Anna & The King On Tv

[Spee]

The original Anna & The King (forgot the original title) w/Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner is on BBC3 right now.

This oughta be interesting ...

[Spee]

First thing making me cringe .... (though I was also once guilty)

Pronouncing Siam as "seye-am" instead of "sii-ahm"

Bunch of cute little kids in the scene where the king introduces the schoolteacher to all of his children.

Wonder where they are now? (I guess they would all be in my generation, mid-late forties to early fifties)

[maitembot]

That's not the original....1947, I think. Black and white

Rex Harrison as the king

Anna and the King of Siam...And it wasn't banned.

[PeaceBlondie]

Jodie Foster's most recent version was far better than the Deborah Kerr-Yul Brynner musical. Jodie doesn't exactly fall in love with Rama IV or vice-versat. And he doesn't walk around the stage singing, "Et cetera, et cetera."

It's hard to believe that the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical would be showing in Thailand.

[penzman]

Pronouncing Siam as "seye-am" instead of "sii-ahm"

Asked my wife to pronounce it.

Sound more like Sa yam

[siam]

It's on here in the UK now on ITV,

My kids love it,Seeing they just finished a 10 day Theatre show of the King and I at the local Theatre.

[george]

We must be very careful to discuss this film on a Thailand related forum, as it is banned and censured in Thailand. I will keep this topic open for another day maximum , then it goes into the bin. Sorry!

Thanks for your understanding.

/Admin

[kayo]

Hi George,

Is it not allowed to talk about banned pics in LOS?

Serious question. Curious (-ity killed the cat...)

Chris (kayo)

[george]

We have to be careful here! Especially as the film has references to the Royal Thai Family.

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