The script couldn’t be done again because of its it’s commentary on homosexuality, but it really let them spread their wings. Hepburn, O’toole, and Hopkins really are preeminent actors or their respective generations. I can’t think of any other movies that have put such a caliber of actors together with a script to rise to and push their level.

Maryscott OConnor I’m playing Prince John (who in real life is my 26th great-grandfather) in a production of this play right now and this is one of my favorite lines because everyone has a knife on them EXCEPT me, so I just look down at my belt where a knife should be and then my empty hands before looking up in panic because “oh god, EVERYONE has a knife except for me, I’m defenseless” 😂 It’s just such a fun moment where Eleanor slaps John with her words and points out how much of an idiot and a wimp he is.

It's a great line but I prefer the "WE ARE WAR!..." part

It's 2020. And we're still barbarians.

How clear we make it! Oh my piglets, we are the origins of war.

@@karllieck9064 excellent!

I would pay good money to see that !

It's true!!! She was truly an epic woman as was Eleanor.

@@bigbob1699 Creep

Not only the best acting but the best screenplay ever written

Indeed. But don't forget Elizabeth Taylor in Virginia Wolf. Talk about raw.

@@lindseyraymond2062 Really? Isn't it too on-the-nose?

@@karllieck9064Her best acting in a long career.

she was only 61 when she made this

Her name is spelled with a "K".

Wrong, there are many great actors and performances today as well. If you don't like hollywood, try European films/series.

She’s stunning. Truthfully when she gazes upon her reflection at the beginning of her dialogue, she is every woman Ive ever wanted to dare love or court, and she’s every woman that will cause my demise. She is the beauty and beast combined. She is the sunset whose every skyward hue provides comfort yet mischief. She is the calm of the deep night, its heavy darkness providing respite while crickets chirp, cicadas hum and little frogs croak in a combined anthem that reminds me in gentle melodies and comforting rhythms of the rich history of the earth my ancestors sat upon. Scot, Irish, Cherokee, Creek, - poor in monetary wealth, rich in the respect of the earth from whence we came. My kin are ancient - our blood and lineage stretch across eras of time. Yet some things stay the same. Family - respect for family, respect for life, being of aid and of service to others.

There was a remake of Lion in Winter in late 1990s. Patrick Stewart and Meryl Streath. No comparison this version always be Superior.

What did you think of Patrick Stewart and Glenda Close performance in remake Lion in Winter 1980s?

They ALL got nominated--I'd think, because of HER!

But that's what elevates the film. She gives them a performance to respond to. In order to be a great actor you need to listen. She told Anthony Hopkins that he didn't need to do much other than RELAX!

​@@davidstevenson404yep....she made the film a massive work of art......I always watch it late on Xmas eve just as Christmas day is dawning 😂

Was she EVER not marvelous, is my question?

Comparing James Goldman to Shakespeare? That's high praise indeed.

Yes, the problem is how rare it is.

She (Katherine) was also related to Eleanor!

@@user-gi8pk9uc7q am also a fourway descendant of King John and also William Marshal is an ancestor as well.

@@user-gi8pk9uc7q so I am very distantly related to Kate as well....

@@jaccusefashionYep, isn't that cool?

@@jaccusefashion Being related to two awesome women?

Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs.

@@karllieck9064 well said!

And it's Richard the fucking Lionheart, of course he's got a knife!

Not her flub. That's the script.

Not speaking old french undermines the authenticity of the scene too.

Who cares about old french when you have Katharine Hepburn playing a queen. That's autenticity.

Katherine didn't make an 'off' the screen writers did. BTW The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion. Because it was spread by returning French troops, the disease was known as "French disease", and it was not until 1530 that the term "syphilis" was first applied by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro..

@@alaskanprincess9386 yes i'm bloody aware it was the screenwriters who made the "oof" it was a joke. Interesting about it being linked to the french though.