No, the fact that I'm trying to DL it now and it's stalled across 3 different available versions (all of which seem to include Italian audio) speaks volumes. Even inveterate naval explorers don't want it.
YES, that one hurt my soul but weirdly comes to mind too often---the scene with the fast food? i think it is now woven into my french fry cravings! those producers owe me potato compensation, hehe.
13:33 "He became notorious in Hollywood for cutting up movies as he saw fit." If only that remained the only thing he remained notorious for in Hollywood.
@@motherplayerI’m still not convinced all the men like him aren’t still working in Hollywood tbh. Kind of like what happened with Prince Andrew, yes he’s obviously a predator, but they also let him take the fall for all the other high ranking people who participated. Weinstein couldn’t have been the only one.
There are 2 podcasts that hits both these marks This Has Oscar Buzz - all about ‘Oscar Bait’ films that failed to reach that inner circles of awards contention What Went Wrong - films with notoriously troubled productions that turned into cultural touchstones, cult classics and infamous bombs Both are amazing series, well searched and sourced and highly engaging presenters
To write their story as a romance would be ridiculous. That was an arranged marriage from the start and they were miserable together. Monaco needed a pay infusion and something to spark more interest in tourism in order to avoid being absorbed into France. Aristotle Onassis, who had many investments in Monaco, suggested Prince Rainier marry a Hollywood actress. Many including Marilyn Monroe were considered and not deemed suitable. The "meeting" with Grace was also arranged. They apparently decided Grace would be suitable but she and her parents still had to pay millions in the form of an old school dowry to make the marriage happen. Rainier was cheating from the start and eventually Grace followed suit. To say there was anything romantic in that is just not true by all the documentaries I have seen and what I have read. It seems like the aim was to please Monaco and her living family rather than tell the honest story.
She also left Hollywood because she was being treated *already* like she was *older*; she said the studios were moving her morning calls up an hour earlier, for *makeup*.
In the movie Charles De Gaulle threatened Monaco to disappearing in the map but Grace gave that speech with those words to convince De Gaulle to stop his actions. However at the same time we have the War in Algeria
I actually watched the film because of the number of post-Gone Girl comments on how Rosamund Pike would have been/would be a perfect Grace Kelly (compared to Kidman). Realised very quickly her casting was not the issue at all and I was a bit sad to see there were so many conversations on her acting and not the film's script/production.
@@AlexandreFilho1705 she does look so much like her that I think it would give her more freedom to break away from the "doll like" image people have of Grace Kelly - she was insanely funny in Saltburn too.
Pike would've been a far better choice for the role tbh. I also saw a picture of Grace and Audrey Hepburn meeting backstage at the Academy Awards, I would've loved to see Pike as Grace and Rooney Mara as Audrey to recreate that photo
10 years Rosamund would have made the perfect Grace Kelly for sure! I don't understand why they chose Nicole for these bipoics. I wasn't at peace with her role in Being the Ricardos.....
Please!! I wish people would quit bashing Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan. If you look and listen beyond the lurid tabloid headlines, it seems there is much justification for their exit. As just one example, there is a Steve Davies interview of being a bodyguard for Meghan Markle before the wedding and another of a royal protection officer who testified to the truly awful threats against the Duke & Duchess before they left England. Don't forget, the Prince remembers how his mother had to cope with the constant press and then her eventual death. It's completely understandable that he is hypervigilant for the mental health and safety of his family. Give the guy a break, already.
@@kostajovanovic3711 it is. But you know how it goes - "its not that good" because "needs moar Kristin hendrix!!". Also it doesn't end as badly as GoT or as enigmatic as Sopranos.
@@kostajovanovic3711 i said even because they weren't exactly writing Grace Kelly, but a character that resembles her and has similar struggles (and is often compared to Grace
Kelly’s life as a princess was fairly depressing. She felt lonely and isolated (never learned French), she drank over her cheating husband and embarrassing children - - it was definitely not the future she expected.
Could you recommend a biography I could read? Reading about her husbands indiscretions (and you’ve intrigued me by mentioning ‘embarrassing’ offspring and the lack of French language skills) is what I want to read about! But the one Grace Kelly book I have read painted her life post-Hollywood as a fairytale, tragic ending aside.
@@kristinazubic9669 If she did, it didn’t stick. (I myself had two years of French in high school and can remember perhaps five words.) I’m unsure as to why Kelly didn’t study the language once she moved abroad, but she didn’t… and this created a barrier in her day-to-day life.
So… you’ve literally never bothered to google the many videos of her delivering speeches, being interviewed extemporaneously, and conversing with ease in French? Why just lie with such confidence? It’s gross. Be better.
it's free on youtube movies, or at least it was a couple years ago when i watched it. I thought it was okay. Surprised, though i had not heard of it when it came out tho.
@@gleewhoseline198he's really weird (in a good way). Like, he can't stop gushing about a tie in movie to an anime he's never seen (demon slayer), but disses not that bad franchises he's seen the previous movies of😂😂
I wrote a book about Grace Kelly and I feel she is incredibly elusive. I think it would be a real challenge to make a biopic about her. One thing I felt the whole time I read about her life in Monoco was how isolating it was for her. I think the cultural differences, the fact that she was this untouchable status and the fact that she lost out on ever acting again combined to make her lonely. Her kids were never out of the tabloids while she was alive. That served to isolate her even further, I think.
The Prince exploited her financially,She died practically broke.She had to pay him 2,000,000$ up front.. about 50 million in today's money.😢 Buyers remorse 😢
I remember seeing this movie. I think we must insist for any potential future audience: the main conflict of the movie is indeed "will Grace Kelly manage to maintain this ridiculous little country's status as a tax heaven?"
Him and just about everyone else it seems. Even before Metoo, the reputation he had made him sound that guy Paul Giamatti played in Big Fat Liar (except not funny obviously), where everyone actively hated him but put up with him to keep their jobs.
Tbh…I just don’t think Grace Kelly HERSELF is an interesting film subject. A lot of biopics seem to not be able to distance the creative ingenuity and/or thought provoking commentary found in the work of historical icons (be it their music, acting, performing, governing etc) and the ascension/narratives that can be constructed from their life stories. You can be part of a groundbreaking, revolutionary shift in the culture…and still have a journey that is not particularly novel, insightful or that’s simply kind of a cliché. Grace Kelly, Elvis, Whitney Houston…their stories are not straight and narrow roads without a few potholes but they’re not something that’s pressing or unfamiliar to film audiences today.
Agreed. Most successful biopics have a main character who has long episodes of tragedy. The death of Grace Kelly was tragic but sudden. Otherwise her life was a string of positive achievements; Raised by a wealthy family, an Oscar winning actress, a princess and the mother of three children who have done well.
I could see the angle of Grace Kelly to become a political figure as an interesting topic. Doing not a film of her life but a context of her in the Monegasque political sphere. But the script wasn't good or deep enough to push that angle
@@bb1111116she literally was the stepping stone that crowned Irish American Catholics there place in political and society in WASP America paving the way for President JFK
There’s also the question of how much audiences in 2014 knew or cared about Grace Kelly. This reminds of when Paramount did promotion research for “Mommy Dearest” and found to their horror that only a small percentage of the movie-going public knew who Joan Crawford was.
I'm pretty sure it would actually be a lot of people. Not so much for her movies, as for her story as a proto-Diana of Wales. Look at how popular The Crown and the Diana movie with Kristen Stewart were.
@@estrellagarciazamora8721 the thing is there was a Diana movie being made around the same time that was similarly raked over the coals and was a huge flop.
Your more than just some random UA-cam critic. Your content is well researched and thoughtful. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel like I am learning something.
I remember watching this movie when premiered. At the end, there's a big speech by Grace which is supposed to be about love and how it can avoid wars and whatnot. It's quite long and it's supposed to serve as the big acting gig of the movie. Well, let me tell you that, when it ended and the credits started rolling, I couldn't but think, "what the hell was about those last five minutes full of nothing?" Seriously, the speech is all common places, abhorrent and full of childish assumptions. God, I still remember it as some sort of angsty teen mandatory essay for classes.
Nicole is older than I am by almost a year. The roles she continues to try to play are too young for her. She's stuck in her young Mom era. Nicole schmoozing with Harvey Weinstein over this movie is gross in hindsight.
@@gnostic268 I'm a big fan of Nicole Kidman. I think that she's done diverse rolls like killing of a sacred deer, and Stoker... Big little lies as well with a highlight for her and season 1 particularly. But sometimes she makes bad decisions like playing Lucille Ball.
I strongly recommend people read The Bridesmaids by Judy Balaban Quine and My Days With Princess Grace by Joan Dale (put together posthumously by her daughter Grace Dale) if they want to learn more about Grace as a person; two books from close friends who knew her for decades.
One of my favourite parenthetical revealing comments from Orson Welles in "My Lunches with Orson" was him talking about how sexually free Grace Kelly was despite being a Catholic girl (or, perhaps, BECAUSE of it) from Philadelphia. Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention "The Swan" basically unintentionally prefiguring how Kelly's life would end up -- and Alec Guinness in that film basically becoming his character and falling in love with Grace Kelly while making it while knowing the whole time he never even had a chance at that.
I would like a video about Diana's interpratations in The Crown and Diana. I know this channel rarely talks about TV, but would be interesting the comparison
I can't see any film doing a better job than the Crown which had amazing production values. Of course, no one can speak to what happened behind closed doors, I thought the dynamics and acting of the actor and actress who played Charles and Diana was outstanding in the Crown. Aside from Elizabeth Debicki maybe being to tall, I thought she absolutely nailed the appearance and mannerisms.
A 🇨🇦 Canadian, I had never heard of this movie - and I knew NOTHING of her tragically final shot at being in a Hitchcock film. As usual, your work is splendidly prepared and narrated.
I'm trying not to hear "Grace Kelly, one of the most famous actors of hers (generation)" as a read against your more glowing recognition of Nicole (I agree btw). 😅 Well played.
@@mauricioduron3193 Grace Kelly is remembered for her life (Hollywood, royalty, tragic death at a young age), if she just made her handful of movies and then vanished, she would be as remembered as well as many of the other actresses of her era. Ask a general 20 year old who Luise Rainer is, and see what they say.
It's so good to see one of your videos! I've had a rather demanding time this past year and didn't stay current with many of my favorite UA-camrs. I'm always impressed by your intelligence, insight and humor. Thank you for being out there and doing all this wonderful work! 🙏😌
I love your ability to time your videos with current events: the Olympics are happening in Paris right now. And of course, Monaco is a stones throw from France.
ok no joke I was editing this video while watching the Olympics and suddenly Prince Albert was on screen b/c he was there watching a game. It felt so spooky in the moment lollol. Ofc he was an Olympian, as were Grace's father and brother!!
@@bkrewind I just recently read the story of Grace's father Jack beating in the Olympics somebody who'd won the rowing race that he himself had been banned from for not being a "gentlemen".
The shot of the newspaper articles coming into frame and overlapping looked SO BAD. I'm pretty sure I could have created a better edit in Powerpoint when I was in middle school in 2005.
I notice a trend with celebrity biopics and interests in celebrities of the golden age of Hollywood and it's the same reason Grace bombed. We love the stars with messy lives -,abuse, addiction, mental health issues, isolation and misery -and hide it behind of veneer of glamour and elegance. Grace just didn't have that messy life like Garland, Monroe, and Crawford had. Grace's life had too much Grace for the gritty telenovela that we want in celebrity biography.
So many thoughts, but the "so wooden" it's a "fire risk" really captures it in a nutshell. The sad thing is that this part of GK's life wasn't that interesting. When her daughters were harem scarem as eurotrash driving her crazy, it was much more tumultuous. And as beautiful as GK was, she really wasn't a great actress, she possessed charm and elegance, but she had range from A to B.
For me Kelly is one of the least interesting people in Hollywood. A very pretty face and in a few great movies, but nothing to intrigue or captivate in the way of Dietrich, Davis, Crawford, Garbo, Leigh, Gardener, Taylor. Loren .... nothing at all .. just this childish fantasy tale of marrying a boring old Prince in a boring old tax exile strip of land who didn't want her to do anything interesting with herself, so she didn't. Now, the pre-Monaco Kelly who by all accounts wasn't a demure virgin and put it about with some glee, might at least make a fun tale, but that's not the image the fifties or the cult of Kelly wants to know about. Anyway, boring. She was basically boring at her most famous.
@@paillette2010 and Audrey Hepburn childhood faced the harsh times of nazi occupied Netherlands. Or when she becomes UN activist (Being a pioneer back then). Not just as an actress, but as a person Audrey Hepburn has more interesting aspects in her life. And not just her, all of the other actresses mentioned in the prior list had those aspects of life which made more compelling to bring biopics (Sophia Loren also faced WWII childhood in Italy and then her love affair with Carlo Ponti which made mad the Catholic Church and need to be married overseas, Marlene Dietrich work within the troops and her anti-Nazi commitment, Leigh's personal issues and her stage work, Garbo and Davis feuds and independence over the Hollywood executives...)
Shocking casting decision to begin with. Nicole Kidman was simply far too old to portray Grace Kelly at that point. 47 years too old to be exact. She would have been an excellent choice back in the 90's and early-mid 2000's when she was a lot closer to Grace Kelly's age. The role should have went to other Aussie counter-part Margot Robbie who was at the time and still is roughly about the right age to portray such a significant figure in Hollywood history.
I understand there are really intense pressures on actresses to look very young but the work Nicole Kidman has had to her face gives me weird uncanny valley vibes to the point I don’t watch anything she is in because I just find it disturbing.
Yeah, Nicole’s face just looks weird now. But I don’t think Margot Robbie would be my choice and I don’t think she was on anyone’s radar in 2014 and Grace Kelly was far more regal and graceful than either Nicole or Margot. Someone with that quiet luminosity. You need someone who really mixes elegance and vulnerability. I feel Amy Adams would have been my pick for 2014. Maybe now, Elizabeth Olsen even though she doesn’t really look like Grace Kelly she could carry off that feeling. Or Brie Larson.
@@songindarknessQuite a few people in the comments have mentioned Rosamund Pike who was 35 at the time. So pretty much just about the right age and she had the natural elegance and grace (no pun intended)to pull off that role.
Beyond age issues she was never going to carry off this role, it’s just so different to her acting style. Nicole has none of the warmth and liveliness Grace had in her personal life.
Kidman's "biggest flop" is a high bar when you have movies like Stepford Wives and Bewitched in contention. At least she doesn't have a Cutthroat Island in her filmography.
Not to mention she was in a Batman movie once. And in Happy Feet. Although I don’t remember if that one particular Batman movie was successful or not back in the day.
Her Batman movie was BO hit and hasn't the reputation of the Clooney one. It was bad but in the type of bad campy without reaching infamous. Happy Feet was actually a nice rewieved film
I love that this video also goes into the details of Grace's career and her undeniable presence as an actress. It's almost heartbreaking to think about all the wonderful performances she still had in her and that never got to see but I suppose her becoming a real Princess truly cemented her legendary reputation
You know, this was one of those movies that seemed to disappear without much explanation and I always wondered exactly why. As you usual, you always pick the best stories to highlight.
@@Ariana-wv4pf Yes, I agree. The writer must have been a fan of author, Norman Mailer. Monroe wouldn't agree to a meeting with him (he was obsessed with her) and so he spent his life writing what he imagined she lived like and how she thought and behaved. Very creepy and deeply voyeuristic..
@@jorvikaengelskvinna7157 it's literally after a book with same title written by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalised take on the life of MM. Oates said the novel is a work of fiction loosely based on MM life. And the movie follows the book so it can't be a biopic. While Blonde takes inspiration from real events, figures, and long-held rumors from the actor's life as a jumping point to imagine what Monroe may have thought and felt, the film is by no means a biopic. Like Oates' book, it's a definite work of fiction, dabbling in the experimental and including fantastical elements. Maybe that's why people didn't like it.
@@Ariana-wv4pf I don't believe I suggested it was a biopic. I was aware it was written by Oates as a fictionalised version of Monroe's life, but I thought she may have been inspired by Mailer.
I think this was another role wasted on Nicole Kidman. I feel she never fully disappears into a part nor does she get under the skin of a character. It's always the same aspirate voice quality in every role. It wasn't enough that she slightly resembles Grace Kelly. I have seen plenty of movies that were totally average but elevated by their lead performer, and this just wasn't one of them.
There are many roles Kidman has completely disappeared into the character - Birth, Rabbit Hole, Dogville, The Others, Dead Calm, Big Little Lies, The Hours, to name a few
@@hill4252 I still maintain that she usually falls into the whispery voice with the inability to adapt to an accent outside of her own and it just fully takes me out of the performance. I do agree that her performance in Dogville is great, though.
Not surprisingly, I had NO IDEA Nicole Kidman made this movie. I believe Cheryl Ladd also played Grace Kelly in a TV Movie biopic for ABC TV. Lifetime Network was also where Lindsay Lohan played Elizabeth Taylor in the infamous "Liz & Dick" biopic.
Sounds like neither of the cuts of the movie were good or willing to admit their flaws (nor particularly concerned with true history). It's a pretty common problem for people who's egos outpace their artistic abilities or goals. It sucks, because in most cases, history is far more interesting, surprising and memorable than any generic award bait movie trying to turn real, complex people into marketable barbie dolls
One thing i love about your stuff ('Stuff?' Sorry, Miranda) is that I can watch your analyses of films I haven't seen without feeling like the plot has been spoiled. I wonder whether you'd be at all interested in comparing and contrasting 'Diana' (very ordinary) and 'Spencer' (really interesting). I think biopics of women would be a subject you could really sink your teeth into.
@@bruh_hahaha I think Rosamund Pike or Margot Robbie are more "Grace Kelly-like". Margot was probably too young at the time but Rosamund would have been great IMO. I like Nicole but she was just wrong for this part.
Nicole Kidman looks nothing like Grace Kelly. I know some people think Margot Robbie looks like her but can we please have an American actress play Grace since she was a Pennsylvania girl at heart.
I'm not usually literal when it comes to casting (I think acting, hair and make-up can bridge an awful lot of differences), but I could not get past Nicole Kidman's height (5'11 to Grace's 5'7), as for many of us, our enduring image of Grace is of a more delicate (not just in height but in bone structure) individual. And, yes, I think it could be quite interesting to have an American actress play the role.
I would love a video comparison of Lohan's Elizabeth Taylor VS Bonham-Carter's Elizabeth Taylor. Both movies received different hype back for different reasons but with an expected result at the end.
Grace Kelly was very far from sexless. I remember a comment from one of her contemporaries that the character she played that was closest to "the real Grace" was Linda Nordley in Mogambo. But she was also hard to know deeply.
What a strange train wreck, I feel sorry for the actors attached to this, they have very little control over what the final product of their work is, and yet they still have to promote it in public so much.
I love this movie, but I always thought this was like a cable movie just like the one that's about Kate and William love story but with more budget because of the cast OMG I had no idea of all the distribution and Cannes mess. What a great video.
My grade ten math teacher called awkward, nerdy, meh-at-math me Grace Kelly the whole semester. It took me a while to want to see Grace Kelly in a movie.
What does that even mean???! That’s weird. Sorry that happened. (Not that being compared to Grace Kelly would be bad just not… I dunno - relevant to grade 10 math. Some teachers are wankers)
Unsure of how old you are but if you wore a ponytail a lot in school the teacher may have been referring to the MadTV sketch in which a guy is hitting on gals in the movie theater and calls out “Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly ya know you classy and fine” to the girl in the ponytail. Not saying your teacher hit on you (I hope not) but the way the character said Grace Kelly was funny and got stuck in a lot of people’s head.
31:59 I read somewhere years ago that the prince was pushed by his advisors to marry an American Hollywood actress wife to produce a male heir and increase tourism and that Marilyn Monroe was first on the list but struck off for being too sensual. Grace was another suggestion. This is why the marriage was so fast probably, it was arranged and not organic.
This is very well done. As a Canadian who has lived in the Cote d'Azur for well over a decade and was a visitor to the region for two more decades prior. Monaco really is it's own unique world, very intriguing, not so easy to try and figure out from day one. I recall when this movie was going to be filmed in various locations in and around Monaco, there were those who were excited to be an extra in the movie, but otherwise, people didn't think much would come of it. With plenty in agreement with the Royal Families statement. As someone who has had the opportunity to meet each of the royals on numerous occasions, they are hardworking, devoted, kind, and have a great sense of humor, while being more down to earth than one would imagine. One book that people should read is, 'The Making of Monte-Carlo'. Absolutely fascinating on how Monaco really came to be. Keep up the great work! An avid follower from France.
I like Nicole Kidman a lot but i would've loved to see Rosamund Pike as Grace Kelly in a biopic movie. Of course with a better material to work with that truly uses her talent properly
I thought that, too! She more closely resembles Grace Kelly at that age (I'm sorry, but all I saw here was Nicole Kidman, with a very pulled face.. I just did not see Grace Kelly AT ALL.)
I'm kind of disappointed that this video didn't discuss where Grace of Monaco sits in the context of Nicole Kidman's career. He slump between 2007ish and 2018ish is super interesting. She went from Eyes Wide Shut, Dogville, and The Hours to The Golden Compass, Paddington (which is wonderful, she's hilariously miscast) and Grace of Monaco. She's back to doing interesting work that she seems to be authentically interested in, but that, "You're beautiful, but not 24, so we don't know what to do with you, and also you have too much Botox" period was a bizarre. Her filmography is a bit of a roller coaster, but man, that period...
She still did some good movies now and then in that period, even got a couple Oscar nominations out of them, I think she just had some issues accepting that she wasn't that actress that people would see regardless of the movie she was in and she never was honestly. She's an excellent awards season actress but she can't help herself from trying to go mainstream now and then.
The elephant in the room is that they didn't do much of anything to make Nicole Kidman look like Grace Kelly. They didn't even bother to make her truly blonde. Kidman looked more like Kelly in the Golden Compass.
I would LOVE a real biopic about her family. She was a glamorous movie star but her sister was the beloved golden child. How much psychological drama could be shown in an The world loves me but I'll still never be good enough.
IMO. I don’t think GK can successfully be imitated. The elements of her breeding and schooling and mastery of her body and humility over something simmering underneath. And. In the first place she was scrawny and shy as a child.
It’s crazy that you posted this today I’ve been having a mini obsession movie marathon with Nicole Kidman. I’ve watched To Die For, Malice and Birth these last few nights 👀👀
Rear Window she's great, High Society is just painful to watch. I thiink she could have gone on playing the same thing, but things were changing and she was stilted no matter how you parse it.
Rear Window was my favorite. And I enjoyed her in high society, I mean c'mon, it was a musical. Kinda like Pygmalion as opposed to my fair lady. Philadelphia story was a perfect movie. I actually thought Grace personified the 'fine statue' Tracy Lord.
I think Nicole's casting honestly did the film a disservice too. Grace was 32-33 in 1962, and had been married to Rainier for 6 ish years. Nicole was 46 at the time this movie was made. It looks very odd for an obviously very adult woman to be so "little girl lost" as the reviewer put it.
Can’t believe it’s that bad, I won’t lie I do think of all the actresses out there Kidman looks so well fit for the role physically and in the way she carries herself. I went from not knowing this existed, to seeing your thumbnail and going “oh that’s smart” and then reading the title and going “oh no”
I never though I would care about these long dead actresses but now I am actually obsessed with the fascinating stories of these wonderful woman and their work. This channel has become like a drug to me.
grace: omg hollywood is an unhappy place i must leave
grace: *joins a monarchy* lol
I am fairly convinced she desperately tried to impress her father her whole life
@@ramooooon Monaco is a principality, not a monarchy.
@@tessdurberville711principalities are monarchies
@jackyex they are no royal highnesses. Only Princess Caroline as she married a german royal highness
@@jackyex Barely.
The fact it went straight to Lifetime speaks volumes
That and also that monster, Harvey Weinstein had his hands on the cut of the movie
@@Erasureeraser I'm totally with blaming Weinstein for everything bad. He's truly the most perfect of villains.
No, the fact that I'm trying to DL it now and it's stalled across 3 different available versions (all of which seem to include Italian audio) speaks volumes. Even inveterate naval explorers don't want it.
@@taranullius9221 cursed media
I am pretty certain that’s how I saw the film
Oh! Now we need a video about Naomi Watts flop 'Diana' movie as well!
Omg yessss pleaseeee
YES, that one hurt my soul but weirdly comes to mind too often---the scene with the fast food? i think it is now woven into my french fry cravings! those producers owe me potato compensation, hehe.
literally was the FIRST thing that came to my mind when I saw this thumbnail! That movie was horrendous.
Or the Diana musical.
WHAT!? didnt know that existed. im fine with spencer. SO GOOD! only diana biopic i need.
13:33 "He became notorious in Hollywood for cutting up movies as he saw fit." If only that remained the only thing he remained notorious for in Hollywood.
I love it that Miyazaki subtly threatened to cut him with a katana if he tried to censor princess mononoke.😂😂
Indeed. Honestly, all this mess about sexual misconduct makes me crave for the days when the worst thing he was known for was cutting up films.
I’ll never forgive him for cutting Snowpiercer and not giving it a theatrical release.
@@motherplayerI’m still not convinced all the men like him aren’t still working in Hollywood tbh. Kind of like what happened with Prince Andrew, yes he’s obviously a predator, but they also let him take the fall for all the other high ranking people who participated. Weinstein couldn’t have been the only one.
When it was stated that Kidman met with him and convinced him of how important it was to her, and he was willing to renegotiate afterward? 🤨😒😒😒
I really do think "a feature-length Chanel commercial" is the best description of this film.
especially the last minute!
PLEASE turn this into a series. There are so many terrible biopics cover! 😭
That would be great!!!
Or just turmoiled productions that tried and failed to catch the Oscars' attention.
True
Great idea
There are 2 podcasts that hits both these marks
This Has Oscar Buzz - all about ‘Oscar Bait’ films that failed to reach that inner circles of awards contention
What Went Wrong - films with notoriously troubled productions that turned into cultural touchstones, cult classics and infamous bombs
Both are amazing series, well searched and sourced and highly engaging presenters
To write their story as a romance would be ridiculous. That was an arranged marriage from the start and they were miserable together. Monaco needed a pay infusion and something to spark more interest in tourism in order to avoid being absorbed into France. Aristotle Onassis, who had many investments in Monaco, suggested Prince Rainier marry a Hollywood actress. Many including Marilyn Monroe were considered and not deemed suitable. The "meeting" with Grace was also arranged. They apparently decided Grace would be suitable but she and her parents still had to pay millions in the form of an old school dowry to make the marriage happen. Rainier was cheating from the start and eventually Grace followed suit. To say there was anything romantic in that is just not true by all the documentaries I have seen and what I have read. It seems like the aim was to please Monaco and her living family rather than tell the honest story.
Precisely.. after WW2 Monaco was Broke,she had to give him 2million dollars upfront 😢..She died Broke
I disagree with the family. Her marriage wasn't the fairy tale they made it out to be!😒
And now one wonders about the marriage of Prince Albert and Princess Charlene. She never looks happy.
She also left Hollywood because she was being treated *already* like she was *older*; she said the studios were moving her morning calls up an hour earlier, for *makeup*.
@@kathleenmckenzie6261 Look up the argument they had before they got married, and him HAVING HER STOPPED FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY.
Someone should've told the Algerians they could've defeated the French with a Sailor Moon season finale "I believe in love" speech.
Huh ? Chawalaaa ?
In the movie Charles De Gaulle threatened Monaco to disappearing in the map but Grace gave that speech with those words to convince De Gaulle to stop his actions.
However at the same time we have the War in Algeria
LOL 😂
😂😂
I actually watched the film because of the number of post-Gone Girl comments on how Rosamund Pike would have been/would be a perfect Grace Kelly (compared to Kidman). Realised very quickly her casting was not the issue at all and I was a bit sad to see there were so many conversations on her acting and not the film's script/production.
Rosamund Pike is indeed better casting for this role.
She also would been just about the right age as well. 35 to be exact compared to Kidman who was 47 back in 2014.
@@AlexandreFilho1705 she does look so much like her that I think it would give her more freedom to break away from the "doll like" image people have of Grace Kelly - she was insanely funny in Saltburn too.
Pike would've been a far better choice for the role tbh. I also saw a picture of Grace and Audrey Hepburn meeting backstage at the Academy Awards, I would've loved to see Pike as Grace and Rooney Mara as Audrey to recreate that photo
10 years Rosamund would have made the perfect Grace Kelly for sure!
I don't understand why they chose Nicole for these bipoics. I wasn't at peace with her role in Being the Ricardos.....
"It's like someone here going off to marry prince Harry" 😂 she was right on the money
Although there it wasn’t a huge movie star and Oscar winner
@@sarasamaletdin4574 True, but that also isn't what Nicole said. Only about it being someone from Hollywood.
It was more like someone going off to marry Prince WILLIAM
Please!! I wish people would quit bashing Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan. If you look and listen beyond the lurid tabloid headlines, it seems there is much justification for their exit. As just one example, there is a Steve Davies interview of being a bodyguard for Meghan Markle before the wedding and another of a royal protection officer who testified to the truly awful threats against the Duke & Duchess before they left England. Don't forget, the Prince remembers how his mother had to cope with the constant press and then her eventual death. It's completely understandable that he is hypervigilant for the mental health and safety of his family. Give the guy a break, already.
@@kathleenmckenzie6261 I know people are exhausting with their Meghan uninvited hate and what comes off as jealousy.
even Mad Men did a more complex Grace Kelly with Betty than this film lol
Mad men did a lot of things better. Especially when they straight hired Robert Towne - those latter seasons went hard
Why with that "even" as if Mad Men isn't one of those shows that is widely celebrated.
@@kostajovanovic3711 it is. But you know how it goes - "its not that good" because "needs moar Kristin hendrix!!". Also it doesn't end as badly as GoT or as enigmatic as Sopranos.
@@kostajovanovic3711 i said even because they weren't exactly writing Grace Kelly, but a character that resembles her and has similar struggles (and is often compared to Grace
Coca Cola girl 🥰🥲
Kelly’s life as a princess was fairly depressing. She felt lonely and isolated (never learned French), she drank over her cheating husband and embarrassing children - - it was definitely not the future she expected.
Could you recommend a biography I could read? Reading about her husbands indiscretions (and you’ve intrigued me by mentioning ‘embarrassing’ offspring and the lack of French language skills) is what I want to read about! But the one Grace Kelly book I have read painted her life post-Hollywood as a fairytale, tragic ending aside.
@@ah7910
“Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess” by James Spada is very good : )
I thought everyone had to take French at the school she went to?
@@kristinazubic9669 If she did, it didn’t stick. (I myself had two years of French in high school and can remember perhaps five words.) I’m unsure as to why Kelly didn’t study the language once she moved abroad, but she didn’t… and this created a barrier in her day-to-day life.
So… you’ve literally never bothered to google the many videos of her delivering speeches, being interviewed extemporaneously, and conversing with ease in French? Why just lie with such confidence? It’s gross. Be better.
Grace Kelly's letter to Hitchcock is so sad omg
There really is so much material for flopped biopics for actresses.
Ironically two for Kidman alone there really is just the one good one she did
@@rubberduck524maybe even three?
I've never seen this movie, but its name will be forever etched into my brain on account of Mark Kermode describing it as "an ill-conceived meringue"
Speaking of - Mark gone soft these days. Bro been a plasma flamer back then.
it's free on youtube movies, or at least it was a couple years ago when i watched it. I thought it was okay. Surprised, though i had not heard of it when it came out tho.
@@volodymyrbilyk555 No he hasn't, he just did a rant about Twisters of all things
@@gleewhoseline198 Oh, so he's still an asshole, then
@@gleewhoseline198he's really weird (in a good way).
Like, he can't stop gushing about a tie in movie to an anime he's never seen (demon slayer), but disses not that bad franchises he's seen the previous movies of😂😂
I wrote a book about Grace Kelly and I feel she is incredibly elusive. I think it would be a real challenge to make a biopic about her. One thing I felt the whole time I read about her life in Monoco was how isolating it was for her. I think the cultural differences, the fact that she was this untouchable status and the fact that she lost out on ever acting again combined to make her lonely. Her kids were never out of the tabloids while she was alive. That served to isolate her even further, I think.
Ooh really? What’s the book called that you wrote?
The Prince exploited her financially,She died practically broke.She had to pay him 2,000,000$ up front.. about 50 million in today's money.😢 Buyers remorse 😢
@@KatrSayet What exactly was she even supposed to be getting out of this marriage in the first place?
It was never published was it 😂
@@KatrSayetshe wasn’t broke.
This is maybe the most "oh right, that movie" to ever have been made.
I remember the Grimaldi family coming out to complain and at the time I didn't think much of it, families complain about biopics all the time
If anything when the family does like it sometimes it's too bias.
this was so made for TV circa 1980
Ouch!
Funny, Cheryl Ladd starred an 80s TV movie as Grace.
I remember seeing this movie. I think we must insist for any potential future audience: the main conflict of the movie is indeed "will Grace Kelly manage to maintain this ridiculous little country's status as a tax heaven?"
"Colonialism is so last century" Someone get SuperYaki on the phne we have a new t-shirt idea!
Maybe it sounds better in French?
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nah
@@Princess_Weekes yes it's last century! Because Zionism dominates this one! Since 9/11!
Princess Weekes has entered the chat! 💓
Tell that to China.
We, latinos, disagree. Ask the usa why
Dahan must've been over the moon when Weinstein eventually sank spectacularly a few years later.
Him and just about everyone else it seems. Even before Metoo, the reputation he had made him sound that guy Paul Giamatti played in Big Fat Liar (except not funny obviously), where everyone actively hated him but put up with him to keep their jobs.
Tbh…I just don’t think Grace Kelly HERSELF is an interesting film subject.
A lot of biopics seem to not be able to distance the creative ingenuity and/or thought provoking commentary found in the work of historical icons (be it their music, acting, performing, governing etc) and the ascension/narratives that can be constructed from their life stories.
You can be part of a groundbreaking, revolutionary shift in the culture…and still have a journey that is not particularly novel, insightful or that’s simply kind of a cliché.
Grace Kelly, Elvis, Whitney Houston…their stories are not straight and narrow roads without a few potholes but they’re not something that’s pressing or unfamiliar to film audiences today.
Agreed. Most successful biopics have a main character who has long episodes of tragedy. The death of Grace Kelly was tragic but sudden. Otherwise her life was a string of positive achievements; Raised by a wealthy family, an Oscar winning actress, a princess and the mother of three children who have done well.
I could see the angle of Grace Kelly to become a political figure as an interesting topic. Doing not a film of her life but a context of her in the Monegasque political sphere. But the script wasn't good or deep enough to push that angle
It's boring, to be honest.
@@jibrilleothis
@@bb1111116she literally was the stepping stone that crowned Irish American Catholics there place in political and society in WASP America paving the way for President JFK
There’s also the question of how much audiences in 2014 knew or cared about Grace Kelly. This reminds of when Paramount did promotion research for “Mommy Dearest” and found to their horror that only a small percentage of the movie-going public knew who Joan Crawford was.
I'm pretty sure it would actually be a lot of people. Not so much for her movies, as for her story as a proto-Diana of Wales. Look at how popular The Crown and the Diana movie with Kristen Stewart were.
@@estrellagarciazamora8721 the thing is there was a Diana movie being made around the same time that was similarly raked over the coals and was a huge flop.
Maybe so - I was just repeating the story UA executive Steven Bach tells in his book “Final Cut”.
I love this season of Feud: Dahan vs Weinstein
I love your phrase “the Cannes opener” which struck me homophonically and elicited laughter
I just wanted to say the articulate and respectful way you explained Grace's career and personal life was truly moving.
This made me realise how big actors like Kidman can be only a puppet in this film-making.
I saw this drop and could not contain the glee! BKR AND GRACE KELLY AND NICOLE KIDMAN!! Be still my beating heart!!
Your more than just some random UA-cam critic. Your content is well researched and thoughtful. Every time I watch one of your videos I feel like I am learning something.
I remember watching this movie when premiered. At the end, there's a big speech by Grace which is supposed to be about love and how it can avoid wars and whatnot. It's quite long and it's supposed to serve as the big acting gig of the movie. Well, let me tell you that, when it ended and the credits started rolling, I couldn't but think, "what the hell was about those last five minutes full of nothing?" Seriously, the speech is all common places, abhorrent and full of childish assumptions. God, I still remember it as some sort of angsty teen mandatory essay for classes.
Yeah, it was terrible!
Grace Kelly was more down to earth than she is credited for. The last word she would use I think, is 'fairy tale'.
Peace and love, waaa!
27:38 just an FYI: Grace Kelly wasn't a monarch, she was a royal. Monarch is the sovereign head of state. She was the wife of the monarch
I love Nicole but ....being 47 and cast to play someone like Grace of Monaco who was famous as a younger woman seems like a set up.
Recent years Kidman seems have forgotten how to play. I'm ok with her retiring from film industry and enjoying her private life.
@@iryna1722 I agree. She was a great actress in her younger years but seems to have really lost her touch from the late 2000s onwards.
Nicole is older than I am by almost a year. The roles she continues to try to play are too young for her. She's stuck in her young Mom era. Nicole schmoozing with Harvey Weinstein over this movie is gross in hindsight.
@@gnostic268 I'm a big fan of Nicole Kidman. I think that she's done diverse rolls like killing of a sacred deer, and Stoker... Big little lies as well with a highlight for her and season 1 particularly. But sometimes she makes bad decisions like playing Lucille Ball.
Nicole can play any age. She specifically asked her surgeon to make her look ageless.
I strongly recommend people read The Bridesmaids by Judy Balaban Quine and My Days With Princess Grace by Joan Dale (put together posthumously by her daughter Grace Dale) if they want to learn more about Grace as a person; two books from close friends who knew her for decades.
This is the kind of comment I was looking for, thank you
I'm hit by a great vid on Jessica Chastain in Eyes of Tammy Faye for the rare time an Oscar bait passion project paid off with a win.
I was glad she won that year even if I think Molly's Game was her best performance
I've had the Blu-ray on my shelf for close to ten years, but I've never seen it. Glad to know I didn't waste my time.
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One of my favourite parenthetical revealing comments from Orson Welles in "My Lunches with Orson" was him talking about how sexually free Grace Kelly was despite being a Catholic girl (or, perhaps, BECAUSE of it) from Philadelphia.
Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention "The Swan" basically unintentionally prefiguring how Kelly's life would end up -- and Alec Guinness in that film basically becoming his character and falling in love with Grace Kelly while making it while knowing the whole time he never even had a chance at that.
Yes, a very poignant ending to "The Swan."
Are you? Seems more like an attempt at a flex.
@@tananario No; it's just something people didn't know.
I would like a video about Diana's interpratations in The Crown and Diana. I know this channel rarely talks about TV, but would be interesting the comparison
I can't see any film doing a better job than the Crown which had amazing production values. Of course, no one can speak to what happened behind closed doors, I thought the dynamics and acting of the actor and actress who played Charles and Diana was outstanding in the Crown. Aside from Elizabeth Debicki maybe being to tall, I thought she absolutely nailed the appearance and mannerisms.
oh this is going to be a BKR classic I just feel it
You making a Grace Kelly video while I'm preparing a sewing project based on a photo of Young Grace is impeccable timing
A 🇨🇦 Canadian, I had never heard of this movie - and I knew NOTHING of her tragically final shot at being in a Hitchcock film. As usual, your work is splendidly prepared and narrated.
I'm trying not to hear "Grace Kelly, one of the most famous actors of hers (generation)" as a read against your more glowing recognition of Nicole (I agree btw). 😅 Well played.
Did she lie tho 😂😂😂👏🏻
@@CarlDillynson Truth hurts 😆
Famous enough for her to be remembered seventy years after her very brief career.
@@mauricioduron3193 Grace Kelly is remembered for her life (Hollywood, royalty, tragic death at a young age), if she just made her handful of movies and then vanished, she would be as remembered as well as many of the other actresses of her era. Ask a general 20 year old who Luise Rainer is, and see what they say.
It's so good to see one of your videos! I've had a rather demanding time this past year and didn't stay current with many of my favorite UA-camrs.
I'm always impressed by your intelligence, insight and humor.
Thank you for being out there and doing all this wonderful work!
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I love your ability to time your videos with current events: the Olympics are happening in Paris right now.
And of course, Monaco is a stones throw from France.
ok no joke I was editing this video while watching the Olympics and suddenly Prince Albert was on screen b/c he was there watching a game. It felt so spooky in the moment lollol. Ofc he was an Olympian, as were Grace's father and brother!!
@@bkrewind It's kismet.
@@bkrewind I just recently read the story of Grace's father Jack beating in the Olympics somebody who'd won the rowing race that he himself had been banned from for not being a "gentlemen".
The shot of the newspaper articles coming into frame and overlapping looked SO BAD. I'm pretty sure I could have created a better edit in Powerpoint when I was in middle school in 2005.
Imma assume you that you said that with all the love and respect to BKR for the awesome video.
@@kathrynstemler6331I think they were referring to this particular shot from the movie at 45:01 and not BKR's editing
@@daalimbe Correct!
girl SAME . i can't believe that came out in the 2010s cause it felt like a gimmicky edit in those old OLD movies like wtf
I notice a trend with celebrity biopics and interests in celebrities of the golden age of Hollywood and it's the same reason Grace bombed.
We love the stars with messy lives -,abuse, addiction, mental health issues, isolation and misery -and hide it behind of veneer of glamour and elegance.
Grace just didn't have that messy life like Garland, Monroe, and Crawford had.
Grace's life had too much Grace for the gritty telenovela that we want in celebrity biography.
According to some of the comments though, Grace absolutely had some of those issues, they just didn't make the tabloids the way the others did.
I have absolutely no memory of this movie. I do remember "Being the Ricardo's".
I wish I could forget Being The Ricardo’s!
'Being the Ricardo's' was subpar at best.
Nicole’s plastic surgery completely disturbed me in that movie. She had zero resemblance to Lucy, her mannerisms, speech - nothing.
Of course you don't have any memory of this movie. It went straight to the Lifetime Channel and Harvey Weinstein ruined it 🤷
Which is also a huge turd
So many thoughts, but the "so wooden" it's a "fire risk" really captures it in a nutshell.
The sad thing is that this part of GK's life wasn't that interesting. When her daughters were harem scarem as eurotrash driving her crazy, it was much more tumultuous.
And as beautiful as GK was, she really wasn't a great actress, she possessed charm and elegance, but she had range from A to B.
For me Kelly is one of the least interesting people in Hollywood. A very pretty face and in a few great movies, but nothing to intrigue or captivate in the way of Dietrich, Davis, Crawford, Garbo, Leigh, Gardener, Taylor. Loren .... nothing at all .. just this childish fantasy tale of marrying a boring old Prince in a boring old tax exile strip of land who didn't want her to do anything interesting with herself, so she didn't. Now, the pre-Monaco Kelly who by all accounts wasn't a demure virgin and put it about with some glee, might at least make a fun tale, but that's not the image the fifties or the cult of Kelly wants to know about. Anyway, boring. She was basically boring at her most famous.
@@littleblackpistol agreed. And she didn’t have the shelf life of even someone like Audrey Hepburn’s elegance, but AH was a much better actress.
@@paillette2010 and Audrey Hepburn childhood faced the harsh times of nazi occupied Netherlands. Or when she becomes UN activist (Being a pioneer back then). Not just as an actress, but as a person Audrey Hepburn has more interesting aspects in her life.
And not just her, all of the other actresses mentioned in the prior list had those aspects of life which made more compelling to bring biopics (Sophia Loren also faced WWII childhood in Italy and then her love affair with Carlo Ponti which made mad the Catholic Church and need to be married overseas, Marlene Dietrich work within the troops and her anti-Nazi commitment, Leigh's personal issues and her stage work, Garbo and Davis feuds and independence over the Hollywood executives...)
Seriously: how well did GK fare in 'The Swan'?
Was she less Newport than K. Hepburn in 'High Society'?
Shocking casting decision to begin with. Nicole Kidman was simply far too old to portray Grace Kelly at that point. 47 years too old to be exact. She would have been an excellent choice back in the 90's and early-mid 2000's when she was a lot closer to Grace Kelly's age. The role should have went to other Aussie counter-part Margot Robbie who was at the time and still is roughly about the right age to portray such a significant figure in Hollywood history.
The same with Nicole trying to play Lucille Ball, I couldn’t get past her plastic surgery. Lucy was beautiful and Nicole looked weird.
I understand there are really intense pressures on actresses to look very young but the work Nicole Kidman has had to her face gives me weird uncanny valley vibes to the point I don’t watch anything she is in because I just find it disturbing.
Yeah, Nicole’s face just looks weird now. But I don’t think Margot Robbie would be my choice and I don’t think she was on anyone’s radar in 2014 and Grace Kelly was far more regal and graceful than either Nicole or Margot. Someone with that quiet luminosity. You need someone who really mixes elegance and vulnerability. I feel Amy Adams would have been my pick for 2014. Maybe now, Elizabeth Olsen even though she doesn’t really look like Grace Kelly she could carry off that feeling. Or Brie Larson.
@@songindarknessQuite a few people in the comments have mentioned Rosamund Pike who was 35 at the time. So pretty much just about the right age and she had the natural elegance and grace (no pun intended)to pull off that role.
Beyond age issues she was never going to carry off this role, it’s just so different to her acting style. Nicole has none of the warmth and liveliness Grace had in her personal life.
Kidman's "biggest flop" is a high bar when you have movies like Stepford Wives and Bewitched in contention. At least she doesn't have a Cutthroat Island in her filmography.
I loved stepford wives. Bewitched was forgettable
I actually have a special place in my heart for Bewitched, but it's definitely coloured by fact that I really liked the sitcom.@@somethingclever8916
@@somethingclever8916 Stepford Wives was a travesty if you know the original material
Not to mention she was in a Batman movie once. And in Happy Feet. Although I don’t remember if that one particular Batman movie was successful or not back in the day.
Her Batman movie was BO hit and hasn't the reputation of the Clooney one. It was bad but in the type of bad campy without reaching infamous.
Happy Feet was actually a nice rewieved film
I love that this video also goes into the details of Grace's career and her undeniable presence as an actress. It's almost heartbreaking to think about all the wonderful performances she still had in her and that never got to see but I suppose her becoming a real Princess truly cemented her legendary reputation
You know, this was one of those movies that seemed to disappear without much explanation and I always wondered exactly why. As you usual, you always pick the best stories to highlight.
BABE WAKE UP BE KIND REWIND POSTED AND ITS ABOUT GRACE KELLY
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these “babe wake up” comments are so cringey
@@elisadjones 💯
@@elisadjonesno one asked
@@elisadjones You wouldn't make it on stan twitter lol
sorry but the worst biopic will forever be BLONDE
Amen
That isn't a bio pic. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@Ariana-wv4pf Yes, I agree. The writer must have been a fan of author, Norman Mailer. Monroe wouldn't agree to a meeting with him (he was obsessed with her) and so he spent his life writing what he imagined she lived like and how she thought and behaved. Very creepy and deeply voyeuristic..
@@jorvikaengelskvinna7157 it's literally after a book with same title written by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalised take on the life of MM. Oates said the novel is a work of fiction loosely based on MM life.
And the movie follows the book so it can't be a biopic. While Blonde takes inspiration from real events, figures, and long-held rumors from the actor's life as a jumping point to imagine what Monroe may have thought and felt, the film is by no means a biopic. Like Oates' book, it's a definite work of fiction, dabbling in the experimental and including fantastical elements.
Maybe that's why people didn't like it.
@@Ariana-wv4pf I don't believe I suggested it was a biopic. I was aware it was written by Oates as a fictionalised version of Monroe's life, but I thought she may have been inspired by Mailer.
I think this was another role wasted on Nicole Kidman. I feel she never fully disappears into a part nor does she get under the skin of a character. It's always the same aspirate voice quality in every role. It wasn't enough that she slightly resembles Grace Kelly. I have seen plenty of movies that were totally average but elevated by their lead performer, and this just wasn't one of them.
She did a good job in The Others, but all of the performances were amazing in that one.
There are many roles Kidman has completely disappeared into the character - Birth, Rabbit Hole, Dogville, The Others, Dead Calm, Big Little Lies, The Hours, to name a few
@@hill4252 I do feel like Rabbit Hole doesn't get talked about enough
@@hill4252 I still maintain that she usually falls into the whispery voice with the inability to adapt to an accent outside of her own and it just fully takes me out of the performance. I do agree that her performance in Dogville is great, though.
Ugh I was literally rewatching some of your videos and I had a feeling we were getting something soon and I was right!
Not surprisingly, I had NO IDEA Nicole Kidman made this movie. I believe Cheryl Ladd also played Grace Kelly in a TV Movie biopic for ABC TV. Lifetime Network was also where Lindsay Lohan played Elizabeth Taylor in the infamous "Liz & Dick" biopic.
Sounds like neither of the cuts of the movie were good or willing to admit their flaws (nor particularly concerned with true history). It's a pretty common problem for people who's egos outpace their artistic abilities or goals. It sucks, because in most cases, history is far more interesting, surprising and memorable than any generic award bait movie trying to turn real, complex people into marketable barbie dolls
One thing i love about your stuff ('Stuff?' Sorry, Miranda) is that I can watch your analyses of films I haven't seen without feeling like the plot has been spoiled. I wonder whether you'd be at all interested in comparing and contrasting 'Diana' (very ordinary) and 'Spencer' (really interesting). I think biopics of women would be a subject you could really sink your teeth into.
Nicole Kidman's face is just too intense to be Grace Kelly. There's none of the softness.
Agreed
yep! Charlize Theron or even Naomi Watts would have been much closer.
@@bruh_hahaha I think Rosamund Pike or Margot Robbie are more "Grace Kelly-like". Margot was probably too young at the time but Rosamund would have been great IMO.
I like Nicole but she was just wrong for this part.
Idk, in The Others (2001) she was giving strong Grace Kelly vibes, intense face and all
Great actress, love her movies but simply not beautiful enough with the stressed chipmunk face.
Great video as always!!! "He's talking about James Bond" made me laugh out loud 😂😂😂
Love this channel. It's the best film commentary channel on YT, very intelligent.
I do remember that final speech being uncomfortable, like, I was expecting something to happen but never did
Not me watching your older videos and a sudden upload. And about Grace Kelly. Luv luv luv 💞
Would love to see this exploration of more flashy biopics, flops or otherwise. great work, as always
@@MrCharliebush we need a Geena Davis, Demi Moore, and Melanie Griffith flops of the '90s deep dive.
Fabulous, insightful video as always but the stock "children cheering SFX" at 21:56 made me chuckle
Nicole Kidman looks nothing like Grace Kelly. I know some people think Margot Robbie looks like her but can we please have an American actress play Grace since she was a Pennsylvania girl at heart.
Easier to have no more movies made about her, why whallow in the biopic mediocrity?
I'm not usually literal when it comes to casting (I think acting, hair and make-up can bridge an awful lot of differences), but I could not get past Nicole Kidman's height (5'11 to Grace's 5'7), as for many of us, our enduring image of Grace is of a more delicate (not just in height but in bone structure) individual. And, yes, I think it could be quite interesting to have an American actress play the role.
I would've liked Rosamund Pike as Grace Kelly, that might work but i guess she can't do it anymore as she's getting older
I believe Kidman was born in ‘Merica.
@@kathrynstemler6331 stop trolling. she’s Australian.
I would love a video comparison of Lohan's Elizabeth Taylor VS Bonham-Carter's Elizabeth Taylor. Both movies received different hype back for different reasons but with an expected result at the end.
Her portaying Lucille Ball was a much worse choice.
The Others is the only good movie Nicole has done
Agreed. Why does she keep getting cast in these inappropriate roles. She looks and acts nothing like grace kelly and even LESS like Lucille Ball! 🤦♀️
Okay but why don’t we have those same protections for writers and directors in the US?
It's Hollywood baby. I don't see studios giving up any power that they have
@@somethingclever8916 When you’re right you’re right 👀
Grace Kelly was very far from sexless. I remember a comment from one of her contemporaries that the character she played that was closest to "the real Grace" was Linda Nordley in Mogambo. But she was also hard to know deeply.
Heh. Ironically, after watching this, I'm wondering if Sophia Coppola would be a better director for a Grace Kelly biopic.
Ms BeKindRewind... you are extraordinary. thanks
What a strange train wreck, I feel sorry for the actors attached to this, they have very little control over what the final product of their work is, and yet they still have to promote it in public so much.
Well said
I love this movie, but I always thought this was like a cable movie just like the one that's about Kate and William love story but with more budget because of the cast OMG I had no idea of all the distribution and Cannes mess. What a great video.
didn't this came out along with naomi watts doing a diana biopic, it felt like they wanted a best friends to oscar contenders narrative
Technically first Diana was released and Naomi Watts was Razzie nominee, but yeah, the pundits early on where pushing that narrative.
My grade ten math teacher called awkward, nerdy, meh-at-math me Grace Kelly the whole semester. It took me a while to want to see Grace Kelly in a movie.
What does that even mean???! That’s weird. Sorry that happened. (Not that being compared to Grace Kelly would be bad just not… I dunno - relevant to grade 10 math. Some teachers are wankers)
Unsure of how old you are but if you wore a ponytail a lot in school the teacher may have been referring to the MadTV sketch in which a guy is hitting on gals in the movie theater and calls out “Grace Kelly, Grace Kelly ya know you classy and fine” to the girl in the ponytail. Not saying your teacher hit on you (I hope not) but the way the character said Grace Kelly was funny and got stuck in a lot of people’s head.
@@kathrynstemler6331 He was just riffing on my last name.
@@rubberduck524 Pixie cut. He was just riffing on my last name.
@@kathrynstemler6331they wanted to brag about being compared to Grace Kelly
Good timing. I was just thinking of Grace 🥰
31:59 I read somewhere years ago that the prince was pushed by his advisors to marry an American Hollywood actress wife to produce a male heir and increase tourism and that Marilyn Monroe was first on the list but struck off for being too sensual. Grace was another suggestion. This is why the marriage was so fast probably, it was arranged and not organic.
This is very well done.
As a Canadian who has lived in the Cote d'Azur for well over a decade and was a visitor to the region for two more decades prior. Monaco really is it's own unique world, very intriguing, not so easy to try and figure out from day one.
I recall when this movie was going to be filmed in various locations in and around Monaco, there were those who were excited to be an extra in the movie, but otherwise, people didn't think much would come of it. With plenty in agreement with the Royal Families statement.
As someone who has had the opportunity to meet each of the royals on numerous occasions, they are hardworking, devoted, kind, and have a great sense of humor, while being more down to earth than one would imagine.
One book that people should read is, 'The Making of Monte-Carlo'. Absolutely fascinating on how Monaco really came to be.
Keep up the great work! An avid follower from France.
I like Nicole Kidman a lot but i would've loved to see Rosamund Pike as Grace Kelly in a biopic movie. Of course with a better material to work with that truly uses her talent properly
I thought that, too! She more closely resembles Grace Kelly at that age (I'm sorry, but all I saw here was Nicole Kidman, with a very pulled face.. I just did not see Grace Kelly AT ALL.)
I'm kind of disappointed that this video didn't discuss where Grace of Monaco sits in the context of Nicole Kidman's career. He slump between 2007ish and 2018ish is super interesting. She went from Eyes Wide Shut, Dogville, and The Hours to The Golden Compass, Paddington (which is wonderful, she's hilariously miscast) and Grace of Monaco. She's back to doing interesting work that she seems to be authentically interested in, but that, "You're beautiful, but not 24, so we don't know what to do with you, and also you have too much Botox" period was a bizarre. Her filmography is a bit of a roller coaster, but man, that period...
You forgot one of her best. Cold Mountain.
She still did some good movies now and then in that period, even got a couple Oscar nominations out of them, I think she just had some issues accepting that she wasn't that actress that people would see regardless of the movie she was in and she never was honestly. She's an excellent awards season actress but she can't help herself from trying to go mainstream now and then.
The elephant in the room is that they didn't do much of anything to make Nicole Kidman look like Grace Kelly.
They didn't even bother to make her truly blonde. Kidman looked more like Kelly in the Golden Compass.
Always giving us what we didn’t know we needed.
I would LOVE a real biopic about her family. She was a glamorous movie star but her sister was the beloved golden child. How much psychological drama could be shown in an The world loves me but I'll still never be good enough.
Did Nicole Kidman predict Meghan Markel and Prince Harry?! 😳
No. MM was never a star. No one even knew her name until she tricked Harry into marriage
Close! I dont think Meg was a part of “Hollywood” technically. But pretty funny prediction.
Yet another FANTASTIC video!! THANK YOU for shedding light on the bts for this one.
wait... is "famous actresses starring in infamous flops" the new BK series to watch? cuz that is exciting to see!
IMO. I don’t think GK can successfully be imitated. The elements of her breeding and schooling and mastery of her body and humility over something simmering underneath. And. In the first place she was scrawny and shy as a child.
Amazing work, as usual!
It’s crazy that you posted this today I’ve been having a mini obsession movie marathon with Nicole Kidman. I’ve watched To Die For, Malice and Birth these last few nights 👀👀
Rear Window she's great, High Society is just painful to watch.
I thiink she could have gone on playing the same thing, but things were changing and she was stilted no matter how you parse it.
@@bluefire9147 and made to run to the hospital barefoot.
Rear Window was my favorite. And I enjoyed her in high society, I mean c'mon, it was a musical. Kinda like Pygmalion as opposed to my fair lady. Philadelphia story was a perfect movie. I actually thought Grace personified the 'fine statue' Tracy Lord.
@@bluerose_11 she probably was closer to Tracy Lord than KH, but C.K. Dexter-Haven will always be perfected as Cary Grant
@@paillette2010 oh I agree 😍!!
Jimmy Stewart elevated his role/character of Mike sky high as well. Perfectly acted movie by everyone even the support.
I think Nicole's casting honestly did the film a disservice too. Grace was 32-33 in 1962, and had been married to Rainier for 6 ish years. Nicole was 46 at the time this movie was made. It looks very odd for an obviously very adult woman to be so "little girl lost" as the reviewer put it.
Can’t believe it’s that bad, I won’t lie I do think of all the actresses out there Kidman looks so well fit for the role physically and in the way she carries herself. I went from not knowing this existed, to seeing your thumbnail and going “oh that’s smart” and then reading the title and going “oh no”
It's not that bad. I quite enjoyed it.
My mother knew Grace Kelly, as my grandfather and Grace's father Jack Kelly did business together from time to time.
43:20 this moment awakened a feeling of cringe in me I didn’t think possible, fantastic job also how could you
I never though I would care about these long dead actresses but now I am actually obsessed with the fascinating stories of these wonderful woman and their work. This channel has become like a drug to me.
Nicole too old to portray Grace. Grace retired at 26 and Nicole well into her 40s when film made. Aside from that, the film is a crashing bore.
omg I just refreshed my feed and here you are! I cannot wait to watch this
I remember watching this twice at home when I was little and paid no idea what plot was.