THE GO-BETWEEN - Interview With Dominic Guard
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- A turn-of-the-century romantic drama, THE GO-BETWEEN recounts the secret love affair between a beautiful heiress, Marion (Julie Christie), and the poor tenant farmer, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates). The "go-between" in the romance between Marion and Ted is a twelve-year-old boy (Dominic Guard) who unwittingly allows himself to be used as their message bearer. Eventually, Marion's mother (Margaret Leighton) discovers the ruse. And after she precipitates a shocking confrontation, the emotional experience of being caught up in a doomed love affair leaves a lasting scar on the young boy's life.
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Fascinating.Guard helped create a masterpiece without really knowing that he was doing so..
I think he still doesn't realise that it is a masterpiece. As is Picnic at Hanging Rock, which he was in too.
Dominic speaks so well of his memories of the film and can be proud of the major part he played in a true classic. Julie Christie and Alan Bates were such a good pairing this being the second of the four times they worked together.
I've always loved them together. Their last collaboration, a BBC production of "Separate Tables" is a must-see!
Fav film ever. Seen it over 50 times. Visited many of the locations (but never the 'hall').
I have seen this film twice, almost 50 years apart. First as an adolescent, then as a man in late middle age. If affected me deeply each time, once because I didn’t understand enough about life and once because I understood perhaps too much. One think that strikes me is that when one looked back from 1971 to the period of the movie, what Europeans call the Belle Époque, that world had gone, it was superficially golden but dark underneath, it was doomed, it had completely vanished. I don’t feel the same way about 1971 and today, a lot of the hopes and ideas from 1971 have come to fruition or at least are still the ideals of today, although, ironically, I think more people dream of living in the period drama version of Edwardian England than ever fantasise about living in 1971!
Yes, the Edwardian era before WW1 had a certain magic about it, the original 'Upstairs Downstairs' TV series in particular captured it perfectly.
Dominic is in two of my favorite movies. In addition to The Go-Between, he’s brilliant in Picnic at Hanging Rock. I’d always wondered what he looks like today. Thanks for sharing this video.
Fascinating. Thank you. Dominic Guard was wonderful in this film.
It's wonderful to see and hear Dominic Guard! Love this film, the entire cast was outstanding!
Thanks for posting this. I'd always wanted to see an interview with Mr. Guard. The Go-Between is a great movie. His performance is unforgettable.
Great interview. Fascinating how Dom remembers it all so well after all these years, goes to show what an experience it must have been for everything to stay with him so vividly. Really interesting insights and he portrays them with enthusiasm which is great to watch. Love the film and he was excellent in it, for a young actor to take on such a prominent role amongst established stars is quite something. Also pertinent for me is the stuff about the stammer as this is something I’ve also had and struggled with since childhood, and still do to this day. I recognise everything he is saying here about the difficulties it presents. Good for him that he was able to perform the role so well in such circumstances and seemingly overcome it. Thanks for uploading this.
I just watched this film again, I have a DVD, it's one of my favourite movies. Leo's birthday is a day after mine and I had a stammer as a boy .
Mr. Guard, you were so great in this wonderful film
I met another Actor who knew him at Drama school. A movie so enchanting, I can watch again and again!
What can I say that hasn't been said ? - absolutely amazing Film , fantastic to see this interview , I'd love to meet Dominic - seems a great person .
I'm not at all surprised that you became a psychotherapist. Your nuanced acting in the role of Leo showed how unusually perceptive you were at such a young age. And that quality of being such an excellent observer of people is one of the qualities absolutely required if one is to be a good therapist. I have always loved this movie for its exquisite mix of beauty and sadness. Thank you, Dominic for bringing to it what you did, whether through skillful acting or simply being who you were at the time.
Loved this film. I was a child at the time when it came out, and the English Countryside was so well represented, Can barely believe it was 50 years ago! Older People were still snooty on the 1970's, and had imperious accents like this.
Fascinating to see him and listen to him! The Go-Between is one of my favourite films - and books.
Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975 was a Masterpiece Directed By Peter Weir, Dominic was outstanding came to Australia and left an amazing impression.
Thanks for making this available. A fascinating interview which will enhance my enjoyment of one of my favourite films. What an experience for the young Dominic Guard! Good to know that the rest of the cast treated him well and that unlike Leo he seems to have made a good adjustment to adulthood. One of Losey’s best films and an all time British great movie. Music, photography, script, performances, all excellent
Yes it is an absolute classic the interview a real treat coming up.for Julie Christie's birthday 🎈.
Excellent and very perceptive interview - Dominic Guard gave one of the outstanding child-actor performances of all time in The Go-Between and speaks very well of his experiences making the film.
Dominic Guard was superb as Leo..Such a good actor.
Great interview of a highly engaging intelligent interviewee (I can understand JC warning him off acting as such a tiny few really make it). The film is one of my all time favourites it’s so absolutely ravishing! Not only to look at, but also to listen to the economical but superb Pinter screenplay and be mesmerised by Le Grand’s spine tingling score. However the big downer is poor Leo’s shattered innocence and it is very hard to bear!
Yes the film is just perfection.
u touch on something that came over about dominic in Absolution - you can tell he's an intelligent guy by the way he acted in that film too.
@@chasey2327 I haven’t seen that film but now I must watch it
thanks very much for this interview. this film really impressed me when i first saw it at the age of 15....always remembered it as a special release
Fine actor, and his mum was wonderful.
Old Leo looked back at young Leo in the novel in the same way ‘old’ Dominic is looking back at his young self
Stunning cinematography, among the film’s other excellencies.
Dominics performance was brilliant and has stood the test of time, even judged against the novels actual text. The film is very close to the novel, but the emphasis is slightly different, with more emphasis on what was done to the child, rather on who Marian was, as explained in the last pages of the novel. The novel should be read.
Such beautiful choreography. Makes me want to be there. One of my favorite films. I saw it on Thanksgiving weekend when I was 11 years old. I would love to go and visit that ok. Makes me forget about life's troubles.
He is a good actor
Lovely scenery and a great score, left me feeling somewhat unsettled, but very memorable.
The eyes haven't changed. I saw the film in the cinema in Pinner. Great film.
Me too! The ABC in Bridge Street: it's now a Lidl.
@@danielclitheroe1869 I got it wrong. I saw the film in the cinema in Northwood Hills which I believe is a supermarket.
The Rex in Northwood Hills, the Rivoli and Astoria in Ruislip all now gone.
Muchas gracias Dominic por haber actuado en tan maravillosa película que es una obra de arte. El rol que desempeñaste fue maravilloso. Nunca me he olvidado de esta película y por supuesto que también de ti. Te recuerdo y siempre te recordaré.
Saw the film in my teens and thought it good. Now, seeing it for the first time since (50 years later), I think it's outstanding, truly outstanding. Not for teenagers to understand. And this interview most interesting and the man utterly without airs. One of the things I especially like about the film is the impeccable manners of the upper classes, the kind of manners I was brought up with, and miss -- long ago realized that such manners are an expression of respect for one's fellow human beings and respect for oneself. Nowadays, of course, good manners are misunderstood entirely as snobbery or some other nastiness, and, of course, good manners have nowt to do with Political Correctness, for that's more like bad manners.
amazing movie, one of the greats, and ur part in it Dominic was integral....congrats!
tho the end befuddles me. who was marion's hubby, what was the relationship tween her grandson and Leo. seems to be unanswered questions.....marvelous plot.
Feeling it her duty to do so, Marion (pregnant with the tenant farmer's child) actually marries Viscount Trimmingham.
There is no friend or blood relationship between Leo and Marion's grandson. Marion is simply asking Leo to explain to her grandson, the facts about his actual parentage.
I’m shocked to discover he didn’t grow up to look exactly like Michael Redgrave…
I'm 54 and I vaguely remember my mum watching this, I think I liked the boy.
Amazing film!
You know it's a good movie when it's not free it on tube for $$$ .gem of a movie.
Studied the book for A level. Wonderful film version.
Marion really blew it in the novel not giving herself to Leo.
She could have waited a bit to marry him - the missed passion was
thrown away for the quick grab.
I think she missed who really loved her most and who would have her best lover.
What on EARTH are you talking about? "She could have waited a bit to marry him"? In the novel, Leo is 13 years old - he's a child!
@@rickdicker9604 You forget the greatest romantic play ever written is Romeo and Juliet a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two 13 year old Italian youths from feuding families. Love can strike at any age and it does not always wait till we are all over 18.
What's this nonce-sense?
He loves the Legrand score - the man has taste!
A small criticism of the film (and it's something film makers always do with disfigurement)- Edward Fox's scar still left him very good looking and barely disfigured at all, especially by late Victorian standards. In the book, there's a dynamic established by Marcus warning Leo about how shocking he looks, and then Leo taken by surprise by his face and overriding his disgust by considering that it's a wound won in battle, and then entirely discounting the wound by learning that he is a Viscount. Because the idea of self-image and a burgeoning consciousness about ideas of beauty and attraction and revulsion is such a key part of the film, I think this is a shame.
Excellent point.
Good point, but film is a visual media and Edward's angelic face when he utters those lines, "NOTHING is ever a lady's fault" makes us feel his "inner" beauty and the moral ambiguity about Marion and Ted's liaison. Because this man that she is obliged to marry is just as dashing and possibly the sweetest male character in film history, we begin to wonder what's wrong with this girl. We suddenly see victorian morals as protective in a god way. It's the right sort of cognitive dissonance that we now share with the main character, the boy. And it's there precisely because Edward Fox is so good looking.
Degrading yourself to maintain the class system because of money can be soul destroying. In this situation Christies family is affected by what she does in marrying a man with money and assets
Fascinating interview! The rising menace of the inevitable denouement of the film has always haunted me. Brilliantly tense yet also inadvertently comical scene with Ted Burgess and his elusive answers to the poor lad. Thanks for this retrospective, Dominic Guard!
Dominic, when delivering these lines at 16:32 did you know what you were asking
or were these just lines you delivered? I ask because the passion and raw emotion you
play out has a very deep well of acting that looks genuine and not acting. Did you understand these lines?
Julie Christie . . even though history says that she was never the SUPERSTAR that she could have been, Julie Christie was a SUPERSTAR to ME. Hauntingly beautiful, poised, a consummate actress, Ms. Christie was/IS in a Class All By Herself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
Please upload the full movie
A couple of questions-
What year was the film set in? We know Trimingham was wounded in the Boer War (1899-1902) so it was presumably set sometime after those dates.
Later Burgess considers joing the army and going to "the war", but what war does that refer to, i.e. was the Boer War still ongoing, or had WW1 started (1914)
One more question (spoiler alert)- Burgess apparently shot himself at the end, what for?
The story is set in 1901. Ted Burgess is considering joining up to fight in the ‘South African War’, ie the same war in which Trimmingham had been wounded. The reason he’s thinking about this is because of the impossibility of his situation. Ted kills himself because he is at the centre of an horrific scandal. He has been caught having sex with the daughter of a wealthy London banker who is being matched with the titled, but moneyless, Trimmingham. Such matches happened frequently during the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th. One partner had a title and property, but no money while the other had money and some property, but no title. Miss Marion Maudsley was due to become Lady Trimmingham. Ted chose what he saw as the only means of escape from a nightmare that would be his ruin, particularly as he was a tenant farmer and Trimmingham was his landlord. Someone of Viscount Trimmingham’s background would have had a long societal ‘reach’ meaning that Ted would be a marked man for life. A complete social outcast. (It’s a graphic illustration of the old advice: ‘Never shit on your own doorstep…’)
@@OldAustria- yes, and if the film's plot was set in modern times it'd be a box office flop because nowadays people don't give a damn about such 'scandals', and Ted certainly wouldn't shoot himself..:)
But as the film pointed out, "the past is another country, they do things different there".
It was set across two weeks in July 1900 (the last Victorian summer). The novel makes much of the intense heatwave (by English standards) which was actually true to life (July 1900 was indeed fiercely hot)
Best read the novel. You won't be sorry.
@@ukrandr I wouldn't be able to take the novel seriously because I simply wouldn't care if that posh bird was shagging the farmer..:)
The future is also a foreign country - if you think your local Target shopping visit today is weird just wait.
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Sight of the child Dominic around 7:30
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