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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 360776" data-attributes="member: 33">I did wonder if I saw The Madness of King George&nbsp; without having watched Queen Charlotte first if I would have been even more critical of it. There were things in the film which I didn&#039;t entirely like but I was more charitable about because I felt my opinion was coloured by comparing it to the Netflix series. For example, I felt on a few occasions that Nigel Hawthorne was being a bit hammy in how he was running around and shouting in a very in your face, unsubtle portrayal of mental illness. I did wonder whether he had played the role on stage and was repeating his theatrical performance which needed to be bigger and bolder to fill a theatre, or maybe that was what the script demanded because of its theatrical origins. I probably wouldn&#039;t have made that observation had I not seen Queen Charlotte in which the mental health of the king was portrayed in a much more sympathetic and sensitive way which made him far more likeable and, in my opinion, more believable. So although I said it&#039;s not always fair to compare different productions, it&#039;s sometimes interesting to do so.I never thought about it before but there are themes in The Madness of King George and The King&#039;s Speech&nbsp; that are similar so I can see why both films would be packaged together and I agree that The King&#039;s Speech&nbsp; is the better film.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 360776, member: 33"] I did wonder if I saw [I]The Madness of King George[/I] without having watched [I]Queen Charlotte[/I] first if I would have been even more critical of it. There were things in the film which I didn't entirely like but I was more charitable about because I felt my opinion was coloured by comparing it to the Netflix series. For example, I felt on a few occasions that Nigel Hawthorne was being a bit hammy in how he was running around and shouting in a very in your face, unsubtle portrayal of mental illness. I did wonder whether he had played the role on stage and was repeating his theatrical performance which needed to be bigger and bolder to fill a theatre, or maybe that was what the script demanded because of its theatrical origins. I probably wouldn't have made that observation had I not seen [I]Queen Charlotte[/I] in which the mental health of the king was portrayed in a much more sympathetic and sensitive way which made him far more likeable and, in my opinion, more believable. So although I said it's not always fair to compare different productions, it's sometimes interesting to do so. I never thought about it before but there are themes in [I]The Madness of King George [/I]and [I]The King's Speech [/I]that are similar so I can see why both films would be packaged together and I agree that [I]The King's Speech[/I] is the better film. [/QUOTE]

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