meanwhile, in movie news
Second post of the day, as I thought everyone who commented on this entry might be interested: Ian McKellen just tweeted the official trailer for All Is True, the Kenneth Branagh/Judi Dench/McKellen starring Old Will Shakespeare In Stratford tale:
(As for the thing that puzzled me most about the original announcement, seems that McKellen, in a blond wig, is indeed Southhampton, and not in a flashforward. Yup. That stint in the Tower after the Essex rebellion must have added decades. Otoh, this is a more sympathetic Southhampton than I've seen before.)
And while we're talking trailers, I've noticed a certain irritation in my flist/circle that the two Presidents Bush are getting nostalgia benefits due to the awfulness of Individual 1, as Mueller's investigation calls him. Now I have no strong feelings about Bush the Elder either way, though I have to say, the two Germanys would not have gotten unification without him (what with Thatcher endlessly replaying WWII movies in her head and spouting every cliché ever, Mitterand actually having lived during WWII, and Gorbachev sceptical about the larger implication re: NATO; it was very much Bush the Elder's personal support there which made the difference), which is why the obituaries in our papers all were titled with a variation of "friend of Germany" and why Merkel attended the funeral instead of sending someone else to represent the country). But my ire about the Dubya years is certainly undiminished. As for for W. himself, I stand by my theory that he's George III as characterised by Byron in Vision of Judgment -
Whose History was ever stained as his will be
With national and individual woes?
I grant his household abstinence; I grant
His neutral virtues, which most monarchs want
I know he was a constant consort; own
He was a decent sire, and middling lord.
All this is much, and most upon a throne;
As temperance, if at Apicius' board,
Is more than at an anchorite's supper shown.
I grant him all the kindest can accord;
And this was well for him, but not for those
Millions who found him what Oppression chose.
Anyway, if W. as a person certainly is preferable to Individual 1, his years in office certainly did a great deal of the damage that led to this point. That certainly seems to be the opinion of Adam McKay, who just collected a whole bunch of nominations for Vice, which appears to be a Cheney-centric pitch black satire:
Alright then. 2019 is off to an interesting start, movie-wise.
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Click to view(As for the thing that puzzled me most about the original announcement, seems that McKellen, in a blond wig, is indeed Southhampton, and not in a flashforward. Yup. That stint in the Tower after the Essex rebellion must have added decades. Otoh, this is a more sympathetic Southhampton than I've seen before.)
And while we're talking trailers, I've noticed a certain irritation in my flist/circle that the two Presidents Bush are getting nostalgia benefits due to the awfulness of Individual 1, as Mueller's investigation calls him. Now I have no strong feelings about Bush the Elder either way, though I have to say, the two Germanys would not have gotten unification without him (what with Thatcher endlessly replaying WWII movies in her head and spouting every cliché ever, Mitterand actually having lived during WWII, and Gorbachev sceptical about the larger implication re: NATO; it was very much Bush the Elder's personal support there which made the difference), which is why the obituaries in our papers all were titled with a variation of "friend of Germany" and why Merkel attended the funeral instead of sending someone else to represent the country). But my ire about the Dubya years is certainly undiminished. As for for W. himself, I stand by my theory that he's George III as characterised by Byron in Vision of Judgment -
Whose History was ever stained as his will be
With national and individual woes?
I grant his household abstinence; I grant
His neutral virtues, which most monarchs want
I know he was a constant consort; own
He was a decent sire, and middling lord.
All this is much, and most upon a throne;
As temperance, if at Apicius' board,
Is more than at an anchorite's supper shown.
I grant him all the kindest can accord;
And this was well for him, but not for those
Millions who found him what Oppression chose.
Anyway, if W. as a person certainly is preferable to Individual 1, his years in office certainly did a great deal of the damage that led to this point. That certainly seems to be the opinion of Adam McKay, who just collected a whole bunch of nominations for Vice, which appears to be a Cheney-centric pitch black satire:
Alright then. 2019 is off to an interesting start, movie-wise.
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1316534.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.