Posted by AKC on June 22, 2001, at 19:13:37
In reply to Movies ..., posted by Willow on June 22, 2001, at 7:41:07
Now what started as a movie thread, and I got us off onto tv and Buffy. So, I'll go back to the original post - about movies.
I got in the mail the DVD version of one of my all time favorites - and oldie but very great movie - "The Lion in Winter" with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. I am amazed at the improved quality of sound and picture in the DVD version.
I just love this movie. First of all - a strong female lead (you are probably catching a theme with me about now!). But the dialogue - especially between King Henry and Queen Eleanor - is incredible. One scene late in the movie has the two in the wine cellar - Henry had banished his sons and Eleanor there for treason, though he has just released the sons. Henry is comforting Eleanor. They have been enemies of sorts for years and Eleanor has been his prisoner. Anyway, Eleanor starts smiling. Henry says something like, "We are in the celler, you are going back to prison, my life is wasted, we have lost each other, yet you smile." Eleanor replies, "It is how I register despair."
I had someone say to me once that I couldn't be "too" depressed because I could laugh and smile. He needed to see this movie and hear that line.
If you have never seen this movie, it is a classic.
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