The Queen

I love anything that Helen Mirren is in. I saw the clips last week and it looks interesting, I'd certainly be interested in seeing it.
 
Helen Mirren is one of the select group of women over 50 that I still would...

Not so sure after seeing her the Queen.

It's sure to be well acted, though. It's the second time Michael Sheen has played Tony Blair onscreen - he did the same in The Deal with David "Basic Instinct 2" Morrissey as Gordon Brown.
 
Just got to the end of the trailer.

An absolute pleasure to see Sylvia Syms back on the big screen. And wondering what James Cromwell will do as Prince Phillip.

THat's Alex Jennings as Prince Charles, but I can't see who Roger Allam is playing.
 
Without clicking the link, is this film actually called "The Queen"? I suppose they wanted to avoid "Elizabeth II" so people don't think it's a sequel ;)
 
This film looks really good! Doubt our cinema will bring it but I really would like to see it. I like the fact that this is a movie based on events which occured only nine years ago, an issue still fresh in people's minRAB.

I like "based on a true story" movies and this one looks good, plus brilliant casting too, when the actors look and sound like the people they are portraying, it makes it more believable. Love the trailer.
 
I went to see it this afternoon, I thought it was a very good film, it had quite a bit of humour, as well as irony in it too, Mirren was brilliant as was Michael Sheen who portrayed Blair.
 
Same here, I admire Helen Mirren's work immensely and she is one of the few female actresses these days that has real screen presence, whatever she does. I bet she's marvellous in this:D
I will definitely watch it either at the cinema or on DVD
 
Im totally shocked that my cinema is even playing this film

They didnt play the Night Listener or Little Miss Sunshine

better catch it this week before it is replaced by Little Man
 
I thought it was strange. I've no complaints about Helen Mirren's acting , she was excellent.

However, I was left wondering why it was called 'The Queen' as it seemed to be much more about Tony Blair on the one hand and Princess Diana on the other.

It seemed that three possible films were fighting to get out of the one movie: one about the Royal Family (old style); one about Princess Diana as an icon; and one rather inadequate political satire about Blair.

My main problem with it was that it was conspicuously ahistorical: it showed a Blair behaving as he now does (he has changed significantly in the same way Thatcher did, IMO); a Queen already diminished and made tragic by the Diana fiasco; and an already saintly Diana rather than the (by then) much maligned character who had become tabloid fodder.

Interestingly, in the trailers they showed The History Boys, and there was a quote which said something like 'there is no period so remote in history as the recent past'. This appeared true of The Queen.
 
It was like that. The Queen was much criticised at the time for not returning to London and I thought it caught the mass hysteria at Diana's death well. I live in London and was amazed at frienRAB who walked the funeral route in tears on the Friday night and people who queued for hours to sign the books. I also thought it caught the confidece of Blair at the time, just after he'd been swepy into power and could do no wrong.
 
I was there when they did some shooting in "Balmoral" (actually Glenfeshie estate in Scotland). Helen Mirren got her land rover stuck in the river, which was quite hilarious.
 
Yes, I remember it well - I was there!

My point is that it took a much more sympathetic view of the queen than was true of the time; It took a more positive view of Diana in that (at the time) people were beginning to feel quite ambivalent about her - it was her sudden death which catapulted her back into the public's heart. I'm sure that much of the 'grief' was a weird kind of guilt. With Blair, the portrayal was a slightly hammy parody of how he is perceived now - it is difficult to remember perhaps just how popular he was then, and how his behaviour was much less arrogant.
 
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