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[GreenDragon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Qu...ots_%28film%29

[Galician]

Cool! There hasn't been any real treatment of her life since the film with Katherine Hepburn, I think. She was a complex and pivotal character for that period and deserves a new look.

But might this cause a run on Rocky's new tartan named for her? Did he produce the film?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Hmmm... it will have to go some distance to eclipse either the 1936 Katherine Hepburn film (Mary of Scotland) or the 1971 Vanessa Redgrave/Glenda Jackson picture (Mary Queen of Scots) Neither is much of a history lesson, although both are more accurate than Randy Wallace's Braveheart which starred Mel Gibson and was shot in Ireland.

[TheKiltedWonder]

Does anyone know if there have been any English-language runs of Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart? I found it funny that a German would right a play about her, but it's a very good play if rather non-historic.

As for the new movie, I figure anything with Scarlett Johansson is worth at least one watch. I mean to say, I'm only watching for the kilts...

[Arlen]

Here's hoping it's as good as Gunpowder, treason and plot which absolutely rocked. (Even it there were a few things in it which are only guesses.)

[Mr. MacDougall]

Here's hoping it's as good as Gunpowder, treason and plot which absolutely rocked. (Even it there were a few things in it which are only guesses.)

About Guy Fawkes and the Parliamentary Plot? Hmm. I'll have to toss that in my NetFlix Queue.

[Galician]

Does anyone know if there have been any English-language runs of Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart? I found it funny that a German would right a play about her, but it's a very good play if rather non-historic. As for the new movie, I figure anything with Scarlett Johansson is worth at least one watch. I mean to say, I'm only watching for the kilts...

Yeah, right, TKW.

Why should Schiller writing a play about her be any more strange than Puccini writing an opera about a Japanese courtesan? Or Verdi writing one about Macbeth??!!

Thanks, Macmillan, for reminding us of the Redgrave/Jackson version. Two powerhouse actresses!

[McClef]

I wonder if they will stick in a meeting scene between Mary and Elizabeth as they did in the Redgrave/Jackson version and also the one that Helen Mirrin did?

Historic fancy of course as there is no record of them ever having met!

[Chef]

I'll just be glad if it's a little closer to reality than Braveheart. Interesting how history isn't exciting enough for Hollywood. They feel the need to bugger around with it.

[auld argonian]

I've said it before"

Those who do not study history are condemned to learn it from Hollywood.

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