The Madness of King George (1994) Part 5

[ElectricAvenuesIRE]

He should have known better than to fuck with Ash.

[Octavius0]

Her ladyship is smoking hot.

[TheGreg131313]

This king is funny.ha Ha ha ha .

[acerb45666555]

this illness affects about 1 out out of every 100,000 humans. i think thats how it works?

[Asarelah]

I had assumed that this was historical fiction, but apparently a lot of this really happened. There really was a physician named Francis Willis who treated the king, gagged him, and restrained him. He did recover just when Parliment was talking about dethroning him, but later relapsed a few years later.

[j3parrots]

Never read shakespeare.... Im a clergyman

[XxGREATxBRITAINxX]

*Sips soup* *squirts soup urrrvvvvvvyywhere* xD

[minicm122]

And so...London bridges fallen down.

[woolwine100]

Handel's Zaduk the Priest is played when the King is tied to the chair. It is used in the coronation when the King is anointed. the point being: Who dares stretch forth his hand to touch the Lord's anointed?

[HMservant]

And to think the exact same method of restraining mentally unwell patients was still in use not 30 years ago...

[uwed100]

@HMservant What do they do to them now ? Give them drugs ?

Today´s drugs seem to be quite efficient.They gave something to me

after I had broken my leg last winter when they did the surgery.I was awake

and knowing that those noise was from "repairing" my leg but i did not

care at all.I even found it amusing when they were talking about "COMPLICATIONS"

(everyone would have turned mad without such drugs I guess).

[pscar1]

@HMservant I'm glad things have finally started to change. I minored in psych in college and we talked quite a bit about the way patients were treated.

[POTCMarc101]

13:44 I am the law... XD LOL!!!!

[POTCMarc101]

Poor Queen :(

[DeltaEagle7700]

6:54. "Govern yourself then your goat! PBBBTTTTTT!!"

LOL!

[jmitterii2]

"I'm here. I'm here. But I'm not all there."

[slayr399]

"i know it's not much, sir, but it's a cut above emptying piss-pots!" lovin adrian scarborough as fortnum!

[Jemmer1000]

He married a Catholic!

[LawrenceOlaf]

Dr Willis reminds me of O'Brien from George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

[doobiesmoke15]

That chair looked less like torture than that stuff they were doing to his back

[LawrenceOlaf]

It's such a shame to see the King acting and being treated and carted around with no dignity whatsoever.

[bignole7547]

This is so sad to see a monarch treated like this. I know he was off his rocker but still.

[pscar1]

@bignole7547 I agree. It's sad to see anyone treated like that.

[kafir0001]

What´s the piece of music than sound in 1:40?

[robtovsky1987]

@kafir0001 it's Zadok the Priest by Handel. It's one of the Coronation Anthems. The whole restraining scene is designed to be a mock coronation.

[bythefault]

"I am the King of England!"

"No sir, you are the patient!"

Simply brilliant dialogue and stout performances by both Nigel Hawthorne and Ian Holm.

[MrTolleMolle]

@bythefault "I am the law"

[BiznizTrademark]

The fat doctor's wig is outrageous...

[HMservant]

@BiznizTrademark That's the point, in the 18th century wigs that were bigger, were better. Some wigs worn by women were known to reach 6 feet in height alone!!

[strangeyoungman]

Strapping the King into a Chair! Willis was lucky to not be given over to the Grenadiers for target practice.

[jorgeamdv]

IS NEWT GRINGRICH THE PSYCHIATRIST OF THE KING????

[IAmTheViolaFreak]

hahaha! Nice drawing.

...

Mr. Pitt is hot.

[HalfBornUnicornFetus]

With a beard, he kinda looks like Fidel Castro....

[disamjisa]

Lol at Fortnum handling the King's "motions".. wonder if that's how Fortnum & Mason got their royal warrant? ;-)

[Xbizkitl]

"You mean he actually looks at the King?" "Yes."  "Damned impudence!" The seriousness with which all this is said is just too funny.

[lauraetmia]

in the original play this part is just before the intermission

i saw the version with Simon Ward as the King and although i love the film you do get a much more intense experience with the live play which is purely fantastic

[juultjuh99]

I thaught it was a crime to touch the King like that.

[ClassicalMonarchism]

When is this specifically set? Because I thought George only became mad after 1810... yet William Pitt the Younger is in it?

[Lephirox]

@ClassicalMonarchism Not at all. It was much earlier. King George ascends to power in 1760. He apparently starts to suffer from porphyria around 1765. The last battle for american independence is fought in 1781. Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister in 1783. The Peace of Versailles is also sing 1783 (ensuring british acknowledgment of the newly formed United States of America). The King's son (as Prince Regent) ascends to power in 1811. King George dies in 1820. Hope this time-line helps.

[ClassicalMonarchism]

@Lephirox - Ah yes. I know about quite a lot of the period, but I didn't realise that George had suffered from porphyria for the majority of his reign. Thanks for the information. Is this depicting the Regency Crisis of 1788, then?

[MajBlood]

I can't believe they let those grubby thugs touch his majesty.

[EMPERORMIKI]

HAHA those doctors are hilarious. Very glad you uploaded this ... I live here in the rural US in Colorado and I can't find this anywhere except in DVD format which I don't want. Thank you : ) from America.

[DominicanoOR]

it rather worked.