The Queen of last nite was none other than Helen Mirren who won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in the film, "The Queen".In my humble opinion, she thoroughly deserves that award - and all other awards she had won for that role, including a Golden Globe last month. She was simply brilliant in the role! She was so regal and believable as the Queen. One look at her and you can see how she is carrying herself as the Queen of the United Kingdom, and yet at the same time, trying to deal with the difficult and delicate situation surrounding Diana's death.
I haven't completed watching the movie yet - saw half of it on the first leg of me flight back home only to discover that the plane that took me on the 2nd leg had no video on demand!!!!! But i loved every moment of it that i have seen.
I loved being able to see what took place behind the iron gates of Buckingham Palace, how the new Prime Minister (played convincingly by Michael Sheen who really looks like a young Tony Blair - see pic above. Oh, and you also should see Helen McCrory who acted as a mischievous Cherie!) is invited to form the government, how the royal family struggled to maintain tradition and practice which was not the popular stance, how the nation grieved for the meaningless loss of the young life of the former Princess of Wales, how the Prince of Wales (without his trademark ears) dealt with the situation and handled the young princes.
If however, all that i have said does not interest you at all, then stay away from the movie. I have heard mates saying that they found it oh so boring - this coming from someone who spent more than a year in the UK.
But if you still remembered - and was affected in some way by - that fateful day when Princess Diana was killed in the road accident in France and what took place in the subsequent weeks, if the British Monarchy and politics holds some interest for you, then believe you me when i say that you are in for a treat!
I can't wait to see the conclusion of the movie!
p/s - pic of Dame Helen wif her BAFTA mask taken from BBC News Online while the other 2 pics taken from links at IMDB
*A song wif cool slap bass featured on the soundtrack of The Bodyguard
2 comments:
i remember...
My mom and i went to the British High Com to leave some flowers.
It was really sad.
it was public holiday here and i heard the news when i was getting ready to go out wif some of me mates to a newly opened shopping mall in Sunway called Pyramid!!!
can't believe how much it affected me.
it's true when they say that people tend to remember where they were and what they were doing when they hear of great historical moments. i also remember where i was and what i was doing immediately before hearing the news abt the New York twin towers...
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