I've never seen Lion in Winter and I am extremely excited to watch it with friends who know more than I do about the people and time period involved (which, to be fair, is a VERY low bar -- most of what I know is from playing Eleanor in Civ). Let's go! #ClassicsTwitterMovie https://twitter.com/SkyeAShirley/status/1289768908459655168

Eleanor is the new Medusa and a gorgon, eh? I don't think he means that as a compliment . . . #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Also Peter O'Toole listing all the people he's boned as a . . . compliment (???) to his lady friend has real Zeus in Bk 14 of the Iliad energy, when he's telling Hera how hot she looks by listing every woman he's slept with #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Dude, you guys, *that's* what young Anthony Hopkins looked like?? I would NOT have recognized him! #ClassicsTwitterMovie

I am LOVING the dialogue in this movie! Eleanor is so sharp and banterful! #ClassicsTwitterMovie

"Love me, little lamb, or leave me"
"Departure's a simple act. You put the left foot down, and then the right."
"Hush dear, mother's fighting."

THIS WOMAN IS PERFECT!
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MEDEA TO THE TEETH!! #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Oh hot damn, it's a chess game as metaphor for political or other scheming! This trope is so pervasive and yet I still somehow don't get tired of it? #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Hepburn-Eleanor is absolute #goals: "I dressed my maids as amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus."
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I truly have no idea who to ever trust in this movie. Everyone is so scheming, it's like Iago but turned up to 11. I love these beautiful, manipulative monsters #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Eleanor of Aquitaine has her knives out!! #ClassicsTwitterMovie

Thank GOD there are so many tapestries in this room! How many more trysts and schemes can we hide?? #ClassicsTwitterMovie

I love how no one seems surprised that Geoffrey just jumped out of the tapestry. "Oh, uh, you're here? As usual, no one cares" #ClassicsTwitterMovie

"After all these years, still like a democratic drawbridge, going down for everybody." DAMN!!!! #ClassicsTwitterMovie

I keep forgetting that this is sort of a Christmas movie.

Last Christmas, we hated our sons, and the very next day, a new power play. This year, to save me from tears, I'm scheming with someone special
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