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December 5, 2023,
The preciousness of life becomes fully exposed with the budding, blooming, wilting and passing of a flower.
Some feel day 26 is the day in which most flowers experience inflorescence emergence.
Simply put, if we are fortunate, most of us have a time period where we bloom the brightest.
Completely gorgeous actresses go through this.
Though they may have a long career, there is one film where they are the most beautiful and shine the brightest.
Very subjective for certain.
We sense you have seen your most special celluloid moments with your favorite actresses where they have reached the apex of their beauty and so have we.
Phoebe Cates in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Jennifer Connelly in Career Opportunities, Alicia Silverstone in Crush and Riley Keough in The Girlfriend Experience, to name a few.
Sensational looks, always, but there, their flower shined and blossomed the brightest.
Which brings us to Greta Scacchi.
Time for an introduction.
Greta Scacchi, is an Italian-Australian actress.
She holds dual Italian and Australian citizenship.
She is best known for her roles in the films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996), and Looking for Alibrandi (2000).
Her first leading role, in Heat and Dust (1983), earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film.
Our luminary was sensational in all, but it was her film White Mischief, where she blossoms the brightest.
So many layers of plot lines and real life meaning in that gem.
White Mischief (1987), directed by Michael Radford, dramatises the events of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941, wherein Sir Henry “Jock” Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll.
The film is based upon the novel White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll (1982), by James Fox, which originated from a newspaper article published in 1969.
Nothing like real life to make the movie tale more intriguing.
Here is the storyline.
Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony‘s Happy Valley region often led hedonistic lifestyles of indulgence in alcohol, drugs, and extramarital relationships.
It appears the behavior of the idle rich never changes. No matter the decade. Or Region.
On January 24, 1941, Josslyn Hay, the philandering Earl of Erroll, was found dead in his car in a secluded area, with his reputation for adulterous relationships preceding him.
Who murdered him? Where is Mrs. Jane Marple when you need her? Can anyone interrupt Sherlock Holmes’s dinner and explain something fowl is afoot in Kenya.
One such married woman is Diana Delves Broughton, the beautiful wife of Sir John Henry Delves Broughton, known as “Jock”, who is thirty years her senior, with whom she has a pre-nuptial understanding that, should either of them fall in love with someone else, the other party would not impede that romance.
Very convenient. Enlightened for that time period.
Diana (Greta) has indeed succumbed to the charms of the roguish Earl of Erroll, whose other lovers include the drug-addicted American heiress Alice de Janzé and the more reserved Nina Soames.
The Earl is more serious about this affair, than any of his earlier escapades, and wants Diana to marry him.
She is reluctant to leave what she thinks is the financial security of her marriage to formalize her relationship with Erroll (who in reality has no funds or prospects), unaware that her husband is deep in debt.
Oh, oh. A woman who marries men for money has picked two, who are broke.
Talk about poetic justice.
Privately humiliated but appearing to honor their strange agreement, Delves Broughton publicly toasts the couple’s affair at the club in Nairobi, asking Erroll to bring Diana home at a specified time.
Delves Broughton appears to be extremely intoxicated for the rest of the evening; once he is alone it is clear he was feigning drunkenness. After dropping off Diana, Erroll is shot dead in his car near the home of Delves Broughton, who is soon charged with the murder.
There you have it.
What struck us most about the film was how completely beautiful Greta Scacchi was when she was young. Truly. She looks the epitome of elegance, class, culture and incredible beauty.
That were a number of underlying themes here.
Decades ago, it was thought that women had sex to please men but got very little pleasure out of it. As a result, when it came to marriage, they preferred an older man with money to a handsome virile man with none.
Those were the days when people expected to marry for life or at least a long time.
Time for a personal real life experience.
When one of our associates was young, his family would take him camping all over the United States. There was one campground they liked in particular. They would travel there annually.
One year they met a beautiful young woman in her late twenties with a son. Later when his family met her husband, they were shocked at how old he was. Probably close to 60.
Even as a little guy, our associate figured out that she married him for security. The father of her son had either passed away or ruined the relationship and she was tired of the handsome bad boys and needed a stable man to help raise her son, even though the sex would not be the same.
Maybe.
Today, now that women have surpassed the males in achieving college degrees, they make good livings and once they reach their 40’s, with substantial money in the bank, they don’t need a man for security.
Therefore, when it comes to sex, they may see it as a recreational venture which means older men do not qualify. They openly say they prefer sex with younger men who last longer and are more virile and strong. They have no intention of marrying him, he is there to pleasure them and that thinking is pervasive.
How times have changed.
Greta’s character was born in the wrong time period.
She enjoyed the love making with her rogue lover and, if she was rich, with her own money, her older husband would have been gone a long time ago.
What is our point?
A hypothesis.
Besides how women have been portrayed on film, in terms of having sex to please their husbands, from nature’s stand point, they have always been sexually ravenous. The constraints placed upon them by society is what shackled them, but they have always been as lusty, or more so than men. They relish the thought in today’s world, they can sleep with as many young men as they want, sometimes 2-3 in one day.
Maybe 50 in a lifetime.
In terms of what women really want, the film White Mischief was ahead of its time.
This was the era when Greta bloomed brilliantly. The most beautiful flower in the bouquet.
It took an incredibly regal young Greta Scacchi to bring that to light.
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