Thank you so much for this! I have a class based on this movie and my damn Netflix account is down until Monday, the date I have to turn in my work! Thanks again!
I saw Henry V when it came out and it's the best screen adaptation of Shakespeare so far, IMHO. It's a great challenge to film a play that was made to be performed on a stage at the coming-of-age of theatre. In the same way that D.W. Griffith took the medium and invented modern cinema in the early 1900s. Before that, a movie was a stage production with a camera set up in front. A great thing about the battle, after the build-up to it, is the lack of F/X, using sound and editing to make it work.
My favourite Shakespeare play of ALL time! I saw a great production when I was in school, went to see Alan Howard play Henry V when the RSC was at The Aldwych Theatre. I will never, ever forget the rousing "Cry God for Harry, England and St George!" I got goosepimples back then and still do now.
@FandubSongs1 "No one cares about your stupid side of your stupidness" has to be the most profound thing your brain cell has come up with - maybe they'll engrave it on your tombstone (BTW,the word is 'stupidity', and no need to thank me for teaching you, you're welcome) No-one's Interested (as you can well see) in "answering" your idiotic, desperate "questions", so S.T.F.U. and just get over it.
@slideharp1 whatever in english theres no limit to the way people make words and maybe you don't care but my question was answer already by people it was pm to me whatever sorry but i'm not really in the mood to argue right now i lose my madness quickly when arguing with people
@FandubSongs1 No problems with your English, buddy - I don't want you to 'lose your madness' but you could've let it go and not argued with me in the first place. I responded to your comment because it was belligerent and silly.
@slideharp1 or you could've just read the comment and not reply to it you could've just thought about it in your mind i reply cause i was taking this question seriously i watched the movie but don't understand it
@slideharp1 its fine if i do this is a comment box doesn't matter what i do i don't like people who just look over comments and try to find people to tell it off like some cool people like you are i'm asking question cause i don't know the answers to from the movie is that bad i don't know so asking question to something you don't know is not a bad thing i see your asking me question you don't know why i do this too right?
1. why is the figure of henry played by a boyish looking actor-instead of a warrior stud?
2. the english people have always treasured the "common touch" the ability of a king to like, relate to, and get along with the common man not just royals. How is this common touch seen in this films portrait of henry v?
3. why did falstaff have to die very early in the film?
4. what scenes show that henry has grown up and become kingly in action & in thought?
@FandubSongs1 O/k, you're not going to let go of this are you? Here are your answers:
1) Because he was very young when he came to the throne.
2) You'll have to WATCH THE MOVIE to understand the relationship between the English people and the monarchs of the Middle Ages - in fact, you'd have to be English and Interested in History
@slideharp1 you may find this as an right answer but these are just answers out of the air the question looks easy but theres a deeper meaning to them like the first one why is he played by a boyish looking kid it isn't be he was young when he came to throne that's a deeper meaning to the question than you think there is
@FandubSongs1 How deep?. First question: "boyish looking kid" - Henry V was 26 when he came to the throne, Kenneth Branagh was 29 when he made this movie. Please explain what I'm missing here.
@slideharp1 the question was why is the figure of henry played by a boyish looking actor-instead of a warrior stud? meaning why does in the movie he appears more of a weaker person instead of a strong looking man that's what the asking is asking not just because of his age why did they use a man that looks weaker than a man that is more of a strong looking person
@FandubSongs1 So now you're saying that Branagh looks too much like a pussy rather than a tough guy. It seems that you don't even understand your own question considering you're now changing it. You're also grossly insulting my intelligence with your idea of what a 'tough guy looks like'. Maybe a sumo wrestler would be more satisfying to your taste.
@slideharp1 OMG you don't understand the question is asking why did they use a weak looking prince to play the role and not a stud looking man that's the question its not saying he IS a stud
@FandubSongs1 I think I understand the question just fine and I already answered it. And you seem to be the only person who sees Kenneth Branagh as "a weak-looking man". Also, why Should they use a "stud-looking man" - it's a British production, not an American one. There's a difference. Did you not know this???
@slideharp1 nvm you don't understand the deep meaning of the question its asking why he looks weak it has nothing to do with the hell whatever you are saying
@FandubSongs1 Kenneth Branagh doesn't look like a "weak-looking Prince" and if you want keep saying that he does you should piss off and stop sending your stupid comments to my inbox, you cunt. You've sent me the same trash for nearly two pages. Now fuck off.
@FandCrapSongs So kindly stop sending them.That's all. You exhausted your posture a couple of pages ago - all sent to me. You appear to have an obsession for Attention from me - I'm all out of giving Attention to your whining. Please go whine to someone else. Trolls like you become boring very fast. Better still, you can continue whatever your contention about Henry V in the box that says "Respond to this video" - that's what it's for, it's just below "All comments".
@slideharp1 when did i ever send you a stupid comment to your comment box i totally am not answering you no more and who's that down there that wrote fandcrapsongs obviously that is directing it to me
@FandubSongs1 1. i guess that henry died at 35 only five or six years after his great victory at agincourt.2. see you truly understand henry v you hve know a little of henry iv, see henry was known for spending too much time at the tavern and his dad blasts him for it implying that his wasn't his son.3. no answer but ther is a scense between falstaff in the king when nims wants to rob some pilgrims and when henry is asked to jion in he declines saying that his religion forbids him to do so.
@mdsaxc02 The insertion of the death of Falstaff is cleverly lifted by Branagh from Henry lV, part two, and used in the movie version. If you've ever read them, you can see how much dialogue he's taken out from the written work - including the part where Nym asks him "When thou art king, will'st thou not hang a thief?" - Hal: "No, thou shalt"
@slideharp1 yes i think sometime in movies they have edit something out to appeal to people who don't read, that's why in america most movies are mostly 1.5 to 2 hours long it's hard to keep people really enaged for much longer unless it's the godfather or something. very rare.
@FandubSongs1forget point 3 but in henry v one of his tavern buddies asks him if he would hang a theif henry says no but when he invades france he makes a decree that stealing is punishable by death and it's the same man that he has to hang. he didn't want to but he has to enforce his sovereignty on his subjects no matter who they are.
@mdsaxc02 thanks for answering my questions nicely unlike that stupid sidecrap person down there acting all high and mightly like he wrote the play or soemthing
@FandubSongs1 you're welcome like talking history and shakespere. wish they would teach it in school and maybe we as a society would have some empathy for each other.we don't feel for each other, you go to other countries and it's not like that. you don't have the crime rates other countries have crime and poverty so that's not the reason. we so busy trying to hurt each other we hurt ourshelves because we all in the same boat rather we like or not.
@mdsaxc02 Charles Kay and Alex McCowen as The Archbishop of Canterbury and The Bishop of Ely are brilliant. My favorite shot here is at 9.33. IMO this movie is the most successful cinematic Shakespeare work.
@slideharp1 i like it when henry ask the bishops to not lie just to win his favor "to heed for never did two kingdoms contend without much flow of blood". henry's father killed a king which was against the church who believed that it was a sin the kill god's chosen one to rule and he had his body reburied show respect for the church.
@mdsaxc02 It's a lot about how a playwright becomes a screenwriter, them being quite different things. A line in an old movie has a producer telling a novelist "You can't film adjectives", meaning he needed a different approach. Branagh's abridged version of a 400-year old play combined with parts of the previous "chapter" really works. M'thinx, a lot of planning went into Just the order of how the story unfolds, what with the amount of dialogue/material to draw from.
I loved this version! Oh I wish Branagh had more up his sleeve in terms of Shakespeare, but he seemed to have run out of steam following Hamlet, then the disaster of Love's Labour's Lost, and a somewhat modest success of As You Like It (set in Japan, interestingly). Oh how I wish he had more genius to put forth more Shakespearean plays, to start off with The Tempest, then onto Julius Caesar. He just needs to find the confidence and the money in himself, and work on a new angle.
I uploaded this last year and t was taken down when some douchbag reported it after scolding me in the comments for being a copyright violater. The guys name was Torgoable, I hope he's ashamed of what he did.
@aliciarf2003 Uhhhhh, yea... Cause this is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Anonymous is about Shakepeare. And This movie is 20 some years older than Anonymous, and the play is way older, so I really doubt it's a relfection of Anonymous. Unless Shakespeare had a time machine.
@Heartwing13 I am keenly aware of the authorship and of The Bard's lack of a time machine. The beginnings of both movies are eerily similar in that they both feature Derek Jacobi in modern clothing in a theater speaking directly to the camera. Anonymous was clearly influenced by this vision of Henry V and that was all I meant to say (it is simply that I saw Anonymous before this). I did not intend for my semantics to cause any confusion.
Fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it...What a way to enter a room! Sheer brillance, a shadow of the young king, small at first, then growing bigger as he walks to his throne. I have always loved shakespear, and love it even more when truly worthy movies are made of his works, and this one is truly worthy!
@YukonCorneleone Man bro what is your problem. If you dont like what he said or the vid he put up DON'T WATCH IT!! Do you need a dictionary definition of those words or are you smart enough to understand them?
This was the first Shakespeare movie I've watched and its still one of my favorite films of all time. This film introduced me to Shakespeare in a big way as a teen and I'm still a Shakespeare addict.
not a bad movie but les not forget henry the V and the rest of the gang dident really talk like that.. this is a versions of shakespeare creating an illusion of past events..henry the V speech was even backd up by music making it more inspring that it really was.in battle there is no victory music or glory just the empty silence of the dead!!
This movie is how I discovered Shakespeare! Without Kenneth Brannagh I would probably still think it was stodgy academic stuff you were forced to read at school! Thank You Mr Brannagh!!!!
It is good to see this version of Henry V back as a full movie here; may it last longer than its predecessors! Without a doubt Monsieur Branagh has made one of the best Shakespeare adaptations on the screen so far; ands certainly the best of Henry V; though they could have used the whole text; shame that Monsieur Branagh did not made version of Henry IV Part I & II in the same manner, with him as Prince Henry and Brian Blessed as his father; instead he makes now his dumb American movies.
@radagastthe3rd: Enjoyed have I this movie often; and if I recall correctly it was the first thing I have ever seen of Shakespeare; and I did think for some time that it was just some excellent movie about the middle ages; but then I learned that it based on a play of a man called Shakespeare; a fateful encounter, which had a serious impact on my self; as I became addicted and started to adore the poet; who is truly one of the greatest bards ever lived and much more: A brilliant thinker, too.
@radagastthe3rd love this man branagh!! he is brilliant actor he really should make henry IV and richard III some of the characters in this play are in henry IV Henry is young and hanging out too much with the commmon man at the tavern and his father blasts him for it even challeging his manhood and impling that not a prince and his son but make up for it by fighting to end the rebel upraising.
@mdsaxc02: Back in 1989 he could have enacted indeed the spoiled prince Hal quite well, but now it would more beseem him to enact his worrying father Henry IV!
@FireEyedMaidOfWar yes he really good in hollywood i think that last i seen him was in the second harry potter movie, but i wish more people would be interested in shakespere. you learn alot of human behavior, and alot of things HAVEN'T change since his death, in his "to be not to be" speech he nails to same things that plague our society today. erie isn't it.
@mdsaxc02: Don’t mention it: Ever since I saw him in this childish movie flick I indulge into the imagination that this Harry Potter bloke should have a Harry Monmouth flashback syndrome and all over sudden saying things to his friend Ron like: “What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow!” – and I will quote the German philosopher Nietzsche about the true meaning of Shakespeare and tragic poetry in general in reply to your sayings:
"... Life is an adventure whichever side you may take in life it will always retain this character!" Thus speaks the poet of a restless and vigorous age, an age which is almost intoxicated and stupefied by its superabundance of blood and energy, in an age more evil than our own: and this is why it is necessary for us to adapt and accommodate ourselves first to the purpose of a Shakespearian play, that is, by misunderstanding it."
"... (in the Ajax, Philoctetes, CEdipus] however easy it might have been in the cases just mentioned to make the guilt the lever of the play, it was carefully avoided by the poets. In the same way the tragic poet by his images of life does not wish to set us against life. On the contrary, he exclaims: "It is the charm of charms, this exciting, changing, and dangerous existence of ours, so often gloomy and so often bathed in sun! ..."
"... This would be turning poets upside down, these poets who, especially Shakespeare, are in love with the passions in themselves, and not less so with the readiness for death which they give rise to : this mood in which the heart no more clings to life than a drop of water does to the glass. It is not the guilt and its pernicious consequences which interests these poets Shakespeare as little as Sophocles ..."
"... It is only from this moment that he becomes "demoniacally" attractive, and that he encourages similar natures to imitate him. There is something demoniacal here: something which is in revolt against advantage and life, in favour of a thought and an impulse. Do you think that Tristan and Isolde are warnings against adultery, merely because adultery has resulted in the death of both of them? ..."
"... He who is truly obsessed by an ardent ambition takes delight in beholding this picture of himself; and when the hero is driven to destruction by his passion, this is the most pungent spice in the hot drink of this delight. Did the poet feel this in another way? How royally and with how little of the knave in him does his ambitious hero run his course from the moment of his great crime! ..."
"The man who imagines that the effect of Shakespeare's plays is a moral one, and that the sight of Macbeth irresistibly induces us to shun the evil of ambition, is mistaken, and he is mistaken once more if he believes that Shakespeare himself thought so. ..."
@FireEyedMaidOfWar There has Never Been "An Age Of Evil More Than Our Own" i.e. Now. BUT - don't worry!! we Will continue to mutate into one that's even More so.
... "Formerly all the world was insane,"--say the subtlest of them, and blink thereby. They are clever and know all that hath happened: so there is no end to their raillery. People still fall out, but are soon reconciled--otherwise it spoileth their stomachs. They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, but they have a regard for health. "We have discovered happiness,"--say the last men, and blink thereby."
"... that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse."
"... His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest. "We have discovered happiness"--say the last men, and blink thereby. They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth. Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men! A little poison now and then: ..."
"Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Lo! I show you THE LAST MAN. "What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?"--so asketh the last man and blinketh. The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. ..."
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Yes, yes, yes very good, a bit short maybe. However: There has Never Been an "Age Of Evil More Than Our Own" as you contend. Evil now is a much more refined human Art-form than it ever was.
@slideharp1: Not “evil” but “bad” as the term of “evil” is applied in a slave moral (such as Christendom) to the nobles and this age is far from being noble but timid, decadent, dull, boring, tedious, honourless, pride less, feeble, weak and so on but not evil.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar It is more evil now than it's ever been in the entire history of the species. Anyone who can't see that must live in a world of words and endless prose. GET REAL.
@slideharp1: There is no avail: This age maybe bad as any but it is certainly not evil and U have to invoke Nietzsche now on the very meaning of the word evil:
"... This hidden basis from time to time needs to be discharged: the animal must come out again, must go back into the wilderness,—Roman, Arab, German, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings—in this need they are all alike. It is the noble races which left behind the concept of the “barbarian” in all their tracks, wherever they went."
"... who perhaps walk away from a dreadful sequence of murder, arson, rape, and torture with an exhilaration and spiritual equilibrium, as if they had merely pulled off a student prank, convinced that the poets now once again have something to sing about and praise for a long time to come. At the bottom of all these noble races we cannot fail to recognize the beast of prey, the blond beast splendidly roaming around in its lust for loot and victory. ..."
"... loyalty, pride, and friendship—towards the outside, where the strange world, the world of foreigners, begins, these men are not much better than beasts of prey turned loose. There they enjoy freedom from all social constraints. In the wilderness they make up for the tension which a long fenced-in confinement within the peace of the community brings about. They go back to the innocent consciousness of a wild beast of prey, as joyful monsters, ..."
"... Here there is one thing we will be the last to deny: the man who gets to know these “good men” only as enemies, knows them also as nothing but evil enemies, and the same good men who are kept within strict limits by custom, honour, habit, thankfulness, even more by mutual protection, through jealousy inter pares [among equals] and who, by contrast, demonstrate in relation to each other such resourceful consideration, self-control, refinement, ..."
"... how different they are! But it is not the same idea of “good”; it is much rather a question of who the “evil man” really is, in the sense of the morality of ressentiment. The strict answer to that is as follows: simply the “good man” of the other morality, the noble man, the powerful, the ruling man, only coloured over, only reinterpreted, only seen through the poisonous eyes of ressentiment. ..."
"... This “bad” originating from the noble man and that “evil” arising out of the stew pot of insatiable hatred—of these the first is a later creation, an afterthought, a complementary colour; by contrast, the second is the original, the beginning, the essential act of conception in slave morality—although the two words “bad” and “evil” both seem opposite to the same idea of “good,” ..."
"We see exactly the opposite with the noble man, who conceives the fundamental idea “good” in advance and spontaneously, that is, from himself and from there first creates a picture of “bad” for himself! ..."
@FireEyedMaidOfWar I don't consider Nietzsche to be such a God that I'd write endless pages and pages of his quotes. The has never been an Age Of Evil as evil as the one we live in Now.
@slideharp1: So far I have not heard nothing of Nietzsche’s apotheosis but should he have indeed become a god, few mortals have deserved it as much as he has; meanwhile he remains of course my other self, my counsel's consistory, my oracle and my prophet and I, like a child, will go by his direction.
While you should define "evil" and then explain why the current age seems to be more "evil" to you as any other age, else this discussion will consists of mutual denials only.
@slideharp1: I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest…
Thank you so much for this! I have a class based on this movie and my damn Netflix account is down until Monday, the date I have to turn in my work! Thanks again!
Lomns 1 week ago
@Lomns let me guess.... george mason.. english 202 war literature
axelfbomber 1 week ago
I adore this film. It sparked my love of history.
alexkrycek21 2 weeks ago
we happy few =)
Evan7893 2 weeks ago
Great-fully thank you!!
samueldavs 1 month ago
9.34 - fantastic shot.
gyrofoam1 2 months ago
"So 'tis clear as is the Summer sun"
gyrofoam1 2 months ago
I saw Henry V when it came out and it's the best screen adaptation of Shakespeare so far, IMHO. It's a great challenge to film a play that was made to be performed on a stage at the coming-of-age of theatre. In the same way that D.W. Griffith took the medium and invented modern cinema in the early 1900s. Before that, a movie was a stage production with a camera set up in front. A great thing about the battle, after the build-up to it, is the lack of F/X, using sound and editing to make it work.
slideharp1 2 months ago
I don't understand why anyone would describe Kenneth Branagh as "weak-looking".
slideharp1 2 months ago
Oh and I forgot to add, I have an excellent recording of Richard Burton playing Henry V, I know I have the album somewhere, I must find it!
HanzeUK 2 months ago
My favourite Shakespeare play of ALL time! I saw a great production when I was in school, went to see Alan Howard play Henry V when the RSC was at The Aldwych Theatre. I will never, ever forget the rousing "Cry God for Harry, England and St George!" I got goosepimples back then and still do now.
HanzeUK 2 months ago
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FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 "No one cares about your stupid side of your stupidness" has to be the most profound thing your brain cell has come up with - maybe they'll engrave it on your tombstone (BTW,the word is 'stupidity', and no need to thank me for teaching you, you're welcome) No-one's Interested (as you can well see) in "answering" your idiotic, desperate "questions", so S.T.F.U. and just get over it.
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 whatever in english theres no limit to the way people make words and maybe you don't care but my question was answer already by people it was pm to me whatever sorry but i'm not really in the mood to argue right now i lose my madness quickly when arguing with people
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 No problems with your English, buddy - I don't want you to 'lose your madness' but you could've let it go and not argued with me in the first place. I responded to your comment because it was belligerent and silly.
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 or you could've just read the comment and not reply to it you could've just thought about it in your mind i reply cause i was taking this question seriously i watched the movie but don't understand it
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
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slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 its fine if i do this is a comment box doesn't matter what i do i don't like people who just look over comments and try to find people to tell it off like some cool people like you are i'm asking question cause i don't know the answers to from the movie is that bad i don't know so asking question to something you don't know is not a bad thing i see your asking me question you don't know why i do this too right?
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
can anyone answer these questions quick for me
1. why is the figure of henry played by a boyish looking actor-instead of a warrior stud?
2. the english people have always treasured the "common touch" the ability of a king to like, relate to, and get along with the common man not just royals. How is this common touch seen in this films portrait of henry v?
3. why did falstaff have to die very early in the film?
4. what scenes show that henry has grown up and become kingly in action & in thought?
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 O/k, you're not going to let go of this are you? Here are your answers:
1) Because he was very young when he came to the throne.
2) You'll have to WATCH THE MOVIE to understand the relationship between the English people and the monarchs of the Middle Ages - in fact, you'd have to be English and Interested in History
3) Because he did.
4) The first scene thru' to the last. Any more?
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 you may find this as an right answer but these are just answers out of the air the question looks easy but theres a deeper meaning to them like the first one why is he played by a boyish looking kid it isn't be he was young when he came to throne that's a deeper meaning to the question than you think there is
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 How deep?. First question: "boyish looking kid" - Henry V was 26 when he came to the throne, Kenneth Branagh was 29 when he made this movie. Please explain what I'm missing here.
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 the question was why is the figure of henry played by a boyish looking actor-instead of a warrior stud? meaning why does in the movie he appears more of a weaker person instead of a strong looking man that's what the asking is asking not just because of his age why did they use a man that looks weaker than a man that is more of a strong looking person
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 So now you're saying that Branagh looks too much like a pussy rather than a tough guy. It seems that you don't even understand your own question considering you're now changing it. You're also grossly insulting my intelligence with your idea of what a 'tough guy looks like'. Maybe a sumo wrestler would be more satisfying to your taste.
slideharp1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 BTW, who told you that Henry V was a "stud"?
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 OMG you don't understand the question is asking why did they use a weak looking prince to play the role and not a stud looking man that's the question its not saying he IS a stud
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 I think I understand the question just fine and I already answered it. And you seem to be the only person who sees Kenneth Branagh as "a weak-looking man". Also, why Should they use a "stud-looking man" - it's a British production, not an American one. There's a difference. Did you not know this???
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slideharp1 nvm you don't understand the deep meaning of the question its asking why he looks weak it has nothing to do with the hell whatever you are saying
FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandubSongs1 Kenneth Branagh doesn't look like a "weak-looking Prince" and if you want keep saying that he does you should piss off and stop sending your stupid comments to my inbox, you cunt. You've sent me the same trash for nearly two pages. Now fuck off.
slideharp1 2 months ago
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FandubSongs1 2 months ago
@FandCrapSongs So kindly stop sending them.That's all. You exhausted your posture a couple of pages ago - all sent to me. You appear to have an obsession for Attention from me - I'm all out of giving Attention to your whining. Please go whine to someone else. Trolls like you become boring very fast. Better still, you can continue whatever your contention about Henry V in the box that says "Respond to this video" - that's what it's for, it's just below "All comments".
slideharp1 2 months ago
@slidecrap1
FandubSongs1 1 month ago
@FandSnot I told you to stop sending your shitstink to my comment box.Can't get enough Attention from me, can you. Off with you now.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1 when did i ever send you a stupid comment to your comment box i totally am not answering you no more and who's that down there that wrote fandcrapsongs obviously that is directing it to me
FandubSongs1 1 month ago
@FandubSongs1 1. i guess that henry died at 35 only five or six years after his great victory at agincourt.2. see you truly understand henry v you hve know a little of henry iv, see henry was known for spending too much time at the tavern and his dad blasts him for it implying that his wasn't his son.3. no answer but ther is a scense between falstaff in the king when nims wants to rob some pilgrims and when henry is asked to jion in he declines saying that his religion forbids him to do so.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 The insertion of the death of Falstaff is cleverly lifted by Branagh from Henry lV, part two, and used in the movie version. If you've ever read them, you can see how much dialogue he's taken out from the written work - including the part where Nym asks him "When thou art king, will'st thou not hang a thief?" - Hal: "No, thou shalt"
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1 yes i think sometime in movies they have edit something out to appeal to people who don't read, that's why in america most movies are mostly 1.5 to 2 hours long it's hard to keep people really enaged for much longer unless it's the godfather or something. very rare.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@FandubSongs1forget point 3 but in henry v one of his tavern buddies asks him if he would hang a theif henry says no but when he invades france he makes a decree that stealing is punishable by death and it's the same man that he has to hang. he didn't want to but he has to enforce his sovereignty on his subjects no matter who they are.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 thanks for answering my questions nicely unlike that stupid sidecrap person down there acting all high and mightly like he wrote the play or soemthing
FandubSongs1 1 month ago
@FandubSongs1 you're welcome like talking history and shakespere. wish they would teach it in school and maybe we as a society would have some empathy for each other.we don't feel for each other, you go to other countries and it's not like that. you don't have the crime rates other countries have crime and poverty so that's not the reason. we so busy trying to hurt each other we hurt ourshelves because we all in the same boat rather we like or not.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 Charles Kay and Alex McCowen as The Archbishop of Canterbury and The Bishop of Ely are brilliant. My favorite shot here is at 9.33. IMO this movie is the most successful cinematic Shakespeare work.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1 i like it when henry ask the bishops to not lie just to win his favor "to heed for never did two kingdoms contend without much flow of blood". henry's father killed a king which was against the church who believed that it was a sin the kill god's chosen one to rule and he had his body reburied show respect for the church.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 It's a lot about how a playwright becomes a screenwriter, them being quite different things. A line in an old movie has a producer telling a novelist "You can't film adjectives", meaning he needed a different approach. Branagh's abridged version of a 400-year old play combined with parts of the previous "chapter" really works. M'thinx, a lot of planning went into Just the order of how the story unfolds, what with the amount of dialogue/material to draw from.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1 still a great movie.Branagh the man!!!!!
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 ''tis clear as is the Summer sun!"
slideharp1 1 month ago
I did that prologue in front of my whole school once.
XIIIKarl 2 months ago
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kalimerafriends 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Henry looks like Batman coming in lol
pliteni 2 months ago
I loved this version! Oh I wish Branagh had more up his sleeve in terms of Shakespeare, but he seemed to have run out of steam following Hamlet, then the disaster of Love's Labour's Lost, and a somewhat modest success of As You Like It (set in Japan, interestingly). Oh how I wish he had more genius to put forth more Shakespearean plays, to start off with The Tempest, then onto Julius Caesar. He just needs to find the confidence and the money in himself, and work on a new angle.
pliteni 2 months ago
@pliteni Yes, "Julius Caesar" would be a fine piece for Branagh to get into.
slideharp1 2 months ago
6:23 best part...
xSilverPhinxx 2 months ago
Lol at the captions!
xSilverPhinxx 2 months ago
I uploaded this last year and t was taken down when some douchbag reported it after scolding me in the comments for being a copyright violater. The guys name was Torgoable, I hope he's ashamed of what he did.
skip8619 3 months ago
6:47
The guy from Black Adder? The one who likes to swear!
xSilverPhinxx 3 months ago
Hey look its King Richard II!!
TheMusiclover222 3 months ago
The Darth Vader of Medieval times 5:10
michjessy 3 months ago
My goodness. This first part is a direct reflection of the movie Anonymous that just came out. It is eerie.
aliciarf2003 3 months ago
@aliciarf2003 Uhhhhh, yea... Cause this is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Anonymous is about Shakepeare. And This movie is 20 some years older than Anonymous, and the play is way older, so I really doubt it's a relfection of Anonymous. Unless Shakespeare had a time machine.
Heartwing13 3 months ago
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aliciarf2003 3 months ago
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aliciarf2003 3 months ago
@Heartwing13 I am keenly aware of the authorship and of The Bard's lack of a time machine. The beginnings of both movies are eerily similar in that they both feature Derek Jacobi in modern clothing in a theater speaking directly to the camera. Anonymous was clearly influenced by this vision of Henry V and that was all I meant to say (it is simply that I saw Anonymous before this). I did not intend for my semantics to cause any confusion.
aliciarf2003 3 months ago
Love Derek Jacobi. Just love him.
aweekinbudapest 4 months ago
Linguistic porn.
goldenstrangles 4 months ago
Fell in love with this movie the first time I saw it...What a way to enter a room! Sheer brillance, a shadow of the young king, small at first, then growing bigger as he walks to his throne. I have always loved shakespear, and love it even more when truly worthy movies are made of his works, and this one is truly worthy!
Bravo, Kenneth!
TheChickadee8 4 months ago
Thank you so much for the upload.
Moxin667 5 months ago
@YukonCorneleone - well this upload has 44 likes and 0 dislikes so piss off with your bellyaching .
ThePanzerfist44 5 months ago
I could never get bored of watching this film.
ShakespeareChannel 6 months ago
@YukonCorneleone Umm - ever heard of the "long tail"? Not condoning - but I wonder how many DVDs have been bought off the back of Youtube clips?
alcockell 6 months ago
@YukonCorneleone Man bro what is your problem. If you dont like what he said or the vid he put up DON'T WATCH IT!! Do you need a dictionary definition of those words or are you smart enough to understand them?
knightofthegod 7 months ago
@YukonCorneleone QQ bro now shaddup
radagastthe3rd 8 months ago
@YukonCorneleone you continue in your own little world of anger bro.
radagastthe3rd 8 months ago
5th time watching this in past 5 months
dillonfreed 8 months ago
oh for a muse of fire....
Willbutler 8 months ago 8
This was the first Shakespeare movie I've watched and its still one of my favorite films of all time. This film introduced me to Shakespeare in a big way as a teen and I'm still a Shakespeare addict.
Hyman74Roth 9 months ago
not a bad movie but les not forget henry the V and the rest of the gang dident really talk like that.. this is a versions of shakespeare creating an illusion of past events..henry the V speech was even backd up by music making it more inspring that it really was.in battle there is no victory music or glory just the empty silence of the dead!!
slaneslau 9 months ago
This movie is how I discovered Shakespeare! Without Kenneth Brannagh I would probably still think it was stodgy academic stuff you were forced to read at school! Thank You Mr Brannagh!!!!
BuzzBuzzerful 10 months ago
thankyou so much for helping me bluff my way through my degree course
multitudinal 10 months ago
my spine is tingling. when the first few seconds of the music do this to you, you know it's gonna be good!
cherbear1001 11 months ago
Ive got this on video and it still rocks. the opening music is brillatn as it puts shivers down my spine
GCmediacourse 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this movie.
johnbroome1 11 months ago
This was the first theatrical adaptation of a Shakespeare play I ever saw and I loved it.
2814haljordan 1 year ago 7
This is the first time I fell in love with Derek Jacobi. Love that look on him.
JPPT1974 1 year ago
what a coincidence this movie is made in 1989 the year i was born 21 years ago and i like this version of Henry V best.
Sabrina105 1 year ago 8
@Sabrina105 lucky you. Congrats.
radagastthe3rd 1 year ago 3
@Sabrina105 Your comment hurts my brain
threeminded 1 year ago
@Sabrina105 Me too!
coramunroe 11 months ago
@Sabrina105
It really is a coincidence, and a bit of a shocker that they made any movies at all that year!
hairysuit 10 months ago
coincidence nine ishta unmph von shlitscher, ist bin von bartracken!
enraGeUKK 9 months ago
It is good to see this version of Henry V back as a full movie here; may it last longer than its predecessors! Without a doubt Monsieur Branagh has made one of the best Shakespeare adaptations on the screen so far; ands certainly the best of Henry V; though they could have used the whole text; shame that Monsieur Branagh did not made version of Henry IV Part I & II in the same manner, with him as Prince Henry and Brian Blessed as his father; instead he makes now his dumb American movies.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 year ago 2
@FireEyedMaidOfWar I agree this is a brilliant version of Henry V. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
radagastthe3rd 1 year ago
@radagastthe3rd: Enjoyed have I this movie often; and if I recall correctly it was the first thing I have ever seen of Shakespeare; and I did think for some time that it was just some excellent movie about the middle ages; but then I learned that it based on a play of a man called Shakespeare; a fateful encounter, which had a serious impact on my self; as I became addicted and started to adore the poet; who is truly one of the greatest bards ever lived and much more: A brilliant thinker, too.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 year ago
@radagastthe3rd love this man branagh!! he is brilliant actor he really should make henry IV and richard III some of the characters in this play are in henry IV Henry is young and hanging out too much with the commmon man at the tavern and his father blasts him for it even challeging his manhood and impling that not a prince and his son but make up for it by fighting to end the rebel upraising.
mdsaxc02 2 months ago
@mdsaxc02: Back in 1989 he could have enacted indeed the spoiled prince Hal quite well, but now it would more beseem him to enact his worrying father Henry IV!
FireEyedMaidOfWar 2 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar yes he really good in hollywood i think that last i seen him was in the second harry potter movie, but i wish more people would be interested in shakespere. you learn alot of human behavior, and alot of things HAVEN'T change since his death, in his "to be not to be" speech he nails to same things that plague our society today. erie isn't it.
mdsaxc02 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02 That's why Shakespeare is as relevant today as he was four centuries ago. He understood the human mind as it is, and always will be.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@mdsaxc02: Don’t mention it: Ever since I saw him in this childish movie flick I indulge into the imagination that this Harry Potter bloke should have a Harry Monmouth flashback syndrome and all over sudden saying things to his friend Ron like: “What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow!” – and I will quote the German philosopher Nietzsche about the true meaning of Shakespeare and tragic poetry in general in reply to your sayings:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... Life is an adventure whichever side you may take in life it will always retain this character!" Thus speaks the poet of a restless and vigorous age, an age which is almost intoxicated and stupefied by its superabundance of blood and energy, in an age more evil than our own: and this is why it is necessary for us to adapt and accommodate ourselves first to the purpose of a Shakespearian play, that is, by misunderstanding it."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... (in the Ajax, Philoctetes, CEdipus] however easy it might have been in the cases just mentioned to make the guilt the lever of the play, it was carefully avoided by the poets. In the same way the tragic poet by his images of life does not wish to set us against life. On the contrary, he exclaims: "It is the charm of charms, this exciting, changing, and dangerous existence of ours, so often gloomy and so often bathed in sun! ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... This would be turning poets upside down, these poets who, especially Shakespeare, are in love with the passions in themselves, and not less so with the readiness for death which they give rise to : this mood in which the heart no more clings to life than a drop of water does to the glass. It is not the guilt and its pernicious consequences which interests these poets Shakespeare as little as Sophocles ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... It is only from this moment that he becomes "demoniacally" attractive, and that he encourages similar natures to imitate him. There is something demoniacal here: something which is in revolt against advantage and life, in favour of a thought and an impulse. Do you think that Tristan and Isolde are warnings against adultery, merely because adultery has resulted in the death of both of them? ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... He who is truly obsessed by an ardent ambition takes delight in beholding this picture of himself; and when the hero is driven to destruction by his passion, this is the most pungent spice in the hot drink of this delight. Did the poet feel this in another way? How royally and with how little of the knave in him does his ambitious hero run his course from the moment of his great crime! ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"The man who imagines that the effect of Shakespeare's plays is a moral one, and that the sight of Macbeth irresistibly induces us to shun the evil of ambition, is mistaken, and he is mistaken once more if he believes that Shakespeare himself thought so. ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar There has Never Been "An Age Of Evil More Than Our Own" i.e. Now. BUT - don't worry!! we Will continue to mutate into one that's even More so.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1: I am afraid that this will not happen; and in order to illuminate this I will have to quote Nietzsche once more, so by your pardon:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
... "Formerly all the world was insane,"--say the subtlest of them, and blink thereby. They are clever and know all that hath happened: so there is no end to their raillery. People still fall out, but are soon reconciled--otherwise it spoileth their stomachs. They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, but they have a regard for health. "We have discovered happiness,"--say the last men, and blink thereby."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest. "We have discovered happiness"--say the last men, and blink thereby. They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth. Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men! A little poison now and then: ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Lo! I show you THE LAST MAN. "What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?"--so asketh the last man and blinketh. The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Yes, yes, yes very good, a bit short maybe. However: There has Never Been an "Age Of Evil More Than Our Own" as you contend. Evil now is a much more refined human Art-form than it ever was.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1: Not “evil” but “bad” as the term of “evil” is applied in a slave moral (such as Christendom) to the nobles and this age is far from being noble but timid, decadent, dull, boring, tedious, honourless, pride less, feeble, weak and so on but not evil.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar It is more evil now than it's ever been in the entire history of the species. Anyone who can't see that must live in a world of words and endless prose. GET REAL.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1: There is no avail: This age maybe bad as any but it is certainly not evil and U have to invoke Nietzsche now on the very meaning of the word evil:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... This hidden basis from time to time needs to be discharged: the animal must come out again, must go back into the wilderness,—Roman, Arab, German, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings—in this need they are all alike. It is the noble races which left behind the concept of the “barbarian” in all their tracks, wherever they went."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... who perhaps walk away from a dreadful sequence of murder, arson, rape, and torture with an exhilaration and spiritual equilibrium, as if they had merely pulled off a student prank, convinced that the poets now once again have something to sing about and praise for a long time to come. At the bottom of all these noble races we cannot fail to recognize the beast of prey, the blond beast splendidly roaming around in its lust for loot and victory. ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... loyalty, pride, and friendship—towards the outside, where the strange world, the world of foreigners, begins, these men are not much better than beasts of prey turned loose. There they enjoy freedom from all social constraints. In the wilderness they make up for the tension which a long fenced-in confinement within the peace of the community brings about. They go back to the innocent consciousness of a wild beast of prey, as joyful monsters, ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... Here there is one thing we will be the last to deny: the man who gets to know these “good men” only as enemies, knows them also as nothing but evil enemies, and the same good men who are kept within strict limits by custom, honour, habit, thankfulness, even more by mutual protection, through jealousy inter pares [among equals] and who, by contrast, demonstrate in relation to each other such resourceful consideration, self-control, refinement, ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... how different they are! But it is not the same idea of “good”; it is much rather a question of who the “evil man” really is, in the sense of the morality of ressentiment. The strict answer to that is as follows: simply the “good man” of the other morality, the noble man, the powerful, the ruling man, only coloured over, only reinterpreted, only seen through the poisonous eyes of ressentiment. ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"... This “bad” originating from the noble man and that “evil” arising out of the stew pot of insatiable hatred—of these the first is a later creation, an afterthought, a complementary colour; by contrast, the second is the original, the beginning, the essential act of conception in slave morality—although the two words “bad” and “evil” both seem opposite to the same idea of “good,” ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
"We see exactly the opposite with the noble man, who conceives the fundamental idea “good” in advance and spontaneously, that is, from himself and from there first creates a picture of “bad” for himself! ..."
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar I don't consider Nietzsche to be such a God that I'd write endless pages and pages of his quotes. The has never been an Age Of Evil as evil as the one we live in Now.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1: So far I have not heard nothing of Nietzsche’s apotheosis but should he have indeed become a god, few mortals have deserved it as much as he has; meanwhile he remains of course my other self, my counsel's consistory, my oracle and my prophet and I, like a child, will go by his direction.
While you should define "evil" and then explain why the current age seems to be more "evil" to you as any other age, else this discussion will consists of mutual denials only.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 month ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Amen.
slideharp1 3 weeks ago
@slideharp1: More matter, with less art.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 3 weeks ago
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slideharp1 3 weeks ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Precisely.
slideharp1 3 weeks ago
@slideharp1: What means this scene of rude impatience?
FireEyedMaidOfWar 2 weeks ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar I'm very sorry.
slideharp1 2 weeks ago
@slideharp1: I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest…
FireEyedMaidOfWar 1 week ago