The movie: White Mischief

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My brother loves it. He had such a crush on her. The Esquire review was something like "Greta Scacchi appears topless in this mediocre movie about white people in the colony behaving badly. Don't miss it."

British "gentility" is the world's longest-running scam. It's probably the best example there is to show a.gilf between the attitudinal and behavioural (what they say/how they act vs. what they do).

The book White Mischief by James Fox is what the movie was based on. It's a good read

Thanks for sharing. I love the movie and I’ve only gotten 1/3 through it. It’s nonstop hot British guys. 11 out of 10

Charles Dance was never hotter.

It's pretty well made and acted, and yes, lots of eye candy, but I'm not sure I understood the point of it. The cuckolded husband occupies a lot of screen time, and he's the least interesting character in the film.

[quote] It's unreal how decadent and disgusting the British were in colonial Kenya.

Common phenomenon. The further away you are from the restraints of "home" the sleazier people think they can act.

Charles Dance just glowed. I never realized Greta Scaachi was so beautiful. And Sarah Miles. I loved her!

They should remake this and make it more graphic and outrageous. I just can't think who could play Charles Dance's role. He was so fucking sexy.

They would never re-make it without enormously revising it. A whole film set in Kenya all about the rich white characters where the black characters are only in the background? That would never fly today.

R11, the rich white characters are pretty much all bad people. It's hardly a ringing endorsement of colonialism. But Republicans always want to complain about "stuff that would never fly today"

The story is based on an unsolved murder and the louche behavior just adds to the allure:

Part novel and part journalistic report, the book is divided into two distinct sections.[3] Initially presented as a classic murder mystery, the first part of the story focuses on the dissolute lifestyles of the wealthy elite in colonial Kenya. Casual affairs, wife-swapping, habitual drunkenness and cocaine abuse were all common. The main protagonists are the victim, Josslyn Hay, a handsome womanising aristocrat; his beautiful married lover Lady Diana Broughton; and Diana’s much older husband Sir Delves Broughton. Although the identity of the murderer has never been discovered, the author claims to have found new evidence pointing to Sir Delves, and the second part of the book concentrates on the author’s investigations and his interviews with surviving participants in the drama, both in Kenya and in the United Kingdom.[4]

[quote] the rich white characters are pretty much all bad people.

More like Burning Man 1941. Draft dodgrs wealthy enough to escape the recruiters and enjoy the war with fine whiskey, cocaine, and hto wives of other men.

Plus the film was made in 1988 when Thatcher was still PM. So naturally the tone would be anti Empire, anti white, and anti the upper classes.

Let's recast the re make.

Jodie Comer as Diana Delves Broughton

James Norton as the Earl of Errol

R16 I like the idea of James Norton as Errol. The old guy, Broughton should be someone who conveys being pathetic well. Someone who projects privilege too. The scene that really got me in the movie is when her husband visits her lover and says, something to the effect, "Hell, we're both gentleman. I know my young wife has needs, but neither of you are very discreet and people are talking. I want you to end this. Tell her it has to end. Too much gossip." And while he stutters his way through this awkward pop in visit to Charles Dance's office, Dance just sits there with the suggest look. Great scene. And of course he has no intention of ending the affair.

"smuggest look." not "suggest look."

Greta is a nasty woman. She allowed herself to be impregnated by her first cousin. Their son jumped on the trans train recently.

No one "jumps on the trans train" - stop it with the right-wing crap

r20 Dylan Mulvaney....Dylan..r20.

OP the movie was such a flop that the lead actress pivoted into a new career in advertising, founding Saatchi and Saatchi with her mother.

R8 How true! It's what makes Amsterdam and Bangkok great vacation destinations.

[quote] OP the movie was such a flop that the lead actress pivoted into a new career in advertising,

Good movies flop and we get decades of superhero crap.

In the old days a Harry or Andrew might have been given a reasonable allowance and a one-way ticket to Nairobi, where they could be as decadent as they liked, as long as nobody important saw then doing it. (And there must have been a heck of a gay scene there, BTW, full of gay aristos who were thrilled to be somewhere they didn't have to hide! Much.)

But nowadays, there's no place they can send the Andrews where they're free from the risk of scandal. Andrew could be sent to the South Pole, and some nosy scientist would be putting pics of him on Insta.

[quote]Greta is a nasty woman. She allowed herself to be impregnated by her first cousin. Their son jumped on the trans train recently.

OMG is she the British Jamie Lee, although JLC did aristocracy without the incest. And Jamie Lee's cishet female daughter didn't marry Sean Penn for a year. At least not that we know of.

How did Vincent D'Onofrio feel about being Sean Penn's father in law?

There was a pretty good BBC series that also addressed this era. Unfortunately not picked up for a second series.

Former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn is sent to colonial Nairobi, as the head of a new criminal investigation unit. Murder, arson, blackmail, slave-trading, and secret passions await him in 1930's Kenya. As he faces off against the pompous elitist expatriate community, he finds allies in Constable Jonah Karinde, Assistant Superintendent James Valentine, and Emma Fitzgerald, a spirited, strong-willed biplane pilot. This dark and twisting series encompass three cases: "Private Lives," "Hide in Plain Sight," and "The Sport of Kings."