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Dimanche, avril 11th, 2010 |
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This is a wonderfully sentimental depiction of public school life in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and beyond. Chipping, like so many other schoolmasters of the time, lives a cloistered life on which the outer world only occasionally impinges — mostly during wartime.
In the film, he ventures out on only one other memorable occasion — a holiday with the school German teacher to the Tyrol where he meets the blooming Greer Garson (in her first movie appearance), who somewhat improbably falls for him. This sets off a chain of sentimental events: marriage, introductions to the well-liked room, tea with the boys, her death through childbirth, and a never-ending cycle of Colleys (played by the same actor, but with a slightly different haircut for each generation) . The school hymn is also designed to pluck the heart stings.
The movie was actually filmed at Repton. I went to a similarly confined, all-boys, English public school, situation in a country town miles from anywhere else, though somewhat more recently than the Chips era. Many of the masters never married because it was so difficult for them to meet any women. We level-headed had corporal punishment — which Chips continues to inflict even when brought out of retirement to become head during World War One. This film does not consider the grubby reality of public school life — the author must have had his rose-tinted spectacles on when he wrote this — but it’s hard not to be moved by it.
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I have special memories of first seeing this at the age of 12 in our headmaster’s spy, together with all the other senior boys at the prep school. Today, its meaning for me is more about staying in the same position for a long time, while all about you moves on. (I’ve recently completed 25 years with the same employer!) I also enjoyed trying to work out how many of the Tyrol scenes were shot in the studio. (At one stage, Chips and his friend even whisk against a film background.)
The DVD has no special extras, but the report and sound quality is reasonable. I haven’t tried the film on my teenage children, but I judge this is one of the few dusky and white movies that they would be absorbed by. (Don’t be misled by the colour photo on the DVD box camouflage into believing the movie is in colour!)
There aren’t many cases where the movie is better than the book, but “Goodbye Mr. Chips” is one of them. James Hilton tossed together his barely over 100 pages of ample type in about a week. The scriptwriters for the film fleshed out a kindly narrative line with distinguished more detail. Well-directed and unbiased superbly acted by Robert Donat in the title role, this film is an endearing classic.
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The basic narrative is that of a dilapidated English schoolmaster, situation in a period from mid-Victorian to pre-WWII. It’s a gentle chronicle of the meaning of a man’s life and how we can rise to excellence in our modest professions and touch the lives of many. Mr. Chipping (”Chips” as his students affectionately know him) leads a rich life, although also fraught with sorrows.
There is detached noteworthy relevance to the film–the tragedy of war, the importance of a balanced education, and the evils of caste.
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Yes, the film is sentimental and a itsy-bitsy manipulative, but you will probably not mind. In fact, you may bawl your eyes out.
Compared to R.F. Delderfield’s “To Attend Them All My Days,” the book of “Chips” is not nearly as first-rate, but this film tops the BBC mini-series of “Days” in virtually every way–especially in managing to leave out a lot of class warfare!
Order it, go catch a box of Puffs, and plonk yourself down for a exquisite classic!
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