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Jacienel Elija L. OllaveSydney Mae Ortega Birondo

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Questions:

What is the movie about?Who is the narrator in the

movie?Where is Siam?How does the egg trick work?Why didn’t the king stop

Tuptim’s execution?How does the movie end?If given a chance to give an

alternate ending to the movie, how would you end it?

Did Prince Chulalongkorn ever become king?

What have you understood of the following movie quotations: a.“The ways of England are the ways of the world” b. “India is British. That’s what being colonized is all about”

The film’s producer wanted to shoot the movie in Bangkok but the Thai government banned them like the previous versions of the movie so they had to shoot

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in Malaysia instead, why did the Thai government ban it?

Answers:The movie is all about a

British teacher and the king of Siam who fell in love with each other. It is also about how the culture of Siam slowly changed.

The narrator of the movie was King Chulalongkorn.

Siam was the old name of Thailand.

It works because the fire depletes the oxygen inside the bottle, creating a vacuum, and the vacuum sucks the pliable egg inside. Nature abhors a vacuum. 

Because Anna told the people in the court that she will tell the king to stop the execution. But the king did not intervene

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because the people might think that whatever Anna says to him,he will follow and the people

might think that he’s weak.The movie ended with a

dance.If we were given a chance to

change the ending, it would go like this: I want Anna to accept the ring that King Mungkot offered to her.

Yes, Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Chulalongkorn Phra Chunla Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua was Rama V.

a. The ways of England are the same with the ways of the world.

b. India was once a British colony.

Because according to the Thai government, the movie was historically wrong. They also do not want their people to know the daily life of their king.

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