Thoughts on Queen Christina
-Greta Garbo stars as the 'girl king' Christina of Sweden, loosely based on her life leading up to her abdicating the throne.
-Holy shit, Christina is badass. She walks around in men's clothes, she don't take shit from no lowly Parliament, when a bunch of peasents want to storm the castle, she lets them in and berets them for acting the fool, meeting them at the top of the staircase with a hand on her hip, all 'nuh-uh'.
-Right. Garbo is magnificently hammy as the only Swedish person in this entire movie. Did I mention I love her?
-Seriously, Swedish people had the best mustaches.
-The movie itself, for a period piece, was fairly entertaining, mostly due to Garbo's magnetic presence and the aforementioned mustaches, which are positively hypnotic.
1 comments:
"Then I shall die... a bachelor!" This movie is just awesome & amazingly queer, and my favorite Garbo movie. And yes, the very British C. Aubrey Smith makes a great mustachioed Swede.
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