Henry V - Catherine and Henry scene 2/2

[Democrities]

HERE COMES YOUR FATHER! :-S

[ioet]

Queen Isabel is meant to speak Henry's last words. Interesting choice.

[00NikkiV00]

hey..that's supposed to be the Queen's prayer at the end..hmmmmm..

[NathanH97]

If I ever start to dislike the French, I just watch this video.

[sugarandspice4815]

Thank God Branagh's version deleted the bit with him and Burgundy at the end. I've always thought the sex jokes after such a romantic scene were a bit... off-putting. Although they were probably funnier in Shakespeare's day.

[TheKygar]

waaah! Where's Queen Isabel??? Anyway is the epilogue guy the voice of the haunted mansion ride at disney world?? If not, he really sounds like him...Anyway I love how Kenneth Branagh can just make it easy to understand that old english stuff...

[00NikkiV00]

@TheKygar exactly..

[janistonbest]

3:33 - what a humble little kiss :)

[adamdd09]

kenneth branagh and emma thompson got married in real life

[neckronn99]

@adamdd09

And then divorced...very sad.

This was the first place I ever saw Emma Thompson and I have been totally in love with her ever since.

[madmax8903]

When I saw this at the cinema somebody called out in indignation "This isn't Shakespeare!" on hearing the line, "Do any of your neighbours know, I'll ask them." But the line is in the play, that's what's so great about the bard: you can create different moods in each scene. What Branagh did so well was to so nicely select, for example, where to be commanding, where to be compassionate and where to be comedic.

[moviekris0426]

Emma & Kenneth are so good together! I happen to like Much Ado About Nothing a bit better though :D

[ShadowSonic2]

Is that Maggie Smith as Catherine's attendant?

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

@ShadowSonic2

no, it's Geraldine McEwan

[SunSparkle129]

we watched this in English (after reading it) and after "here comes your father" everyone was laughing and no one paid attention to the politics afterward. my teacher had to rewind the movie lol XD

[adamdd09]

Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson got married in real life after this i believe

[willfullyobscure]

ahe's atill a whore.

[cheesepuffs93]

Wow..Emma Thompson looks really good in this play

[limeybadtooth]

small time , but in that small, most greatly lived this star  of ENGLAND

[hudson0815]

This film has three actors which later appeared in Robin Hood prince of thieves. Geraldine McEwan, Brian Blessed and the fat guy at 1:34 (no disrespect, but I don't know his name lol)

[CookieSherbert]

'Here comes ya father' *both awkwardly walk back to their seats* lol

[idio12]

" here comes ya father" nothing ever changes ROFL

[polaris30000]

wow, from playboy to proper gentleman in 0.47 seconds flat.

[isntittragic]

im playing catherine in the scene for my acting class. should be interesting...

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

Good luck with that, especially if you have to do it in French with the accent :)

[isntittragic]

thanks :) the accent is easy. remebering it all on the other hand...

but i cant complain. i feel bad for henry lol

[Z1559577]

This scene is one of great significance, particularly in the context of the rest of the play. Henry is portrayed as a cold, quiet ruler with a deadly focus on owning France, while still loving his people and his God. This moment is perhaps the only glimpse we get of his softer side.

[skip8619]

Is there a name for the thing all the men are wearing on their shoulders? Besides necklace obviously.

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

They're called "Livery collars", they have unique designs that signified a persons position/office.

It was sort of like a badge

[InnateNobility]

@skip8619 They are called "chains of office," actually.

[forooghjm]

I'm still not sure if Kate married him willingly.

[peacecanhappen27]

too true shotzfire, too true. In any case, although France and England lived in peace for a while, it did not last. However it's still a beautiful moment.

[mouna28]

Her french accent is not very good...but it is cool .

[BetusAquilae]

Here com'es your father.... Jajaja so good!

[toReasonWhy]

I love this part of it. It's like an addendum where Henry goes "Welp, I'm clearly the baddest motherfucker around, time to claim my prize woman. Five minutes of wooing should do the trick."

[shotzfire]

You have witch craft in your lips if that doesn't pick up a girl i don't know what will

[cullen212121]

i agree with all my heart! :D

[gmethry18]

@shotzfire "Here comes your father" Lmao

[artj22850]

my "haha ...yes" comment was to lemongirlohyeah's previous comment....not to the last one above. What do you mean, cornhoemama, when you say EXCEPT HE KILLS HER!...Who kills who?

[artj22850]

hahaha.....yes

[cornhoemama]

EXCEPT HE KILLS HER!

[Ladna37]

I love Derek Jacobi's delivery of the very last words of the film. Beautiful and so touching. Love Shakespeare.

[JPPT1974]

@Ladna37 Also he is very nice looking. As KB made him out to be. With trenchcoat, boots, sweater, scarf!

[bastianinisfan]

BBC's Henry is much better than this one.

[nuclearpavlova]

"Here comes your father!"

HAHAHAH I loved this scene! Brilliantly acted!

[artj22850]

I love him in that crown, with his hair on his forehead...I adore this scene and also love when he says "here comes your father"....haha - things haven't really changed in time. Cute scene and ends dramatically. Love the way he takes her hand and then sounds so manly and in control of the kingdom. Love Jacobi's last lines...beautifully delivered and so poignant.

[lemongirlohyeah]

hear hear !

[Izzy41630]

I love the way he says "Here comes your father."

I love this dude. XD He does comedy so well. And he can be pretty fucking scary when he does drama too.

[oneofspades]

Shakespeare at his best.

[DuchessAliana]

And did I mention that this has made me fall even more in love with Kenneth Branagh? ^_^

[thecajuncutthroat]

Stupid !

She's got a Quebecois accent...

[greenlady13]

Oh for heavens sakes, she's a British actress- cut her some slack. It hardly matters how the French sounds because it dosent change the overall sweetness of this scene one jolt.

[thecajuncutthroat]

Are you sure she's not a Canadian actress ?

Cos' she's got a perfect Quebecois accent !

lol

[marortiza]

She is the brilliant Emma Thompson from England

[DuchessAliana]

ROFL "Here comes your father" XDXD

But honestly...even though it's Henry talking to Catherine, you can tell it's really Ken talking to Emma. It's just so adorable.

[chris25fr]

The 100 years war is really fascinating.The longest war of Medieval times. (full of heros)

But,this conflict killed 185000 persons. England lost all at the end. Even the region near Bordeaux(south western) which was english since 3 centuries...

And Burgundy became french.So at the end of the conflict,France was bigger than at the beginning.

Thanks Jeanne d'Arc ;)

[papayankee69]

you say thank you jeanne d,arc but didnt the french burn her at the stake...some way of saying thanks

[formerfan]

"Here comes your father!"

hehe

[jessikagurl101]

emma thompson has a great french accent for being british

[marortiza]

Emma has a great French accent!!!

[blondybabyyy]

here comes ur father lmao

this shit is funny

[Nejichan8]

i love this scene in the play.....tis the only one that has humor

[johnnyforeigner33]

haha "here comes your father" hahahaa, he delivers it so well :P

[disneydreamer1899]

I agree! That line is hilarious! The first time I saw this film was in a college course, and when he said "here comes your father" everyone in the class laughed out loud.

[Steedrider]

Wow, Emma's French is bloody good...did she study French or something?

BTW:

What I was wondering...the Anglo-Saxons were defeated at Hastings, because Normans(French) where superior due to their cavalry and archery. So they more or less introduced archery to Britain. Why on earth did they not have archery at Agincourt, but the English did?!?

[Dani2Tube]

The french did have Archers. roughly 5000, the same number as the English did, however they were unable to use them due to the initial French cavalry charge and the fact that henry placed his forces out of range of the french crossbowmen.

[Bagginski]

She doesn't look happy about the marriage does she! =]

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

lol no she doesn't, but in real life she actually was

[Leinad514]

quit nice and funny scene ...but in real in those day english noble where of French Origin both member of this couple where Frenchspeaker

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

True, Henry could speak French fluently but the language, in England, during the time was Middle English. I have webpage that has the original text of a work of Geoffrey Chaucer (1391), here's a passage from it to give you an idea:

"Lyte Lowys my sone, I aperceyve wel by certeyne evydences thyn abilite to lerne sciences touching nombres and proporciouns; and as wel considre I thy besy praier in special to lerne the tretys of the Astrelabie"

[Leinad514]

I do agree with you madame the language of the commun man was middle english.

[DM2A4]

Leinad514, yes the english nobelty spoke french but was not of french orgin. they were of norman orgin. norse man, vikings who settled in the north west of france and who conquered england in the 11th century.

[Leinad514]

DM2A4 what his french...people who live in France (Normandie)

French are not a race but a mixed of different ethnic group.

Mainly Danish who settled there and mixed with the population already living there...in 200 years they became French and call themself french see de bayeux tapisserie.

Basically the hundred war was a civil french war with Welsh mercenary( long bow) and few saxon paesant... The nobelity of england and france where all cousin.

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

By the time of William The Conquerer Normans were primarily of French blood. This is because when the Norse conquered Normandy most of them, and their offspring, took wives from mainly around Northern France. That's why the English nobility spoke French in the first place

[DM2A4]

well considering that the normans also have been very succesful (militarily)not only in england but also in italy and the middle east in that time i find it kinda important to distiguish them from the "french people" of that time who were not known for this very succesful military adventurism. this is a trait all the norse men of that time have been well known for, no?

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

Normans were not French or Norse by Williams time. They considered themselves Normans. Non the less, genetically, they were primarily made-up of bloodlines from France and also followed most of the cultural practices of France. But you are definitely right that they were not French citizens, they were Norman

[hashimirasama]

@LadyAmaltheaUnicorn

In that period pretty much every landlord was independent; france was merely a collection of faction. Brittany was in fact independent but vassal to the king of France, same thing for the duchy of Burgundy, and Normandy.

BTW, the viking settlers didn't drive out the French inhabitants of Normandy the intermarried them. By 1066, pretty much they were all mixed French-Danish.

Besides, William's army was recruited all across France not just in Normandy.

[DM2A4]

by the way, what means "french blood"? that means a mix of celtic, roman and frankish blood. and the franks have been a germanic tribe that invaded and conquered what we call today france (thats where the name france comes from). and all scandinavians, germans, dutch are germanic people. (the saxons and angles and jutes who conquered england some hundred years before have also been germanic tribes)erm ... i find this all terribly interesting, thats why i love to talk about this stuff, sorry

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

French blood, or any national blood for that matter, refers to how much of a certain nationality you have in your ancestry. If one wants to be technical, we may all be African, since that's where anthropologists suggest humans originate from. However, "tribes", as I'll call them, evolve over time developing their own traits different from the others

[DM2A4]

yes of course do "tribes evolve over time developing their own traits different from the others". but comparing the "kindship" of these people in that time (and still today) with the germanic people who settled inand dominated france and england right after the collapse of the roman empire just some hundred years before the normans invaded england in 1066 with the kinship we all have with people from africa with thousands and thousands of years that seperate us from them doesnt seem right to me.

[perstyr]

What's important here of course is that the english were beaten by purer-blooded Normans in 1066, not the French, though we did beat the French at Agincourt. This makes the english naturally better, having developed superior traits over the French tribes (eg. being English, using archers etc.) ^^

Also it has been suggested that early man may have cross-bred with homo-neanderthalis, but I never found out if the offspring would be fertile. Anyone know?

[hashimirasama]

@perstyr

"purer-blooded Normans " Normans had been intermarrying French people for four generation in 1066. Hervela, William's mother was a French women with no viking blood. Even is grandmother by his father, Judith de Rennes was french and you call it "purer-blooded Normans".

If William the conquerer had been defeated at Hastings every Englishmen would say he was a typical French.

[rosapurpurea]

Sir Derek Jacobi was soooo cool in this, Kenneth Branagh made a great choice to cast him as the chorus!

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

agreed!

[MissyHolland]

Emma is amazing! She actually seems to be

groping for the proper English word. This

whole scene is a perfect example of Shakespeare's ability to 'defend the

indefensible.' "Well I've just killed

most of your relatives, deposed Dad, now

how about a little smooch?" The real

Katherine must have desperately wanted

to plant her foot in his codpiece.

[dustbunnieboo]

I love these two together. What a shame they are no longer married.

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

It is, they made a cute couple

[dbassplayer]

you have witchcraft in your lips... *melts*

[LadyAmaltheaUnicorn]

indeed! : )