I just saw “The Queen”

[Viva_La_Revolution]

The way Blair used Princess Diana’s death… very shrewd to use the public’s grief. :(

or am I just jaded?


I must say, Michael Sheen played an excellent young Tony Blair.


The Queen was a mechanic during the war!? :wow:



“As for that silly man Blair and his Cheshire cat grin…” Queen Margaret
:rofl:


In the end, I felt like they should have named it “Princess Diana’s Death”

The Queen’s reactions were the sub-story. :shrug:

[bridgit]

1. i have it on my queue...

i like Helen's work :thumbsup:

[AlCzervik]

2. i'm waiting for that one and The last king of Scotland.

[wildhorses]

3. i thought it was very good

and showed how different generations deal with grief and emotions.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. quite a contrast. nt

[wildhorses]

7. very much so---

and don't you mean princess margaret in your op:shrug:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. The Queen called her Queen Margaret.

in the movie, like it was a nickname or something. I'll watch it again to make sure.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. I really loved that movie

It was so much more the simple story would suggest. And of course, the acting was excellent.

[Radio_Lady]

6. I saw "The Queen" at our hotel on Oahu -- on demand for $11.95

Hubby was out shooting his nighttime digital photography -- it was hot as hell and I decided to stay in.

The movie transfixed me the whole time. The acting was superb. Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen were quite amazing, absolutely inhabiting their characters. The scenic design was certainly magnificent, as well as the introduced actual footage.

It was a very simple story, but it held together as very real. We were visiting The Resort at Mt. Hood on the fateful night, and had just flown in from Boston to Portland, Oregon, to go on job interviews the following week (September 1997). I remember turning on television and receiving the horrible news about Diana's death. I was in complete shock. Perhaps some of it was the fact that my husband's first wife had died tragically from cancer at age 34. I have three stepchildren who were left without a mother at ages 13, 11, and 8. Again, two children, left motherless at young ages. How terribly sad!

It all made me think -- what would I have done if I were suddenly the Queen at such a young age? Truly, the real Queen Elizabeth has one of the most demanding jobs on Earth -- regal, distant, settled, compromised, elegant, and somehow, personally sad.

I have to look up the name of the woman who played the Queen Mother. She was excellent, but I can't place her right now. (On edit: It was Sylvia Syms, now in her 70s. She's had a fantastic film career!
http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0843401/ )

Thanks for your comments.

[grannylib]

9. SarahBellum has it on her list from Netflix; eager to see it...

[barb162]

10. I thought it was a wonderful movie

and explained the queen's "seeming" coldness. I thought Philip was a creep.

[ploppy]

11. I thought it was

a good PR piece for Tony Blair.