Since first viewing The King's Speech, I was captivated by the absolutely gorgeous cinematography.. there's something magical about it - you know what I mean? It's a real treat to look at - the lighting, the camera angles, the smooth tracking shots. It's like another beautiful character in the film. Made the movie so much more interesting to me. Anyone agree?
"All I'm asking for is total perfection." - Lord Business
Yes, it’s incredible cinematography, very bold to use fish-eye lenses, hand-held and off-kilter framing for a film about royals mainly featuring two people in a room talking, but it works magnificently. Most of these films, like The Queen, feel like TV movies, this felt like cinema.
Tom Hooper may have disgraced himself with Cats, but The King’s Speech is a true masterpiece. I’m surprised we haven’t seen more from him, and the screenwriter.
Then again, this film was made when Hollywood still cared about being good. Everyone in The King’s Speech is white - that would be forbidden now, and would certainly banish the film from Oscar consideration. The Weinstein Company looked for projects like this, but has since been Me Too’ed out of existence.
It would be forbidden making a film with an all white cast now? Lets see here. Gravity 2013, Her 2013, The babadook 2014, Whiplash 2014, Brooklyn 2015 Leave No Trace 2018 the lighthouse 2019, Ford v Ferrari 2019, Marriage Story 2019 The Irishman 2019, Old Henry 2021.The Northman 2022,The Banshees of Inisherin 2022. What year was it forbidden did you say?
shareNone of those years are ‘now’ except the two you mentioned that are 2022. One is an Irish independent film set in the 20’s, and the other a Nordic independent film set in the Viking age. Neither are Hollywood productions.
So, nice try but… fail.
The northman's budget was 70 to 90 million dollars. Tell me independent films which have that type of budget. I will wait. Also what year was it that an all white cast stopped happening in Hollywood? Tell me the year.
shareThe Northman’s budget is irrelevant to the fact that it’s an independent film, so it’s irrelevant to my point, so keep waiting.
Hollywood didn’t go woke overnight, it was a gradual takeover, and so all-white films have been phased out over a period of years. The Oscars introduced their racist diversity quotas in 2020 so that will have had an impact. We’ve established there are no all-white Hollywood films ‘now’ with your failure to produce any examples, so 2022 would be a safe guess, but your solitary 2021 example was also an independent film so that doesn’t count either, so if you’re looking for a specific year it stopped then 2021 sounds likely. Why do you ask?
It was made by Hollywood genius.https://flipboard.com/@inversedotcom/movies-n4k7hl58z/-/a-bWrTtmSHRPeYSKwCZgmuTQ%3Aa%3A1864310875-%2F0 Even Robert Eggers admitted so. So nope it is your chance to prove that other films with that budget are independent. I am waiting.
Your 2022 example got disproven by the Northman. That is not an independent film. List me other indie features with that budget I will continue to wait.
If you fail to produce a logical point or retort this time it will go as another point for me. Proceed carefully.
The Northman’s budget is irrelevant to the fact that it’s an independent film, so it’s irrelevant to my point. Robert Eggers never ‘admitted’ what you’re suggesting, you’re quoting the headline of some random misguided article, not Eggers. So keep waiting.
Why on earth would I need to list the budgets of independent films? It’s irrelevant to my point. If you want to research that then do it yourself.
What point are you trying to make and why? What are you doing here?
The northman is not an independent film. Since you failed to admit that the point goes to me. Me 5 you 0. I gave you a chance to dispute it and you failed. I'm here owning boot lickers like you. How does it feel knowing the batman is getting a sequel? You guys won't be getting your way. Choke on it.
shareNo, the Northman is an independent film.
You haven’t ‘owned’ anyone, you’ve just embarrassed yourself again.
So, do you have an actual point to make?
Nope the Northman is not an independent film.
Oh I have owned you repeatedly. You are simply too foolish to realize it.
So anything else or we done here?
Fail.
You’re now just spinning on ego with no substance whatsoever, so here’s what we’ll do…
If anyone reading this can find anything remotely valid in moviefanatic505’s posts here then quote it and explain 1) why you think it’s valid and 2) why you think I haven’t already debunked it.
Moviefanatic505, from now on any reply you post in this thread, regardless of the text, will be taken as an admission of defeat and an apology to everyone for wasting their time. I look forward to your apology…
Then again, this film was made when Hollywood still cared about being good. Everyone in The King’s Speech is white - that would be forbidden now, and would certainly banish the film from Oscar consideration. The Weinstein Company looked for projects like this, but has since been Me Too’ed out of existence.
One thing bothered the hell out of me, the gorgeously peeling walls in Geoffrey Rush's office. I saw the DVD extras, and the director said they stumbled across a genuine old peeling wall when scouting locations, and used it because it gave the right air of bleakness to the film.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.vcStFAy9-1v8JsoMDhPJeAHaH_?pid=ImgDet&rs=1
But what kind of ambitious go-getter setting out to build a business for himself and establish a new field of therapy would have a wall with 200 layers of peeling paint in his office???? No, he'd want to look professional, modern, and successful in advance - and then as now that means everything sparkling clean and up to date! Seriously, production design is there to reveal character, and the character of the speech therapist is energetic, forward-thinking, scientific, and ambitious, and that just isn't the work environment that such a person would choose.
I dunno, he was kind of a bohemian wannabe actor, rustic walls seemed fine to me.
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