I usually don't like many Tudor films. They are usually very inaccurate or just plain boring. This one was very good and had few inaccuracies, and the ones that they had still made the story good. What does everyone else think? What other Tudor films do you like?
shareThe only inaccuracies I really noticed in the film (which doesn't say a lot because I haven't done much in the way of researching the Tudors since about four or five years ago) were that everyone had brown hair! I know it's not really important, it just bothered me! Henry was a redhead, Anne was supposed to be Brunette so that's okay but they didn't mention her extra finger or mole or her high collars, I'm pretty sure both Catherine and Mary were blondes and I also thought Jane Seymore was a blonde. I may be mistaken about that, but I found it annoying that they would overlook something that blatant. During that time period, even ladies (noble women and the middle class) with naturally dark hair would probably bleach it (with urine!) since blondes were considered more desirable.
shareCatherine and Mary were not brunettes. I saw a picture of a young Catherine, she had reddish hair. Mary may have had brown hair, but I think that it was auburn. I think Jane Seymour was blond. They only have one portrait of her and most of her hair is covered with a large headdress.
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As someone mentioned here, Mary Queen of Scots was an excellent film and may have even been made by the same people who did Anne of the 1000 days. I love the music and the costumes.
Lady Jane with Helene Bonham Carter wasn't too bad, on multiple viewings.
Many believe, in historical accuracy, Catherine of Aragon had a dark brownish hair, as all Spaniards did. While her daughter, Mary, had inherited after her father and had red hair.
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A film with Keith Michelle called "Henry The Eighth and His Six Wives" is a good film. But I do prefer Anne Of The Thousand Days, just cos I'm a huge fan of Richard Burton. I liked Mary Queen Of Scots a lot as well. I found Elizabeth R the tv series just a longer winded version of the film "Elizabeth". That was an excellent film.
shareKatherine had reddish-gold hair, darker than Henry's but not brunette. And all Spainards are not dark, now or then.
http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/aragon.html
Mary had brunette hair!
shareOne recent Tudor film I liked a LOT is "Elizabeth" starring Cate Blanchette and Joseph Fiennes. Yes, they fiddled with history a bit (for example it's unlikely that Elizabeth and Robert Dudley were physically lovers as portrayed in the film) but overall I give it VERY high marks. And Cate Blanchette is a marvel to behold as Elizabeth!!! She deserved an Oscar!!!!!
shareNot everyone realizes that Katharine of Aragon wasn't 100% Spanish, at least on her mother Isabella's side, and, thus, was Henry's distant cousin. Isabella was directly descended from the tall, blond John of Gaunt, Edward III's son, and she herself was noted to be fair, blue-eyed, and light-haired. (Isabella did have some brunette children with the swarthier Ferdinand.)
Sittow's and Horebout's portraits of Katharine show that she had inherited her mother's coloring, and, mated with the red-haired Henry, was thus likely to produce children with these recessive traits; ortraits of their daughter Mary show that she was similarly russet-haired.
This was a good film because even with a few historical inaccuracies and compressed time-frame, it seems true to the spirit of the age it depicted and seems likely to inspire the viewer to read and learn more about the period.
Yes, Katherine had reddish hair according to descriptions written of her at the time. So did Mary, although it may have darkened some some as she matured.
I think Americans tend to think of Spaniards as looking like Latin Americans -- many of whom have a mixture of native American and European ancestry and consequently tend to have dark eyes and hair and olive skin. But Spain is in Europe, not Latin America, so we have to separate those perceptions out.
Catherine did have reddish brown hair like in many of her paintings but from what I've seen of Mary's she had darker hair then her dad. But I seriously dobt that Henry would have gone for Anne is she had 6 fingers though(I firmly believe that to be rumors becasue she was hated so), come on he was a bit shallow so think about it. Didn't really only Elizabeth and Edward really get Henry's fire red hair ?
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I loved Shakespeare in Love (with Judi Dench an Oscar winning Elizabeth I).
I liked some parts of Lady Jane; although the execution was heartbreaking
with the blindfolded teenager groping helplessly for the block. Sadly that part
was accurate. And I liked the love story with Jane and Guildford; although
it was historically inaccurate, Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes looked
good together, and their final night before their deaths was touching. The
scene where the helpless doe is cornered by hunters just before Jane meets
the kindly Dr. Feckenham was a nice segue. But the scene where Jane is caned
by her heartless mother was a little too graphic for me. Although the scene
directly afterward where her cousin Edward VI comforts her was sweet.
And I like the original Man for all seasons, especially the scene where a
pompously fatuous Henry VIII asks Margaret More if she knows latin, and she
(very demurely!!) proceeds to wipe the floor with him by replying in a torrent
of fluent classical latin. Ha!
I loved Elizabeth.
shareA Man For All Seasons > every other Tudor era film.
shareI have been a Tudor fan forever and it took me a while to see this film (simply because I couldn't find it anywhere) but I finally saw it today and I have to say I wasn't impressed. After all the hype I've heard about it, I think it would be much better. Genevieve was AMAZING, to say the least, and if the script was written different I probably would have loved it.
I thought the film was just as inaccurate as other Tudor productions. The affair with Henry Percy, for example, was taken way too far in my opinion. I was also appalled at how Anne spoke to Henry at the beginning of movie, when she hated him... a subject, no matter how well-liked she is by the King, would never speak that way to him. Anne was brought up better than that. Also, many people addressed the King as "your grace"--an address that was abandoned after 1520, when "your majesty" became preferred by Henry. Overall, I thought Henry was portrayed as being a little too kind (aside from the occasional slap he gave Anne.. haha). It is highly unlikely that he visited her in the Tower.. in fact I think it can be proven that that didn't happen. And he certainly was not present at her trial. And I always get annoyed when they make Henry out to be the mother of Mary Boleyn's children.
Basically, I thought that Genevieve's performance was wonderful--she played Anne very well. But the movie overall was lacking. In my opinion, The Tudors is far better.
Definitely A Man for All Seasons.
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