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You havent read The Wilderness Years

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In Reply to: Re: The Gathering Storm. posted by Ears on October 04, 2003 at 01:17:48:

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

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Re: You havent read The Wilderness Years - Ears 16:06:42 10/10/03 (1)
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.)
- Calls for Britain to meet the threat of Germany (Open in New Window)
- Definitely got my interest and Finney - gware 00:30:49 10/11/03 (0)
  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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