Re: rowing and the movies #4735

"Nick Suess" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A couple of days ago I saw "Mrs Henderson Presents", in which Mrs Henderson
> (played by Judi Dench) likes to spend her occasional meditative moments
> paddling around in a big old rowie on a lovely calm stretch of tree-lined
> river. At one point a couple of sweep fours in training whiz past her. It
> really is a "blink and you missed it" shot of them, but to me it appeared
> in
> that brief moment that they were rowed by real rowers and had
> realistically
> replicated the equipment and rowing styles of the era (late 1930s). So
> congratulations to the movie makers for making the effort to get that
> right.
>
> I'm also told the movie features lots of naked women, but I was
> concentrating on the rowing, so didn't notice them.
>

You must have done a lot of blinking to miss all the women!

John Mulholland


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    ... >A couple of days ago I saw "Mrs Henderson Presents", ... > paddling around in a big old rowie on a lovely calm stretch of tree-lined ... > replicated the equipment and rowing styles of the era. ... > I'm also told the movie features lots of naked women, ...
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