But once I started watching, I did get thoroughly hooked by the story, and I really enjoyed this movie. Most of all, I appreciated the fact that the filmmakers actually made a significant effort to get the history right, and did not make the traditional Hollywood botch of the thing.
Which got me thinking: what if...
Hence today’s gedankenexperiment*: what if, say, Disney had gotten hold of this property? How would it have been different? Obviously, the first place to start would have been by casting Idris Elba as the Black Douglas, and then giving Queen Elizabeth a big boss-fight duel with the Prince of Wales atop the battlements of Berwick Castle. But what other horrible things would they have done to it, in order to make it a proper Hollywood movie?
The lines are open. Let the conversation begin.
* gedankenexperiment: German for, “no funding available”
It's the Chris's, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Noth......
ReplyDeleteI suspect Disney would have had to have some sort of "cutsey" tie-in movie market toys...perhaps trebuchets and siege engines for storming castles...
ReplyDeleteLots of songs.
ReplyDeleteYes, of course. Ditch all that depressing Celtic folk music and replace it with some snappy show tunes. Maybe get Elton John to come out of retirement one more time to write the score? I mean, Outlaw King, Lion King, what's the diff?
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