[AGL] The Queen

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Michael ,\
 It is such a good movie, so well acted. I had a slightly different take on 
the stag, as a symbol for the monarchy-the way of life etc.  (it does make 
better sense as a symbol for Princess Di)  We enjoyed it however when it was 
over John said and I agree ...'he didn't know quite what the point of the 
movie was?  
  The staging was interesting I liked the contrast of the Blair household,-
very tiny compared to the spacious of the royals.(Is the residency really that 
small?)
  It was very sympathetic to the royals.
 Carolyn

uoting Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>:


> This movie from the same team of writer and director who made

> The Last King of Scotland is even better. We saw it a few days

> ago (at home, rented) and I can't get some of the incidents out

> of my head.

> 

> Especially telling is the scene towards the end when the queen

> drives herself (in a Land Rover) to a nearby estate to see the

> slain stag in a stone outbuilding where game is hanged and bled

> (14 point stag = Princess Diana).

> 

> Besides Helen Mirren as the queen, the actors playing the Duke

> of Wales and Tony Blair are eerily accurate.

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