An afternoon at the movies...
One of my favorite movies is Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in part because the history fascinates me, and in part because it is simply a breath-taking production. It was on today. The story is Shakespeare's take on English history with an eye towards making the then-current English court look good in its ancestry, and the English the clear Good Guys, in opposition to the French as the clear Bad Guys. That's drama for you, then as now. So the history is slanted in its details. The story builds up to... Sign in to see full entry.