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	Anna and the King: Cinephiles Movie Review
		Anna and the King, directed by Andy Tennant, tells the epic story of a British teacher, Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster), who travels with her young son to Thailand after being hired by the King of Siam (Chow Yun-Fat) to educate his fifty-eight children.
		Anna and the King is based on the publications of the real Anna Leonowens, who documents her experiences in the foreign land.
		In spite of the greater focus on Anna's perception of the injustice and prejudice that surround her, and on her struggles to repress her growing sentiments toward the King, Anna and the King's most interesting aspect is the portrayal of the ritualistic world of the King and his royal family.
	www.cinephiles.net /Anna_and_the_King/Film-Synopsis.html (231 words)

	Anna and the King of Siam - Fiction and Fact
		Anna and her sister were at school in Wales at the time.
		Anna and her sister moved to India on the completion of their education at the age of 14 or 15.
		Anna and her sister returned to India on the completion of their education at the age of 14 or 15.
	www.thailandlife.com /annaandtheking.html (693 words)

	Anna and the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna and the King is a 1999 motion picture loosely based on the true story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th-century.
		The picture is a remake of a classic Anna and the King of Siam, but differs in many respects from that and from the subsequent musical, The King and I, also based on the same story.
		As in the movie the king was portrayed in an inappropriate way for Thai people, the movie is forbidden to be shown in Thailand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_and_the_King (214 words)

	Celebrity Buddhist - The King and I (or Anna and the King)
		In 1851, King Nagnkla or Rama III died and finally, Mongkut was elected as King of Siam.
		Contrary to the film, which is mostly fictitious, there was no romance between Anna and the King, and of course Anna had never served as foriegn affairs adviser to the King.
		King Mongkut died of malaria, believed to be infected through mosquitoes while he was studying the solar eclipse, at an age of 64 in October 18, 1868.
	www.geocities.com /yiuchan.geo/Media/King.html (628 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: ANNA & THE KING review
		Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster), recently widowed, travels with her young son Louis (Tom Felton) to the alien culture of Siam.
		Anna would seem to consider herself an equal, and her attitude is indulged; she is called "sir" since no woman may stand in the presence of the king.
		Anna and the King was not treated kindly by either the critics or the public.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/annaandtheking.html (1140 words)

	aboutfilm.Com - Anna and the King (1999)
		The most famous of the prior adaptations (which included 1946's Anna and the King of Siam and this year's animated feature The King and I) was, of course, the intolerably racist 1956 film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1951 musical, The King and I.
		Later in the story, when Anna and the King shows Mongkut taking Anna's advice and treating her as an equal, as we know he eventually will, we see that it is because he is choosing to do so, not because of Anna's ability to steamroll him.
		Anna discovers that some of the servants in the palace are being treated abominably, and, as Anna gets to know the King's family, it becomes clear to her that the wives are little more than slaves themselves.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/a/annaandtheking.htm (1697 words)

	Anna and the King. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Revie-w. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anna arrives in Siam believing the King is a despot, heathen and barbarian.
		English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has done something that women of the Victorian age simply never do: The young widow has traveled thousands of miles with her son to Siam, a land that is largely unknown to the Western world.
		Anna discovers that Mongkut is a true man of vision who is leading Siam to take its place among the nations of the modern world.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /anna_and_king.htm (996 words)

	Review: Anna and the King (1999)
		Leonowens (Jody Foster) is charged with educating the fifty-odd children of the King of Siam (Chow Yun-Fat); she is a Bible-reading Christian bent on preserving the Western traditions that shape her life.
		Although the king is open-minded enough to know his children need to know about Western ways in order to carry Siam into the modern world, he is firmly grounded in his world: Buddhism, polygamy, slave-owning, monarchy.
		The king's large family and the clash between cultures remain central here, and even the motif of dancing has survived, a metaphorical substitution for passion, perhaps.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/a/anna_and_the_king.htm (958 words)

	Anna and the King
		Commissioned by the king of Siam to tutor his first son in English, Anna soon finds herself the school teacher of his 50+ offspring.
		When the king slices her sympathetic encouragement with his terse line, "You are not qualified to criticize me about living!" he's referring to a side of Anna that this production fails to instill on us.
		Anna's practical optimism could have been richly complemented with an occasional emotionally-charged reaction to anything that remotely reminded her of her dead husband.
	www.rossanthony.com /A/annking.shtml (527 words)

	Anna and the King
		The unwholesome undercurrents of the story of Anna and the King of Siam have nagged at me for years, through many ordeals of sitting through the stage and screen versions of "The King and I," which is surely the most cheerless of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals.
		She must try to educate the king's children (68, I think I heard) and at the same time civilize him by the British standards of the time, which were racist, imperialist and jingoistic, but frowned on such Siamese practices as chaining women for weeks outside the palace gates.
		By the end of the movie, she has danced with the king a couple of times, come tantalizing close to kissing him, and civilized him a little, although he has not sold off his concubines.
	www.compuserve.com /cp/movies/ebert/files/A38299.HTM (826 words)

	Royalty.nu - King Mongkut of Siam (Rama IV) and Anna Leonowens - The Real "King And I"
		Although historians question the accuracy of Anna's version of her life story as well as her account of life in the Siamese court, her two books (The English Governess at the Siamese Court and The Romance of the Harem) created great interest in King Mongkut and Siam that continues to this day.
		Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, illustrated by Margaret Ayer.
		The fascinating 1944 novel on which Anna and the King was based, adapted from the memoirs of the real Anna Leonowens, a 19th century Englishwoman who served as governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/Thailand/Mongkut.html (1336 words)

	Review: Anna and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first version, Anna and the King of Siam, was released in 1946 (only two years after Margaret Landon's novel popularized the tale) and starred Rex Harrison and the King and Irene Dunne as Anna.
		Early in the film, it's clear that Anna is nervous and frightened by her new circumstances and by the unexpectedly cool reception she receives in the Siamese court.
		Anna and the King is not a waste or a lost cause, but it works best for those who embrace the first three-quarters, then ignore the rest.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/anna_king.html (895 words)

	ANNA & THE KING
		When Margaret Langdon turned Anna’s memoirs into a best-selling novel in 1944, it took only a dozen years to spawn the drama Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit musical The King and I, as well as the theatrical version.
		First up in 1999 was the critically panned dud The King and I — an animated remake of the musical with horribly stereotypical characters and a villain that had suddenly developed supernatural powers.
		Anna, twenty-three months a widow, is hired to become the royal tutor for the children of the King of Siam (now Thailand) in 1862 Bangkok.
	www.sick-boy.com /annaandtheking.htm (721 words)

	Anna and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		King Mongkut, the master of dozens of wives and concubines, finally discovers how a man "could be satisfied with only one woman," validating monogamy as the preferred form of marriage.
		Anna reflects on the heart of a young prince and suggests that his "warm heart and sympathetic soul" are qualities that will make him a good king.
		The king gives a subtle nod to reincarnation and karma when he comments that men learn from their mistakes "through birth and rebirth." And while Eastern religion hasâ”to borrow a sports metaphorâ”the "home-field advantage" (stadium-like temples, mascot-esqe images of Buddha and many more fans), the visiting team of Christianity is respected as well.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000555.cfm (1067 words)

	Anna and the King
		Anna, on the other hand, believes that the British way is the proper way.
		Anna and the King was not filmed in Thailand, because the Thai government was afraid of yet another potentially bad portrayal.
		There are also plenty of scenes with the King's children to make you go "oh how cute!" The story shifts between the (non) relationship between Anna and the King, and a revolution in Siam, and picks up near the end of the movie when the latter is emphasized.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/anna_and_the_king.html (626 words)

	The King and I: Fact or Fiction?
		Anna was not employed as a governess, nor did she figure highly in the Royal Court.
		King Mongkut kept extensive diaries and in the years that Anna was there, he only mentioned her once and then only briefly.
		"Anna and the King" is an epic tale set in Thailand in the late 19th Century, and chronicles the true life adventures of British governess Anna Leonowens, who is hired by the King of Siam to educate his fifty-eight children.
	www.thaistudents.com /kingandi (1498 words)

	Anna and the King
		The King and I, is usually told as a celebration of colonialism: headstrong British schoolmarm teaches vain and childish monarch the virtues of civilization.
		Anna is a role that should play to these strengths: she is a rigid, circumspect widow who ingratiates herself to an imperious monarch by sheer force of will.
		Anna and the King unwittingly pits a star against an actor, and the star walks away with the film.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/AnnaandtheKing.html (589 words)

	Movie Review: "Anna & the King"
		"Anna and the King" is a powerfully mature film based on an English schoolteacher's experiences in faraway Siam.
		Anna butts heads with Mongkut over the Siamese lifestyle, as even love is different in Siam.
		The score to Anna and the King is a beautiful landscape of multiple layers.
	www.families-first.com /movies/annaking.htm (683 words)

	All Hail The King
		AATK is a drama based on the autobiography of Anna Leonowens, a tutor to the 19th century king of Thailand.
		Inaccurate depictions of the king's relationship with women, for example, were seen as lése-majesté (as when scenes were staged of the king dancing with Anna), and in general they seem to feel the Western versions grossly exaggerate the influence of Ms.
		Leonowens on the king, and underplay the dignity and intelligence of the monarch himself.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8907/aatk.html (1289 words)

	3 Black Chicks..."Anna And The King" Review (Bams)
		Set in Siam of the 1860's, "Anna and the King" tells the epic - and this time, non-musical - tale, based on the diary of widowed English schoolmistress Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster), on how she and her son Louis (Tom) came to live in Siam (now Thailand).
		My memories of "The King and I" are very much colored by nostalgia; I remember key scenes and songs (mostly because the school choir I was in, sang them), and the general storyline, but I haven't seen it on TV in quite some time.
		And Anna wasn't immune; Foster may or may not have meant to play it that way, but Anna's acceptance of White Privilege was not lost in all her posturing (sincere or not) about wanting Siam, The King, and Siam servants, to have the right to their freedom and destiny.
	www.3blackchicks.com /bamsanna.html (859 words)

	Anna and the King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The story of Anna Leonowens, the real-life 19th-century schoolteacher who traveled to Siam (now Thailand) to tutor the king’s children, has been retold several times, most famously in the 1950s musical The King and I.
		Jodie Foster plays Anna, a widow and single mother who packs up and moves to Bangkok, where she has been hired to teach “the ways of the West” to the several dozen offspring of King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat).
		Anna scandalizes the court with her forward, no-nonsense manner, but the king is impressed by her intelligence and allows her unprecedented influence and freedom to express her opinions.
	members.aol.com /screenviews/anna.html (393 words)

	Amazon.com: Anna and the King (1999): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whatever creative links truly exist we think of the 1999 film "Anna the King" as a dramatic version of "The King and I," which was a musical version of the 1946 film "Anna and the King of Siam," which was inspired by the diaries of Anna Leonowens.
		Now, it turns out that Anna Leonowens, who was hired to tutor the children of the king of Siam in 1862, greatly embellished her adventures in her celebrated book.
		She was neither a governess nor an advisor to the king, her late husband was a desk clerk and not a military officer, and she made up the lurid stories about the king throwing wives into dugeons and the public torture and burning of a consort and the monk she loved.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CWLF?v=glance (2683 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Anna and the King
		In this fourth film version of Margaret Landon's fanciful story of Anna Leonowens, the strong-willed, recently widowed schoolteacher who travels to Siam in 1862 with her young son (Tom Felton) to educate the King's 58 children in Western customs, Jodie Foster delivers a magnificent performance, combining intelligence with compassion, dignity with vulnerability.
		Anna has Victorian preconceptions of primitive Siam while the King, in turn, has his own disdainful preconceptions of Western civilization.
		That may be the result of the plodding, bland script by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes which dulls the sharpness of the underlying culture clash of racial, political and sexual tensions, relying instead on a weak, simplistic subplot involving treason.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos/anna-and-king.htm (276 words)

	Filmtracks: Anna and the King (George Fenton)
		Anna and the King: (George Fenton) The year ends once again with one of the best.
		By the simple force of its local influences, Anna and the King is a fascinating score.
		For George Fenton collectors, Anna and the King meets and exceeds your standards of excellency in anticipating the path of his career.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/anna_king.html (1116 words)

	IGN: Anna and the King Review
		Anna (Foster) and her son have arrived in Siam so she can teach the eldest son of King Mongkut (Fat) the sciences and literature that makes her home of England the hub of the worlds' power.
		Soon, she is face to face with the king himself and still not wavering, a practice which renders everyone but the king dumbstruck.
		The reason being the fact that her own country may be leading a resistance to remove the king from his rule (in fact, rid him and his entire brood of their very own lives).
	dvd.ign.com /articles/037/037461p1.html (1175 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		There is not an original bone in "Anna"'s body, which positions itself as a tale of a woman's empowerment in the 19th century - and then insults itself (and us) by shifting into a ludicrous romance, of all things.
		"Anna and the King" reads on a fourth grade level, and that's not a good idea when you're playing to an audience you want to be made up of, at minimum, high school graduates.
		"Anna" fares much better when concentrating on schoolteacher Anna's relationship with the King's children, whom she must instruct in the ways of the larger world.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/dec/12-13-99/arts/arts5.html (692 words)

	Anna and the King
		Englishwoman Anna Leonowens and her young son Louis take in the exciting spectacle as they arrive in Siam by ship for Anna to take up duties as tutor to the King's oldest son.
		Anna teaches the children of the royal family, tries to teach the king a thing or too and her son Louis provides an added measure of spice to the brew.
		Anna and the King hinges on the sexual chemistry generated by its stars.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/anna_and_the_king.htm (673 words)

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