The Lion in Winter 1968 (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

Saw this movie recently. Excellent all round performance helmed by Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn. The dialogue is deliciously wicked and cutting.

This is acting, no CGI!

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-in-winter-1968

Rgds Victor

 

[Terp152]

Saw this movie recently. Excellent all round performance helmed by Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn. The dialogue is deliciously wicked and cutting.

This is acting, no CGI!

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-in-winter-1968

Rgds Victor

One of my favorite movies with a young Anthony Hopkins. Chris

 

[ivanmoe]

I don't know how obvious that it may have been, but the movie was adapted directly from a stage production. A giveaway to that fact was the characters constantly running on and off the set, left and right. I adored the movie for all it's great lines, again attributable to the play. Peter O'Toole was terrific, but, IMO, Katharine Hepburn got the better of him. Here's a favorite, Eleanor reacting to John's concern about brother Richard brandishing a dagger:

Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.

Absolutely Priceless! Hepburn won the Best Actress "Oscar" for her role in the 1968 film.

-Moe

 

[theBaron]

It is an excellent play. We've done it twice at our theater, and the auditions always draw, because the characters are compelling and fun to portray.

Prost!
Brad