3 December 2020 Tom Hooper American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper I mean, we’ve all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won’t come.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper When I was growing up my mother would say, ‘Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him’.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper I think I would say ‘The King’s Speech’ is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there’s more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
3 December 2020 Tom Hooper The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
