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In Reply to: Re: The Gathering Storm. posted by Ears on October 03, 2003 at 14:34:04:
But Churchill played an older man than he really was.
Listen to the way he delivers his speeches from that era, you would think hes a septegenarian the way he paces his words, look at his posture and the way he dressed
Photographs showed him slumped in a chair like an old sack of potatoes that totally belies the fact he was still a powerhouse
Churchill had greatest thrust on him at a relatively early age, and his youth and inexperience were blamed for the WW1 debacle in the Dardanelles campaign of which he was chief engineer, a major blow to his political ambitions, but a lesson learned
Churchill was still a relatively young Statesman at the time of WW2 but had learned a great deal from his mistakes; he was acutely aware that he was both the man of the moment and under a political microscope at the same time
I will call you in on that one
Eric
Follow Ups:
I thought Finney brought a touch of feebleness to Churchill that I've never detected in any footage, photos, or audio of the real WWII and earlier Churchill. It's been a while since I've seen "Gathering Storm"--I may rent it this weekend and see I still feel that way about Finney's performance.
if you want a perspective on the earlier Churchill, his own account will leave the reader in no doubt of the twin demons of self doubt and depression he had to dailly wrestle to become the beaming confident newsreel Churchill the Public saw and loved
Churchill was not always on top, nor anything like it
Finney is an old school Shakespearian player who would not take on the challenge of the role without an indepth knowledge of his subject, one with far more complex a persona than any Othello or King Lear
The challenge would be to show Churchill as a man, not the media myth he became
Eric
Alright, I read "The Wilderness Years" this week and rewatched "The Gathering Storm". I still think Finney's Churchill plays too old. Even comparing Finney to the photos in that book, he appears too old. A couple of more problems that I was able to pinpoint after watching the film a second time are that Finney acts the role with his chin screwed down against his chest in order to approximate Churchill's short neck and jowliness but the problem with that is it imparts a awkwardness and unnaturalness of movement that is similar to the stiffness of the elderly and which is unlike the real Churchill who(while he did have peculiar way of carrying himself) did not display that characteristic, and the other problem is that Finney's voice(deeper, gruffer) sounds more like the war-time Churchill than the Churchill of the mid-30's which reinforces the impression of an older Churchill. The audio link is to Churchill's 1934 speech warning against Germany(for the sake of reference, Clementine's journey to the South Seas was in late 1934.)
cant be a spring chicken himself, just watched him in the Dresser, with Tom Courtenay, and was shocked to see it is from 1983, where does the time go?
Many thanks for your followup, its great that there are still fans who appreciate Churchill!
Regards and V for Victory in all things
Eric
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