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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 360711" data-attributes="member: 33">The Madness of King George (1994)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTNiNzk1YjMtODViOC00MjUyLWI3MmMtZjhkMjlkYTM0NjU2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxMTY0OTQ@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 416px" />I always have a fascination of film posters and the scene depicted this one doesn&#039;t appear in the film, it is an amalgam of 2 different scenes. I previously had no interest in ever watching this film but recently I watched the Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story&nbsp; which I thought was excellent and because this film was about part of the same story, but from a different perspective, I was interested to see how this 30 year old film covered the events. In this film, King George III (played by Nigel Hawthorne) is getting old and starting to show signs of mental health deteriorataion, but nobody really knows what&#039;s going on since it&#039;s 1788 and they don&#039;t understand mental illness very well. The doctors try to treat him with the best methods they have at the time, but nothing seems to work. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte (played by Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (played by Julian Wadham) are trying to stop the king&#039;s enemies, led by the Prince of Wales (played by Rupert Everett), from taking over the throne.It&#039;s not always fair to compare different productions but I didn&#039;t like this anywhere as much as I like the Netflix series. This film focussed almost entirely on the George&#039;s mental health (I guess the clue is in its title) so there was a lot of ranting, raving and chaotic running around&nbsp; from him which I felt never gave the character enough depth. In contrast, in the series Queen Charlotte there was greater emphasis on how the mental illness affected the King&#039;s relationship with those around him which allowed the character to have more light and shade, and consequently, more interest. It was still a good film with some top notch performances.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 360711, member: 33"] [B]The Madness of King George (1994)[/B] [IMG width="416px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTNiNzk1YjMtODViOC00MjUyLWI3MmMtZjhkMjlkYTM0NjU2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxMTY0OTQ@._V1_.jpg[/IMG] I always have a fascination of film posters and the scene depicted this one doesn't appear in the film, it is an amalgam of 2 different scenes. I previously had no interest in ever watching this film but recently I watched the Netflix series [I]Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story[/I] which I thought was excellent and because this film was about part of the same story, but from a different perspective, I was interested to see how this 30 year old film covered the events. In this film, King George III (played by Nigel Hawthorne) is getting old and starting to show signs of mental health deteriorataion, but nobody really knows what's going on since it's 1788 and they don't understand mental illness very well. The doctors try to treat him with the best methods they have at the time, but nothing seems to work. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte (played by Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (played by Julian Wadham) are trying to stop the king's enemies, led by the Prince of Wales (played by Rupert Everett), from taking over the throne. It's not always fair to compare different productions but I didn't like this anywhere as much as I like the Netflix series. This film focussed almost entirely on the George's mental health (I guess the clue is in its title) so there was a lot of ranting, raving and chaotic running around from him which I felt never gave the character enough depth. In contrast, in the series Queen Charlotte there was greater emphasis on how the mental illness affected the King's relationship with those around him which allowed the character to have more light and shade, and consequently, more interest. It was still a good film with some top notch performances. [/QUOTE]

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