Shanghai Knights
Apr. 14th, 2003 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlI got to see this film on Saturday night, being forced into it by a couple of my guy friends who wanted to see the fight scenes. The plot was laughable of course, the good guys were so stupid that you were cringing, it had every American cliché about England/Britian known to man in it, but OH MY WORD Aidan Gillan!!!! In formal dress doing SWORD FIGHTING!!
Of course, my pernickety self would like to point out that if he were 10th in line to the throne, he would be a Duke, and addressed as 'Your Grace' not as 'Lord'--even if he were a lesser member of the aristocracy it would be 'My Lord'--they aren't praying to him, you know! But I suppose it's too much to expect correct protocol in a film which has motor-cars and Jack the Ripper in the same time-frame!
"So you're still 20th in line to the throne?"
"Tenth!"
What a line!
Of course, my pernickety self would like to point out that if he were 10th in line to the throne, he would be a Duke, and addressed as 'Your Grace' not as 'Lord'--even if he were a lesser member of the aristocracy it would be 'My Lord'--they aren't praying to him, you know! But I suppose it's too much to expect correct protocol in a film which has motor-cars and Jack the Ripper in the same time-frame!
"So you're still 20th in line to the throne?"
"Tenth!"
What a line!
