Jacienel Elija L.

Ollave
Sydney Mae Ortega Birondo
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
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
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.