Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "BBC" channel.

  1. 0.22. She looks at him like he should be impressed but as soon as he's impressed she starts to try reining him back.
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  2. The Duchess threatened her with revenge at the end but the Queen is very hard and devious. I think the tears weren't real but just part of playing the victim to justify whatever happens to the Duchess afterwards.
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  3.  @theflyingstonemason6867  Sorry I didn't want to bring back bad memories, just ensure your comment was understood because in its original form I believed it implied the opposite of what you intended.
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  4. Merkel's expressive face is great. I love some of the looks she gave Trump in real life.
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  5. 'Sister stay away from the buffet'. Well Prince didn't look as though he ate much himself.
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  6. Why is Market Black?
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  7. ' Well at this distance'.... Cromwell knows that Henry has set an easy distance for himself so that he can look good.
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  8. Chococo Chen. But all over the world Shakespeare plays are converted into different settings and different cultures and times. That's the nature of Shakespeare and drama. It's universal in scope and nature. That's why it's still relevant today when other plays from his time are forgotten.
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  9. Mande Loo You were meant to understand that it was fake. This is a powerful woman one minute, pretending to be the victim the next. This is a public demonstration, so that the downfall of the Gloucesters that follows from this scene is understood and accepted by the Court.
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  10. She's often the only adult in the room.
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  11. +sylv sylv You need to compare it to what went before. A small very rich elite governed a large class of people who mostly lived in abject poverty and slavery. They were sent into wars to die and saw how much better people in other countries lived so it made a political movement that espoused more equality sound attractive to them. The revolution threw up "unexpected" problems as it basically created a different elite which was murderous by the time that Stalin was leader. Karl Marx did not foresee that communism would take off in poor rural countries like Russia. He always thought that developed industrial countries with more democratic institutions would be the first to espouse communism.
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  12. Fred C. It depends on whether the race of the person is crucial to the story. Shakespeare makes points about power in his plays that are relevant beyond his time. His plays are not pure history. They're not totally accurate as history. He changed things for dramatic effect and to please the regime of his time. Modern dramatists do the same with Shakespeare's plays to make them more relevant to a modern audience.
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  13. So colour is the most important thing to you?. Never mind that she's a great actress and gives a good performance. Shakespeare used men to play women's parts. Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles played a black character in Shakespeare's play Othello. Drama is not the same as documentary or history. Have you actually watched these plays?
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  14. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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  15. I don't think it was treason. Cromwell here is made to sound as if he tried to avoid more bloodshed than there was. Whether it was down to him I don't know. Henry just needed to save face by having a scapegoat to blame for the failed marriage with Anne of Cleves. Henry detested being humiliated or feeling that he was. Also I suspect, as he had his eye on marriage with Catherine Howard, that Cromwell's enemy, Catherine's Uncle Norfolk, was working on Henry behind the scenes to procure his downfall, Gardiner too, I imagine.
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  16. She's a good actress and plays the part well. That's all that matters.
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  17. You got your wish. She was made a Dame a month ago.
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  18.  @Io-Io-Io  Only very close friends can talk to each other like that and get away with it - English humour among close friends. The others didn't react with horror.
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  19. Katherine Koelker. I don't think this particular conflict between the women results in the battle for the throne, because this incident is between Lancastrians, whereas the battle for the throne was between Yorkists and Lancastrians. The Duchess of Gloucester gets accused of witchcraft and is imprisoned or exiled for that. Gloucester is imprisoned and murdered. Sorry for the spoilers.
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  20. Shakespeare was never about historical accuracy but about stories and drama which have universal themes, so his plays are often produced in modern times in different eras and settings with different types of cast. Those who criticise this casting are not real fans of Shakespeare I think and don't watch his plays much.
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  21. If it's the kind of thing where historical accuracy is important, but Shakespeare always played around with history. It's drama not historical fact. Shakespeare plays have been set in a variety of times with a variety of actors. There have been all male players and all female players and a Macbeth set in Nazi times etc etc
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  22. P.S. Julius Caesar has been played by people who were not Italian, Shylock has been played by people who are not Jewish and Othello has been played by people who are not black.
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  23. In his own humble opinion.
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  24. Should've entered strictly come dancing next.
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  25. Boris was a bit of fun but what did he do for people compared to the other mayors? He was a bit useless. Livingstone introduced the Oyster card and congestion charging and tackled Margaret Thatcher over rising unemployment. Sadiq Khan has introduced 2 for one bus journeys and capped some TfL fares with plans to do more. People should vote for policies and actions rather than personalities.
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  26. What has Hugh Grant got to do with Remington Steele? That was Pierce Brosnan.
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  27. Noel is more articulate.
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  28. Vamanos Ninja The tabloids were involved in a phone hacking scandal. Basically they were illegally hacking into people's private phone messages (mostly celebrities) in order to dig up things to write about them in the tabloids. The worst of it was when they hacked into the phone of a young woman who was a murder victim, and because of their activities on her phone it led her parents falsely to think she was still alive.
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  29. No. Quite Brummie!
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  30. Heatherrfc You can probably have it if you ask her. It's a false one.
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  31. No it sounds Irish to me. She had Irish parents and so did I.
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  32. She says 'Am I bothered (which she pronounces bovvered)?' but she says it in what she thinks is Shakespearian style 'Am'st I bovvered?'
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  33. No the Lancastrians won. Henry Tudor was a Lancastrian. He chose to marry Elizabeth of York to end the battles for the throne, but over the years both he and his son Henry VIII had all of the surviving male Yorkists with a genetic claim to the throne killed and some of the female Yorkists were also executed such as George Duke of Clarence's daughter Margaret Pole even though she was an old woman at the time.
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  34. They aren't that accurate. Henry VI was not that handsome. Richard III's hair is wrong (too modern, not long enough). Edward IV looks too short.
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  35. There are hundreds of complaining comments here. Are you too lazy to read them?
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  36. You're probably pretty well a nazi already then. Didn't you know? This is not site for comments from Shakespeare lovers, but for petty minded racists - judging by the comments anyway. Most wouldn't know Shakespeare if he bit them on the backside.
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  37. It's recorded in front of a live audience. The laughter is not canned.
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  38. How did Boris do a good job? What exactly did he do or achieve for ordinary Londoners? Livingstone introduced Oyster cards and the congestion charge. Sadiq Khan has introduced two for the price of one bus journeys and frozen some TfL fares with plans to do more on fares and build more assordable housing . Boris was just a comedian.
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  39.  @Io-Io-Io  I watched it again and observed Palin. He laughed when Cleese called Jones a 'doddery old idiot'. When Cleese questioned Jones's reference to 'other people' Palin just looked confused as if he was trying to think what Terry Jones meant. I watched through and didn't see any disapproving expression on Palin's face. Generally women are more observant than men. Ask and scientist who has researched this.
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  40.  @antonkider7360  or the most ignorant
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  41. Queen Margaret was seen as a foreigner in England. Though she was French, Sophie Okonedo's background acts as a metaphor for that sense of difference.
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  42. Julia Lawless, Well I do remember seeing a British TV show when I was young, about some Japanese legends, and all the characters were played by English actors in Japanese costume, make up and wigs. I enjoyed it very much for what it was. I didn't think too much about how appropriate the casting was. Even today, black actors get fewer opportunities to play some good roles, when the stories come from white history, so I really don't mind them being involved. I think it helps bring the stories alive for wider audiences. Margaret of Anjou was disliked and distrusted for being a foreigner (French) so although the actress isn't French her casting does help to accentuate that she's from a different background to the others. It's a sort of metaphor, and she acts the part so well. I very much enjoyed a TV show called "Versailles" where the main characters, the French King and his brother, were played by English actors and the show was in English (with French subtitles in France). Other actors came from England, Canada and France.The French TV company decided they needed to show it to the widest possible audiences internationally because the cost of making it was so high and they could sell it to more countries if it was in English.
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  43.  @Io-Io-Io  So now you seem to agree about women generally being more observant (contrary to your previous comment) but only to state something else against women. You like sweeping misogynist generalisations it seems. Good luck in life with that attitude.
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  44. +Onionbagel She gives a good performance though.
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  45. Harvey never preyed on older established actresses, only younger more vulnerable ones that he felt were more dependent on him for their career.
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  46. It's not a laugh track. It's recorded in front of a live audience.
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  47. The sad fact is the people vote for personalities and usually haven't a clue what the policies of all the main candidates are because they haven't bothered to read what's in the manifestos. Boris was good at giving planning permission to tall buildings and housing for the wealthy.
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  48. Written by Ben Elton who is a great fan of Shakespeare, a comedic writer and who probably writes with David Mitchell's talents in mind.
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  49. Henry Sims. Since when was the Duchess a "he"?
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  50. TheLine. There was no sugar then and women were more active.
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