lioninwinter - The Monday Morning Memo

Watch The Lion in Winter (1968)
right after seeing Becket (1964)

In the video below, Anthony Hopkins recalls his debut in this film with
Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn. Also making his debut was 21 year-old Timothy Dalton as King Phillip of France. The Lion in Winter is the natural sequel to Becket. Peter O’Toole plays the same king he played in Becket, but at the end of his reign, rather than at the beginning.

Fabulous.

One of the most Quotable movies ever. My favorite kind. Those are the ones I can watch over and over without getting sick of them.

archer1949
I received this movie as a gift for Christmas about twenty years ago. Every time I watch it, I see some subtle nuance or some different meaning in the lines. It will forever be one of my most favorite films.

gargoyleb

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Each generation believes that the technological changes it witnesses are not only incrementally bigger than those of the past, but vastly greater to the point of existential threat. We have believed this of everything from steam engines to nuclear power, from the printing press to the Internet. We always think that this time is different, more, and worse.

And yet, our brains remain resolutely unrotted by the telephone, television, video games, and the internet.

Like all technology, so-called AI will bring certain changes, but it does not show the faintest sign of disproving Bernard Levin’s comment in The Times in 1978 that ‘the silicon chip will transform everything, except everything that matters, and the rest will still be up to us.’

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- Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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