Once again, I underestimated the crowds of the theater, and only half an hour before the entrance, I could only sit in the second row. (The same was true for "Marie Antoinette" last time, maybe because there were not many theaters, or because there were Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson?) The
movie version only had two hours to tell the story, and it turned out to be more concise than Philippa Gregory's novel. It's dizzying.
I watched Trailer outside the door before the opening. I don’t know who translated the subtitles. There was a sentence written "The Queen of England Elects Concubine"--Isn't it? The British royal family has always been monogamous. The emperor has a woman to accompany the monarch outside of the marriage relationship, and he is only a mistress. How can he be a "concubine"? It is a joke to put China or other Eastern countries in the English court five hundred years ago.
I don’t want to talk about who is my sister and who is my sister anymore, but the casting has been weird: Although Natalie Portman is older than Scarlett Johansson, it is not so in appearance; moreover, the role of Scarlett Johansson is to be played by the charming Scarlett Johansson. A "innocent Mary Boleyn" who loves the countryside and doesn't care about the world is really unconvincing (of course, in reality, Mary Boleyn was the mistress of the two kings of England and France is another matter). In contrast, Natalie Portman's scheming Anne Boleyn seems to be a little bit more reminiscent! It just seems to be a little bit short... Hmm... The king would rather offend the minister to get her wild innerness. After all, she had been immersed in a foreign country for more than ten years (not the two months mentioned in the movie)! Having said that, in fact, my favorite is Natalie Dormer in "The Tudors"... (Natalie again?) Of course, it is the most basic problem that the silhouettes of the two are not like two sisters.
In the middle of the movie, Anne Boleyn used to call the emperor to be "Henry" when she talked about how to eliminate the stumbling block of Queen Catherine. It seems a bit disrespectful!
Eric Bana is an incredible Henry VIII. He is arrogant and domineering, and he is competent, but unfortunately there are not many opportunities to play; and his body is not swollen enough, but in comparison he is closer to the history than the brighter appearance of Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The emperor! (Is it because of his beard?)
In the movie, the return of Anne from France was arranged during Mary's pregnancy with Henry VIII's child. Although it was inadvertently highlighted that Anne was gradually gaining the emperor's attention, until later, in order to get Anne, she did not even look at her own son, but it doubled. The emperor’s greed for the new and forgotten the old and ruthless-this evaluation is valid for Henry VIII around 1540, but for the 20 years of entanglement with Queen Catherine of Aragon and then ten years of entanglement with Anne Boleyn (1525 asks Anne Boleyn) It was not the case for the emperor who was refused to become a mistress and married in 1533. In 1536, Anne was executed for committing adultery criminals to treason and treason. Although Henry VIII fell in love with Anne Boleyn, he and Queen Catherine also had a long-term relationship with Queen Catherine. This was of course due to Queen Catherine's huge background (she was the most powerful Charles V of Holy in Europe at the time). Roman Empire’s aunt, Charles, who imprisoned Pope Clement VII in 1527), but on the other hand, Henry and Catherine’s 20-year relationship between husband and wife should not be underestimated, making "the emperor’s marriage" a problem that has been entangled for many years. . To say that Henry VIII sees one loves one, and only talks about it ten years later!
Thomas Boleyn and Thomas Howard are typical court figures with the supremacy of power, but Bolyn is even more pathetic. Because of his enthusiasm for power, only Mary is left among his three children, and the Bolyn family bears the stigma of incest; as for Thomas Howard. History tells us that he still didn't give up and sent one more Catherine Howard to become the fifth queen of Henry VIII (but also died of the Tower of London due to adultery). He was not killed. Instead, he was re-used during the reign of Queen Catherine's daughter Mary I (no one, because he is a devout Catholic!). Instead, his grandson, the heir, also named Thomas, wanted to marry him. Mary Queen of Scots was executed by Queen Elizabeth.
Mary's husband, William Carey, did not actually divorce from Mary. He was even promoted to the knight after Mary was pregnant (even the illegitimate son born to Henry VIII was also named Carey). After Carey died of illness, Mary did not Remarry Stafford; the movie only uses the ending to explain Mary's remarriage, but does not explain how her marriage to Carey was before. Do you think that Mary "divorced" Carey long before she dedicated her life to the emperor?
Of course, because the story was told too quickly, it turned out that the princess Elizabeth, whom Anne Boleyn gave birth to when she died, was more than two years old, but she was still a little orphan under one year old. Moreover, even though her mother was executed, Elizabeth is still the emperor's daughter! How could it be carried away by Mary without being intercepted? (BTW, the book said more than once that Mary couldn't take away Henry Carey, the emperor's illegitimate child, because Anne and the court were in trouble. How did she swagger to take Elizabeth away? )
There is also no explanation in the movie why Anne asked George and Mary to burn the stillbirth and bedding as soon as possible after the miscarriage, because she actually gave birth to a dead fetus (like Spina Bifida. The book relates this to George and Anne. "Suspected incest" is related). It may be because the movie has shifted the section between George and Anne, so it is impossible to explain the teratogenic matter again! Also, the book actually describes George Boleyn as a homosexual (of course, historical data does not seem to say that), and the movie does not explain it. It only says that George and his wife Jane had a marriage disharmony because he hated her from the beginning.
The only thing worthy of praise is that I finally found a Spanish actor Ana Torrent to play Catherine of Aragon "respecting the original/historical figures".
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