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November 27th, 2020 at 1:16:45 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Just getting into the Crown on netflix Just a few episodes in Suprised how Edward is portrayed Did a little reading. In reality, he's a much worse person. The series did him a favor. He pretty much was a nazi sympathizer. He thought Germany would win and make him King again so he met with Hitler. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
November 27th, 2020 at 2:43:00 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
In real life he was an incompetent idiot. He wasn't capable of being king, that's why he stepped down. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 27th, 2020 at 6:19:05 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Prince Charles was more than a sympathizer. Charles Edward in 1933, as SA-Gruppenführer. The Americans locked him in a POW camp. He died in poverty after watching his second cousin twice removed be crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in 1952, two years before he died at the age of 69. |
November 29th, 2020 at 12:36:49 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Gillian Anderson is brilliant as Margret Thatcher in The Crown. Here she responds to the queen after being told she is making too many enemies in her own gov't. You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip, You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip, You’ve never turned the wrong to right, You’ve been a coward in the fight. I immediately thought of Lincoln, who was hated by both parties and had nothing but enemies and still accomplished great things. And Trump, who has also done great things while being reviled by almost everybody. He's already been nominated for another Nobel Peace Prize. They stopped Lincoln's 2nd term with a bullet, they might stop Trump's with the most corrupt election we've ever had. Great men are always hated by little men and must be stopped at all cost. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 29th, 2020 at 6:50:59 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Margaret Thatcher in Scarborough, England on March 18, 1989 on the left and Gillian Anderson, portraying Margaret Thatcher on the right.
The primary actors in The Crown are Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies, Vanessa Kirby, and Helena Bonham Carter, Erin Doherty , Josh O'Connor, and Emerald Fennell are all British. However the American actors Gillian Anderson as Margret Thatcher and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill really stand out. Margaret Thatcher was really like that. She would answer a question with a lengthy quote. She loved classical education including Greek and Latin. |
November 29th, 2020 at 7:04:24 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 | Is Gillian Anderson really an American? I always assumed she was. But I’ve seen her doing press for The Crown and she has a British accent. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
November 29th, 2020 at 7:46:42 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson Born in Chicago, moved early to Puerto Rico then London until the age of 11, then to Grand Rapids, MI. Sounds like she was quite a hellion as a teenager. "Anderson is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place as a teenager in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, she easily shifts between her American and English accents." "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
November 29th, 2020 at 8:42:11 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
When my brother had the camera store when the X Files was on, Gillian would bring in her Xmas photo's for developing. Movie stars are quite boring in their home settings, just like the rest of us. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 29th, 2020 at 10:16:34 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Really nice video about the making of season 4. I had forgotten how beautiful Gillian Anderson is. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
November 30th, 2020 at 6:02:51 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 | Hulu has a Cyber Monday deal for $1.99/month for a year. Still a few hours left to snag it. I just signed up. Will finally check out The Handmaid’s Tale. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |