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Well-made film but kind of a downer.
It was - and still is - considered a courtesy in Japan to wear a mask when you have a cold and are out in public.
Unlikely but not, I think, ridiculous when you consider that many of the cardinals were animated more by a desire to prevent the election of a candidate from a faction they opposed more so than for a candidate they loved. The cardinal from Kabul revealed himself to be intelligent, well-spoken and strongly opposed to Tadesco’s views so he emerged as the best vehicle to defeat Tadesco.
And the many stop-motion animation Hanukkah specials. Oy!
Well put.
Maybe if has something to do with the promoter, Dick Clark, being long dead. It’s weird that they keep his name on this thing.
The case to which you refer, which gave rise to the term ‘bystander effect’, was later found to be inaccurate due to sloppy journalism or journalistic fraud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
Yeah, I also thought he might have faked his death and assumed a new name so he could fly again.
I think the scene of Mary Beth becoming a bit of a diva with delusions of grandeur was meant to make her a less sympathetic character so her death in the next scene wouldn’t hit the audience quite so hard.
She looks so much younger in this film.
Of course it was to appeal to women viewers. The studio was afraid only the mostly-male Tolkien fanbase would turn out. They may also have feared blowback if no women starred in the blockbuster trilogy.
If we’re taking the characters’ personalities into consideration, then Arwen for her passion and devotion. If it’s strictly a matter of which actress was better looking in the film, then Eowyn (Miranda Otto).
Yama hama.
I have long thought Anna Kendrick to be a two-face. Krysten, though, is either hot or merely attractive - never a woofer.
I thought it effectively, if entertainingly, showed the danger of abuse of power by an autocrat. I did not, however, find Becket’s sudden transformation into a spiritual person at all convincing and thought the prerogatives of the Church he was fighting to preserve unwarranted. The institutions of the state and church were both flawed.
-spoilers follow-
At the beginning of the film, Henry, kneeling beside Becket’s grave, wondered if Becket had loved Gwendolyn and had hated him for taking her from him the night she killed herself. So Henry himself was in some doubt as to the import of that event and we never hear Becket say how, if at all, it had changed his feelings for Henry.
I don’t think there was any suggestion their relationship was sexual, though I thought it was odd that the movie began with Becket in the bedroom of the woman Henry was bedding. I guess he was keeping watch.
I thought O’Tool ‘dramatically’ outshone Burton.
Tackling the really big questions, I see. Can’t go wrong with either - especially for lovers of fair skin - but Eowyn (Otto) gets my vote.
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