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	Henry V (1989) - The Film Guide - A Wikia wiki
		The visual and verbal styles of the film are much grittier than the Laurence Olivier film (see: Henry V (1944), particularly with respect to the Battle of Agincourt scenes, which are strongly reminiscent of the battle scenes in the films of Akira Kurosawa.
		Henry V received near-universal critical acclaim for Branagh's Oscar-nominated performance and direction, for the accessibility of its Shakespearean language and particularly for its music by first-time composer Patrick Doyle, which was performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Simon Rattle.
		King Henry V of England (Branagh) is encouraged to go to war with the king of France by his religious advisors to advance a dubious claim to the French throne.
	filmguide.wikia.com /wiki/Henry_V_(1989) (481 words)

	literature : Henry V: An Introduction Through Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Henry is one of the larger parts in Shakespeare, and his acquisition of the French throne by "inheritance" provides the play's unifying action.
		The characters surrounding Henry express divergent attitudes towards his actions, and the dynamic variation between scenes reminds us that we, like the characters, are constantly involved in appraising and interpreting the meaning of his history.
		His Henry is simultaneously Christian warrior and cautious politician; his countrymen are a "band of brothers" who nevertheless quarrel about honor, responsibility, and nationhood, and who recognize the shakiness of the ground upon and for which they fight.
	web.mit.edu /lit/www/spotlightarticles/henryv.html (4381 words)

	Holy War in Henry Fifth
		The elder Henry plans a holy war against the Turks as a means to quell civil war at home and to ease his conscience for usurping the throne, and his dying words include the advice to his son to 'busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels' to solidify his shaky regime (II Henry IV 4.5.213-14).
		Henry IV feigns loyalty to the king he deposes and then solicitude for the one he executes, and he triumphs over his enemies in battle not by valour but with the stratagem of dressing many in the king's coats.
		So Henry V spies on his subjects in the Boar's Head tavern, on his captains and foot soldiers on the night before battle, and on his close friends, Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, at the outset of the French campaign.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~smarx/Publications/henry.html (6448 words)

	This Month's Rent (video): Henry V
		Henry V, generally considered to be Olivier's finest hour as a film director, is so rightly revered that you might think only a lunatic or a genius would dare to remake it.
		This new version of Henry V is so fresh, so passionate, and so topically relevant that it is very much in the spirit of both Olivier and Shakespeare.
		With Henry V, Shakespeare was, I believe, creating a projection of himself as King; stirring his audience through all those wonderful rousing speeches to a vision of leadership as it should be, but never is. Branagh's Henry is a man who, whether he likes it or not, must be King.
	movieline.standard8media.com /reviews/HenryV.shtml?page=1 (640 words)

	ENGL 241: Shakespeare on Film - Henry V by Zajdel
		ENGL 241: Shakespeare on Film - Henry V by Zajdel
		Henry V is, on the surface, a story of battle and victory for a young king, but I think it is more important as a character study of the king himself.
		Olivier's Henry V works for its time and as a propaganda piece, but it is with Branagh's version that we really get to delve deeper into the complex and often ambiguous nature of the monarch himself.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~rfarabau/engl241/index.php?page=Henry_V_by_Zajdel (482 words)

	Filmtracks: Henry V (Patrick Doyle)
		The vehicle for this transition was Henry V, a project that proved to be equally important for Kenneth Branagh and the subsequent revival of the works of Shakespeare on the big screen in he 1990's.
		While in retrospect, the Henry V score exposes some of the simplicities that will be evident in any composer's first major recording for film, it also exists as early evidence of Doyle's vast potential in the composing field.
		At the outset of the film production of Henry V, Branagh asked the question, "how am I going to make it appeal to a wider audience?" The story is a political thriller, a study of leadership, a complex debate about war and the pity of war, and an uncompromising analysis of the English class system.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/henry_v.html (1669 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Henry V (1989)
		Thus, it was almost with a clap of thunder that Henry V arrived, both on the American art-house circuit and in a much-ballyhooed screening on PBS, a television channel not given to showing first-run theatrical films.
		The film certainly stands as one of the most remarkable directorial debuts of the past 20 years, and while it made Branagh an international star, perhaps the only drawback for Branagh is that Henry V is too good.
		Henry's military adventure had great appeal to Elizabethan audiences (it was first performed in 1599), who took pride in their nationality at the height of the English Renaissance.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/h/henryv89.q.shtml (576 words)

	Henry V
		In the present play, Henry V proves good, establishing himself as England's greatest military general, the victor of the Battle of Agincourt.
		Henry V knows his Bible, as the bishops say in Act 1, aand shows it when he says, "O God, thy arm was here (4.8.110, quoting Psalm 44: 3).
		Henry is presented as a great hero who leads his forces into battle only because he cannot safely take them back to England.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~willard/notes/henry.php3 (643 words)

	Amazon.com: Henry V: DVD: Brian Blessed,Richard Briers,Fabian Cartwright,Patrick Doyle,Ian Holm,Derek Jacobi,Edward ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Plot Synopsis: King Henry V of England (Kenneth Branagh) is insulted by the King of France.
		Henry V qualifies as a masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade.
		Kenneth Branagh gave "Henry V" the gritty,stirring interpretation it deserved.He also USED his immense acting talent,making King Henry into an all-too-human,conflicted man.His "Upon the king" soliliquy shows his loneliness,and the misery of war.It's no wonder his witty courtship with Princess Catherine at the end is a perfect,luminous counterpoint.
	www.amazon.com /Henry-V-Brian-Blessed/dp/079284615X (2044 words)

	HENRY V Review
		Henry needs to establish his authority and the best way to do it is military campaign against France whose weak King (played by Paul Scofield) wants to deny him the right to succeed him at the French throne.
		HENRY V is probably the most popular of all Shakespeare's historical plays, and this might be explained with its tone being somewhat different from the rest of Shakespeare's work in that period.
		Same as in the film, the battlefield was muddy and that prevented French from using the numerical advantage of their armoured cavalry; their knights were forced to fight on foot, making them an easy target for the favourite English weapon - Welsh longbows that decimated their ranks.
	www.sparrowsp.addr.com /articles/henry_v.htm (1351 words)

	NovelGuide: Henry V: Theme Analysis
		And for three centuries, everyone thought that Shakespeare’s Henry V was a portrait of the ideal king who embodied the four cardinal virtues of justice, fortitude, temperance, and prudence.
		The vital question is the validity of Henry’s claim to the throne of France, which is explained at tedious length by the clerics in Act 1 scene 2.
		Henry has also been heavily criticized for the heartless way he rejects his pal and drinking companion, the old rogue Falstaff, and allows another old tavern chum, Bardolph, to be hanged.
	www.novelguide.com /HenryV/themeanalysis.html (746 words)

	The unofficial Henry V Kenneth Branagh 1989 Film page
		Henry V was an excellent portrayal of a humble King (Kenneth Branagh) who knows what leadership is and how to handle it.
		Right now he is facing three men, traitors to the King, Henry V that is. He presented them with a case of a previous date of a drunkard that shouted some vile things about the king.
		The film is loaded with extremely clever and wise situations such as this.
	members.tripod.com /~hnryv (415 words)

	Battle of Agincourt - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Henry decided to move his army to the port of Calais, the only English stronghold in northern France, where they could re-equip over winter for the campaign season of 1416.
		He was succeeded by his young son, Henry VI, during whose reign the English were expelled from all of France except Calais by French military successes, encouraged by Joan of Arc, under the new French king, Charles VII.
		The battle was fought in the defile formed by the wood of Agincourt and that of Tramecourt, at the northern exit of which the army under d'Albret, constable of France, had placed itself so as to bar the way to Calais against the English forces which had been campaigning on the Somme.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4615 (1361 words)

	ENGL 241: Shakespeare on Film - Henry V by Daisy
		ENGL 241: Shakespeare on Film - Henry V by Daisy
		However, it is interesting to remember that the story of Shakespeare’s Henry V is being told by two different actors and directors that are divided by nearly four decades.
		Laurence Olivier's version of Henry V (1944) was a thrilling piece of work for people during the 40’s and 50’s.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~rfarabau/engl241/index.php?page=Henry_V_by_Daisy (734 words)

	Henry V (1989)
		Branagh's film replaces the patriotic zeal of Laurence Olivier's 1944 version of Henry V with a more sombre manner reflecting the brutality and futility of war, Branagh believing that Henry V was a play in need of rescue from the jingoism of its World War Two associations.
		After the battle, Henry rides across the fields of the dead, carrying on his shoulders the body of a dead youth.
		The film’s ending is something of an anti-climax as Henry turns from matters of state to those of the heart, and so his long-drawn-out courtship of French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) ensues.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography01/028.html (298 words)

	Amazon.com: Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording (1989 Film): Music: Patrick Doyle,Simon Rattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Henry V: The Threat To The Governor Of Harfleur - Katherine Of France - The March To Calais
		Henry V was Kenneth Branagh's first movie that he directed, and it was Patrick Doyle's first soundtrack that he created.
		In any case, Henry V with Brannagh and Emma Thompson was a triumph, and the music that went with it was simply amazing.
	www.amazon.com /Henry-Original-Soundtrack-Recording-1989/dp/B000002RRG (1329 words)

	Shakespeare's Henry V movie review, the fifth essay, Agincourt, saint crispens day
		Henry V then informs them that he is aware of their traitorous acts and that since they would give no mercy, none will be given to them.
		Henry V gives the order to treat the people of the town as if they were the people of England.
		Henry V replies that there will be no ransom for him.
	www.movieprop.com /tvandmovie/reviews/henryV.htm (847 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Henry V: The Criterion Collection (1944)
		It is when King Henry (Olivier) prepares his voyage that the literal theater setting is cast aside, exchanged for a broad cinematic environment, which retains elements of theater (the painted backgrounds clearly are for stylistic effect, even if forced by a limited budget) but allows Olivier to exploit the open space where stage becomes soundstage.
		In addition to the framing device, Henry V is also remarkable for being the first Shakespearean film to be shot in color, and to this day, because of its agressively broad pallette, it remains the most colorful of all.
		Perhaps what's most surprising about Henry V is that it wasn't created simply to render Shakespeare on the screen and line the pockets of its producers, but it was a clear work of propoganda, arriving as the Allies began to turn the tide of war against Nazi-occupied Europe.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/h/henryv44.q.shtml (317 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Henry V [1989]: DVD: Kenneth Branagh,Derek Jacobi,Paul Scofield,Judi Dench,Emma Thompson,Robbie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The film expands upon the play's use of Falstaff's companions as a comic relief, by incorporating what would be flash-back scenes from events in the Henry IV play cycle, premonitions of events currently in the play.
		King Henry V has spent his youth making whopee, but grows up in a hurry when he feels he has to pursue a claim on the French throne created by his ancestor, the Black Prince, at Crecy.
		Henry is genuinely pious, but you catch the desperation in his prayer before the battle, when he begs God "not today, oh, not today" [remember how his father came to power by murdering Richard II].
	www.amazon.co.uk /Henry-V-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/B00005AMEC (2409 words)

	"Henry V" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Henry V is a tale of honor, perseverance, loyalty, and romance.
		Henry's trust is in the Lord for the outcome of the battle.
		Henry V is both an educational and entertaining film, and promotes many Christian values.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/rvu-henryv.html (358 words)

	Filmtracks: Shakespeare & Patrick Doyle
		Although this touch doesn't apply directly to the Henry V text, the film could be confusing for audiences who are unaware of Henry IV during those sequences.
		In the same year that Henry V was released, the hearts of audiences were captured by James Horner's militaristic choral score for Glory, which was a superior representation of a heroic and historical crusade.
		Without the emotional power of a dominant theme throughout Henry V, audiences who were not familiar with Shakespeare's works might ponder (upon hearing Non nobis Domine) what they had missed in the first half of the film.
	www.filmtracks.com /special/doyle (3513 words)

	Henry V - William Shakespeare
		Nicholas Hytner’s modern staging of Henry V at the Royal National Theatre in London transfers Shakespeare’s patriotic myth to the gritty realistic theatre of modern warfare and in doing so creates acute parallels to the recent invasion of Iraq.
		Shakespeare’s 1599 epic, which deals with Henry V’s invasion of France, the defeat of the French at Agincourt and the King’s subsequent courting of the French Princess Katherine, sits well on the open Olivier stage.
		Armored cars continually career around the stage; bombs, gunfire and even pistol shots are amplified as is Henry’s voice when he delivers his final ultimatum at the siege of Harfleur using a portable microphone.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/HenryV.htm (727 words)

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		In addition to being honored by Oscar, Branagh's Henry V won a British Academy Award, European Film Awards, and awards from the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle.
		Olivier set the standard with his rally-round-the-flag 1944 film version, but Shakespeare's perspective on war was far more ambivalent, and Branagh puts those agonizing qualms and quandaries center-stage.
		One of Branagh's films has to be in here, and this unashamedly populist adaptation lacks the hubris of Branagh's ill-advised four-hour Hamlet () vanity project and the strained jingoism of his first filmed Shakespeare adaptation, Henry V (1989).
	www.lycos.com /info/henry-v-1989--kenneth-branagh.html (511 words)

	Amazon.ca: Henry V (Widescreen): DVD: Kenneth Branagh,Derek Jacobi,Simon Shepherd,James Larkin,Brian Blessed,James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As such, the film is largely composed of close-ups of its characters, rather than wide angle shots emphasizing the grandly political scale of the events at hand.
		Henry V, the eldest son of Henry IV and Mary Bohun, was born in 1387.
		Henry possessed a brilliant, strategic military mind and defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt in October of 1415.
	www.amazon.ca /Henry-V-Widescreen-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/079284615X (3161 words)

	Henry V (1989) DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Branagh's film adaptation of "Henry V" made the words of Shakespeare, which for many have struck the fear of not understanding the bard's dramatic storytelling anymore than one might understand Latin, accessible for everyone.
		The short featurette that was included on the laserdisc edition of this film was omitted on this DVD release and I wish it were included because it was a very nicely done behind-the-scenes look at the film's production.
		The film's original theatrical trailer is included and the interactive menus feature the beautiful music of Patrick Doyle as heard after the Battle of Agincourt sequence as depicted in the film.
	members.aol.com /WriterR5/HenryVDVD_Review.html (358 words)

	Shakespeare On Leadership
		It is a marvelous and stirring film with a strong anti-war sentiment.
		Henry's youthful escapades have brought him a reputation as a lightweight playboy.
		A boyhood friend is caught stealing and Henry hangs him for the offense.
	www.strategosinc.com /henry_v_synopsis.htm (498 words)

	Bardolary - Henry V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Henry V is surely one of the Shakespeare Plays most amenable to screen adaptation.
		In this sense, and in spite of the otherwise notorious difficulties of bringing off Shakespeare in the medium of feature film, Henry V might be one of the few of the Bard’s plays which can actually work better on screen than on stage, given the vast resources of filmic make-believe.
		There are two famous film versions of Shakespeare’s King Henry V, one directed by Sir Laurence Olivier in 1943, and the more recent film by Kenneth Branagh in 1989.
	www.bardolatry.com /cathv.htm (590 words)

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		The Olivier film was dedicated to "The commandos and air borne troops of Great Britain, the spirit of whose ancestors it has been humbly attempted to capture in some scenes," while the Branagh version, post-Falkland war era, represented a time of adverse public reaction to war.
		Critical Perspectives of Henry's speech before the gates of Harfleur in William Shakespeare's The Life of Henry the Fifth (London: 1599) and the Olivier (1944) and Branagh (1989) film adaptations.
		Henry, at once the masculine paragon of chivalric courage and compassionate leadership, eggs on his men, assuring them "that they can never be more truly and gloriously the sons of their fathers than in making war" (Mowat and Werstine xiii).
	www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca /fac/belanger/henryvqheadhtmljn04.htm (2581 words)

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