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Nov. 12th, 2006 11:44 pmDid I work on my Ancient India paper tonight? No, of course not. Spent six hours at work and didn't want to face my homework. Fortunately I've got no work tomorrow, so I've got all morning and part of the afternoon to work on it.
Instead, my mother and I went to see "The Queen" at the movies. Her Majesty and Prince Philip and the Blairs were perfectly cast, Chuck and the Queen Mum not so good but still masterful performances. I think one of the writers of "Yes, Minister!" must have ghostwritten some of the scenes between Mr and Mrs Blair and Blair and his advisor--they were just too close in tone and atmosphere to be written by someone else.
It's set during the week following the death of Princess Diana, and chronicling the mental and emotional war going on in the royal family and in the Queen's mind about how to react to such an unprecedented event, probably the first since the abdication of the would-have-been Edward the Eighth in the 1930s. It also shows the diplomatic war that went on between the Prime Minster and the monarchy, with Tony Blair trying to call the shots that the Queen should be calling. In the last scene, Elizabeth II makes a remark that the bad press that hounded the royals during this time will come to hound him in the near future (hmmm....)
One of the most interesting parts had to do with a stag deer that was on the Balmoral estate (where the royals hid out during the days following Diana's death) and that Philip in his bloodlust thought would be a good distraction for Princes William and Harry. It escapes the royal hunting party three days in a row before being wounded and killed by a banker staying at the resort estate next door. A rather interesting metaphor for Diana's brief life as a royal, and how it wasn't long before she left the monarchy that she faced death.
In a typical Hollywood moment, the stag comes within walking distance of the Queen while she's waiting in the hills for someone to fix her land rover which had broken down while she was trying to catch up with the hunting party. (She wasn't able to fix the problem, but thanks to her spending the War as an ambulance driver and mechanic, she knew what the problem was.) They face each other briefly, but it disappears as the hunters approach. They meet again in the storage hut of the resort next door, when she feels she must face the deer again after hearing that it is shot.
All in all a good movie. Not without its criticisms of the royals, but I'm still firm in my position as a closet monarchist.
Saw some trailers for different movies that will be coming out soon, one about Bobby Kennedy and one staring Peter o'Toole. They both sound incredibly promising, and I hope to see them when they're released. Saw a poster for the next Bond movie, a serious remake of "Casino Royale" which also looks very entertaining from the little footage I saw. Daniel Craig shouldn't be too bad as Bond after all.
Well, that's enough of me for one night. Time for a shower and bed.
Instead, my mother and I went to see "The Queen" at the movies. Her Majesty and Prince Philip and the Blairs were perfectly cast, Chuck and the Queen Mum not so good but still masterful performances. I think one of the writers of "Yes, Minister!" must have ghostwritten some of the scenes between Mr and Mrs Blair and Blair and his advisor--they were just too close in tone and atmosphere to be written by someone else.
It's set during the week following the death of Princess Diana, and chronicling the mental and emotional war going on in the royal family and in the Queen's mind about how to react to such an unprecedented event, probably the first since the abdication of the would-have-been Edward the Eighth in the 1930s. It also shows the diplomatic war that went on between the Prime Minster and the monarchy, with Tony Blair trying to call the shots that the Queen should be calling. In the last scene, Elizabeth II makes a remark that the bad press that hounded the royals during this time will come to hound him in the near future (hmmm....)
One of the most interesting parts had to do with a stag deer that was on the Balmoral estate (where the royals hid out during the days following Diana's death) and that Philip in his bloodlust thought would be a good distraction for Princes William and Harry. It escapes the royal hunting party three days in a row before being wounded and killed by a banker staying at the resort estate next door. A rather interesting metaphor for Diana's brief life as a royal, and how it wasn't long before she left the monarchy that she faced death.
In a typical Hollywood moment, the stag comes within walking distance of the Queen while she's waiting in the hills for someone to fix her land rover which had broken down while she was trying to catch up with the hunting party. (She wasn't able to fix the problem, but thanks to her spending the War as an ambulance driver and mechanic, she knew what the problem was.) They face each other briefly, but it disappears as the hunters approach. They meet again in the storage hut of the resort next door, when she feels she must face the deer again after hearing that it is shot.
All in all a good movie. Not without its criticisms of the royals, but I'm still firm in my position as a closet monarchist.
Saw some trailers for different movies that will be coming out soon, one about Bobby Kennedy and one staring Peter o'Toole. They both sound incredibly promising, and I hope to see them when they're released. Saw a poster for the next Bond movie, a serious remake of "Casino Royale" which also looks very entertaining from the little footage I saw. Daniel Craig shouldn't be too bad as Bond after all.
Well, that's enough of me for one night. Time for a shower and bed.
