The Prince and Me


Pretty much the same story.

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Kate already knew William was the prince though.

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yeh.... trouble is they're making it look like she has no idea how to behave, how her own country's monarchy behave etc, and just generally making her look like a pathetic simpering idiot. For God's sake, did you see the ridiculous scene with her storming out of the car when he told her he joined the RAF?? Completely ridiculous. And as for teaching her how to get out of a car - hello, she's not white trash, she's upper middle class - she's not Julia Stiles's character in English disguise. It's like they've taken every stereotype the Americans have about the English and shoved it into a film with names borrowed from the couple.



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Oh please, don't blame the Americans for everything. The stereotypes bestowed upon this film do not represent what every single American thinks about you. Not to mention, you guys have sh!t stereotypes about us, too. What do you expect from Lifetime, though? That channel is for middle-aged housewives. They don't care about accuracy. All they want is a generic 'love story' that they can gawk at. I mean, why do you think there are so many of them obsessed with Edward Cullen? They have boring and unloving lives, probably. Lifetime is like the screen version of a chick-lit isle. They spew out the same rubbish over and over again. Don't expect anything but absolute crap. I mean, it's not like it's a big production. It's a made for TV movie. It doesn't represent the Americans any more than William and Kate represent the whole of England. I'm sure most of you don't have a cup of tea with the Queen every morning.

This movie is crap; complete crap. It doesn't matter who made it. There's plenty of crap movies made in the UK, too. Crap is crap, no matter where it comes from.

P.S. - I guess the actors are actually British, eh? There accents don't seem very good, though. Anyone that's from the UK agree, or am I just hearing things?


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Believe me, I am in no way defending the horrendous stereotypes believed by some of us to be 'classically American' (loud, obnoxious, can't cook, etc CITE my grandmother....) but the fact that it is reciprocal doesn't defend the ones in this film 9ee the 'cock up' list on this board. It's not that the stereotypes are specifically held by Americans, but putting them into a film such as this just adds to the mounting crapness, lol!

As for the accents, yes you are correct, they are attrocious. Camilla Luddingotn who plays Kate is supposed to be from Berkshire, and went to an 'all girls school in Ascot', so I'm assuming St George's - a combination which hould make her very well spoken indeed. However, she's done a lot of work outside England (not to blame it on the US but that's the main place she did work) and it's almost like her accent slipped, and now she sounds terrible. Harry's brief appearance in the film is not helpd by the fact that the guy who plays him has no idea who the royals are, couldn't even name the UK prime minister, and hadn't a clue what a corgi was - how he's supposed to portray a prince of said kingdom is beyond me.... All of Will and Kate's supposed friends in St A's are ridicuous. Comparatively, William's accent isn't all that bad, on the whole, but that is relative to the rest of them... any accents that are vaguely accurate are ruined by the words that come out of their mouths..

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