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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street	comment	The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film directed by Sidney Franklin, dramatizing the Real Life courtship and marriage of the famed Victorian-era British poets Elizabeth Barrett (Sonnets from the Portuguese) and Robert Browning.London, 1845: Elizabeth "Ba" Barrett (Norma Shearer), then 35 years old, is already a well-known poet. She is also an invalid and shut-in, who has not left her room in years and hardly ever even stands on her feet. It soon becomes apparent, however, that Ba isn't quite as sickly as she's made out to be, and has in fact been kept semi-imprisoned by her cold and domineering widowed father, Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). Already rebelling against her father's dictatorial control, Ba has even more reason to rebel when admirer and fellow poet Robert Browning (Fredric March) pays a social call and declares his love for her.Based on a 1930 stage play by Rudolph Besier, which starred the famous American stage actress Katharine Cornell. Cornell declined an offer to star in this film, and in fact never appeared in any film except for a cameo As Herself in Stage Door Canteen.A remake, again directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Jennifer Jones and John Gielgud, was released in 1957.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_22e6c07e	type	Pervert Dad
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_22e6c07e	comment	Pervert Dad: See Incest Subtext above.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Part of Edward's passive-aggressive (but mostly aggressive) behavior towards Elizabeth.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: When the fantasy is something like, say, getting married, or even going outside.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_318bdacf	type	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_318bdacf	comment	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Three years before the trope namer made his debut. In any case, Ba's incredibly irritating Cousin Bella talks this way. ("We're going to Pawis on our honeymoon! Then Wome!")
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: Edward. He has essentially imprisoned his daughter, forcing her to drink porter beer that she loathes because the doctor says it's good for her — and when the doctor prescribes milk instead, making her drink the damn beer anyway for obedience's sake and demanding that she do it in a spirit of loving, willing cheerfulness — insisting that her curtains be closed, forbidding her from attempting to walk downstairs. And he acts this way with his other daughters, refusing to let Henrietta even see her suitor, Captain Cook of the British Army.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_65120cd1	type	Good-Looking Privates
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_65120cd1	comment	Good-Looking Privates: Not a private, an officer, but—Capt. Cook is so handsome in his dress uniform that Henrietta insists he come in so Elizabeth can see him in all his Bling of War. This leads to an ugly confrontation when Edward returns unexpectedly and catches the three of them in Elizabeth's room.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Elizabeth finally lets Edward have it near the end, telling him that she sees he doesn't really love his family at all, and that he is a "shadow" over their lives.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_89204ffb	type	Shrug of God
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_89204ffb	comment	Shrug of God: In-Universe. At their first meeting, Elizabeth asks Robert about a particularly obscure passage in one of his poems. Robert puzzles over it for a bit and then admits that he doesn't know what it means either.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: In his Villainous Breakdown, Edward more or less admits that his own unyielding grip on Elizabeth and Henrietta is driven by his own belief that sex is sinful, because it led to him raping his wife.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Flush the dog gets this credit.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Edward Moulton-Barrett might or might not have been a deeply disturbed Covert Pervert as the film suggests, but he did oppose the courtship of Elizabeth and Robert, and he did disinherit her after she got married, and did so for all his children who got married. The film fails to mention that Elizabeth's brothers were also against her marriage, and shunned Robert Browning, believing him to be a Gold Digger.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b15f2cdb	type	Expospeak
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b15f2cdb	comment	Expospeak: A conversation between Elizabeth and her doctor in the first scene neatly establishes that 1) Elizabeth is a published poet, 2) she is an invalid and a shut-in, and 3) Robert Browning has written her a fan letter.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Edward, as part of his Villainous Breakdown at the end, strongly implies—at least as far as 1934 censorship allowed—that all of his children after Elizabeth, totaling eight, resulted from Edward raping his wife.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Apart from her father's tyranny, Elizabeth cites this as a reason to not marry Robert, saying that she can't provide him "passionate love" or children, due to her ill health. (In Real Life Elizabeth Barrett wound up delivering a son.)
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Edward's real reason for keeping Elizabeth in his home as a virtual prisoner. When all his hectoring about her health fails to dissuade Elizabeth from taking a trip to Italy, he falls back on guilt. He accuses her of abandoning him and leaving him alone—his eight other children (in real life he had twelve!) not being sufficient companionship.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bc80725e	type	Wedding Finale
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bc80725e	comment	Wedding Finale: Ends with Elizabeth and Robert's marriage.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: It gradually becomes clear that Edward's fixation on his daughter is not about her health but about something far darker. After more or less admitting that he repeatedly raped his late wife (see Marital Rape License below), as well as commenting about how Sex Is Evil And He Is Horny, Edward embraces Elizabeth and starts saying some most un-fatherly things about how they have to be together forever. It's after this little talk that Elizabeth decides to get the hell out and go away with Robert. The studio demanded the Incest Subtext be toned down but Charles Laughton later said they couldn't tone down the "gleam" in his eye.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_c5c79ad3	comment	And Your Little Dog, Too!: At the end, having been informed that Elizabeth has left home forever, Edward goes into Villainous BSoD for a minute. Then he snaps out of it, saying "Yes...I'll have her dog." He turns to one of his sons and orders for Elizabeth's dog to be destroyed, only for a triumphant Henrietta to tell him that Ba took the dog with her.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Edward's Villainous Breakdown starts hitting high gear when, after finding out about Henrietta and Capt. Cook, he grabs her arms and twists painfully, while demanding that she vow to give him up.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_fe3122a3	type	Love Before First Sight
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_fe3122a3	comment	Love Before First Sight: Robert announces this at his first meeting with Elizabeth, saying he has already fallen in love with her through her poetry and her letters.
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