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

“I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice. . . . We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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