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Best Supporting ActorActress | 2005 | Rosamund
Most Offensive Male Character | 2005 | Johnny
Best Editing in a Feature Film | 2006 | Jill
2005 | Laurence
Best British Independent Film | 2005
Best Actor | 2005
Best Supporting ActorActress | 2005
Most Promising Newcomer | 2005
Best Director | 2005
Best Technical Achievement | 2005
Box Office Collection 10,852,064 USD
6,890 pounds was spent on vegetable oil-based smoke and fog, and 3,672 pounds went into making elegantly carved seventeenth century dildos.
The poem for which Wilmot has been banished from court at the beginning of the film is "A Satyr on Charles II". The historical Wilmot really did submit that poem to the monarch accidentally, but he subsequently left court of his own accord, rather than at Charles' command.
Unlike most period films, this one was shot almost entirely with a hand-held camera. The two most notable shots with a fixed camera are the two panoramas of the interior of the theater, which was intentional.
Most of the film was lit using candles, rather than conventional movie lights. In order to keep the effect of candles, but still get enough light, cinematographer Alexander Melman designed a special piece of equipment, a stand that held a bank of candles and a reflective backing. These were known on the set as "birthday cakes".
Filming took only 45 days.
"[first lines] Rochester: Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on. Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact. I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. Don't. It is a deal of trouble for you and you are better off watching and drawing your conclusions from a distance than you would be if I got my tarse up your petticoats. Gentlemen. Do not despair, I am up for that as well. And the same warning applies. Still your cheesy erections till I have had my say. But later when you shag - and later you will shag, I shall expect it of you and I will know if you have let me down - I wish you to shag with my homuncular image rattling in your gonads. Feel how it was for me, how it is for me and ponder. 'Was that shudder the same shudder he sensed? Did he know something more profound? Or is there some wall of wretchedness that we all batter with our heads at that shining, livelong moment. That is it. That is my prologue, nothing in rhyme, no protestations of modesty, you were not expecting that I hope. I am John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester and I do not want you to like me."
"Rochester: This is your first season on the London stage? Elizabeth Barry: It is, my lord. Rochester: Mrs. Barry, you must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: The stupid and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time. The envious, never."
