Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Scene City" channel.

It takes an excellent actress to so convincingly portray someone with stage fright.
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I noticed how Vanessa Kirby is able to exhale cigarette smoke through her nose. I tried that once many years ago and nearly did myself in!
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Claire Foy is superb in conveying emotion and reaction with just a look, not a word spoken. Ms. Foy is a star now and would have been one also in the days of silent films.
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I'm glad you mentioned that. I didn't understand the significance of lowering the flag. I thought it might something do with mourning. In an indirect way it was, but I see it was more a matter or a monarch being present.
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Jodi Balfour gives a fine performance as Jacqueline Kennedy, but I think she more resemble's the First Lady's sister, Princess Lee Radziwill.
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Brilliant work here. Not just the acting but in showing people at different locations wordlessly reacting to the interview. I particularly like the lady at 4:22 glancing over at her husband. In this scene only two people are talking but a lot is said by many people.
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Wow. This scene could start so much discussion and debate and with valid arguments on both sides. I recently read a book called "The Needs of Strangers" by Michael Ignatieff (1984) in which the author talks about the importance of differences in society, finding identity in what people don't have in common while still having people's needs met, along with discussion about what is need and who determines that. A very challenging book with much else in it, but well worth the time and effort to read it.
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Your comment reminded me of the death of my brother in 2014. There had been been many people in the hospital room in the evening. That afternoon I'd told my brother when we were alone for a time that if he saw Jesus or our mother to go to them, that he didn't have stay, to let go. My brother's heart gradually slowed when he was alone(just periodic checks from the night nurses) and stopped at 3:30 in the morning. I think my brother needed the privacy and quiet so he could relax and let go of the world.
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As always terrific acting here and from both performers. Claire Foy with just a look conveyed so much. To use some older American slang, the Queen looked she was going to "blow a gasket", but kept herself under control. Nothing was said or done in anger, but the anger comes through. --- One criticism I have for this scene is the use of the word "transparent". I don't recall "transparent" being used in that context until around the time President Obama was in office here in the U.S. Still this scene is outstanding.
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@uwbadger79 Elsewhere on You Tube there's an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy while she was still First Lady and also there's her tour of the White House. Mrs. Kennedy had that American, East coast, upper-class acccent. I don't know if it exists as much as it used to.
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@MyFiddlePlayer I'm not sure if you're encouraging me in my beliefs or being sarcastic or a bit of both after I shared an event that should be treated with respect regardless of one's beliefs, but you take your risks in a public forum. Either way, I find that science and Biblical belief complement and confirm one another if people on both sides are really honest. My first comment and then yours about the daily cycle and physiological stress actually go well together. Diarist Anais Nin once wrote, and I think is verbatim: "I have no fear of the truth". Nor do I. And you?
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How did Tommy Lascelles come to have so much power, even over the Royal Family? Who exactly was he? Was he an elected official? Did he have an inherited position?
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I once read that when the two sisters were very young and they learned that Elizabeth would eventually be Queen, Margaret said to her, "Oh, what a bore for you".
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@nycp1969 I read somewhere that Jacqueline and Lee's mother said if you want someone's attention to speak softly. It certainly worked with the First Lady. Not only did Mrs. Kennedy have that soft voice, but the upper-class style of speech and the graciousness and poise to go with it. I remember years ago on TV there was a perfume ad campaign that said, "If you want someone's attention...whisper". There really is something to it! -- I agree: it seems that upper-class American accent is gone or nearing its end. I suspect we've lost a lot of regional dialects and accents here in the U.S., maybe because of exposure to mass media.
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Great comment. The Princess of Wales lived out the ideas discussed here.
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I thought Prince Philip was in the Air Force even before he married Princess Elizabeth. What was he doing prior to their marriage?
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Wonderful acting from everyone in this scene, start to finish. Even before Dame Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary begins her '...carpetbaggers and parvenus..." comment you can see the "Yeah, but..." look on her face. You can tell what's coming even before it's said!
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I'm glad I'm an obscure non-royal person.
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It goes both ways across the Atlantic. What may be the two greatest female characters in American novles, plays and movies, Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" and Blanche DuBois were both played by one British actress: Vivien Leigh. (Just a coincidence, but both characters were Southerners.)
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I've read about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, mostly about Wallis, but this scene gives new information and a new interpretation of what I did know. -- I think it was in the Duchess of Windsor biography "That Woman" by Anna Sebba that it was mentioned that the Duke of Windsor may have been autistic Probably not possible to determine now and then there was what sounds like a traumatic upbringing. I wonder if the former King fully understood what he was doing and if he was being manipulated by Britain's enemies.
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@Dr.Yalex103 Along with the issue of the inbreeding there was and maybe still is the issue of hemophilia among royal families. To the best of my understanding and recollection, Queen Victoria carried the gene for hemophilia which was passed to her daughters who married into other royal families of other branches of the same royal family and where the condition manifested itself in males. The author of a book I read about Victoria's daughters said the hemophilia spread like "wildfire" among royal families. I believe the hemophilia gene in Victoria was simply an anomaly rather than the result of inbreeding.
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@greeneyedsoutherngirl6468 "East coast upper class accent" as in economic/social status, not value as human beings. "Upper class" is a very common term. I'm a little surprised you don't seem to be aware of such everyday terminology.
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