'The Lion in Winter' (1968).

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'The Lion in Winter' (1968).

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Post by Booyakasha » Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:32 pm

...it's pretty much my favourite thing ever. It's the best. Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar. Peter O'Toole should have got one. Bad luck, but it wasn't the first or last time he lost.
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Re: 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:36 pm

Never heard of it, but that's a badass title.

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Re: 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).

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Post by Booyakasha » Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:55 am

It's a great flick.

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It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Anthony Hopkins) should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option.
It's so quotable.

Anthony Hopkins' first movie. He was an accomplished stage actor at the time, but not yet a movie star. He looks so young. (Fun fact------------Hopkins fell off a horse and broke his arm during filming.) It's a very different take on Richard the Lionhearted. Depicting him as a person, not a legend or hero or king.

[EDIT]It's an evil movie for evil old people. I'll watch 'Jungle Book' and 'Rumble in the Bronx' and 'Empire Strikes Back' with my nieces, but 'Lion in Winter' is too sick and cynical and horrible. It's past Shakespeare. You gotta be a grown-up. A hideous nightmarish grown-up with experience and bad biz, man.
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