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Re: You havent read The Wilderness Years

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.)


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