The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
It’s always very inspiring to see movies about dedicated teachers because in real life, they’re incredibly rare. We all have memories of countless terrible teachers, and maybe one or two teachers we actually liked. If you like this genre, you’ve got to rent the classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which earned Maggie Smith her first Academy Award.
Maggie plays a Scottish woman passionate in all areas of her life: teaching, romance, and loyalty. There are a few girls in her class that are her favorites (Jane Carr, Pamela Franklin, Diane Grayson, and Shirley Steedman), and while she dotes on them to encourage their thirst for knowledge, the other faculty disapprove of her methods. Maggie’s life is a constant battle, symbolically and actually. Her fellow teachers want to take her down a peg, her romance with Gordon Jackson is steady but boring, her married ex-boyfriend Robert Stephens (her husband in real life!) is appealing but against the rules, and the general attitude of everyone around her clashes with her raison d’être. She believes in living life to the fullest, and she also believes in imparting all her worldly knowledge onto her impressionable girls.
Fans of The Corn is Green and To Sir, With Love will find a new favorite in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Maggie Smith is lovely in the title role, and you’ll also get to hear the beautiful theme song “Jean”. There’s an added bonus to the movie that I discovered upon rewatching it as a grown-up: you can interpret the story in two ways. You can think she’s a wonderful teacher who positively influences her students, or you can find her teaching inappropriate and manipulative. Rent it with a bunch of friends or old classmates for a stimulating discussion afterwards.
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More Maggie Smith movies here!
Maggie plays a Scottish woman passionate in all areas of her life: teaching, romance, and loyalty. There are a few girls in her class that are her favorites (Jane Carr, Pamela Franklin, Diane Grayson, and Shirley Steedman), and while she dotes on them to encourage their thirst for knowledge, the other faculty disapprove of her methods. Maggie’s life is a constant battle, symbolically and actually. Her fellow teachers want to take her down a peg, her romance with Gordon Jackson is steady but boring, her married ex-boyfriend Robert Stephens (her husband in real life!) is appealing but against the rules, and the general attitude of everyone around her clashes with her raison d’être. She believes in living life to the fullest, and she also believes in imparting all her worldly knowledge onto her impressionable girls.
Fans of The Corn is Green and To Sir, With Love will find a new favorite in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Maggie Smith is lovely in the title role, and you’ll also get to hear the beautiful theme song “Jean”. There’s an added bonus to the movie that I discovered upon rewatching it as a grown-up: you can interpret the story in two ways. You can think she’s a wonderful teacher who positively influences her students, or you can find her teaching inappropriate and manipulative. Rent it with a bunch of friends or old classmates for a stimulating discussion afterwards.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Clipper Davinci" for posting!
More Maggie Smith movies here!