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History Forum / General / British History / April 2007Re: The Last King Of Scotland
Excellent Film! Forest Whitaker does an outstanding job playing General Idi Amin Dada and richly deserved his Academy Award for Best Actor. But James MacAvoy also did a most noteworthy job as the protagonist and tortured Scot, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan -- a fictional character of carefully designed complexities. The Scot executes a particularly enjoyable [to watch] skewering of the sly, rodentine, feral, oleaginous English "diplomat", et cetera -- played by Simon McBurney. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Alba gu bràth > Excellent Film! > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Alba gu bràth Great movie. Whitaker was excellent. MacAvoy was good but he's just such a wormy looking little wimp of a creature. Typical Scot. William Hawthorne Colorado Well, I wouldn't be that hard on MacAvoy -- or the Scots either. He's supposed to be a still-wet-behind-the-ears young M.D. who is politically seduced by Idi Amin -- callow and somewhat ratty, with most of his brains in his balls. So, MacAvoy pulled all that off rather well. But his put-downs of the slimy Englishman are magnificent -- of course he gets his comeuppance. His attempt to poison Idi Amin is not convincing and poorly written by the screenwriter. MacAvoy doesn't seem quite dumb enough to attempt that -- and to do it so clumsily and obviously. DSH On Apr 28, 8:25 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote: > Excellent Film! > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Alba gu bràth Great movie. Whitaker was excellent. MacAvoy was good but he's just such a wormy looking little wimp of a creature. Typical Scot. William Hawthorne Colorado >> Excellent Film! >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >William Hawthorne >Colorado MacAvoy is an Irish name. Nice try though - pity about your typically American ignorance of the British Isles' different cultures. I've been to Colorado a couple of times. First time, I stopped to see Buffalo Bill's grave just outside Denver. Covered in litter of course; the usual lack of respect for American icons that characterizes the United States. The second time I stayed two weeks at a friend's place close to Roosevelt Park, among the elk. I've alway thought of Hawthorne as an exclusively Scottish name. I assume that whoever bought you ancestors must have been Scottish and gave them his name. Apparently it was a common practice among slave owners for identification purposes. >>> Excellent Film! >>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > gave them his name. Apparently it was a common practice among slave > owners for identification purposes. LOL...You are 180 degrees out here Highlander. Speaking of Scottish actors, I thought Billy Connoly was excellent in a film called Mrs Brown. William Hawthorne Colorado >>>> Excellent Film! >>>> [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >LOL...You are 180 degrees out here Highlander. Speaking of Scottish actors, >I thought Billy Connoly was excellent in a film called Mrs Brown. So did I. >William Hawthorne >Colorado Just a taste of the boot to remind you that Scotland rules... |
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