Young King Henry of England invades France in order to claim his right to a kingdom and to the daughter of the King of France in this second film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Henry's small but embattled army meet the French forces on the field of Agincourt.
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way, the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.
Henry V announces that the Shakespeare play cannot be done justice in the restrictive space of theatre. Yet, for all Shakespeare&#39;s literary brilliance and the fine acting, Henry V feels like a nomadic and underwhelming experience.<br/><br/>The story is linear and this is in stark contrast to the complex but deeply meaningful language of the play. Although the acting is of the highest quality the straightforwardness is rather cumbersome. The introduction of Chorus played by Derek Jacobi certainly serves a necessary purpose of providing immediacy to proceedings. <br/><br/>The introduction of the four characters Bardolph, Nym, Pistol and Flagstaff just didn&#39;t fit at all in the scheme of the film it felt rather strangely and obtrusive. I understood they knew Henry V but couldn&#39;t understand their relationship, it was vastly under-explored. Most of the characters are tipped very lightly in characterisation and their deaths do not nurture a single regret.<br/><br/>The cinematography is the films greatest strength providing the necessary atmosphere but I felt the direction, suffered a lack of emotional structure and set bearings. This is where Henry V suffered as a film, the battles are staged in rather closely shot environs, not wishing to expand the destruction and death of warfare. The fine speeches and acting is severely hampered by not providing the audience with sufficient stimuli that a film can only provide. Henry V goes on his journey to Agincourt, and indeed to his famous victory with a tiny consortium of people that is not grand or epic but rather non-sensical, how did they win the battle of Agincourt? <br/><br/>Henry V provides the necessary thespian talent but it is ravaged by its lack of coherency and piece-meal offerings of epicness. The film is too straightforward and suffers greatly from its almost nomadic sense of pushing to the end, leaving the cinematography to make up for the lack of extras, landscapes and grandeur. Henry V although admirable in some ways does not enrich the vistas of our imagination as it had so offered to do so at its beginnings.
It&#39;s kind of weird how what many people consider to be one of the best Shakespeare movies ever made was actually based on one of his lesser known plays. Scratch that. It was based on a true story based on one of the lesser known kings. To be fair, I&#39;m pretty sure Henry V was probably the second most famous kind to bear that title, after of course Henry VIII. This is a story about the Hundred Year&#39;s War. Most people are probably unfamiliar with this apart from the fact that it made Joan of Arc famous. It was known for how the English won most of the battles, but the French won the war.<br/><br/>Historically, that actually does happen sometimes. This movie/play focuses on pretty much every historical aspect you could imagine. I thought that the only thing it was truly missing was some sort of romance and at the end, guess what I got? What makes this film a classic is how beautiful everything looks. It makes you appreciate everything about Shakespeare and classic literature in general. Well, classic theater. I guess that can count as literature, right? I&#39;ve noticed that Shakespeare used the word &quot;thrice&quot; a lot. People should use that more! <br/><br/>It&#39;s quite long, but it&#39;s worth every minute. For all the drama, we also get some great authentic action scenes. The slow motion is used very well and it&#39;s great to see it being used in a battle before guns were invented. That was quite unique. We get a lot of discussions about royalty, religion, and many other relevant topics. It&#39;s great that there&#39;s so much going on. This is a great representation of history and all its violence. I&#39;m still going to say the 1948 Hamlet version was my favorite Shakespeare film but this is the second. ****
Straightforward, energetic, updated Bard. 28-year-old star-director-adapter Kenneth Branagh's spellbinding version of Shakespeare's Henry isn't superior to Olivier's 1944 version - it's different, and complementary to it.
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