Thank you for posting this. I had to write a film review. I had sorta seen this before, but I fast forward through a lot of it because I didn't have enough time. Thanks for letting me actually appreciate this.
I've had this Moment before: Kissing a girl saying "Oh you have witch craft in on sugar kiss from your lips, I can't even... Ooops HERE comes your DAD!!"
This scene seems extremely forced. Perhaps in the play and in history her role is far more significant,but in this performance she has done nothing to warrant such attention and we know very little about her. I haven't read the play but if this really was a good performance does it require that I should have done so? This was a great movie but this scene is absolutely ridiculous. Who the fuck is she? Why is her hand in marriage so important and what does she care for him?
@KhanSlayer She is Catherine de Valois, the daughter of the King of France. Henry V wishes to marry her to enforce his position as the heir to Charles VI of France, her father, and ensure that her brother, the now-Dauphin Charles VII (of Joan of Arc fame), won't try and take Henry's or his son's inheritance of France by his own right of birth. Henry merely wishes to be on good terms with Catherine.
Ah the Brits and love: Elephant in a tutu dancing in a procelain shop :-)
While the rest of the world learns English, the average Brit is swaddled in his linguistic ignorance. At least they've opened (belatedly but still) their culinary horizon in the last 20 or so years :-)
@mctabla Its not meant to be a soppy, cheesy stereotypical 'romantic' speech. Its meant to be a tough, raw. batte hardened warrior, who doesn't spend much time with women trying to chat up a girl he is mad about, whilst struggling to overcome the langauge barrier between them, Classic Shakespeare.
@medievalgirl002 Then Branagh's Henry is far from embodying that "battle hardened warrior". I get the feeling that the film fails a little in deciding what exactly it wants to go for and how. The end result is truly funny based on the language and body language... but it thrives off Emma Thompson, while Branagh/Henry remains a bit of a bland character(?)
Nonsense! Monsieur Branagh has defiantly a face for civil wars and old age, that ill layer up of beauty, can do no more, spoil upon his face! I think he is almost a perfect Henry Monmouth and I would have been very keen to see him as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I & II also!
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Nope, he really doesn't do it for me. Far too ambivalent signals in appearance and demeanor. The way his Duran Duran 80's hair peeps out neatly from underneath the crown's fringe... No huff, gruff and gravel in his voice. No lumbering physique of the "battle hardened warrior".
In the battle scene, everyone looks dirty, gnarly late middle ages but Branagh with his lofty hair... reminded (only in appearance) me of that awful Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costner. Ha ha ha ha :-)
@mctabla: I cannot agree on that since Henry V had a similar haircut and was still quite young and the image of heroic juvenile king is ever since Alexander the Great set on the stainless young man; and in the battle scenes he looks somewhat dirty too; and you have to consider the appearance Henry V does make as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I & II to understand the way Monsieur Branagh did approach to the role; and again this is one of the best Shakespeare versions ever made.
@mctabla: Just compare it to the comical fuss Laurence Olivier tried to make out of it for his 1944 stupid propaganda movie (if there is one thing Shakespeare cannot used for that it is modern propaganda due to his lack of good & evil and various other aspects that do ruin the desired effects on the masses!) or the uninspired version the insidious British Broadcasting Corporation has made for its Shakespeare collection.
Thank you for posting this. I had to write a film review. I had sorta seen this before, but I fast forward through a lot of it because I didn't have enough time. Thanks for letting me actually appreciate this.
Heartwing13 2 months ago
is the man who plays the french king the actor who also played sir thomas more in "thomas more (a man for all seasons)"???
dantilyable 4 months ago
@dantilyable yes, it is paul scofield, a brilliant and talented actor who only recently past away. Good eye!
Nelsonhojax15 3 months ago
i love this part! it's so funny!
i love it when he says, "here comes you father"!!
kargle1999 4 months ago
i love this part! it's so funny!
kargle1999 4 months ago
I've had this Moment before: Kissing a girl saying "Oh you have witch craft in on sugar kiss from your lips, I can't even... Ooops HERE comes your DAD!!"
Hairgod1234 5 months ago
This scene seems extremely forced. Perhaps in the play and in history her role is far more significant,but in this performance she has done nothing to warrant such attention and we know very little about her. I haven't read the play but if this really was a good performance does it require that I should have done so? This was a great movie but this scene is absolutely ridiculous. Who the fuck is she? Why is her hand in marriage so important and what does she care for him?
KhanSlayer 8 months ago
@KhanSlayer in history it was very important for political reasons.
Nicollie1062 4 months ago
@Nicollie1062 Thanks
KhanSlayer 4 months ago
@KhanSlayer She is Catherine de Valois, the daughter of the King of France. Henry V wishes to marry her to enforce his position as the heir to Charles VI of France, her father, and ensure that her brother, the now-Dauphin Charles VII (of Joan of Arc fame), won't try and take Henry's or his son's inheritance of France by his own right of birth. Henry merely wishes to be on good terms with Catherine.
LestatxLouis1 1 month ago
*romantic speech* and then "here comes your father" lol
3103Hunter 9 months ago
Ah the Brits and love: Elephant in a tutu dancing in a procelain shop :-)
While the rest of the world learns English, the average Brit is swaddled in his linguistic ignorance. At least they've opened (belatedly but still) their culinary horizon in the last 20 or so years :-)
mctabla 10 months ago
@mctabla Its not meant to be a soppy, cheesy stereotypical 'romantic' speech. Its meant to be a tough, raw. batte hardened warrior, who doesn't spend much time with women trying to chat up a girl he is mad about, whilst struggling to overcome the langauge barrier between them, Classic Shakespeare.
medievalgirl002 9 months ago
@medievalgirl002 Then Branagh's Henry is far from embodying that "battle hardened warrior". I get the feeling that the film fails a little in deciding what exactly it wants to go for and how. The end result is truly funny based on the language and body language... but it thrives off Emma Thompson, while Branagh/Henry remains a bit of a bland character(?)
mctabla 9 months ago
Nonsense! Monsieur Branagh has defiantly a face for civil wars and old age, that ill layer up of beauty, can do no more, spoil upon his face! I think he is almost a perfect Henry Monmouth and I would have been very keen to see him as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I & II also!
FireEyedMaidOfWar 8 months ago in playlist King Henry V
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Nope, he really doesn't do it for me. Far too ambivalent signals in appearance and demeanor. The way his Duran Duran 80's hair peeps out neatly from underneath the crown's fringe... No huff, gruff and gravel in his voice. No lumbering physique of the "battle hardened warrior".
In the battle scene, everyone looks dirty, gnarly late middle ages but Branagh with his lofty hair... reminded (only in appearance) me of that awful Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costner. Ha ha ha ha :-)
mctabla 8 months ago
@mctabla: I cannot agree on that since Henry V had a similar haircut and was still quite young and the image of heroic juvenile king is ever since Alexander the Great set on the stainless young man; and in the battle scenes he looks somewhat dirty too; and you have to consider the appearance Henry V does make as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I & II to understand the way Monsieur Branagh did approach to the role; and again this is one of the best Shakespeare versions ever made.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 8 months ago
@mctabla: Just compare it to the comical fuss Laurence Olivier tried to make out of it for his 1944 stupid propaganda movie (if there is one thing Shakespeare cannot used for that it is modern propaganda due to his lack of good & evil and various other aspects that do ruin the desired effects on the masses!) or the uninspired version the insidious British Broadcasting Corporation has made for its Shakespeare collection.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 8 months ago
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@mctabla Good god man NEVER bring up the nightmare movie with Kevin Costnickers... it is a TRUE crime in all the world!
Thecoldwaterfall 5 months ago
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mctabla 10 months ago
I love the logic : I love france so much, I'll have it all...Erm.
barnaby1988 1 year ago
I spoke this way to a woman one time... instead of a princess all I got was a court issued restraining order
Rahavin1 1 year ago 15
@Rahavin1 pearls before swine, sullies the pearls and does not make the swine noble.
SpiritWanderer91 6 months ago 3
@SpiritWanderer91 ha!
Rahavin1 6 months ago