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''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirized the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
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''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama period comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirized the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
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''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirizing the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
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''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirizing satirized the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
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The film's heavyweight cast includes Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MichaelSheen, Creator/EmilyMortimer, Creator/StockardChanning, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/JimBroadbent, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/ImeldaStaunton, and Creator/RichardEGrant. Fry and Creator/MarkGatiss appear in cameos.
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The film's heavyweight cast EnsembleCast includes Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MichaelSheen, Creator/EmilyMortimer, Creator/StockardChanning, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/JimBroadbent, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/ImeldaStaunton, and Creator/RichardEGrant. Fry and Creator/MarkGatiss appear in cameos.
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The film's heavyweight cast includes Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MichaelSheen, Creator/EmilyMortimer, Creator/StockardChanning, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/JimBroadbent, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/ImeldaStaunton, and Creator/RichardEGrant. Fry and Creator/MarkGatiss appear in cameos.
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** Simon [[spoiler:writes a defamatory and libelous article concerning most of his friends before committing suicide as retribution for them being unable or unwilling to get him into a party. Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it doesn't seem to cause any of them too much grief.
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** Simon [[spoiler:writes a defamatory and libelous article concerning most of his friends before committing suicide as retribution for them being unable or unwilling to get him into a party. ]] Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it doesn't seem to cause any of them too much grief.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While perhaps not the most pleasant of people, Margot Maitland is a much better person than her book counterpart, [[spoiler:since there's no mention of her engaging in human trafficking]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While perhaps not the most pleasant of people, Margot Maitland is a much better person than her book counterpart, [[spoiler:since [[spoiler: since there's no mention of her engaging in human trafficking]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: While perhaps not the most pleasant of people, Margot Maitland is a much better person than her book counterpart, [[spoiler:since there's no mention of her engaging in human trafficking]].
* TheAlcoholic: Several, but especially [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Drunk Major]] and Agatha, both of whom are rarely seen sober or without a drink readily on hand.
* BlackComedy: Less so than the book, but the film does still have this air.
* TheAlcoholic: Several, but especially [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Drunk Major]] and Agatha, both of whom are rarely seen sober or without a drink readily on hand.
* BlackComedy: Less so than the book, but the film does still have this air.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: The Drunk Major. Also possibly Miles given the fact that he's a CampGay man who flees to France just at the onset of the Second World War]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Two prominent examples:
** Simon [[spoiler:writes a defamatory and libelous article concerning most of his friends before committing suicide as retribution for them being unable or unwilling to get him into a party. Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it doesn't seem to cause any of them too much grief.
** Tiger [[spoiler:reveals concrete evidence of Miles' homosexuality (at a time when it was illegal in the UK) which forces him to flee to France as retribution for Miles not appearing concerned that Agatha had taken Tiger's racing car]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: Two prominent examples:
** Simon [[spoiler:writes a defamatory and libelous article concerning most of his friends before committing suicide as retribution for them being unable or unwilling to get him into a party. Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that it doesn't seem to cause any of them too much grief.
** Tiger [[spoiler:reveals concrete evidence of Miles' homosexuality (at a time when it was illegal in the UK) which forces him to flee to France as retribution for Miles not appearing concerned that Agatha had taken Tiger's racing car]].
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Agatha, who winds up being committed to a mental institution but very much alive]].
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The film's heavyweight cast includes Creator/JamesMcAvoy, Creator/MichaelSheen, Creator/DavidTennant, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/PeterOToole, Creator/ImeldaStaunton, and Creator/RichardEGrant. Fry and Creator/MarkGatiss appear in cameos.
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* TabloidMelodrama: Most of the main characters are unduly preoccupied with what the paper says about them, but never more so than when [[spoiler:Simon writes a libelous 'tell all' about an orgy at Lady Maitland's ball]].
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* TabloidMelodrama: Most of the main characters are unduly preoccupied with what the paper says about them, but never more so than when [[spoiler:Simon writes a libelous 'tell all' about an orgy at Lady Maitland's ball]].ball]].
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As the novel on which the film is based was satirizing a real social group, many of the 'bright young people' are based on the real life bright young things. For example, Miles is loosely based on infamous gay socialite Stephen Tennant.
* RunForTheBorder: The final situation for [[spoiler:Miles, who flees for France after discovering a warrant out for his arrest]].
* {{Ruritania}}: One of the perpetual residents at Adam's hotel is the former King of Ruritania, who seems more upset about his pilfered gold pen than the fact that he is living in a London hotel.
* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.
* RunForTheBorder: The final situation for [[spoiler:Miles, who flees for France after discovering a warrant out for his arrest]].
* {{Ruritania}}: One of the perpetual residents at Adam's hotel is the former King of Ruritania, who seems more upset about his pilfered gold pen than the fact that he is living in a London hotel.
* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As the novel on which the film is based was satirizing a real social group, many of the 'bright young people' are based on the real life bright young things. For example, Miles is loosely based on infamous gay socialite Stephen Tennant.
Tennant, while Simon "Mr Chatterbox" Balcairn is based on gossip writer Patrick "Mr Gossip" Balfour.
* RunForTheBorder: The final situation for [[spoiler:Miles, who flees for France after discovering a warrant out forhis arrest]].
(presumably) homosexuality, and Ginger, who flees to America after facing smuggling charges]].
* {{Ruritania}}: One of the perpetual residents at Adam's hotel is the former King ofRuritania, Anatolia, who seems more upset about his pilfered gold pen than the fact that he is living in a London hotel.
* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named ImogenQuest. Quest, and a sinister Count Zelldorf. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her Imogen's best friend.friend, but his boss becomes suspicious that he can't verify.
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** StraightGay: Tiger.
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* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.
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* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.friend.
* TabloidMelodrama: Most of the main characters are unduly preoccupied with what the paper says about them, but never more so than when [[spoiler:Simon writes a libelous 'tell all' about an orgy at Lady Maitland's ball]].
* TabloidMelodrama: Most of the main characters are unduly preoccupied with what the paper says about them, but never more so than when [[spoiler:Simon writes a libelous 'tell all' about an orgy at Lady Maitland's ball]].
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* IdleRich: Many of the bright young people, but especially Agatha Runcible and Miles Maitland.
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* DrunkDriver: [[spoiler:Agatha, who drives off with Tiger's racecar while intoxicated on Dom Perignon and cocaine.]]
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* GoldDigger: Adam's impression of [[spoiler:Nina]] when she chooses to marry an extremely wealthy 'old friend'.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As the novel on which the film is based was satirizing a real social group, many of the 'bright young people' are based on the real life bright young things. For example, Miles is loosely based on infamous gay socialite Stephen Tennant.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: As the novel on which the film is based was satirizing a real social group, many of the 'bright young people' are based on the real life bright young things. For example, Miles is loosely based on infamous gay socialite Stephen Tennant.
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->''"God gave you two legs and an immortal soul in the capital city of the largest empire the world has ever seen. Are you going to spend it sucking up cocktails?"''
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''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirizing the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
The film follows aspiring author Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancee Nina Blount. His novel ''Bright Young Things'' is withheld at customs for being too racy, and he finds himself in a precarious financial situation and fearing he will be unable to marry. Meanwhile, he and Nina live life as part of a young and decadent crowd who indulge in partying, alcohol, cocaine and gossip. However, things are not as carefree as they may seem at first.
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!!''Bright Young Things'' contains examples of:
* CampGay: Miles.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Gossip columnist and former 'Mr Chatterbox' Simon Balcairn puts his head in the oven after being kicked out of the society ball of the season and calling in a libelous article about what debauchery had taken place there]].
* GenteelInterbellumSetting
* {{Ruritania}}: One of the perpetual residents at Adam's hotel is the former King of Ruritania, who seems more upset about his pilfered gold pen than the fact that he is living in a London hotel.
* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.
-->--[[Creator/DanAykroyd Lord Monomark]]
''Bright Young Things'' is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Creator/StephenFry. The screenplay was based on the 1930 novel ''Literature/VileBodies'' by Creator/EvelynWaugh, which was in turn loosely based on and satirizing the aristocratic and bohemian society members known as the "bright young people".
The film follows aspiring author Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancee Nina Blount. His novel ''Bright Young Things'' is withheld at customs for being too racy, and he finds himself in a precarious financial situation and fearing he will be unable to marry. Meanwhile, he and Nina live life as part of a young and decadent crowd who indulge in partying, alcohol, cocaine and gossip. However, things are not as carefree as they may seem at first.
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!!''Bright Young Things'' contains examples of:
* CampGay: Miles.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Gossip columnist and former 'Mr Chatterbox' Simon Balcairn puts his head in the oven after being kicked out of the society ball of the season and calling in a libelous article about what debauchery had taken place there]].
* GenteelInterbellumSetting
* {{Ruritania}}: One of the perpetual residents at Adam's hotel is the former King of Ruritania, who seems more upset about his pilfered gold pen than the fact that he is living in a London hotel.
* SnowballLie: When Adam takes over as gossip columnist, he invents a scandalous lesbian socialite named Imogen Quest. Suddenly half the crowd claim to be her best friend.
