Questions about the movie

1. Another scheme

2. He was upset at the attention Steyne was paying to Becky and was jealous that she seemed to be enjoying it so much.

3. No, her songs were dubbed by a professional singer by the name of Custer LaRue.

4. It was one of the very few good deeds that George did when he stood by Amelia. He had promised to marry her and felt honor-bound to do so and didn't think it right to throw her over for someone richer, no matter what his father said. He then went on to resent her and neglect her after their marriage, but still had a brief moment of decency and affection for her that caused him to stand by her.

5. In the movie, I think maybe it's a combination of both. She does seem to have some affection for Rawdon, but I think mostly it's that she realizes her behavior may have just cost her everything and she's saying whatever she can to avoid losing it.

6. At this time, the rich would buy commissions, or positions in the army. So a man with no experience at all but the right amount of money and connections could become an officer. In 1796, about 19 years before the battle of Waterloo shown in the film, the Commander in Chief of the army had begun a series of reforms to the army--prior to that, one could buy any officer position, including general with no experience, which led to completely incompetent and inexperienced senior officers and meant the army was in a bad way. With the reforms, one could still buy their way up the ranks, but you had to serve a certain numbers of years in the position below; so one would have to have been a lieutenant for 3 years before they could become a captain. Nonetheless, Dobbin isn't saying George hasn't had experience in the army, but that he's green in that he has never actually been in a real battle yet. And it's not that George doesn't know a bugle means to assemble, but that a bugle at a ball like that would mean big news and so he's asking what the news is. As shown by the amount of people in Brussels and enjoying themselves at a ball, the British forces were taken by surprise with the speed of Napoleon's forces and were not expecting his army to be so close.

7. Amelia had been the only person who was truly kind to Becky when she was poor and had no one else. Becky, whatever her other faults, did not forget that kindness, and so they did stay friends for a long time, although they were completely opposites and had nothing in common and often couldn't understand each other. Amelia isn't so much angry at Becky dancing with George, but at this point, Amelia and George had only been married a few months. George is already resenting Amelia and treating her abruptly or neglecting her, especially the night of the ball when she feels terrible and didn't want to come (but he makes her come anyway, and then completely ignores her once they get there). And before meeting Becky in Brussels again and before his marriage to Amelia, George had disliked Becky and thought her a money-hungry social climber. So Amelia is hurt that George is treating her with coldness, but treating her friend warmly, especially when he supposedly couldn't stand her friend.
After Rawdon leaves Becky, the word gets around why, that she's supposedly having an affair with Steyne. Becky becomes a social outcast, her reputation tarnished, and no one, not even Amelia, would brave social convention to befriend her. And Amelia strongly believed in a woman being pure and virtuous and social standards and all that, so she was shocked and appalled at the idea of Becky having an affair or even the appearance of having an affair. So Amelia stayed away from Becky after that and and they don't see each other again until after Becky meets Jos in the gambling house 10+ years later.

Come, we must press against the tide of naughtiness. Mind your step.