Privileged

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Resumen

Privileged es una película de 1982 notable por ser el primer estreno teatral de la Oxford Film Foundation y el debut en pantalla de Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Mark Williams y James Wilby. Dirigida por Michael Hoffman con John Schlesinger, producida por Rick Stevenson (como Richard Stevenson), la película es sobre un grupo de estudiantes de Oxford que asisten a fiestas, con elementos de un whodunit. La partitura clásica es de Rachel Portman en su debut cinematográfico a los 22 años, y la película también utiliza temas de baile de la banda estudiantil de Oxford "Kudos Points", cuyos miembros incluían a Charlie Mole (quien luego compuso bandas sonoras cinematográficas por derecho propio). El guion incluye una obra dentro de otra obra, ya que varios de los personajes compiten por un papel en una producción estudiantil de The Duchess of Malfi. Reparto Robert Woolley as Edward Diana Katis as Anne Hugh Grant as Lord Adrian (credited as Hughie Grant) Victoria Studd as Lucy James Wilby as Jamie Simon Shackleton as Justin Imogen Stubbs as Imogen Mark Williams as Wilf Neville Watchurst as Julian Michael Hoffman as Alan Jenny Waldman as Waitress Ted Coleman as Barman Stefan Bednarczyk as Pianist (credited as Stefan Bednarcyzk)

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Notable quotes

“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”
— François Arago, Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859), Joseph Fourier, p. 409.
“Tel est le privilége du génie : il aperçoit, il saisit des rapports, là où des yeux vulgaires lie voient que des faits isolés.”
— Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
“Privilege has always been a dulling factor in one’s comprehension of human difference.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Men differ in … social status. … Simple observation shows that in every such situation he who is more favored feels the never ceasing need to look upon his position as in some way “legitimate,” upon his advantage as “deserved,” and the other’s disadvantage as being brought about by the latter’s “fault.” That the purely accidental causes of the difference may be ever so obvious makes no difference.”
— Max Weber, Economy and Society, p. 953

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