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A Mads poll with a difference!

A poll of Mads Mikkelsen movies where the selection is based on range of factors, including but not limited to: genre, writer/director, country of release, date of release and 🎉vibes 🎉

Some of the movies may fit in more than one category, so vibes have mostly informed those decisions.

Round One:

Choose your fave!

Time for flouncy shirts and tight britches, bitches!

Historical & Heroics

Michael Kohlhaas - Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

Dr. Johann Struensee - A Royal Affair (2012)

Captain Ludvig Kahlen - The Promised Land (2023)

Jørgen Haagen Schmith/Citronen - Flammen & Citronen (2008)

Igor Stravinsky - Coco & Igor (2009)

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is a 2013 French-German historical drama loosely based on the 16th century Hans Kohlhase. Mads plays Michael Kohlhaas a horse dealer who gets into a feud with a local baron, leading to an ill-fated revolt.

A Royal Affair is a 2012 Danish historical drama and romance set in the 18th century court of King Christian VII of Denmark. Mads plays Dr Johann Struensee, the mentally ill King's ill-fated physician who has an affair with the King's wife.

Bastarden (The Promised Land) is a 2023 Danish-German-Swedish historical drama set in 1755. Mads plays Kahlen, an impoverished Danish officer who obtains permission to build property on barren land but runs into trouble with a local magistrate.

Flammen & Citronen (Flame & Citron) is a 2008 Danish historical drama set after the Nazi invasion of Denmark. Mads plays Jørgen Haagen Schmith, a member of the Danish resistance.

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a 2009 French historical romantic drama. Based on a 2002 fictional novel, the plot follows the rumoured ill-fated love affair between French fashion designer Coco Chanel and Russian composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky - played by Mads.

Lots of ill fates to choose from!

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I really like the movie The Exception

OK! FIRST QUESTION IS WHY? and i dont mean that in a condescending way, i mean what aspects of the film did you enjoy the most?

was it because of the way it kinda forced you to sympathize for a character that was a nazi? if so, i’d suggest All’s Quiet on the Western Front (1930). tho it’s abt WWI, it tells the story of German soldiers and really it really pulls at your heart strings.I’d also suggest you look into the work of Leni Riefenstahl who made propaganda for the third reich, and tho she has said that she despises nazi ideas, she never completely disowned the work she made, just the ideas she was made to represent.

ooor were you into the whole illicit love affair of Brandt and Mieke? if so i’d recommend the film Coco & Igor (2009)!! it’s based on the (actual) affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky at the time that he, his wife and kids lived in her chateau after being exiled from Russia. it’s so fucking steamy and it’s got this deliciously slow place. from the opening titles with the floating patterns to the music and the camera work, the whole thing makes me feel like im hypnotized. I love it deffo one of my other favorite films.i’d also bring up The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover (1989). I saw this for the first time a little while ago and I could not stop thinking about it. A fun fact is while watching it I sent my uncle a msg saying basically i was really into it cus it felt like watching an opera (which i love..) and he responded saying basically ‘you’re not far off, i’m friends with the director and he’s most well known for working on operas’ and i was like fuck yeah! but seriously it’s this great film abt a woman falling in love with a man across the dinning room of her husband’s resturant and like ugh the colors like divide everything so well, and the way the camera just pans from right to left as the drama happens makes it really feel like you’re watching a stage show.

ooooooor did you just like it cus you got to see Jai Courtney naked? i can’t blame you on that one, and if so you should prolly check out Terminator Genesys (2015) there’s loads of shots of him without a shirt in that…

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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)

So I guess spring technically began yesterday, though the weather isn’t behaving accordingly in large swaths of the US and elsewhere. All the same, the days are lengthening and temperatures are kinda-sorta rising. There’s only one true way to welcome in the Vernal Equinox, and that’s with Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring. What’s its cinematic equivalent? Well, certainly not this thoroughly meh piece of film, but it covers the source material enough that I suppose we’ll just roll with it.

Coco & Igor presents one of the least torrid of supposedly torrid love affairs. Were Mikkelsen and Mouglalis supposed to have chemistry? They fucked often enough, but for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why. After a destitute Stravinsky moves into Chanel’s villa with his wife and children, he finds himself drawn to the French style icon. His Rite becomes a symbol of sexual awakening, frustration, and repression as tensions grow between himself, his host, and his spouse. Or something approximating tension. Honestly, if you want to do yourself a service, watch the first quarter hour or so for a more or less faithful depiction of the frisson and frustration that can come from a live performance, and then turn the movie off. Find some Chanel No. 5 and spray it all over yourself while you listen to a good recording of Le Sacre and call it good.

THE RULES

SIP

Any fragment of the Rite score is performed or featured in the score (outside the premiere performance, of course).

A mirror appears onscreen

Igor stares creepily.

Swing sets are depicted or mentioned.

Catcall at the premiere.

Igor puts on or takes off his spectacles.

A new crazy wallpaper pattern appears.

BIG DRINK

The main titles become too trippy to handle.

Coco smells a new perfume prototype.