The King
I watched the movie The King on Netflix the other day. It is a historical epic drama about King Henry V of England, who in addition to being a real historical person is also one of the most well know characters of Shakespeare's historical plays.
Henry V assumed the throne in 1413 upon the death of his father the king, and ruled until 1422 when he died of sudden illness at the relatively young age of 35.
The movie stars Timothee Chamalet as Henry, Robert Pattinson as the French Dauphin, and Joel Edgerton as John Falstaff.
This was a very good movie, although historically inaccurate in many of the details. But most viewers are more interested in an engaging story and good acting than they are in historical accuracy.
As a younger man , a youth, Henry V had been a layabout, heavy drinker and carouser. He hung out a lot with Falstaff, and older man who was rather lazy, a blowhard , and occasionally would rob travelers between English towns and villages. But when his father the king dies, Henry must take the throne and try and lead and inspire the English people. Times are tough, as England is wracked by internal strife related to revolts in Scotland and Wales. Henry is led by advisers to consider war with France, as he eventually does and the intrigue and then war with that country takes up much of the plot of the film.
It climaxes with the famous Battle of Agincourt in France where the outnumbered English army defeats the French, whose army largely consisted of knights on horseback who become bogged down in the mud on the battlefield.
What makes The King standout the most is the performance of 24 year old Timothee Chalamet as Henry V. Chalamet does wonders with what seems to be just one facial expression , that of intense inner thought and conflict. Another plus is the intelligent script that keeps the viewer well informed of what the principals are thinking and planning. The movie is also well designed with the trappings of a early 15th century royal court appearing to be realistic if dreary.
As the battle at Agincourt was about to happen, I wondered if this film would somehow refer to the well known scene in Shakespeare's play where Henry V delivers his famous "band of brothers" speech exhorting his troops to fight and die for each other. The King doesnt have that, which was after all a Shakespeare invention, but it does have Chalamet give a shorter speech before the troops which covers the same sort of ground.
Good movie, anyone can enjoy it, but those who are interested in history or in Shakespeare will probably appreciate it the most.
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Although I'm sure I would enjoy this movie, the one I am SO looking forward to is the remake of Dune, wherein Timothee Chalamet plays Paul Atreides who becomes Moa'dib.
Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Jordan. Filming in the landscape was “really surreal,” says Chalamet. PHOTO BY CHIABELLA JAMES.
I may have to beg someone to send me a DVD, or I might actually go to a first run movie theatre (there's a multiplex in the department store across the street) for only the second time since I've been living here - the first to watch the final Hobbit movie in 4D (was that almost a decade ago?).
I was completely unaware of this movie. It sounds really good.
Thanks, John.
Hey, John. I just changed the group settings so our articles here will show up on the front page, but I don't think it changes anything in articles already posted.
If you want, you can hit 'update' at the top of this page and then check the box for 'promote to front page' at the bottom of the update page.
Thanks.
Only the group owner can promote group articles to the front page.
Hmm. I looked at the update options it gives me for your article and promote to front page isn't there.
It was there in the options for the three articles I posted, though. That's why I figured it was only available to the poster.
I don't know what to do about it, then. Maybe Perrie can fix it when she comes back.
Or maybe if you add a seed URL to the Netflix page about this movie, it might fix itself when it republishes. Maybe not, but it might be worth a try.
Hey John, I've manually given everyone the ability to promote. The option is there now if you want to change it.
ok thanks
another one worth watching.
Thanks
Is there anyone in favour of still retaining the EVERYONE LOVES MOVIES - CLASSIC TO CURRENT group?
Buzz, talk to Dig perhaps they can be combined more people to view both.
Many of the non-political non-religious special interest non-private groups, with the exception of Creative Arts, get little interest and almost no response, so it is probably more visible and probably more frequented if they are posted under the appropriate Home Page forum.
Why wouldn't you retain it? There's recent activity on it, and this isn't in conflict with it. This is just a place for people to give shout outs about entertainment they find, really like, and want to give everyone a quick heads up about. No particular medium or genre, just..."Hey, I found this thing over on such and such and it rocks, so maybe check it out."
Well, I guess we could do an article that could be relevant these days - how about a gardener - like Chance the Gardener in Being There. His advice to the POTUS, to make it current..
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LOL. I don't think I've seen that one.
One of Peter Sellers' best movies.