Sir Ian Holm in "The Madness of King George" (1994)

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I guess for a modern movie it is rather nice, though the power of the English kings and queens over the English realm has as much declined as the art created about them! Just think of the deep fall between Henry IV for example and George III so no wonder that the king did get mad; or the English mistook him: He may have only pretended to be mad in order to have the English resume the war against the Americans like Solon did in Athens because of Salamis; plus the Shakespeare quotes are amicable.

[oliverarado]

"NO SIR! YOU ARE THE PATIENT!" LOL classic!

[MajBlood]

King George III = Best King Ever

[nemoyellow]

Fuck King George !

[Zeruel3]

Contrary to what people think, George III wasn't insane, he was extremely ill and suffered from porphyria, his acting out was due to being in immense pain

[farmerne]

Sometimes a little "restraint" is necessary!

[bythefault]

"I am the King of England."

"No sir, you are the patient."

Brilliant.

[JuanMacready]

@bythefault Shouldn't it have been King of the United Kingdom?

[chrisrants86]

@JuanMacready

The United Kingdom came into existence when the crowns of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland united in 1801.

[moviebuff1986]

chance Anthony Hopkins had never ever accepted the role of Hannibal Lector in the real classic horror movie Silence of the Lambs well from a neutral standpoint I do simply think Ian Holm would have been really tremendous I honestly believe portraying Lector he definitely has the look of playing an very evil clever sinister and remotely deranged character like Hannibal if you have ever witnessed him in Alien then of course you might know directly where I'm coming from, Ian Holm as Lector oh yeah

[Bilbo1209]

@moviebuff1986 Luckily we got Sir William Gull a.k.a Jack the Ripper :)

[moviebuff1986]

This very stunning movie has just literally always been a real personal favorite of mine a very fabulous breathtaking masterpiece, Ian Holm was quite simply in my very own estimationexceptional in just about every single way possible definitely a very talented wonderful extremely nice charming humble actor who I had the ultimate pleasure of meeting once he honestly is such a nice interesting talkative person with a good funny sense of humour, you know I have always wondered that if by any.

[Kenta19191919]

This King is unique in a sense that he sired so many children with his queen and had no mistress. It is rare to see a sovreign with such a high level of morality.

I personally support polygamy to secure a steady paternal line of succession for Japan.

[fairgirl7]

@Kenta19191919 What is also amazing is that across the channel, King Louis XVI also had a scrupulous standard of morality. He loved his Queen, had no mistress and frowned on gambling and vice. He also was a good man that was overwhelmed by circumstances.

[Kenta19191919]

@fairgirl7

I also heard that some of his nobles plotted against him, even his own cousins.

[fairgirl7]

@Kenta19191919 Well I know his brother the Comte de Provence thought he would have been a better king and his first cousin, the Duc d'Orleans plotted constantly against the King and in the end voted for his death! With a family like that who needed enemies??

[Kenta19191919]

@fairgirl7

I think both of them eventually became Kings of France (Louis XVIII and Charles X?) but only as constitutional monarchs.

Did they not realise earlier that plotting against their own king was likely to destroy the absoluteness of the monarchy for good?

[fairgirl7]

@Kenta19191919 Their plotting destroyed the monarchy and that was the greatest tragedy of all. France has never known stability since then and is now on its FIFTH republic. The history of France is one big bloodbath of revolution and coup d'etat. The greatest disgrace of the Western World.

[Kenta19191919]

@fairgirl7

It is an interesting debate for the Japanese like myself. He now have the oldest royal house in the world and we have enjoyed great continuities in some social aspects but we have become a nation with no bottom.

France is respected and well noted as a major power and she will never tolerate any diplomatic insult and will duly retaliate in desired either in obvious or subtle ways.

Look at Japan. Even a third rate country like North Korea can get away with kidnapping many Japanese.

[fairgirl7]

@Kenta19191919 The defeat of Japan in WWII and the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still weigh heavy on Japan. Until the WWII generation are gone I don't see a change from Japan. As for French diplomacy I think it always placates the Arab world and quickly criticizes Israel. I will never forget the French attack on Greenpeace; THAT was an affront to the earth. France still acts as a major power but really has feet of clay!

[moninoff]

@fairgirl7 Too true. It's not just the five republics though, it's also the two French empires, the one Bourbon restoration, and who can forget Vichy France?

[HMservant]

interesting choice of zadok the priest there....

[zooeyhall]

Yup! A little "restraint" is sometimes necessary, and can work wonders. Even with a crazy King.

[Lotusflowerism]

hahaha yep!

[AudreyHorneII]

Der Film ist genial, basta!

Es findet sich immer und überall jemand, der an allem und jedem herummäkeln muß!

Ätzend!

[happymax1]

The "Illness of King George" doesen't quite have the same ring to it....

[bulked]

the mental instabilities of King George?

[PeterFirthFan]

Nigel Hawthorne was far too old for the part.

[ivankinsman]

Absolute rubbish I am afraid - this is one of the best films I have watched and his performance is superb.

[PeterFirthFan]

George III was only 50 when the story takes place. Hawthorne was 66 and looked it. They should have cast a younger actor. The worst miscasting though was a slim, 36-year-old 6'4" Rupert Everett as the obese, 5'6", 26-year-old Prince of Wales.

[jammythedodger]

I agree with Everett. But I do think, despite the age difference, that Hawthorne is pretty much perfect in the role. I think it was right to ignore the age difference in that respect.

[RandomSam189]

@PeterFirthFan nobody moans about Hugh Laurie in Blackadder III. I do agree about that though a lot of people now don't realise the prince regent was about as skinny as an american on holiday. Still even if he was 16 years older he played the part brilliantly, RIP Nigel Hawthorne

[juzt156]

George was not mad, he was just very ill, with a condition no one understood at the time. But two world class actors the late great Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Ian Holm

[kathykisslight]

I think the doctor is much more lunatic than the king....

[kinkyplunk]

One of the most emotional scenes

[Berno10011001]

poor king george

[SaxonYear410]

Poor George :(

[lamlyn]

ian holm is a master actor

[nujac321]

"No Sir! You are the patient!!"

[Jal8919536]

HAWTHORNE: "I am the King of England!"

HOLM: "No, sir! You are the PATIENT!"

XD

[Sakamachi25]

Oscar worthy.

[kutzak159]

Agreed.

[RJY4356]

Indeed he was nominated for an Oscar..... unfortunately it was the same year a Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump.

[mowriter]

I can think of a few people who could be helped by treatments like that LOL

[Elliator101]

pleaz will sum1 upload the whole of this movie i cant find anywhere to watch it

[joeysn7hvn]

Poor George was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[vlovemeordiev]

Aww. Not all of us Yanks feel like that. You know that America is England's child! We just get a little bit rebellious sometimes =} As our demographics change though as well as Englands our relationship might change. To have an English outlook seems to be a dying mindset. Our spoiled American college students want change and so they have it. A moraless and valueless society is on its way here in the states.

[NaMgKCa]

Thats just crap.

[ADZ4EVRE]

Yeah just like a yank take a look in your own corridoors of power.

[YogaNate79]

His Majesty King George was a tyrant and a war criminal of the United States of America. His taxation without represention, the suppression of the rights of man, and the oppression of the American cause is due and just cause of King George to be equally compared to a modern day Adolf Hitler or Mao Zedong, or Joseph Stalin.

As for myself, my loyalties would lie with General Geroge Washington and not the Mad King.

[Hallenbach]

No matter which way you percieve George R, the actions of Washington and every other colonial who took up arms against their King was an act of treason, plain and simple. At that time there was no such thing as "the United States of America". A convenient collection of disloyal colonies an little more. I notice you didn't see fit to turn away British Troops when the French were threatening Albany. "American cause, rights of man, Joseph Stalin"...Loyalty to a toothless slave owner.

[LambrettaSXsepcial]

I like the fact your country seems to conveniently forget the mass generside of the of the Native Americans or your countrys part in the Slave Trade when you bash on about the suppression of he rights of man. Nor can I comprehend the idea of comparing the "unfair taxation" of tea to the mass murder of over 6 million Jews. I think you need to get your facts right before start acting like an over opinionated turd!

[MacLanny]

This genocide (learn to spell) started under the crown.

[HarveyCartwright]

No, George III was not a tyrant, he was a constitutional monarch acting according to the advice of his ministers.

[fedtrooper]

Just my own opinion: the three best movies of the last 30 years are set in the 18th century; King George, Amadeus, and Danton.

[Hallenbach]

couldn't agree with you more.here here!

[StJamesCourt]

Hey! Hey! What? What?

[noersang]

nigel hawthorne is/was one of the finest actors the world has/had ever seen.

[procommenter]

In those days everyone spoke in platitudes.

[Mendisal]

one of the best films ever

[BryceDawkins]

I can´t believe that fucking peasant ("doctor") did that to the King. And I can´t believe his bodyguards betrayed him, fucking rats.

[john151988]

what is that music called at the start of the film.. its when the king is getting dressed ??

[roshagawa]

is it not 'Zadok the Priest' from Handel's 'Messiah'? same as in this scene...?

[nujac321]

It is not from the Messiah.

[muiris89]

The Overture to Handel's Oratorio 'Saul'.

[SirSmokeal0t]

Batshit-insane kings are fucking awesome.

I would've just let George do what we he wanted to do, i'd be a good friend for him.

"Come on George! We need to light the castle on fire before the grass becomes upset with us!"

[mithar]

One of the more intelligent films out there..and the pot is dwindling. thanks. one of my very faves.

[83survivor]

Okay. Thanks anyway.

[83survivor]

Can you post the whole movie, please? It's a classic. One of Nigel's best.

[Bilbo1209]

Sorry but I can't do that! If you want to see it, try some videostore or the internet!

[truthseekerlee]

@83survivor Play.com are selling it for £4.49 at present. Snap it up! Great film.

[Flowbee79]

King George III actually stands as one of the longest reigning monarchs of an English throne. Some exciting things happened during his reign: American Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleanic Wars, American War of 1812, and the beginning erosions of the British Slave Trade. Rather progressive when compared with his predecessors, despite his conflicts with Americans.

[j1o2h3n4n5y]

That's footmen for you,to busy bumming each other than learning to fight!

[gotahc]

so sad!

[gw7709]

God, medicine was so brutal back then.

[XionXXXX]

LOL, Hilarious, that king reminds me of King George Bush the lunatic, they both share so much in common.

[Flowbee79]

Uh, I actually have a little more sympathy for George III, his problem was actually a physical medical condition. Bush's antics are from being an underdeveloped, over-grown frat house jerk.

[SpiritCrazyHorse]

Thank you!!! Porphyria is what he had!!!

Peace

[judahbenkenobi]

Poor Fear E Uh? Poor as in lacking good judgement, Much Fear of something ahead of said sin, E as in Ecstasy which he craved, and Uh, as in what anyone reading this will say.

[smoky90210]

XionXXXX I would take King George over George Bush any day.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Very, very impressive performances from both Holm and Hawthorne

[Flowbee79]

Two great actors indeed.

[ffairlane57]

If I were the King's doctor, I'd have the ego and fortitude to match the King himself.

[Frostylude]

wats that music at the beginning?

[czar2rodolfo]

Zadok the Priest - Handel ;)

[talentissexy]

I fell in love with Nigel Hawthorne a little when I first saw this film. I'm still appalled that he lost the oscar to Tom Hanks.

[julianveronica]

for those of us who have, at any time, been deemed worthy of being restrained, i understand, i have been there myself.

...but remember, they can never restrain your

imagination.

peace

[nerdg0han]

beautiful