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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 33366" data-attributes="member: 68">So I just watched ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS. I ended up finding it elsewhere online as the YouTube one had resized it and cropped bits off. It was too distracting. When I found a good version I really got into it and enjoyed it. I thought Geneviève Bujold was excellent in it, perfectly beautiful and delicate but also like a lioness when crossed. I think the film took a lot of liberties with the story but I still enjoyed it. Anne&#039;s speech to Henry in the Tower of London before her beheading was very dramatic and it would be wonderful if it happened. Though somehow I doubt the King saw her before he had her killed. That would have been too unpleasant, to him! Richard Burton gave a good performance as Henry VIII, playing him really as a mad and unreasonable man. Which undoubtedly he was. Every time I read about Henry or watch anything to do with him I get so uncomfortable and anxious about his obvious insanity. Part of that must be to do with being raised Catholic. It was quite funny towards the end of the film when Henry is demanding that Thomas Cromwell somehow get rid of Anne Boleyn, so that he can marry Jane Seymour. He suggests various reasons that Cromwell discourages. Lastly and furiously Henry sights incest as a reason to annul the marriage as Henry had already fathered a bastard child to Anne&#039;s sister Mary. Cromwell looks at the king and says &quot;We&#039;ve already used that excuse! We cant make a habit of it!&quot; it&#039;s almost a something from a Carry On film. But then the events of that time are a farce. A tragic one at that!<a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjP9qHsu6TRAhXJ6xoKHZ3-BMgQjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Foverwatchingthearrow.tumblr.com%2Fmovieshelf&amp;psig=AFQjCNEb3CmMNUpjP0-NJw30qwpTAGtHQw&amp;ust=1483481066006790" target="_blank"><img src="http://moviefiles.alphacoders.com/273/poster-27370.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 33366, member: 68"] So I just watched ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS. I ended up finding it elsewhere online as the YouTube one had resized it and cropped bits off. It was too distracting. When I found a good version I really got into it and enjoyed it. I thought Geneviève Bujold was excellent in it, perfectly beautiful and delicate but also like a lioness when crossed. I think the film took a lot of liberties with the story but I still enjoyed it. Anne's speech to Henry in the Tower of London before her beheading was very dramatic and it would be wonderful if it happened. Though somehow I doubt the King saw her before he had her killed. That would have been too unpleasant, to him! Richard Burton gave a good performance as Henry VIII, playing him really as a mad and unreasonable man. Which undoubtedly he was. Every time I read about Henry or watch anything to do with him I get so uncomfortable and anxious about his obvious insanity. Part of that must be to do with being raised Catholic. It was quite funny towards the end of the film when Henry is demanding that Thomas Cromwell somehow get rid of Anne Boleyn, so that he can marry Jane Seymour. He suggests various reasons that Cromwell discourages. Lastly and furiously Henry sights incest as a reason to annul the marriage as Henry had already fathered a bastard child to Anne's sister Mary. Cromwell looks at the king and says "We've already used that excuse! We cant make a habit of it!" it's almost a something from a Carry On film. But then the events of that time are a farce. A tragic one at that! [URL='http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjP9qHsu6TRAhXJ6xoKHZ3-BMgQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Foverwatchingthearrow.tumblr.com%2Fmovieshelf&psig=AFQjCNEb3CmMNUpjP0-NJw30qwpTAGtHQw&ust=1483481066006790'][IMG]http://moviefiles.alphacoders.com/273/poster-27370.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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