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      • Pattinson's The King performance was actually somewhat divisive, with some audiences taking issue with his campy approach to the character and over-the-top French accent. While the critical response to the movie may have been generally favorable, historians did take issue with many aspects of The King.
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  1. Oct 14, 2019 · Photo: Netflix/Netflix. Light spoilers for The King — including the fate of Robert Pattinson’s character — below. Casting Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson in a movie — the...

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  2. Oct 30, 2019 · Netflix. Yet, even modern cinema's most beloved known-weirdo sometimes wonders if he's gone too far. “I couldn’t quite tell, is this ridiculous ?” Pattinson recalled to The New York Times of...

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    • His French Accent Is On-Point
    • He's Not as Menacing as He First Seems
    • He Commands Presence Despite only Appearing Halfway Through The Movie
    • He's The only Comedic Relief
    • Pattinson Is An Outstanding Actor

    One of the biggest ironies about The King lies in its actors. Pattinson is an English household name portraying a French character, while Chalamet is French but plays an Englishman. The former is known for his thorough dialect work; he’s shown he’s capable of sounding completely different, based on a film’s particular setting and era, from his Appa...

    The Dauphin is first brought into the plot of The King indirectly. He isn’t visible on-screen when he's first introduced; at Henry V’s coronation, viewers come to know of his existence in the form of a gift sent to insult him. The Dauphin’s presence remains a constant threat at the back of the viewer’s mind, someone who is seemingly capable of havi...

    Pattinson doesn’t show up in The King until it’s halfway through its runtime. Viewers only know of his existence because he sends a coronation gift to Henry V, but he doesn’t make his grand appearance until Henry arrives in France and is ready for war. The Dauphin has very few scenes of his own. But because Pattinson turned him into a flamboyant an...

    When one thinks of war films and period dramas, they tend to be in the vein of grand epics like Gladiator, or the original 1989 Henry V, which washelmed by Kenneth Branagh, the director of Thor and Belfast. These movies are typically serious and full of dramatic action and crisis to keep audiences on the edge of their seat and biting their nails ro...

    Pattinson is known for being a pretty weird guy. It’s an inside joke for anyone who knows about the persona and myth he’s honed about himself. Some of the wild facts attributed to him include being expelled from school for stealing and selling explicit magazines, making up stories in interviews and then coming clean about it, making the short film ...

  3. Nov 15, 2019 · His review cites Christophe Gilliot, director of the Agincourt museum, and his views that Pattinson’s performance is “hammed-up” and that the film harbors “francophobe tendencies.” Gilliot claims that “The British far-right are going to lap this up, it will flatter nationalist egos over there.”

  4. Nov 4, 2019 · ‘The King’, one of Netflix’s most-anticipated November releases, follows the life and times of King Henry V. But does this historical drama starring Timothee Chalamet and Robert Pattinson do justice to history? The answer to that is a little iffy.

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  6. The epic war film The King, directed by David Michôd, was one of the most anticipated releases on Netflix back in 2019. The film adapts several of Shakespeare’s plays on English history and kings during the Hundred Years’ War. King Henry V, lovingly known as Hal, inherits the English throne from his father, despite not being cut out for ...