Howards End Page #10

Synopsis: Encounter of three social classes of England at the beginning of the 20th century : the Victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money ; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and philanthropic ; and the workers (the Basts), fighting to survive. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): James Ivory
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 29 wins & 48 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
89
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
PG
Year:
1992
142 min
$157,888
1,475 Views


surely.

You don't know

what you're talking about.

If rich people fail at one profession.

they can try another.

But with us, once a man over 20

loses his own particularjob. he's done for.

I'd do anything in the world

to help you.

Well, help me row then.

I'm tired.

You're the one person

who ever has helped me.

You mean by passing on false information

to make you give up yourjob?

I mean by being

the sort of person you are.

I didn't think people like you existed

except in books. and books aren't real.

Oh, no. They're more real

than anything.

When people fail you,

there's still music and meaning.

That's for rich people. to make them

feel good after their dinner.

Everything's got spoiled

for you. hasn't it?

[ Bells Chiming ]

Don't know what's

to be done, Tibby.

Or what to say to Meg.

Don't want to face her

or even to go back to Wickham Place.

You mean because of Mr. Wilcox

and the woman you say he seduced...

in between growing currants

in Cyprus?

I want you to give Meg my love

and tell her

tell her I'm going away

to Germany... to Munich or else Bonn.

Such a message is easily given.

[ Sighs ] God. I wish I could escape

from Meg's wedding too.

Is she going through with it? How

is it possible for our Meg to be a Wilcox?

- And now, after all this?

- You'd much better go away to Germany.

- [ Knocking ]

- There's Martlett with the Apple Charlotte.

Do you mind if I take it from him?

It spoils with waiting.

Ah, Martlett.

- Shall I clear now?

- Not now. Um, later.

Thank you very much.

I feel no, I know

we owe the Basts some compensation.

- Those people again?

- Yes, those people again.

Don't see who is to pay if I don't.

I'm placing what I consider...

is a minimum amount

to your account...

and when I'm in Germany.

you'll pay it to the Basts.

I shall never forget your kindness.

Tibbikins. ifyou do this.

- What's the sum?

- 5.000.

- Good God!

- It's useless giving out driblets ofcharity...

just shillings and blankets.

No doubt people

will think me mad.

I don't give a damn

what people think...

but I do mind ifyou ruin yourself

for some quixotic reason ofyour own.

I don't expect you

to understand me.

- I understand nobody.

- But you'll do it?

Apparently.

Are you writing to your brother?

He could send us another 1 0.

Yes. and a long lecture

to go with it.

- Your sister could afford a fiver.

- Leave me alone!

Why are you taking it out on me?

You can see I'm busy.

can't you?

[ Bells Chiming ]

[ Leonard ] Dear Mr. Schlegel,

I acknowledge receipt...

ofyour letter

dated second ofOctober...

enclosing a check

for L5,000.

I am very grateful foryour concern,

but having no immediate necessity...

I have the honor

to return your check herewith.

Yours sincerely, Leonard Bast.

[ Low Chattering ]

[ Leonard ] Excuse me, sir.

Um, sorry to botheryou.

I worked in this office

for four years.

I was wondering if there were

any vacancies at the moment?

No. no, I'm sorry.

I've nothing.

- Nothing at all?

- Nothing at this time.

Thank you for your time.

[ Henry ] All right.

The servants will have the benefit...

of the central heating if we

keep them here instead of at the back.

- That's what the architect prefers.

- If only it would hurry up and get itself built.

All in good time.

- I'm getting tired of living in London.

- Are you?

- I can't be as young as I was.

- Yeah?

I'm perfectly happy to do without all

the new plays and discussion societies and

Mr. Shaw. M r. Wells

and all your utopias.

What I miss are trees

and mountains and meadows.

Yes.

- I also miss my own things.

- They're safe enough at Howards End.

And of course I'm very grateful

to have them there.

I would so like to see everything

in our own home.

My share at least. Goodness only knows

what Tibby intends to do with his.

Or Helen.

There's been another postcard

from her.

Still the same poste restante address

in Bavaria.

- But now she speaks of going to Italy.

- Is she never coming back to England?

She's been away now

How long has it been?

It will be four months

and three weeks on Tuesday.

Yes.

Your sister is odd.

She always has been.

There's no getting away from it.

What is this?

What you been reading now?

- Theo

- Theosophy.

Oh, yes.

[ Laughing ]

Madame Blavatsky.

Now. what a clever little woman it is.

You see, that's

what I mean about Helen.

She reads these things,

and her mind gets addled.

My Margaret,

she keeps her facts straight.

- What facts are those. dear?

- Hmm?

About men and women

and all that sort ofthing.

Who is who and what is what.

Yes. Now, what is that?

Mr. Schlegel, sir,

you've forgotten these.

- Ah. thank you, Martlett.

- Thank you. sir.

Ah.

Oh. dear. Annie.

Look. it's another one.

And no letter.

[ Margaret ] See, I just can't feel

that Helen's really alive.

These postcards and telegrams

don't seem to have come from her.

They're That's not her.

I know what you mean.

You'll break that

ifyou keep fiddling with it.

- [ Margaret ] Well, put it on.

- Oh!

[ Margaret ]

Give me my card.

[ Helen ] M.J. Schlegel, The Rise,

Straight Fleming, Devon.

Dearest Meg,

arriving London Thursday.

Please telegraph, care my bank,

whetherAuntJuley is better...

or likely to become worse.

Give my love to the invalid

and keep some foryourselves. Helen.

If only you had a companion

to take your walks with.

I have Tibby. dear Aunt Juley.

And it won't be long

Thank you, Maggie

before you'll be up and about.

When is Helen coming?

Very soon. dear. She will already

have reached London.

[ Whispering ]

She's got to London all right.

- Yes, but

- She says to telegraph ifAunt Juley is better.

Obviously, ifyou want to see her.

you must telegraph she's not better.

We can't start lying

to each other. Helen wouldn't

- Shh!

- She couldn't stay away at such a time.

[ Margaret ]

Dearest Helen, AuntJuley better...

and eagerly expecting you,

as am I.

Your Meg.

[ Helen ]

Must return Germany at once.

Telegraph to bank whereabouts

our books and furniture. Helen.

Why did she have

to go back to Germany?

I'll explain it all to you

after your nap.

She might have come to see her old aunt.

I haven't been well.

Is cook doing the mackerel

the way Tibby likes them?

I know his whole day is spoiled

if his breakfast isn't right.

The mackerel were perfect. In fact. Tibby

particularly mentioned them this morning.

Don't tell me. Tibby,

that it is still that business...

over Henry and that woman.

Mrs. Bast.

Goodness me. How morbid.

His wife forgives him...

and his sister-in-law cannot bear

to look upon his face.

I don't believe it.

Not even of Helen.

[ Tibby ]

We know to what extremes Helen goes.

We've all suffered

under her temperament.

But this is different. This is

not temperament, but a kind of madness

as if she were mad.

Margaret. you've got black marks

again under your eyes.

You know that's strictly forbidden.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. After moving to India in 1951, she married Cyrus S. H. Jhabvala, an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays, and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. more…

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