@PADRAEG Why not Patrick,after all its England where this belfast protestent boy found escape from the bombs and bullets being chucked around by other irishmen......oh,yeah and....he's an ACTOR,ya know,ACTING........keep yer rebel poitics to the grubby backstreet bars of dublin fella this is somewhere you will not get a whole heep of fawning support as even the yanks see you lot as having been terrorists/fellow travelers now...
To the 3 people who dislike this, save thou thy labour. Come thou no more for dislike gentle user. They shall have none I swear but THESE MY JOINTS! Which if they have as I will leave 'em them, shall yield them...little.
@Andreazor Obnoxious!!!!! Explain. To me speeches such as this are amongst the greatest passages ever written in the English language. But then again I'm British and you're a Swede.
This is the BEST speech I have ever heard, when presented by Kenneth Branagh. Stephen Ambrose used the main theme as his title to his wonderful WWII book, "Band of Brothers!"
I dont understand these speeches... We are too far removed from the mindset of medeival Europe to get so rallied by words like these I believe...
To someone like me who does not believe in politics or God... this stuff is meaningless.... I can however appreciate the acting and the musical score.
@emilshere You don't believe in politics, you say, but politics continues to go about its merry business and influence your life and life choices. You may
believe we can not get so rallied by these speeches in today's world,
but it doesn't take much to create the right circumstances. Currently,
similar rallying cries are taking place in our midst to become martyrs
and human bombs, not just in faraway lands, but right among us, people who have had the same education and opportunities as us.
@emilshere speak for yourself... I listened to this and immediately went out and slaughtered some Frenchmen. I couldn't help myself really. Must have killed about 20 before I realized, I thought 'It's YouTube done this to me'...
i had to memorize the full speech for a speech meet at my school. one of the hardest things i had to memorize. btw did u guys know the boy in this is Christian Bale? i love him in this movie even though he was only in it a few scenes
god i fucking love being english, it just makes u proud seeing this video, we gave the world, shakespeare, dickins, darwin, newton and hawkings, the beatles and the british empire and the magna carter, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND GOD BLESS ENGLAND.
Though I love Shakespeare's plays, patriotism and nationalism are created by an emotional brainwashing and the crazy idea that one's country is superior to all others simply because one happened to be born in it. Where would such negative feelings be without the (mostly banal) music, flags, militarism, and the rubbishy tabloid press. Much better to be a citizen of the world and treat others as we would wish to be treated ourselves.
Whatever spin Shakespeare was commissioned to do, he seems to have sought to tell the truth even if he had to be indirect about it. Trillions of books documenting the use of irony in the plays have been written (my favorite being Goddard's The Meaning of Shakespeare). Below the lofty speeches of Henry V, if you follow the subtext he's sending up the king and his militarism from start to finish. Shakespeare even ends the play having the chorus mention Agincourt was swiftly re-taken by the French.
(cont.)The power of his pen however cannot be overstated. For instance ever English schoolboy thinks of Richard III as the murdering uncle and evil hunchback from the play (from Thomas Moores accounts, Henry 8 chancellor). Both writtern during the reign of the Tudors. I'd want to keep both my hands too.
Actual historical strongly records dispute this characterisation but it's still there in the school text books, I wonder if, in 500 years, the history of our time will be wittern by Hollywood?
Sponsored by the King? Not likely. Henry V was written in 1599 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Starting with the defeat of the Armada ~590 England became a world power and the dominating sea power. Shakespeare was a jobbing playwrite and was cashing in on the resulting nationalism of the time.
@jeffparr123 the world power of England is something that occurs in Victorian times.
England was no world power in 1600..nor 1700..a large fleet yes, some small colonies here and there yes..but the british empire comes with the steam engine,the machine gun and the telegraph.
@guyman117 the british didnt have to invent things or machines to use them, they bought what they nedeed.
But the british empire is an Victorian product, not of medieval times,neither Elizabethian. Its embryo can bee seen in the 18th century. In Medieval times, Britain was a small island with territorial ambitions in much bigger and richer France.
@am1966ath the british didnt invent things? have you ever heard of the industrial revolution? england was the envy of europe under the reign of several medieval kings like edward I and edward III
@dmax631 Where do I write that the british did not invent things??..in the 1500s Britain was not the world power it became in Victorian times no, absolutely not. Shakespaer did probably not ever leave the british Isles, he most certainly had a friend, a noble born diplomat who travelled to Italy and told him on his return.The industrial revolution is not a medieval invention..the medieval centuries was a slow moving process..things took ages to evolv..and most people didn t travel anywhere.
@am1966ath i wasn't implying britain was a power in the 1500s, infact england was very weak at the time of the spanish armada. i said england was powerful at varying different reigns of different kings, example in the 1300s when at times it was the most poweful state in western europe. you said "the british didnt have to invent things or machines to use them, they bought what they nedeed." britain produced around 40% of the worlds inventions. when did i say industrial rev was medieval?
@dmax631 what Empire?..trading stations in India and on the African west coast? the small colonies in America populated by rebellious peasents?..with the technology of Victorian times comes the possibility to explore/exploit the Indian Subcontinent, the African continent..and to rule the sea...
@jeffparr123 England ruling the seas in 1599??world power in 1599?.....you forget the Dutch and their fleets.
England was a pirate -nation,plundering spanish and other ships and spanish cities in the new world.
There were no english armies of size on the european continent and London was a slum-city,full of toothless beggers and prostitutes. Shakespeare had a diplomat friend who fed him stories of the "big" world. England is a worldpower at sea in 1799, not 1599.
@Caracalla23 It takes some time to become a worldpower..the Dutch starts in 1604 by colonizing Java, the british establish Virgina and starts long sea-voyages for trade and some piracy. But Britain become a worldpower through its huge fleet in the 18th century. During the 17th century the english and the dutch get into several sea-wars for numerous reasons.
Also Shakespeare was sponsored by the kings so he had to make them look heroic. Not at all an offense to his talent, the fact doesn't make his works any less genius, however one shouldn't look for historical accuracy in Shakespeare's writings.
Can you imagine how much I am laughing at this stuff at the same time as watching the BNP throwing the Thunderers (The London Times) representative out of of gathering because they - the BNP - disapproved of an independent opinion of what they the BNP did? It is tremendous. Visualise Nick of Griffin uttering Branaghs words!
So professor, is that why monarchs fought along side non-nonble yeomen throughout the crusades from the eleventh century onwards?
It is also common knowledge that valor alone was considered proof of nobility to the extent that Godfrey de Bouillon proclaimed the Turks 'the equals' of the Crusaders if not for their religion.
I think you are using a 21st century 'PC' template to view history as leading up the multicultural paradise that Britain has become today.
Because troops routed easier if the leader wasn't there. Also kings rarely engaged in losing battles unless they had no choice. To say that crusaders viewed muslims as equals is to not know history.
Doofus isn't an adjective, it's a noun. I don't expect perfect English on the internets, but I don't expect pretentious fat nerds to call me "son" either.
Highly recommended for those interested in more about this time and this crucial battle: Bernard Cornwell's excellent novel, Agincourt. I read it with this play scrolling in the back of my mind. No one evokes this era of long bowmen, flashing swords, knights and churning battle horses like Cornwell. A master of historic fiction: riveting stories and characters and the reader learns a lot along the way. Check it out.
listen, im sorry, but branagh kicks oliviers ass on this one. way more feeling. true he has the music too, but it's still ten times more energy (except on th last word whenn oliviers goes fucking nuts)
im american and its a shame to see two of my ally country's citizens fighting on youtube... the point is it was a great speech and a great battle. the war happened some 700 years ago or whenever... it doesnt matter
lets put it this way, if you solved the irish problem they'd come up with another one! now leave this vid alone unless your commenting on how great england is
The English is us. Our forefathers were English and we speak English, though not as well as Kenneth Branagh. Our fates will always be tied together. We owe much to our mother country.
I think you should look at the behaviour of other European countries before you try berating the English. The French were notorious bastards - knights or not.
And how you can mention Northern Ireland.. pfft. Do you know why there is trouble there? It's because the majority of the Irish who live in NI want to remain part of Britain. You stupid tit.
English forever, as is my son, and will his sons be. God save England and all who serve her, for nothing is more pure and excellent than to be English. as we are the few, the brilliant, and the god blessed. xxx
The French did not actually have a chance - an enclosed battlefield with the archers launching 60,000 armour piercing arrows per minute - they completely misunderstood the English battle strategy.
i think i saw a documentry obout argincourt and it stated that they now belive that the french were caught in the mud with their heavy armour and the english peasants and archers defeated them easily! why many frenchman died?peasants didnt go by the same rules of war as did knights and nobles who would be taken in as prisoners for ransom!
you are almost correct, the day before the battle of agincourt it rained so the ground was muddy, so when the french heavy calvery charged up the hill where the english where encamped they were caught in the mud, same with the french infantry, as for the few that made it to the english they were met by wooden stakes in the ground, as for the french that died, well..... none of the kings army at the time were knights, except his guard, so the infantry didn't worry about capturing the enemy troops
considering the numerical and strategc advantages the French enjoyed, it was still a brilliant victory. The French had not learned from Crecy and Poitiers.
They were mostly mown down by wedges of archers firing at angles: they were longbowmen who could get off about 12 a muinte compared to 3 by the french crossbowmen. this film is incorrect because it shows the archers and the infantry working at the same time - the archers would have fired first then the infantry (no cavalry at agincourt) taken down the rest.
Many French noblemen died after the battle. In the rules of war of the day if a knight, or above, yielded i.e. gave up, he sat out and took no further part in the battle. The person he yielded to was entitled to keep him as his prisoner until a ransom was paid for his freedom by his family. This little ruse kept many nobles alive in the age of chivalry. The problem at Agincourt was that so many French yielded there were not enough English to guard them. So Henry ordered they be executed !!!
When I saw this movie in a fairly full movie theatre a few days after it was released, the audience broke into spontaneous cheering and applause at the 3 minute mark in this video. A few dozen people even jumped out of their seats. I had never, and probably never will again, seen an audience react to a movie anything like that. Pure brilliant combination of words, voice, music, and camera.
Really that is a display of such grace, god bless the British and their courage shown apon that day, may it live forever in the memory of the Great British Spirit.
Who hold the Sea blockad against Germani after WW1 ? 900.000 people in germani died over them.
Great British Spirit?
Bombing Dresden and kill an unknown (30.000?) figure of people?
I'am respect the Empire and it way, but I also see the shadows folling on it, and at last the kill not only the nobels of France, the kill also the rose of England!
No british man can say that this was do right, and no european can say that northern Ireland is free.
'and no european can say that northern Ireland is free'
What sort of ignorant nonsense is that? The people of northern ireland have more rights than those in france, germany or italy. So what exactly are you talking about?
The people of northern ireland have more rights than those in france, germany or italy
Is that so? Sunday Bloody sunday, Guilford's four, IRA terrorism, british army killing civilians, irish protestant killing irish catholics killing british soldiers..
well it's all a question of point of view isn't it..any irish blogger around? The fact is there is still quite a lot of violence in NI, read the papers..the peace brokered a short while ago is constantly about to break up, and still some IRA/UFC members are running around(2 british soldier dead this summer?).They don't have a full blown civil war, but it's no paradise either and the economic situation is average(very high unemployement rate)..I live in the present, facts..read the papers!
propeganda? The english were outnumbered six to one at agincourt. They are facts and a source of pride to all englishmen. As the great speech wrote by the greatest writer of the english language makes you aware of.
i think the french had near enough 25-30 thousand knight and we the british had about 5-7 thousand longbowman and men at arms and thanks to the weather and enclosed enviroment. the french knights were to heavy for the mud and were slow aon the march because of there armor, and while the french were marching slowly the power of the longbow was unleashed.
yeah but it happened 800years ago...who cares now? all it does it fuels racism against the french and vice versa...I find it so stupid, feels that you are just looking for any excuse to go to war with the french again for god sake we are in 2009. gordon brown is certainly not henry V and Sarkozy is an ego driven little lord farquad( Shrek I) that deserve to be shot. honestly in France, history at school is a lot more factual, they don't emphasize national pride like in the UK, coz its pointless
I don't think I've ever seen men so joyful and happy to gut another person lol
SuperOriginalGuy 6 days ago
Joan of Ark is better
Checkingokop 1 week ago
Best motivational speech... EVER!
Willysmb44 1 month ago
For Harry, For England, Long Live Britain!!!
drais02 1 month ago
amazing!
Elpollo747 1 month ago
The musical score is hideous, rarely does one hear something so ill placed.
tjmac7 2 months ago
GREAT!!! EPIC!!! MOVIE...
043exbmk 2 months ago
A young 13 year old Batman at 2.13.
MrMaxTruth 3 months ago
@MrMaxTruth - Ehh...thought so
4karmel 2 months ago
My Sovereign Lord, Bestow yourself with SPEEEEED!!!!
Revonaker 3 months ago
1stEPI!!
Thejacknineeightzero 5 months ago
This is good but the 1944 version is much better!
The99Gambo 6 months ago
With speech like that, any football manager can lead a team like Norwich City to beat Barcelone FC and won the UEFA Champions Cup
flaviusfurius 6 months ago
I never get tired of watching this...
Yankeegator 7 months ago
so it was henry v who taught batman how to fight
6Gizmo101 7 months ago
2:14 - 12yr old Batman lol
natochannel123 9 months ago
Amazing speech.
madsod 10 months ago
2:12 congradulations young Christian Bale on your Oscar win!
Houdini774 11 months ago
it's called SATIRE... btw, who's patrick?
PADRAEG 11 months ago
HOW DARE HE INSPIRE SUCH ALLEGIANCE TO England !!!???
PADRAEG 1 year ago
@PADRAEG Why not Patrick,after all its England where this belfast protestent boy found escape from the bombs and bullets being chucked around by other irishmen......oh,yeah and....he's an ACTOR,ya know,ACTING........keep yer rebel poitics to the grubby backstreet bars of dublin fella this is somewhere you will not get a whole heep of fawning support as even the yanks see you lot as having been terrorists/fellow travelers now...
2manynegativewaves 11 months ago
@2manynegativewaves duh? SATIRE... Irish generally don't reply merely directly... ROTFL
PADRAEG 6 months ago
so epic.
palkom13 1 year ago
Epic
DragunTwisT 1 year ago
at 2:31 - looks like Russell Crowe in the bottom right
leavingjupiter 1 year ago
To the 3 people who dislike this, save thou thy labour. Come thou no more for dislike gentle user. They shall have none I swear but THESE MY JOINTS! Which if they have as I will leave 'em them, shall yield them...little.
simonizer888 1 year ago 7
@simonizer888 I reckon they must be French. lol
easycure007 1 year ago
sheeps
teod1212 1 year ago
he has no lips.
nani201 1 year ago
I'm ready to run out and join the British Army, but they don't have any recruiting offices in the US. =)
ChesapeakeBeach 1 year ago 2
A very, very young Christian Bale. Wasn't this his first part?
Aslaug75 1 year ago
@Aslaug75 no, his first part was in Empire of the Sun. This was a year or so later. Kenneth Branagh begged him to take the role.
godzilloid 1 year ago
He's the direct emanation of an angel. His voice, his eyes...his soul...
0lafatamorgana0 1 year ago
Sorry Shakespear fans, but I find all of his work to be obnoxious and ridiculously pompous.
Andreazor 1 year ago
@Andreazor
Back at ya.
severinssister 1 year ago
@Andreazor Obnoxious!!!!! Explain. To me speeches such as this are amongst the greatest passages ever written in the English language. But then again I'm British and you're a Swede.
Caracalla23 1 year ago 2
@Andreazor I suspect t'is because thou understand it not! Or mayhap it's because thy land hast not a history of military prowess? For shame!
Crecybowman 1 year ago
"Dogs... only cowards stand from afar and shoot arrows... They have not the mettle for combat!"
Robert E Howard - Conan the Cimmerian
lahire081 1 year ago
@lahire081 "They have not the mettle for combat" Thats a good one coming from a cheese eating surrender monkey.
Caracalla23 1 year ago
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@Caracalla23
-"There have been 53 major wars in Europe
France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43.
In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10.
Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe".
BBC History
lahire081 1 year ago
people says it dated. still u can be rallied just by we few, we happy few, we band of brothers
adamdd03 1 year ago
this man is going to direct thor. THOR.
gatoradeee 1 year ago
what is the name of the musik
kasanova1331 1 year ago
anyone else notice his spit when they do the close up :-p
SecretAgentClunk 1 year ago
THOR!!!
perrilloux 1 year ago
This is the BEST speech I have ever heard, when presented by Kenneth Branagh. Stephen Ambrose used the main theme as his title to his wonderful WWII book, "Band of Brothers!"
davidferrell1 1 year ago
I dont understand these speeches... We are too far removed from the mindset of medeival Europe to get so rallied by words like these I believe...
To someone like me who does not believe in politics or God... this stuff is meaningless.... I can however appreciate the acting and the musical score.
emilshere 1 year ago
@emilshere You don't believe in politics, you say, but politics continues to go about its merry business and influence your life and life choices. You may
believe we can not get so rallied by these speeches in today's world,
but it doesn't take much to create the right circumstances. Currently,
similar rallying cries are taking place in our midst to become martyrs
and human bombs, not just in faraway lands, but right among us, people who have had the same education and opportunities as us.
andrewshere 1 year ago
@emilshere speak for yourself... I listened to this and immediately went out and slaughtered some Frenchmen. I couldn't help myself really. Must have killed about 20 before I realized, I thought 'It's YouTube done this to me'...
The power TV has over people, it's amazing.
dannidandannikins 1 year ago 2
2:14 CHRISTIAN BALE!!!!
piretedudes 1 year ago
@piretedudes RIGHT!!!! i thought that was
Lightning47 1 year ago
i had to memorize the full speech for a speech meet at my school. one of the hardest things i had to memorize. btw did u guys know the boy in this is Christian Bale? i love him in this movie even though he was only in it a few scenes
notes4films 1 year ago
god i fucking love being english, it just makes u proud seeing this video, we gave the world, shakespeare, dickins, darwin, newton and hawkings, the beatles and the british empire and the magna carter, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND GOD BLESS ENGLAND.
spurs4life85 1 year ago 2
@spurs4life85 Kill the rothchilds and then you people will be great.
Juvantei1 1 year ago
Upon St. Crispin's Day!!!!!
VanHowle 1 year ago
brilliant
what a bastard henry v was though :-D
XVLaHireXV 1 year ago 2
band of brothers.........grenadier guards.....we happy few...i shall remember
charlottebev 1 year ago
Trying to post a message with this so called improved youtube is bloody terrible.
They should have left it the way it was.
lewars1912 1 year ago 8
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Though I love Shakespeare's plays, patriotism and nationalism are created by an emotional brainwashing and the crazy idea that one's country is superior to all others simply because one happened to be born in it. Where would such negative feelings be without the (mostly banal) music, flags, militarism, and the rubbishy tabloid press. Much better to be a citizen of the world and treat others as we would wish to be treated ourselves.
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Whatever spin Shakespeare was commissioned to do, he seems to have sought to tell the truth even if he had to be indirect about it. Trillions of books documenting the use of irony in the plays have been written (my favorite being Goddard's The Meaning of Shakespeare). Below the lofty speeches of Henry V, if you follow the subtext he's sending up the king and his militarism from start to finish. Shakespeare even ends the play having the chorus mention Agincourt was swiftly re-taken by the French.
jtfloch 1 year ago
This looks pretty cool.
DarkWolfen 1 year ago 3
(cont.)The power of his pen however cannot be overstated. For instance ever English schoolboy thinks of Richard III as the murdering uncle and evil hunchback from the play (from Thomas Moores accounts, Henry 8 chancellor). Both writtern during the reign of the Tudors. I'd want to keep both my hands too.
Actual historical strongly records dispute this characterisation but it's still there in the school text books, I wonder if, in 500 years, the history of our time will be wittern by Hollywood?
jeffparr123 1 year ago 4
Sponsored by the King? Not likely. Henry V was written in 1599 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Starting with the defeat of the Armada ~590 England became a world power and the dominating sea power. Shakespeare was a jobbing playwrite and was cashing in on the resulting nationalism of the time.
The Creado of the theater: "Bums on seats".
jeffparr123 1 year ago 14
@jeffparr123
Not that I disagree with your comment--just want to note, it's "playwright," not "playwrite." Just some friendly constructive criticism. ;)
HerrCollier 1 year ago
@jeffparr123 the world power of England is something that occurs in Victorian times.
England was no world power in 1600..nor 1700..a large fleet yes, some small colonies here and there yes..but the british empire comes with the steam engine,the machine gun and the telegraph.
am1966ath 1 year ago
@am1966ath The machine gun was invented by an American(I dont mean the gatlin gun), thats not just american pomposity talking go look it up.
guyman117 1 year ago
@guyman117 the british didnt have to invent things or machines to use them, they bought what they nedeed.
But the british empire is an Victorian product, not of medieval times,neither Elizabethian. Its embryo can bee seen in the 18th century. In Medieval times, Britain was a small island with territorial ambitions in much bigger and richer France.
am1966ath 1 year ago
@am1966ath the british didnt invent things? have you ever heard of the industrial revolution? england was the envy of europe under the reign of several medieval kings like edward I and edward III
dmax631 10 months ago
@dmax631 Where do I write that the british did not invent things??..in the 1500s Britain was not the world power it became in Victorian times no, absolutely not. Shakespaer did probably not ever leave the british Isles, he most certainly had a friend, a noble born diplomat who travelled to Italy and told him on his return.The industrial revolution is not a medieval invention..the medieval centuries was a slow moving process..things took ages to evolv..and most people didn t travel anywhere.
am1966ath 10 months ago
@am1966ath i wasn't implying britain was a power in the 1500s, infact england was very weak at the time of the spanish armada. i said england was powerful at varying different reigns of different kings, example in the 1300s when at times it was the most poweful state in western europe. you said "the british didnt have to invent things or machines to use them, they bought what they nedeed." britain produced around 40% of the worlds inventions. when did i say industrial rev was medieval?
dmax631 10 months ago
@am1966ath also britain did not become powerful in victorian times, for example it became the worlds largest empire at the treaty of paris in 1763
dmax631 10 months ago
@dmax631 what Empire?..trading stations in India and on the African west coast? the small colonies in America populated by rebellious peasents?..with the technology of Victorian times comes the possibility to explore/exploit the Indian Subcontinent, the African continent..and to rule the sea...
am1966ath 10 months ago
@jeffparr123 England ruling the seas in 1599??world power in 1599?.....you forget the Dutch and their fleets.
England was a pirate -nation,plundering spanish and other ships and spanish cities in the new world.
There were no english armies of size on the european continent and London was a slum-city,full of toothless beggers and prostitutes. Shakespeare had a diplomat friend who fed him stories of the "big" world. England is a worldpower at sea in 1799, not 1599.
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Caracalla23 1 year ago
@Caracalla23 It takes some time to become a worldpower..the Dutch starts in 1604 by colonizing Java, the british establish Virgina and starts long sea-voyages for trade and some piracy. But Britain become a worldpower through its huge fleet in the 18th century. During the 17th century the english and the dutch get into several sea-wars for numerous reasons.
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Caracalla23 1 year ago
Also Shakespeare was sponsored by the kings so he had to make them look heroic. Not at all an offense to his talent, the fact doesn't make his works any less genius, however one shouldn't look for historical accuracy in Shakespeare's writings.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
@Pseudologic how's that feel?
Being owned?
Get used to it, you've got a long long life ahead of you.
CrimeReport 1 year ago
@CrimeReport
Watch me care.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Can you imagine how much I am laughing at this stuff at the same time as watching the BNP throwing the Thunderers (The London Times) representative out of of gathering because they - the BNP - disapproved of an independent opinion of what they the BNP did? It is tremendous. Visualise Nick of Griffin uttering Branaghs words!
RaleighDawlishRaynar 1 year ago
So professor, is that why monarchs fought along side non-nonble yeomen throughout the crusades from the eleventh century onwards?
It is also common knowledge that valor alone was considered proof of nobility to the extent that Godfrey de Bouillon proclaimed the Turks 'the equals' of the Crusaders if not for their religion.
I think you are using a 21st century 'PC' template to view history as leading up the multicultural paradise that Britain has become today.
CrimeReport 1 year ago
Because troops routed easier if the leader wasn't there. Also kings rarely engaged in losing battles unless they had no choice. To say that crusaders viewed muslims as equals is to not know history.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Son, sometimes someone says something so doofus like on the internet I cannot help but chuckle.
The quote of Turks equal in valor is directly from William of Tyre, a direct participant in the first crusade.
To say that you are my equal in anything to to not know reality.
CrimeReport 1 year ago
Doofus isn't an adjective, it's a noun. I don't expect perfect English on the internets, but I don't expect pretentious fat nerds to call me "son" either.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Well, what can I say?
I have never seen a more fitting handle, Psuedo. Keep that up now.
CrimeReport 1 year ago
No, I've never heard that witty remark before. Especially not from someone confused about the English rules that people learn in second grade.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
@Pseudologic You may not expect perfect English on the net, but I expect it everywhere - it is my mother tongue and deserves some respect.
Crecybowman 1 year ago 2
@Crecybowman You can expect it all you want, it's not gonna change things.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Subject: touch dash feely catchy voter
Anagram: hey thou cad - fleet st cry havoc
RaleighDawlishRaynar 1 year ago
Highly recommended for those interested in more about this time and this crucial battle: Bernard Cornwell's excellent novel, Agincourt. I read it with this play scrolling in the back of my mind. No one evokes this era of long bowmen, flashing swords, knights and churning battle horses like Cornwell. A master of historic fiction: riveting stories and characters and the reader learns a lot along the way. Check it out.
sjplwc 1 year ago
ah, when England was Catholic, what a nice place to live....
guezz64 2 years ago
@guezz64
Just checking...You're not serious, right?
I mean, I doubt it because nobody would ever say that, but I just want to make sure. D:
LunarEcli 2 years ago
yep, that´s what i really think :)
guezz64 2 years ago
Great times. Black death, non-paved roads, deaths at old age of 40.
Pseudologic 1 year ago
Yup, you're pretty soft.
CrimeReport 1 year ago
One of Shakespear's most wonderful speeches. I love Henry V. I is such a wonderful play!
reinhillergirls 2 years ago
For England and St George, we march to Wootton to the sound of the drums.
LuckyJim100 2 years ago
BRAVO!
KnightOfChrist1 2 years ago 2
Just saw this movie for the first time earlier today. It's incredible. This has to be one of the best speeches in all of Shakespeare.
yankeeangel26 2 years ago 4
"The fewer men, the greater share of honour"
those words rouse such an unspeakable ectacy. Glory and Honor....is there nothing better than it for a man.
0Shane13 2 years ago 2
@0Shane13... yes, there is. eternal glory and eternal honour... the one who only God ans his truth can give. See the night prayer of Henry V... ;)
guezz64 2 years ago
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0Shane13 2 years ago
@guezz64 that would be in the next life correct? So it wouldnt be the best thing that you could have in this life.
0Shane13 2 years ago
does anyone know the name of the score?
duckhunt317 2 years ago 2
Its the soundtrack from teh Henry V moview. I think the name of the actual number is St Crispian's Day.
The entire soundtrack is great.
jz1457 2 years ago 2
Henry V, score by Patrick Doyle, conducted by Simon Rattle.
BigMrFirebird 2 years ago
Long live England/ Greetings from russian friend :)
putinist95 2 years ago 10
Love the speech. We few, we happy few....
lasalleman 2 years ago 23
@lasalleman We band of brothers.
sai10000 1 year ago
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Watching this reminds me of England's greatness, and makes me want to vote BNP.
CrimeReport 2 years ago
haha, you're kidding right?
wootcrisp 2 years ago
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Reading this reminds me of humanity's stupidity, and makes me want to vote you down.
grelthogthemighty 2 years ago
listen, im sorry, but branagh kicks oliviers ass on this one. way more feeling. true he has the music too, but it's still ten times more energy (except on th last word whenn oliviers goes fucking nuts)
dougerber 2 years ago 6
Gotta agree with ya. Olivier's version pales in comparison.
CyberBarrister 2 years ago 2
I love it so much thank you very much.
welchburger 2 years ago
im american and its a shame to see two of my ally country's citizens fighting on youtube... the point is it was a great speech and a great battle. the war happened some 700 years ago or whenever... it doesnt matter
sportscaster25 2 years ago
In my opinion the english didn't win, the french lost. Poor strategy and bad luck on the french.
OmegaOprah 2 years ago
English and French...both fought with courage.
Robbiesmile 2 years ago
those genes of men, of so many battles still flow in us today,,,,,don.t you feel them
ronsiris 2 years ago
Best pre-battle speech ever.
IzzyJG99 2 years ago 3
lets put it this way, if you solved the irish problem they'd come up with another one! now leave this vid alone unless your commenting on how great england is
hoppuss44 2 years ago
I loathe the French. They had it coming.
cindyprovince1 2 years ago
STFU and admire de genius of both Shakespeare and Kenneth Brannagh...
mjusto81 2 years ago 20
For i am a son of England a warrior born to fight, for i shall defend my people and my nation and her honour against foreign invaders FUCK ISLAM
Englishlion12000050 2 years ago 3
The English is us. Our forefathers were English and we speak English, though not as well as Kenneth Branagh. Our fates will always be tied together. We owe much to our mother country.
5023849465 2 years ago 3
It's a Shakespear Tale, but in realtity Henry V kills most of the nobels of the european Continent,, and so the knights and nobels are died forever.
A shame for central Europe, a shame so great that god send Jean D'Arc to tilt the leadership of England in France.
(Sorry about my bad english)
Caprizip 2 years ago
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Shut the hell up.
RandomDating 2 years ago
I think you should look at the behaviour of other European countries before you try berating the English. The French were notorious bastards - knights or not.
And how you can mention Northern Ireland.. pfft. Do you know why there is trouble there? It's because the majority of the Irish who live in NI want to remain part of Britain. You stupid tit.
D4mo84 2 years ago
English need to regain their balls again so we can whoop muslim ass.
rockandstroll 2 years ago
fear not our balls are there, as they ever were and ever shall be,,,,,england is not a country,,,,but a feeling... a spirit
ronsiris 2 years ago
English forever, as is my son, and will his sons be. God save England and all who serve her, for nothing is more pure and excellent than to be English. as we are the few, the brilliant, and the god blessed. xxx
Tristanhedfuk 2 years ago
mmmmm stirring words,,,,,we are the english,,,,a deep feeling within,
ronsiris 2 years ago
Al Murry mode :Snifff...! choke ... it gets me right here mate
makes me proud son ..PROUD ..TO BE ENGLISH!
willobi 2 years ago 2
The French are sissies and always will be
gopconservative78 2 years ago
The French did not actually have a chance - an enclosed battlefield with the archers launching 60,000 armour piercing arrows per minute - they completely misunderstood the English battle strategy.
westdean 2 years ago
what else is new....like with the Germans, the Muslims, blind 5th graders...the list goes on and on
gopconservative78 2 years ago
Well you said it all!, missunderstood, or totally defeated, take your pick, god save the Queen. xxx
Tristanhedfuk 2 years ago
At least they have capitalism, unlike the US.
CrimeReport 2 years ago
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intermender 2 years ago
i think i saw a documentry obout argincourt and it stated that they now belive that the french were caught in the mud with their heavy armour and the english peasants and archers defeated them easily! why many frenchman died?peasants didnt go by the same rules of war as did knights and nobles who would be taken in as prisoners for ransom!
phelotus 2 years ago
you are almost correct, the day before the battle of agincourt it rained so the ground was muddy, so when the french heavy calvery charged up the hill where the english where encamped they were caught in the mud, same with the french infantry, as for the few that made it to the english they were met by wooden stakes in the ground, as for the french that died, well..... none of the kings army at the time were knights, except his guard, so the infantry didn't worry about capturing the enemy troops
izzakterras 2 years ago
considering the numerical and strategc advantages the French enjoyed, it was still a brilliant victory. The French had not learned from Crecy and Poitiers.
sudburylawyer 2 years ago
They were mostly mown down by wedges of archers firing at angles: they were longbowmen who could get off about 12 a muinte compared to 3 by the french crossbowmen. this film is incorrect because it shows the archers and the infantry working at the same time - the archers would have fired first then the infantry (no cavalry at agincourt) taken down the rest.
wingpenguin 2 years ago
Many French noblemen died after the battle. In the rules of war of the day if a knight, or above, yielded i.e. gave up, he sat out and took no further part in the battle. The person he yielded to was entitled to keep him as his prisoner until a ransom was paid for his freedom by his family. This little ruse kept many nobles alive in the age of chivalry. The problem at Agincourt was that so many French yielded there were not enough English to guard them. So Henry ordered they be executed !!!
Pactrolus 2 years ago
i like this movie
logodot 2 years ago
My favorite is still Macbeth, but this is WAY better than any single speech in that play.
CountArtha 2 years ago
Mcbeth is a play about tight fisted scottish cunts Henry V is about England say no more
Thorwulf18 2 years ago
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what the heck is he saying? speak english please
44mikec44 2 years ago
When I saw this movie in a fairly full movie theatre a few days after it was released, the audience broke into spontaneous cheering and applause at the 3 minute mark in this video. A few dozen people even jumped out of their seats. I had never, and probably never will again, seen an audience react to a movie anything like that. Pure brilliant combination of words, voice, music, and camera.
randyc9999 2 years ago 6
Really that is a display of such grace, god bless the British and their courage shown apon that day, may it live forever in the memory of the Great British Spirit.
Nwovance 2 years ago 5
English with a few welsh, agincourt was an english victory let us not forget
hoppuss44 2 years ago
Er, where do you think the archers came from?
Stussy88776655 2 years ago
Great British Spirit ?
Who hold the Sea blockad against Germani after WW1 ? 900.000 people in germani died over them.
Great British Spirit?
Bombing Dresden and kill an unknown (30.000?) figure of people?
I'am respect the Empire and it way, but I also see the shadows folling on it, and at last the kill not only the nobels of France, the kill also the rose of England!
No british man can say that this was do right, and no european can say that northern Ireland is free.
Caprizip 2 years ago
Shut the hell up.
RandomDating 2 years ago
'and no european can say that northern Ireland is free'
What sort of ignorant nonsense is that? The people of northern ireland have more rights than those in france, germany or italy. So what exactly are you talking about?
FactualTruthProvider 2 years ago
The people of northern ireland have more rights than those in france, germany or italy
Is that so? Sunday Bloody sunday, Guilford's four, IRA terrorism, british army killing civilians, irish protestant killing irish catholics killing british soldiers..
excuse me ..What are YOU talking about?
victoryredtheband 2 years ago
I'm sorry, are any of those things taking place now? I must have missed it on the news. You are living in the past dear.
FactualTruthProvider 2 years ago
well it's all a question of point of view isn't it..any irish blogger around? The fact is there is still quite a lot of violence in NI, read the papers..the peace brokered a short while ago is constantly about to break up, and still some IRA/UFC members are running around(2 british soldier dead this summer?).They don't have a full blown civil war, but it's no paradise either and the economic situation is average(very high unemployement rate)..I live in the present, facts..read the papers!
victoryredtheband 2 years ago
I'm irish, you cuntflap.
FactualTruthProvider 2 years ago
Sow the wind....you know the rest.
FactualTruthProvider 2 years ago
You are an idiot!
Pactrolus 2 years ago
propeganda? The english were outnumbered six to one at agincourt. They are facts and a source of pride to all englishmen. As the great speech wrote by the greatest writer of the english language makes you aware of.
sweeneyjjx 2 years ago
actually it was 5 to 1 according to this clip?
intermender 2 years ago
(sorry couldn't resist ;)
intermender 2 years ago
i think the french had near enough 25-30 thousand knight and we the british had about 5-7 thousand longbowman and men at arms and thanks to the weather and enclosed enviroment. the french knights were to heavy for the mud and were slow aon the march because of there armor, and while the french were marching slowly the power of the longbow was unleashed.
blackstonefilms123 2 years ago
yeah but it happened 800years ago...who cares now? all it does it fuels racism against the french and vice versa...I find it so stupid, feels that you are just looking for any excuse to go to war with the french again for god sake we are in 2009. gordon brown is certainly not henry V and Sarkozy is an ego driven little lord farquad( Shrek I) that deserve to be shot. honestly in France, history at school is a lot more factual, they don't emphasize national pride like in the UK, coz its pointless
victoryredtheband 2 years ago
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this is a ancient version of propaganda! death to all redcoats!
phelotus 2 years ago
Propoganda? your obviously uneducated because France got fuckign spanked at Agincourt.
StandTogetherForever 2 years ago 5
phelotus - Yeah like American "movies" are never over patriotic or propoganda give me a break...
StandTogetherForever 2 years ago
One might say his speech is... CRISPY.
courierdubois 2 years ago