Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Maggie Smith is so witty and commanding in this film, you might forget that the script paints Jean Brodie as an ultimately self-deluding spinster. Dame Maggie won the first of her two Oscars for playing a teacher in 1930s Edinburgh more in thrall to her romantic notions of art and beauty than the real world, a cultivator of worshipping "Brodie Girls." (She exalts the Mona Lisa and Mussolini with equal fervor.) Smith's expert playing makes many of the brogue-heavy Brodie-isms worth memorizing ("She seeks to intimidate me by the use of quarter-hours.") and raises the picture above its generally theatrical style. Real-life husband Robert Stephens plays Jean's married lover, Celia Johnson excels as the hostile headmistress, and Pamela Franklin is the deadpan whistle-blower within Miss Brodie's coven. The dippy music of Rod McKuen helps mark the movie as more of a reflection of the '60s than the '30s. --Robert Horton

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PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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1969
116
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Jean Brodie:
Please try to do as I say and not as I do. Remember, you are a child, Sandy, and far from your prime.

Jean Brodie:
Safety does not come first. Goodness, truth, and beauty come first.

Jean Brodie:
For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

Jean Brodie:
I am a teacher! First, last, always!

Jean Brodie:
I am truly in my prime.

Jean Brodie:
P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. Petrification! I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification.

Jean Brodie:
Little girls! I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Jean Brodie:
Deep in most of us is the potential for greatness or the potential to inspire greatness.

Jean Brodie:
"Dear Miss Brodie, I hope it will be convenient for you to see me in my office this afternoon at 4:15. Emily Mackay." Four fifteen. Not four, not four thirty, but four fifteen. Hm. She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter hours?

Jean Brodie:
Ah, chrysanthemums. Such serviceable flowers.

Teddy Lloyd:
A man with a wife and six children plus a schoolgirl for a mistress can be called any number of rude names, but "coward" is not one of them.

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