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Apr. 3rd, 2023 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyMom and I went to see The Lost King yesterday, the movie about the finding of Richard III's skeleton, her second time seeing it. She already intends to buy the DVD. As a movie, it certainly was more good than not. Maybe a little too much on the side of its protagonist, but when you've got Sally Hawkins playing a difficult person and inhabiting her so fully and so strongly, and her being someone you've got to admire for the sheer odds she defied in pulling off what she did, enough so to forgive this. Even if the whole insertion of the hallucinatory Richard left me, for one, a bit more unsettled than I think the movie quite intended for.
Since her first viewing, mom has read about the complaints from the academics the movie made look very bad, as they insist they were more supportive of Phillipa Langley and her quest to find the king, and the cite the various details they changed from real life. And she had plenty to say about how academia treats you when you don't have the right academic pedigree, and when she even has a doctorate. She's dead convinced that Langley, lacking even that, could not have been treated all that well by these people.
I'll probably go see the Dungeons and Dragons movie next weekend. I didn't want to opening weekend for more than one reason, but given how everyone's talking about it, I'm starting to feel a need to get it seen.
Since her first viewing, mom has read about the complaints from the academics the movie made look very bad, as they insist they were more supportive of Phillipa Langley and her quest to find the king, and the cite the various details they changed from real life. And she had plenty to say about how academia treats you when you don't have the right academic pedigree, and when she even has a doctorate. She's dead convinced that Langley, lacking even that, could not have been treated all that well by these people.
I'll probably go see the Dungeons and Dragons movie next weekend. I didn't want to opening weekend for more than one reason, but given how everyone's talking about it, I'm starting to feel a need to get it seen.
