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Colin Morgan, The Happy Prince

There will be a live stream of the photo-call and the press conference for The Happy Prince at the Berlinale :

Samstag, 17. Februar

Berlinale Special Gala The Happy Prince von Rupert Everett 18:45 Photo-Call 18:55 Pressekonferenz

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Colin Morgan, The Happy Prince

I knew it ! But could not put the finger on it.

Bosie's look in The Happy Prince has nothing to do with Lestat in the much Hollywood film Interview With A Vampyr, but with the more refined and decadent Morte A Venizia of the genius Luchino Visconti.

And watch the beautiful Morte A Venizia if you haven't done it yet.

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St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009)

St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold is comprised of an unruly band of teenage girls, their Head Mistress Camilla Fritton, her former lover Geoffrey Thwaites (played by Colin Firth), and villain Sir Piers Pomfrey.

 As the story opens, the girls have been bribed by a mysterious caller asking them to find an old ring. They turn to their Head Mistress Miss Fritton for answers. She reveals that the ring is part of two that create a map leading to the treasure of Miss Fritton’s own ancestor the Pirate Fritton.

The first ring is then stolen by the caller identified as Sir Piers Pomfrey an oppressor of woman. Determined the girls decide to find the second ring. Another ancestor, the Reverend Fritton, hid the ring and left clues that lead the girls to the Reverends grave. With little choice, the girls dig up his body. Though the clue is deteriorated with rot; Annabelle is suddenly possessed by the good Reverend himself. The girls take this opportunity to ask where the ring is.

With the ring, they pursue Sir Pomfrey. This leads them to Geoffrey Thwaites. He reveals that Sir Pomfrey is a member of a secret society called AD1 and goes undercover to a meeting where he gains Sir Pomfrey’s trust and steals the ring.

Both rings create a map that leads to the legendary Globe Theater. Here, they find [G1] not gold but something more valuable. The Pirate Fritton was actually famed playwright William Shakespeare, and a woman. The adventure is not over just yet as Sir Pomfrey arrives to steal the proof and make off with it down the river Thames. The group fight back by taking the pirate’s ship on pursuit. Once close enough Miss. Fritton swings down and snatches the play out of Pomfrey’s hands.

Colin Firth’s Role

Colin Firth masters the art of comedic realism in his role as Geoffrey Thwaites the former lover of headmistress Miss. Fritton and the villain from the first St. Trinian’s movie. Geoffrey has lost his position as Minister of Education and become a drunken lovesick waste since the girls’ victory over him. He is given a chance to redeem himself by helping thwart Sir Pomfrey. Firth shows his acting prowess during his undercover scene when Geoffrey must enter into a raucous rant about woman as the girls and his love Miss. Fritton watch on. The rant is all in jest; he is only trying to gain the trust of the woman hating Sir Pomfrey. He succeeds in gaining Pomfrey’s trust and obtains the ring. He then has an opportunity to regain the admiration of Miss. Fritton while they act out Romeo and Juliet. In the end, the film leaves open the option for Geoffrey Thwaites to return in the Third movie.

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St Trinian's (2007)

The film is the latest in a line of six films, starting in the 1950s, focusing on the dysfunctional girls’ school of St Trinian’s and the adventures (or misadventures) of the students and teachers in the institution. This film departs from its predecessors by being a reboot of the entire series instead of a sequel, like the others were.

Annabelle Fritton is admitted to St Trinian’s, where she initially finds herself out of her depth. She is led around by an older girl who tells her about all the cliques, including the Emos, Geeks and ‘Posh Tottys’. She is bullied by the other girls in her dorm, with a particular prank resulting in her being covered in feathers. Drafted into the school hockey team after her father refuses to take her home and she throws a huge tantrum, hitting her phone across the lobby with a stick and destroying a marble bust, Annabelle soon realises that this school is void of any normalcy.

The girls soon strike a deal with a shady man named Flash Harry to brew vodka in the school lab, but this is thwarted when the Education Minister (played by Colin Firth) pays them a visit. His daughter Verity used to bully Annabelle back in her old school, which also happens to be the rival school of St Trinian’s. He discovers various horrifying breaches of the law in the school, for example the homemade vodka, which is terribly strong and knocks him out. He vows to shut down the school, and is thrown into a fountain.

 Unfortunately, the school has other problems, and the bank pays a visit to tell them that they will be shut down if they do not pay their debts. Annabelle’s father Carnaby reveals that he never liked her, and tries to sell off the school. Outraged, the girls decide to steal a famous painting to raise the money. They make Flash Harry stand in as a fake art dealer, dupe Carnaby into buying a fake painting, then steal the real one and return it to the authorities for a further monetary reward. The school is saved and the girls continue studying there, with Annabelle now a ‘true St Trinian’s girl’ after the girls give her a gothic makeover.

Colin Firth’s Role:

Colin Firth plays the Education Minister, Geoffrey Thwaites whose daughter is studying at Cheltenham, a posh girls’ school who is the rival of St Trinian’s. His character is revealed to have had a romantic relationship previously with the headmistress of St Trinian’s, who is a transvestite. He is knocked out by the vodka that the girls made after seeing one of them trapped in a tank of formaldehyde in the science labs, and later one of the Posh Tottys throw him into a fountain.

 Firth plays the nasty character of Mr Thwaites very well, and though the movie was criticised for being overly camp and ‘a zoo’, Firth was staunch in his performance as a dedicated father and archetypal boarding school villain, and praised by many viewers for his comedic part alongside Russell Brand, who played the duplicitous dealer, Flash Harry.