now that after such a long season of neglect,
20:20it might not be possible to train and to harness you to household uses.
20:24Household uses? Why are you being like this?
20:27Auntie, if it's about the troupe, it doesn't make me love you any less.
20:31I pay for your lodgings on condition that you take instruction.
20:37This has nothing to do with my lodgings or my lessons.
20:42This has to do with your crimes!
20:45If you do not take instruction, then you can consider our engagement annulled.
20:51Thank you, sir. I shall do so.
20:54Or as the old Annie Miller might have put it,
20:57bloody good riddance to you!
20:59And your shrivelled manhood! I'll see myself out!
21:22I've been fond of Lizzie for some time now, Mr Siddle.
21:27Oh, wouldn't be. Quite.
21:29And I was hoping to formalise that fondness in the form of...
21:34well, perhaps entering into a...
21:39an engagement.
21:42An engagement? Mm-hm.
21:45Well, that is complicated, you see, on account of her imminent title.
21:49You are aware that we are aristocracy temporarily inconvenienced
21:53by legal claims and so forth?
21:55Who could not be?
22:00Unless you being Italian and so on,
22:03you perhaps have a title secreted away somewhere in your family history?
22:08Not that I know of.
22:10But then, being Italian, I'm sure we could rustle one up.
22:14That wasn't so bad now, was it?
22:17It was delightful.
22:19And you're quite certain you didn't feel too compromised by it?
22:22No. No.
22:24You do seem a little distant.
22:27Just thoughtful.
22:29Just aware of my responsibilities.
22:32Perhaps I hadn't seen that before.
22:34We may follow the conventional route to matrimony, but we will never be dull.
22:38Of course not.
22:40Of course not.
22:43I love you.
22:45I love you too.
22:50Goodbye.
22:53No. Goodbye.
22:55I love you.
23:03Sorry. What brought this on, then?
23:06Serpent of domestic bliss!
23:09As powerful as I've become, I had that scheme...
23:12Don't talk. I don't mean small talk.
23:14I want oblivion!
23:19Shrivelled manhood.
23:21Shrivelled manhood.
23:22That does seem unduly harsh.
23:24At least she didn't criticise your work.
23:26Still, best you found out before marrying her
23:28that she thinks you lack in ambivalence.
23:30I'm not lacking in ambivalence.
23:31A woman of her experience would, of course, have a surfeit of comparisons,
23:34whereas F...
23:35Whereas F, he thinks, all cocks are merely one inch long.
23:37Like your own.
23:38Hunt, if you truly regret losing Annie,
23:40then you must act immediately to make amends.
23:42Well, do not think I should wait for her to come to me.
23:44I think that Annie is a resourceful young lady.
23:47Faced with your rejection, then,
23:48she will not take long to look for her fortune elsewhere.
23:51Oh, God, Fred, you're right.
23:53Well, you are right. Well, you must go to her straightaway.
23:55Me?
23:56Yes, well, you're neutral but trustworthy,
23:58and I want you to take this heartfelt letter telling her I forgive her.
24:02It's already written.
24:03Well, Gabriel taught me to always have a letter of apology in my pocket.
24:08I'm sure that when Hunt comes to his senses, he'll reconsider.
24:12As soon as he has run out of hashish, he'll be back to his Elsa.
24:16Yeah, well, perhaps you could talk to him.
24:18I'm not sure that would be wise.
24:20Well, he has to hear of our engagement from one of us, does he not?
24:26What terror, what terror!
24:29I, of course, had guessed that you were speaking in jest.
24:32I'd love to see Lizzie's face when you went home and told her
24:35of your change of plan.
24:36Lizzie would be most amused.
24:38Oh, I don't recall her ever being amused.
24:40She has a sense of fun just as great as yours.
24:42Mm, I'm sure.
24:45Is that Charles Dickens?
24:48Yeah, he's a big fan of the girls.
24:52And they all like him.
24:54Really?
24:55Mm.
24:56Night, Gabriel.
24:58Night, Gabriel.
25:17As a child, I often wondered what it would feel like to be a man.
25:22When I became a man,
25:24I still didn't feel as though I was anything other than a child.
25:28But now I know,
25:31to make the right decision, even though it may cost me dear,
25:35to lose Gabriel's friendship,
25:38yet to save Lizzie's heart,
25:41to tell Hunt the truth,
25:43yet to lose Annie's trust.
25:50Do you think it shows progress?
25:52I think it is celestial, Gabriel.
25:55You seem to have found much focus and purpose
25:58now that you've become Miss Siddle's tutor.
26:00It's down to her.
26:01And, of course, she's an untutored genius in her own right.
26:04You should consider marrying her.
26:08Give Miss Siddle complete protection and care.
26:11Well, we are engaged, but I find my tin is never quite in order.
26:15Your tin?
26:16My money.
26:17No funds, sir.
26:19No funds.
26:21Well, then you need to tell me exactly what funds would enable you to marry Miss Siddle.
26:28William.
26:29How was the Holy Land?
26:31Mr Ruskin, it was, I think, productive.
26:34I'm very taken with the scapegoat.
26:36It's on sale for 400 guineas, I believe.
26:39Where were you last night?
26:41And the academy hanging it on the line would indicate that perhaps there...
26:44Do you see Miss Miller?
26:46Maniac, I think Mr Ruskin is expressing an interest in your work.
26:50Do you fuck her?
26:52Gabriel, I will return at a more opportune time.
26:59Fritz saw you!
27:04Oh, my God, Maniac, you treated Ruskin as though he had the pox!
27:08Shall we pew this in here or on the street?
27:10Please desist in this foolishness, Maniac.
27:12You should have thought about my temperament whilst you were taking advantage of Annie!
27:17As you wish.
27:19Oh!
27:25But before we begin, give me leave to say something.
27:28I can digest invading you to a pulp!
27:30No, no, I can't hit you, Maniac, you're too dear a friend to me!
27:33Not too dear a friend to stop you from burying my fiancée!
27:36Just hear me out!
27:38I understood that you and Danny had broken off your engagement.
27:41Clearly, had she still been your fiancée,
27:43my strict moral code would have forbidden me from pleasuring her so enthusiastically.
27:48You have no moral code.
27:49I have a moral code, I just don't wear it out by overuse.
27:52And furthermore, by the way, Annie's loud, isn't she?
27:57Sometimes I have to stifle her cries in my hand.
27:59Oh, God, this is unspeakable!
28:01It's your fear of Annie's straying that excites you!
28:04What you like about Annie is her potential to wonder, her grubbiness.
28:08Without that, you no longer find her desirable.
28:11Therefore, I'd probably help you recover from your impotence.
28:14If you choose to beat me for that, then so be it.
28:25You're so right about her, Gabriel, you're so right.
28:30I cannot marry Annie the Whore, and I cannot bed Annie the Wife.
28:35I am a foul, lustriven wretch.
28:39I must send her away.
28:43I must trap her in a life of whoredom forever.
28:47As Socrates once put it,
28:49I know women's hearts and I know men's pricks.
28:52There's nothing more the universe can teach me.
28:57Gabriel...
28:59Gabriel, you're a good friend to me.
29:02But then I behave monstrously towards Ruskin.
29:05Oh, God.
29:07Oh, God, I really am a fool.
29:09Oh, God.
29:11Talking of fools, why would Fred tell me such a thing about you and Annie?
29:15I mean, what could be his possible motive?
29:17You know, every so often Fred gets it into his head that he should tell everybody the truth.
29:21Well, not a good trait in a journalist.
29:31Oh, God!
29:35Oh, God!
29:48Hello, Mr Walters. What a pleasant surprise.
29:54Elizabeth is upstairs, grappling with her talent.
29:58Yeah, follow that, you idiot!
30:02Lizzie!
30:04Lizzie!
30:13What have you said?
30:15Well, how lovely.
30:17My two favourite boys.
30:19Since all three of us are here, then perhaps now...
30:24is the time for the hard truth.
30:26It is always the time for the hard truth in my life, Fred.
30:30As you well know.
30:32Which is why I'm going to say it first.
30:34And say it out loud.
30:36What are you going to say out loud, Gabriel?
30:38Ray, sit down. You're starting to worry me.
30:40Lizzie?
30:42Lizzie, and I are engaged to be married, Fred.
30:47And we consider you such a special, special friend
30:51that we wanted you to be the first to know our little secret.
30:54Oh, Gabriel, you're absolutely right.
30:56Yes, Fred!
30:58Our special, special friend
31:02who we know we can trust with our hearts.
31:05Both of them.
31:07Together.
31:10So, Fred, what do you think?
31:14Do I do this for him?
31:16My friend?
31:20No.
31:21I think congratulations are in order.
31:23I do it for the woman I love.
31:25I cannot break her heart without breaking my own on her behalf.
31:29I am protecting Lizzie, and in protecting her, I'm betraying her.
31:33I feel like Hunt's wretched scapegoat
31:36being led into the desert with Rossetti's sins on my back.
31:39And they weigh so much,
31:41I begin to see why the goat has got such a sorry expression on his face.
31:47I think we've reached an impasse.
31:49Well, if I knew what it meant, I might agree with you.
31:51Honey, I know you're not stupid.
31:53No, but you like to treat me as though I'm stupid.
31:55Does that make me stupid?
31:58Your landlady tells me you're behind on your rent.
32:00I became careless when you went away.
32:02Careless with your affections, from what I hear.
32:05Dancing at the Cremor on every night with a different swell on your arm.
32:08Dancing with Fred and his terrible sense of rhythm
32:11is hardly the palace of pleasure, Hunty.
32:14In this envelope,
32:16it's 20 pounds.
32:19And that should ensure
32:21you pay off your rent before you move away.
32:23Move away?
32:25And where am I moving to?
32:27Anywhere where there's work for a seamstress.
32:29In the North, perhaps.
32:30The North?!
32:31Or abroad, even.
32:32Mr Hunt.
32:33Now, Stone, I'm in conversation.
32:35I am not a seamstress!
32:37I am a model!
32:39You will not be modelling any more.
32:41I forbid it!
32:42You seem to be forgetting something.
32:44You and I are no longer engaged, Hunty.
32:46You have got no authority over me.
32:48Stone, if you take one more step towards me,
32:50I will thrash you like a dog.
32:52Do not doubt it.
32:55I want what's best for you.
32:58Now, will you kindly avail yourself of my generous offer?
33:08I still want to marry you.
33:13I'm afraid that will no longer be happening.
33:16You broke off our engagement.
33:20And you want me to go away.
33:25Well...
33:27It's going to take more than 20 pounds.
33:33Hunty, I can think of no other course of action.
33:38Marry me or leave me alone to live my life as I see fit!
33:42I am sick to death of being your experiment.
33:57What the hell do you want, man?
34:00The gentleman over there, William.
34:03He wants to buy the scapegoat.
34:05It represents a new phase in Mr. Hunt's art.
34:09He's found God's guidance once again.
34:12And this has led him back to the Academy.
34:18Man!
34:36I thought you were going to disappoint me, sir.
34:39I make it my mission never to disappoint a lady or a whore.
34:43Pleased to hear it.
34:45Take my arm.
34:46Let us walk for a little while.
34:49I have some rooms nearby.
34:52I do hope you aren't intending to be forward with me, sir.
34:56I'm not.
34:58I'm not.
35:00I'm not.
35:02I'm not.
35:03You aren't intending to be forward with me, sir?
35:06Forward to begin with, and then any other direction that takes my fancy.
35:13Thank you, Fred, for not betraying me.
35:16What did he do to you?
35:17Well, for whatever your reason, he did me a favour.
35:20When Ruskin takes me on, I'll make sure that you have access to the great man at all times.
35:25Now, finally, it all starts to make sense.
35:27That is why she knows you can screw me for more than 20 pounds.
35:30She already has my enemies writing about me in the Times.
35:33What page?
35:34The classified advertisements, of course.
35:36I mean, it's all in code, but it's there if you know what to look for.
35:40I can assure you, maniac, that a campaign through the classifieds would be highly unlikely.
35:45Oh, really?
35:47Medical bandage and miracle support.
35:51Do you see?
35:53And, um...
35:55Old mattresses bought by Messrs Banks of Mortlake.
36:03Exactly how much hashish did you smoke in the Holy Land, maniac?
36:07Maniac? You're securing quite a reputation.
36:10It is the classified advertisements that we already know.
36:13Another sale.
36:14What?
36:15Yes, a scapegoat sold for 450 guineas this afternoon.
36:17I mean, it's little compensation for being the laughingstock of London.
36:20450 guineas?
36:22And you offered Annie 20 pounds?
36:24No wonder she wants a better price.
36:26Well, that was before I knew.
36:28So increase your offer, if it means so much to you to be rid of her.
36:35Fred, I will improve my offer, but I want you to deliver it in person,
36:38in order that I'm not tempted to go back on my decision.
36:42And why should I run this errand?
36:45Because I thought we'd already established that you are the only man in London I can trust.
36:52LAUGHTER
37:15So, what's the offering this time then, eh?
37:19Why?
37:22He wants to set you up in your own business.
37:25Does he?
37:27In Australia.
37:30Oh.
37:31Does he really hate me so very much?
37:34He doesn't hate you.
37:36He loves you, but knows that he cannot marry you.
37:39Yet nor can he trust himself knowing how close by you are.
37:44So why don't you marry me instead then?
37:46Me?
37:49I was joking, Fred.
37:51It was a joke.
37:55You know you wouldn't dare to upset your friend.
37:59You boys, you boys.
38:01Why don't you just poke each other and leave us girls alone, eh?
38:07She refused.
38:09I offered her £100.
38:12And she refused.
38:14She would like to carry on modelling in London.
38:17She points out that she is the face of the awakening conscience.
38:20Well, thanks to me!
38:22Right, you tell her that I...
38:23No, I will tell her nothing. No more, no more!
38:26I will...
38:27I will no longer carry messages to a woman you are not worthy of.
38:32Carry messages to a woman who has done everything you have asked of her,
38:36yet whom you still reject.
38:38A woman who deserves to be loved.
38:41And if not by you, then by some other man
38:44who will not demand of her that she be anything other than her loving and lovable self.
38:52You wronged her!
38:55It is your pride, not hers, that is the issue here.
39:15She left no word with you of where she might have gone?
39:18To hell for all I care.
39:20Like I told you last time.
39:22She owed four months' rent.
39:24Don't you talk of her like that.
39:26Don't you dare!
39:28Talk of her like that!
39:30Oh, sorry to speak out of turn.
39:33But I find myself much inconvenienced by her flit.
39:39Right then.
39:42Right then.
39:44Once I've paid your rent, perhaps you could tell me
39:48if she had any more gentleman visitors
39:51other than Mr. Waters.
39:59Perhaps we could wait to get to your rooms next time.
40:02I choose not to wait.
40:05You realize, I hope, our arrangement means that you are mine exclusively, don't you?
40:09I wouldn't want anything else.
40:11Except, of course, if I decide to lend you out to friends.
40:15You are teasing me, I trust, sir.
40:18No gentleman would begrudge another gentleman
40:20the use of his pleasure wife from time to time.
40:25You'll have to forgive me.
40:27I am not altogether familiar with aristocratic ways.
40:31I think we can drop this pretense of coyness in private conversation, Annie.
40:35It could go tiresome.
40:37As you wish.
40:39As I wish.
40:41That is the top and bottom of it.
40:43As I wish.
41:02A friend of mine is looking for an artist
41:04to paint a mural at a church he's restoring.
41:07Murals are my absolute strong point, sir.
41:11Hm.
41:32How long have you been painting, Lizzie?
41:35Just a few months, sir.
41:37You clearly have a very gifted tutor.
41:40I have the best tutor there could ever be.
41:45I've formulated a plan which I think will be to the liking of both of you.
41:49I'm sure it will.
41:51I'm so overtaken with excitement I can barely say it.
41:53I'm sure you can if you try, Mr Ruskin.
41:56John, call me John. Talk to me as you would a friend.
41:59Very well, John. In that case, can you get on with it before I shit my trousers?
42:05I want to buy everything.
42:07Everything?
42:09Oh, my God!
42:11Everything Miss Siddle has done so far.
42:13Sketches, engravings, paintings, everything.
42:15Now, name me a price.
42:17Miss Siddle?
42:18Name me a price, Gabriel, and I'm going to have them
42:20mounted and splendidly bound together in gold.
42:22Gold?
42:24How very... gorgeous.
42:26You were accurate in your description of Lizzie's work, Gabriel.
42:29You told me she was an untutored genius, and I think you may be right.
42:33Ruskin considers you a genius, Lizzie.
42:35So will you please name me a price?
42:37Shall we say £25?
42:39Gabriel, Mr Ruskin, you can take them, please.
42:43Let me make a present of them.
42:45No, I wouldn't hear of such a thing, but, Gabriel, really,
42:47£25 for an unknown artist is outrageous.
42:50Let's say £30, shall we?
42:51Oh, too generous, sir.
42:53£30 it is, then.
42:55On top of which, I propose I pay Miss Siddle
42:57a retainer of £150 a year to be paid quarterly.
43:02Did you not call my work celestial?
43:04I have plans for you, too.
43:06Don't you worry about that.
43:08Oh.
43:10Oh, I see. Of course you have.
43:12Yes.
43:13Oh, my heart!
43:15It is clear to me from the way that you have nurtured Lizzie's talent
43:18that you have much to offer.
43:20There is a teaching post at the Workingmen's College in Camden.
43:23It's only three hours a week to begin with, but I sense it could grow.
43:27And along with the church mural,
43:29that should give you the opportunity to prove yourself.
43:32A teaching post?
43:34To prove myself?
43:37What?
43:38I had to use little influence, but the job is yours.
43:41I'm sure you won't let me down now that our fates are so entwined.
43:45Did you hear that, Lizzie?
43:47John here has offered me a teaching job.
43:53Oh.
44:23Miss Miller.
44:26Mr Hunt.
44:29Sir, this is Mr Holman Hunt, the artist.
44:35And this is Lord...
44:37Roster Lee, I know who you are.
44:39I'm a great admirer of your work.
44:41I am a particular devotee of those paintings that depict Miss Miller.
44:48You seem to capture the pain and pleasure of the fallen woman exquisitely well.
44:52There's no pleasure in a fallen woman that I can see, sir.
44:57Your work tells me otherwise, sir.
45:02What brings you to this establishment, Mr Hunt?
45:07I need to speak with you.
45:10I do hope you're not going to cause a scene, Mr Hunt.
45:13No, I...
45:18I have some business to attend to.
45:21Miss Miller.
45:35That man is a notorious rake.
45:38He's the perfect gentleman around me.
45:41Afternoon, Mr Dickens. Have you put me in that book yet?
45:46Miss Miller.
45:49You old blurt.
45:51I haven't come here to play games.
45:53I made a terrible mistake in breaking off our engagement,
45:56and I would like very much for you to forgive me and for us to set a date for our marriage.
46:00You've said so frequently before, maniac.
46:07I look at you and I see everything I want a woman to be.
46:12Until I'm yours and I'm not good enough again.
46:15I love you.
46:17I love you.
46:20You're like a drug to me.
46:22Look, I'll paint you again if that's what you want.
46:25I'll paint you if that's what will bring you back to me.
46:28While you were away, I was intimate with other men.
46:30I know. I know, and I forgive you.
46:33Although it would be harder to forgive Gabriel.
46:35I didn't sleep with Gabriel while you were away.
46:37I slept with Fred while you were away.
46:39Fred? You slept with Fred?
46:42Why are we arguing like we are lovers?
46:44We are no longer lovers.
46:46Please. Please.
46:49Come back to me.
46:52I need you.
46:54One day, in years to come, you and I shall meet,
46:58and you will be a famous and successful painter,
47:01fellow of the Academy, quite the taufe.
47:05And I'll be a jolly round matron with seven children and umpteen grandchildren.
47:10We will talk, and we will laugh.
47:14We will laugh about all of this,
47:16because it will not matter nearly as much as it seems to matter now.
47:20But that can be us.
47:22That couple, that can be us.
47:24You can be my round matron.
47:26Please, please be my jolly round matron.
47:30You gave me a life that I didn't think was possible.
47:36And you've turned me into a lady.
47:39And I will always be grateful to you for that,
47:42because without all of this, I would never have snared a gentleman.
47:48What?
47:52There is to be an announcement in the Times tomorrow.
47:56Lord Rosterly and I, we are engaged to be married.
48:05Oh.
48:09Oh.
48:12Oh.
48:23Did that help to comfort you in your disappointment?
48:26I'm not disappointed.
48:29Are you telling me that I consented to beast you without good reason?
48:40Please, Gabriel.
48:42I can't be happy for myself if you're not happy for me also.
48:45I am happy for you.
48:48I am happy for you, really.
48:50You have Ruskin for a friend, and we have secure funds.
48:53I know.
48:55I know.
48:57I only hope I impress his mother.
48:59Why would his mother be of concern?
49:01Mr Ruskin invited me to dinner when you were out of the room.
49:04He said he wants his mother to meet me.
49:07What did you say?
49:09Well, I said yes, of course.
49:11Was that the right thing to do?
49:13Was I invited?
49:15Of course. Your invitation was taken for granted.
49:19So I wasn't explicitly mentioned by name?
49:22He wouldn't invite me and not include you, now, would he?
49:25Oh.
49:27To dine alone with his mother.
49:30I cannot attend on a Monday night, of course,
49:33due to my prior teaching engagement
49:35at the Camden Workingmen's Association.
49:48She finished it with you in the tea house.
49:51I hope you kept the dainties.
49:53I did.
49:55And I took that bastard Rusty Liscaster while I was about it.
49:58Sounds as though you're left with your dignity intact, Maniac.
50:03Oh, here he is. Mr moral and upstanding.
50:07Gabriel? Johnny?
50:09Maniac!
50:11You seem to have hold of my person, Maniac.
50:14If I was not crippled by heartache,
50:17you'd be weeping for a month.
50:19Do you know why?
50:21We both know why, don't we?
50:23Now, at least show me the respect of not lying to me.
50:34Now, will you boys listen to me?
50:36Man was not intended to live alone.
50:38I would immensely like to see you all married, like myself, and anchored...
50:42I'd like to see you anchored...
50:44on the Thames at high tide.
50:47And the moment I realized I'd lost her, I attained an erection
50:51from which you could have hung a week's laundry.
50:54The cock is a nostalgic fellow at the best of times.
50:57Many's the time I've pleasured myself off the strength of a memory.
51:00Let us hope that she finds true happiness.
51:02Are you trying to be amusing?
51:04No, she is a woman with little opportunity
51:06who has taken her chances in life, Maniac.
51:08Surely that is to be applauded?
51:10Not when Hunt has given her the chances and paid for them.
51:13Well, it's something of a tribute to Hunt's tuition
51:16that she has snared her lord, is it not?
51:18I still wish for her happiness.
51:21I'm afraid that is what I feel.
51:23You've got a lot to learn about friendship, Fred.
51:25So the duty of a true friend is to lie, is it?
51:28The duty of a true friend is to make his friend feel good.
51:31The truth does not come into it.
51:33Now, finally, can we all be cheerful companions once more
51:36and abandon this rather deep philosophical inquiry?
51:39If you're buying the drink, then I'll provide the chair.
51:42Margaret, more wine, please.
51:45Now...
51:47I warn you.
51:49This is something of a departure for me in style.
51:54A celebration of domestic bliss.
51:56It's a nude study of Effie, I told you.
51:58That is my wife you're talking about.
52:00No, my luck, it's a nude study of Annie Miller.
52:02It is not a nude study of anybody.
52:04It is an early sketch for something quite different.
52:07Are we ready?
52:08I have to warn you, if this is more evidence of your genius
52:11than I might not be able to resist punching you in the throat.
52:28Oh, Johnny.
52:30Johnny!
52:34I love you.
52:35I love him.
52:36So you like it?
52:37I love it.
52:39You know why I love it?
52:41Because it's shit.
52:44It is, isn't it?
52:46Oh, I'm not wrong, am I?
52:48It is, it is, it's completely awful.
52:50It's just a child blowing bubbles.
52:52It's total shit.
52:53It's a sloth bucket of sentiment.
52:56Oh, thank you, Johnny. Thank you.
52:59I was only thinking you could do no wrong.
53:03Hunt, surely you can see some merit?
53:06No, I'm afraid I find myself concurring with Gabriel's critical assessment.
53:10It is unspeakable shit.
53:14I was thinking of calling it bubbles.
53:21Nothing brings more comfort to a man than to see a friend humiliated.
53:26And so, when we are in need of comfort, Millet offers himself.
53:31And I laugh harder than anyone.
53:34Because for once, nobody is laughing at me.