Tom Hooper | travel
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
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Tom Hooper | patriotism
In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
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Tom Hooper | movies
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
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Tom Hooper | money
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
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Tom Hooper | funny
I think I would say ‘The King’s Speech’ is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there’s more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
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Tom Hooper | dad
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we’re completely living in it.