The US version has shipped. They’ve done a really nice job here. It is a two-disk set with an additional 30 minutes of material from the film and interviews from the principle actors. This DVD is a new digital transfer version.
shareIf you guys want the DVD, I highly recommend it! It is worth your money!
shareI finally got to see this movie. I rented the dvd and made a copy. I read the book several years ago in Spain. I was studying abroad and a man I was dating gave me the book to read, as a part of a young gay man's education. Now that I see the movie, on DVD no less, I'm thrilled to have it. All of the bonus features are on the second disc. Although I wish there were a full-movie commentary audio option, the discussions with film-makers & deleted scenes are all awesome. I like that these people are discussing the film today, in retrospect.
When I was first given this book, I was told that it was semi-autobiographical. Maurice's charactar is loosely based on Forster's life as a repressed young gay edwardian Cambridge man. But I cannot find anything to corroborate that information.
Does anyone know? Was E.M. Forster gay. Is Maurice him?
Yeah, Forster is (was) gay. I'm pretty sure that Maurice is LOOSELY based on him and he lived with a companion for a period of time.
shareForster, as he says in the Terminal Note in the book of "Maurice", intentionally tried to make Maurice the opposite of himself: "...handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob".
shareof coures I bought this DVD, Maurice is my favorate movies, I was so happy to see this movie can released a DVD version, but I don't like the package, the white keep case is not as good as the black one, just like the CC's. If the pubisher can provide us a nice booklet ,that can be much better. I wonder why there's so little product about this flim, just want more and more......Oh~~~~~Maurice,such a beautiful story, I wish one day, the Criterion Collection can release Maurice,I love that~~
shareHi all, I'd like to keep a copy of this movie. However, I'd like to know if the Merchant Ivory Collection version includes the English subtitle. As I'm not an English native speaker, I cannot understand all the dialogues, some may be important or convery subtle meaning...
Thanks to anyone who will answer my question in advance. :-)
The Merchant Ivory Collection DVD of Maurice does have English subtitles - but they are hard to find. They are not listed on the menu screen, but you can turn them on using the "subtitle" button on your DVD remote control.
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I'm very pleased with the two-disk set, and found the deleted scenes very interesting. However, I REALLY wish they had left in two scenes:
1) "May I Ask Your Name?" where Alec and Maurice are basking in the "afterglow" and Maurice realizes he doesn't even know Scudder's first name. In the interview with the filmmakers, even they admit that they wished they had left the scene in, at least partially because it provides a transition from the scene where Alec comes through the window to when it's broad daylight.
2) The longer version of the scene where Maurice tells Clive "goodbye." I think the way he tells Clive "I was once yours for life" was particularly powerful.
However, I suppose I should be grateful that the scenes are provided at all on the extra disk.