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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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January 1969 (UK)
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In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls. more
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A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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7 nominations
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(4 articles)
IFC Finds 'Cracks' in the System
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Not just a one-woman show
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Maggie Smith | ... | Jean Brodie |
 | Robert Stephens | ... | Teddy Lloyd |
| Pamela Franklin | ... | Sandy |
| Gordon Jackson | ... | Gordon Lowther |
| Celia Johnson | ... | Miss Mackay |
| Diane Grayson | ... | Jenny |
| Jane Carr | ... | Mary McGregor |
| Shirley Steedman | ... | Monica |
| Lavinia Lang | ... | Emily Carstairs |
| Antoinette Biggerstaff | ... | Helen McPhee |
| Margo Cunningham | ... | Miss Campbell |
| Isla Cameron | ... | Miss McKenzie |
| Rona Anderson | ... | Miss Lockhart |
| Ann Way | ... | Miss Gaunt |
| Molly Weir | ... | Miss Allison Kerr |
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116 min
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Seventy-five girls were needed for the film, and about 500 showed when auditions were held in London. Faced with such an overwhelming number, the director's assistant separated the girls into more manageable groups of twenty. The director then asked each girl to giggle, and he made his selections based on how well the girls could do so.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Miss Brody presents a slide show to the class. She tells a tale of how Dante Alighieri fell in love with Beatrice Portinari when they met at the old bridge (Ponte Veccio) in Florence. Miss Brody changes some of the facts of the Dante and Beatrice story, but in doing so she is relating the story (consciously or unconsciously) of her own failed romance with an older man.
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Jean Brodie:
Ah, chrysanthemums. Such serviceable flowers.
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Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2 (1999) (TV)
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This movie is often billed as a 'one-woman show', a study of an extraordinary character, Miss Jean Brodie, played by an excellent actress. However, the movie is much more than that. It is a study of charisma and influence, of teachers and students, and presents a complex and fascinating coming-of-age story. This study takes place through the movie's double-focus on both Jean Brodie and her most precocious student, Sandy. Sandy is the strongest and most independent of Miss Brodie's students, and eventually she rebels and rejects her teaching completely. However, she is also truest to her teacher's expressed goals. Miss Brodie supposedly wants to teach 'her girls' to be like herself: powerful, independent individuals, free from the shackles of authority and group-think, beyond conventional sexual morality. In fact, she preys on the weakness and insecurity of her students, punishes independence and rewards slavish loyalty to her and to her personal plans and ideals. (The film's more subtle concern with fascism and authoritarianism echoes this theme: fascism elevates great individuals and praises their strength, just as it demands total obedience and slavishness from the rest.) Sandy, by recognizing and rejecting Miss Brodies's actions and plans, becomes her truest student: not only sexually adventurous, but bold, independent, and confrontational. The final scenes illustrate this beautifully. Miss Brodie has truly put "an old head" on Sandy's "young shoulders", and she truly is "hers for life"--though not in the way originally intended. In this way the movie presents a profound, sophisticated and realistic account of the way powerful individuals influence one another.