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Apr. 15th, 2002 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI got Matt and LunarGeography to watch The Lion in Winter on Friday the 5th. I think they both enjoyed it. I'd lent my copy to Matt over a year ago, and he'd never gotten around to watching it. I finally pushed the issue because LunarGeography'd seen the scene in the French King's bedroom and wanted to see the rest (She commented afterward that she thought that was the best scene in the movie). It's fun sharing something like that with an appreciative audience.
The first time I saw that movie, I was visiting my father in New Mexico. We were visiting my step-mother's ex-husband so that my step-brother and step-sister could have some time with their father. I didn't see all of it then because my father wanted us to see the movie Fame, and the two overlapped by about an hour. I'm not sorry to have seen Fame, and I think my father was right that we needed to see all of it, but I found The Lion in Winter more compelling and fascinating, even as a teenager.
Admittedly, I'd been fascinated by Eleanor of Aquitaine ever since I'd read E.L. Konigsburg's A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (The author's better known for From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler or for Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth). That book is a rather sanitized fictional biography of Eleanor as told by those who knew her while they and she are waiting in Heaven for Henry II to be released from Purgatory. When I first read it in elementary school, I recognized that it was the story of a very unusual woman.
The first time I saw that movie, I was visiting my father in New Mexico. We were visiting my step-mother's ex-husband so that my step-brother and step-sister could have some time with their father. I didn't see all of it then because my father wanted us to see the movie Fame, and the two overlapped by about an hour. I'm not sorry to have seen Fame, and I think my father was right that we needed to see all of it, but I found The Lion in Winter more compelling and fascinating, even as a teenager.
Admittedly, I'd been fascinated by Eleanor of Aquitaine ever since I'd read E.L. Konigsburg's A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (The author's better known for From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler or for Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth). That book is a rather sanitized fictional biography of Eleanor as told by those who knew her while they and she are waiting in Heaven for Henry II to be released from Purgatory. When I first read it in elementary school, I recognized that it was the story of a very unusual woman.
