I love how they portray Anne as VERY reluctulant to Henry's advances because it is believed that that's how she felt IRL.

Geneviève Bujold does the best portrayal of Anne. Especially since Anne was rumored to be more French than English due to her time spent at the French Court. And Burton played a superb Henry.

@miles2378

2 жыл бұрын

I have always wondered if She had stayed on Startrek voyager how it would have turned out.

@lindsayhengehold5341

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you

@kevinbergin9971

Жыл бұрын

@@miles2378 Recently I have seen a bunch of videos here that suggest she was forced out, not that she quit Voyager?

@Tgogators

Жыл бұрын

Although historical fiction in many aspects, I feel her portrayal was striking close to AB's real life persona.

@hartofnature

2 ай бұрын

I totally agree, the French accent is perfect… it’s everything about her

Only in recent years has Anne Boleyn attracted the attention she deserves from historians as a figure in her own right, and not just as Henry VIII's playmate and bed partner. She was an articulate and well-educated spokeswoman for Protestantism (far more than her husband, whose religious ideal was a Catholic Church without the Pope). Her extraordinary strength of will and character is attested to by the fact that she kept a copy of William Tyndale's English-language Bible on a bookstand in her bedroom, WHILE SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE KING WHO HAD BURNED TYNDALE AT THE STAKE FOR DARING TO TRANSLATE THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH! Even the Spanish ambassador -- a partisan of the rightful queen, Katherine of Aragon, and himself a Catholic, and thus Anne's enemy on two counts -- declared of her: "This lady is as brave as a lion." Even though Elizabeth I was only two years and eight months old when her mother was executed, she clearly got a good deal of her own brains and character from Anne. (It is supremely ironic that Henry VIII repeatedly declared that he detested intellectual women, when three of his six wives -- Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Catherine Parr -- were brilliant and well-read women, each overflowing with wit and insight, who could have held their own in debate with any of the male intellectuals of Europe).

@tadimaggio

3 жыл бұрын

@@rovertnitram123 George Bernard Shaw made an insightful comment about executions: "Whatever we may say, most of us do the world's will, not our own. Consider how quietly most people walk to their own executions. They do not struggle, even though they could at least get the satisfaction of giving the executioner a black eye."

@tadimaggio

3 жыл бұрын

@@rovertnitram123 It definitely is. My favorite comment about the death penalty -- especially since it derives from a feeling that is entirely subjective -- was George Orwell's description of the moment he turned irrevocably against it. He served a term as a British colonial officer in India under the Raj, and once had to line up with other soldiers along a street, to watch a man be led to the gallows. It had rained the night before, and there were puddles all over the street. As the condemned man was led along by his guards, they came to a big puddle -- and the condemned man carefully stepped around it, to avoid getting his boots dirty. Orwell always said that that small gesture, on the part of a man who was going to be dead in ten minutes, made the reality of the condemned man's humanity go through him like a spear. It reminds me of the last minutes of Charlie Chaplin's film "Monsieur Verdoux", where a convicted murderer, played by Chaplin, is about to be guillotined. As they're about to leave for the scaffold, someone offers Chaplin some rum, to make the prospect of facing death a bit easier. He waves it off; and then reconsiders. "Wait a minute. I've never tasted rum.", and takes a swig. That little moment affects me the way the puddle incident did Orwell.

@alg11297

3 жыл бұрын

To say this was an brilliant woman you have to take into account of the times. This was the wonderful world of confession by torture, jousting for fun, use of leeches and bleeding as health cures, intolerance of other religions and even other nations. The machinations at court involved controlled gossip, overheard conversations, and certain coutiers who didn't seem to have anything to do all day.

@tadimaggio

3 жыл бұрын

@@rovertnitram123 It is indeed. As horrible as the sin/crime of murder always is, very few murderers give their victims weeks, months, or even years of psychic torment in advance of death, wondering if tomorrow, or the day after -- or later that same day -- will be The Time, as the state-inflicted death penalty does. (The Jews and other victims of the Nazi Holocaust were an exception to this -- they were forced to live in a debilitating state of terror day to day, never having been tried or even charged, until their time came.) By contrast to a modern inmate of death row, Anne had it comparatively easy -- arrested on 2 May 1536, she was beheaded on 19 May. What is so revolting about her death -- and, indeed, most of the executions under Henry VIII, who was, psychologically, a 16th-century Stalin -- was that she died under color of charges that Henry, and her judges, all knew to be completely false. The same had been true a century earlier, at the condemnation of Joan of Arc. The night before Joan's execution, her principal judge, Pierre Cauchon, sent a priest to her cell, to hear her final confession and to administer the Eucharist to her. It was absolutely forbidden under Church law to allow a relapsed heretic -- which is what Joan had been convicted of being -- to take Communion. As one of her biographers wrote: "There can be no better proof that Cauchon was fully aware of just how ignoble his role in the proceedings had been, and that he was, at this point, tormented by guilt and shame." Which, of course, made him at least marginally less evil than Henry, who never felt the slightest remorse for his many acts of judicial murder.

@Minime163

2 жыл бұрын

@@tadimaggio I seen that film with Charlie Chaplin once it was a great story his character was a serial killer that had both good and bad in him one part in particular was when he decided to find someone who no one cared about and kill them. He met some girl in the poring rain and desided she'd suit his purpose so he brings her home and offers her a glass of wine laced with poison and she starts telling him about her life and how she's contemplating suicide and Charlie feels sorry for her and takes the wine of her saying its corked and ends up persuading her not to commit suicide she later comes to his trial as a character witness for him. What ever we say about the movies they make now there's nothing to beat the stories the old films told. Ann of a thousand days was another great story well told, I'm a catholic from Ireland and their have been some turbulent times between ourselves and our protestant brothers and sisters in the past thank God God over and don't with now. But I really felt for Ann boleyn and to a lesser degree the other women in the film. Cardinal wolsey was every bit as horrible as Henry in a different way giving the church's blessing to kings and nobles to have affairs with young women and girls who like Ann Hadn't a choice in the matter later to be cast aside when these men got board with them as fallen women. Ann must have been some woman to stand up to Henry and make him marry her and start the reformation she wasn't afraid to call out cardinal wesley's hypocrisy either eventhough she later paid with her life for her courage no wonder it was her daughter that made England the most powerful nation in the world and presided over the golden age of the British empire and met grainne (grace) wail (bald) o'mally the most feared pirate around the coast of both Ireland and Britain another woman. No other British monarch contributed more to the British empire than her up until the reign of queen Victoria ironically yet another woman.

i wish they still made movies like this

@sweetlikechocolate437

5 жыл бұрын

So do I. I love Genevieve Bujold's long hair. She has beautiful long hair in 1969 when Hal B. Wallis made this.

@zsedcftglkjh

3 жыл бұрын

You'll never see their like again. People are too dumb nowadays.

@evermoredany

3 жыл бұрын

These movies are only special because they aren't made like this

@Fusion991

Жыл бұрын

@@zsedcftglkjh so sorry mister. Must be hard for you to live amongst us peasants.

@shayadayan3343

8 ай бұрын

Sweetlikechocolate437 it's an artificial hairpiece called a fall

Her family is clapping for sexual harassment. Just yikes. In reality, I honestly wonder how much of their relationship was, at least in the beginning, Henry essentially stalking and sabotaging Anne until she had to give in, by which point she was going to do it on her terms - Queen or nothing. And Henry chose Queen, tearing England apart to do so. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are tragic figures in their own ways. I wish there were more primary sources of them that survived instead of the mysteries we are left with.

@animec-dramaskpop6362

3 жыл бұрын

@@helend7542 I'm a woman and i know how petty, cruel, and viscous we can be. Women of the past could and did pit themselves against each other. Just like we can and do in the present.

@beabianca6621

3 жыл бұрын

You're right, mate. And it also said that Katherine of Aragon gave her aid against the king. And also they were girlfriends. And of course, because of a man they're friendship fall apart.

@watchingknowing

3 жыл бұрын

Both mothers of Icon Ladies in the Tudor Family!

@LaRomaBella

3 жыл бұрын

@@watchingknowing Both iconic women themselves, too. :)

@sabine4759

2 жыл бұрын

You can 't compare the 16th century and gentleman 's behaviour with nowadays! A kiss meant nothing and people , men and women, did like crude jokes. This has noting to do with "sexual harassment"!

THE best Anne Boleyn.

@sarahhague4911

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I agree...

In my opinion, still the best Anne

@simgingergirl

5 жыл бұрын

This is a great movie, but Natalie Dormer is still my favorite Anne.

@jasminecrawford42

4 жыл бұрын

I can't choose, I love them both so much so I won't 😂.

@stellatocca

4 жыл бұрын

Bujold is alright. I find her acting to be a bit too cartoony for my taste. It feels like she's playing a caricature of Anne. Natalie Dormer, on the otherhand, EMBODIES Anne Boleyn. Dormer is a far better actress and has more charisma. Her screen presence is simply magnetic and incandescent. Most importantly, she captured every single facet of Anne Boleyn's complex character: ambitious, intelligent, shrewd, well-read, vivacious, worldly, highly educated, confident, sensual, volatile, passionate, proud, courageous, exquisitely flawed, and way ahead of her time.

@Flapperdame16

4 жыл бұрын

Genevieve= best film portrayal Natalie= best tv Both are the best!

@miharu9218

3 жыл бұрын

Character: genavieve bujold and Natalie dormer Look: Natalie Portman

She was so beautiful as Anne.

My favorite Anne Boleyn movie. Finally an older man playing Henry. He was already old when he met Anne!!! My biggest pet peeve with Hollywood. You can have a man with sex appeal and good looks and be the right age!!! Love Richard Burton Perfect portrayal in my opinion of Anne.

@kevinbergin9971

Жыл бұрын

Thought Henry should have been more dominant as a figure physically than Burton was? Still, he did a fine job acting.

@duketgg

Жыл бұрын

Henry was 42 when he married Anne. How is that "old"?

@via-anghelmagahum2586

Жыл бұрын

@@duketgg but he looked older than he was

@duketgg

Жыл бұрын

@@via-anghelmagahum2586- well, Richard Burton was 44 when he played Henry in this movie. Maybe that's why Henry looks older here.

@Lecintel

Жыл бұрын

​@@via-anghelmagahum2586You met him? How do you know?

Don't forget her daughter was the greatest ruler in history. 🥰.

@thedarkstranger963

3 жыл бұрын

"Greatest ruler in England's history".

@kevinbergin9971

2 жыл бұрын

If Henry had realized girls can lead he might even have trained Princess Mary better. Oh well.

@cathd.8285

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@cesarzpontu8886

2 жыл бұрын

What she wasn't even the greatest ruler of England.

@Lana96269

Жыл бұрын

@@cesarzpontu8886 Queen Elizabeth 1,Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth 2 were the best

Amazing movie... love the acting, costumes, screenplay and cinematography

I love this movie!!!!

Watched this a few days ago, fantastic acting all round, great movie!

For being such a good Catholic Henry didn't seem to mind committing adultry.

@Minime163

2 жыл бұрын

Himself and probably kings and nobles through out Europe got a special blessing from the church to allow them to have mistresses if Ann of a thousand days is to be believed. Did you see the borgus the popes and cardinals and bishops got special dispensations to have mistresses they reared families and were very well off while ordanry people were threatened with hell for even looking at eachother and had to pay hefty taxes for the up keep of the church. Well as the saying goes the catholic church is the most corrupt organisation in the world.

@voltairegirl2953

Жыл бұрын

Henry was not exactly a good Catholic. He created The Church of England so he could be free to acquire a new wife.

@mc-rn8ro

9 ай бұрын

Ironically, if you’d called Henry a good Catholic during the middle to late days of his reign, he’d have you executed He was only Catholic until the Catholic Church refused to give him what he wanted; then he broke with the Church and would be more accurately called a Protestant

After reading about it a lot lately, this is so much more meaningful to me than when I first saw it.

This movie...is great! Anne Boleyn is number...

And she gave birth to a fabulous queen of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Elizabeth was the first !engand

Great portrayal of Anne Boleyn :D

For those who don't know, this great movie will be on Turner Classic Movies tonight (Nov. 2, 2022) at 10:30 PM Eastern Time. It will be preceded by another great film, "The Lion in Winter" at 8 PM.

This movies is great! Im mad it was panned at the time when it came up out. But I guess it was considered old school in the whole “ New Hollywood” era.

She looks just like Judy Garland in this movie.

@craigdavidson5613

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, she looks a lot like Emma Watson.

@amandae8437

9 ай бұрын

I agree. It was the first thing I thought when I watched the movie.

@laurenadcock1340

9 ай бұрын

I said the same! She really does!

Those costumes! I seen this in the theater when I was 11. I fell in love...what ever that was at 11. Fay Dunnawy too,! (Bonny and Clyde).

@eamonndeane587

Жыл бұрын

The Costume Designs Earned the film its only Oscar

The original Anne. Unmatched....

Love this movie !

Very good movie.

SHE IS AMAZING LIKE VANESSA REDGRAVE ON MARY QUEEN OF SCOTTS

Without Anne Boleyn there is no Queen Elizabeth I, without Queen Elizabeth I, there is no British Empire, without the British Empire, there is no United States of America.

@crazycrittergirl7672

Жыл бұрын

This! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Do you also offer me up for this royal bull? 😃

@DarkEmerald1990

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

I am not sure, but since the courtship of Anne Boleyn was a long time, Henry was 41 when he married her, but when he fell in love with her he was just a bit over 30, and as I understand he was pretty fit and athletic, he probably was an attractive man, he became obese and got the leg wound later, actually I think when married to Anne he got injured, so at the time he dated Anne and Jane Seymour he was pretty attractive man, I don't know why everyone thinks he was disgusting or something, this portrayal of him and by Reese Mayers are my favorite

Этот фильм лучше всех остальных ( при всей моей любви к Натали).

I think all things considered Richard Burton's Henry is probably more historically accurate than Sid James in Carry On Henry.

Henry VIII has inappropriate advances

Yea and who would want to love Henry for himself

This movie looks pretty good. I’ll see where I can find it.

i lkie watch movies

Throughout the whole movie she was so angry that when she gave into the king it didnt seem genuine

Oops sorry for the henry

Uh-Ohhh

Throughout the whole movie she was so angry that when she gave into the king it did.t seem genuine

As ELIZABETH was to say when she was Queen,,,,,,,,,,,,"my God, my mother had the courage of ten" and so she did. She was also innocent of the charges against her.

Even Guineve Bujold admitted that Natalie Dormer made a great Anne Boleyn

When, oh when will they get the French hood right?

@chooseyourpoison5105

5 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with it? (I'm not trying to be rude, it's a genuine question. I've heard of Anne's habit of wearing a french hood, and wonder why they were considered so provocative? What's the design?)

@alondraperez-ramirez8363

5 жыл бұрын

@@chooseyourpoison5105 it's meant to cover all of the woman's hair with black cloth. It was considered provocative because a large part of the woman's front hair was visible whereas the English hood left only a small and the connet left nothing. Here they're using it as a diadem of sorts. If you want an accurate depiction of the French hood see Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey's in the 1996 adaptation of 'The Prince and the Pauper'.

@chooseyourpoison5105

5 жыл бұрын

@@alondraperez-ramirez8363 Thank you. I've heard about how Jane Seymour forbade her ladies to wear the French hood and wasn't sure why. You learn something new every day ☺

@alondraperez-ramirez8363

5 жыл бұрын

@@chooseyourpoison5105 your welcome. Did you see the 1996 Prince and the Pauper?

@BluePenguin200

5 жыл бұрын

ChooseYour Poison I heard Jane Seymour banned the hood for her ladies due to its association with Anne Boleyn.. It could be for both of those reasons though, considering how Anne was thought of when Jane became queen:/

Realizing that all of Henry VIII's interactions with women is one "ME TOO" story after another

@Minime163

2 жыл бұрын

No wonder you women hate us I seen Ann of a thousand days last night and the way women were treated was horrific I'm no want a be feminest but jesus christ this man and all his enablers should have been locked up and the key melted down in case someone found it if you threw it away.

It is interesting what Henry says to Anne’s mother in this scene. There were rumors that he had an affair with her when she was younger. Perhaps an allusion to that affair? As Henry says, he certainly has a thing for the Howard women.

Geneviève Bujold is from Montreal, a city with more beautiful women per square foot than any other in the world.

@u235u235u235

4 жыл бұрын

they're just skinny in Montreal.

@Minime163

2 жыл бұрын

She is beautiful in an all natural way.

@kevinbergin9971

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I have that same travel brochure.

The Tudor dynasty is the apex of royal absolutism in England. Henry VIII has earned his reputation as a monster who terrorised his advisors and wives and an unpredictable personality. I do not know if all said about him is true, but if it is then he must have been the most fearsome ruler, to his closer associates at least but the whole population in general too, of the British Isles after the Norman invasion. After him no monarch had such an excessive power over everything. Elisabeth relied heavily on her advisors and Charles I attempted a miniscule fraction of Henry's tactics before the Civil War. Of course, by then things had changed and wealthy people would not just stand by and watch nobles grab all power for themselves. Charles had to face a whole social class, that of early capitalists, while Henry only had a cabal of wealthy nobles with fluid alliances and allegiance.

Gods Kingdom rule is a different kingdom rule to an earthly king or queen rule gods kingdom is higher than man's.

Henry surrounded by his pack of toadying flunkies. I would bet that not much has changed in this respect at Buckingham Palace.

Can you believe JOHN WAYNE beat BURTON for this film AND HOFFMAN and VOIGHT for "Midnight Cowboy" ! What a JOKE !

@musicloverlondon6070

Жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you. I found out about Wayne's Oscar win only recently. Just goes to show how little the Oscars, or indeed similar awards, should be taken seriously as measures of acting ability. It's such a subjective thing to judge anyway but I always thought that John Wayne was only good at playing John Wayne - even he was playing Genghis Khan!

She looks like Barbara Palvin although with different eye colour

Is he Richard Burt?

@macabree5856

9 ай бұрын

What you think?smh

"Women give love to the king like paying taxes. I wish to be loved for myself." -the sad old fart. The sad old clown. The sad old, sagging, pathetic middle aged school boy. Such a weak and fragile ego. All these rich men, these powerful men can't handle it, can't sleep at night unless they can find someone, usually a woman, who feels sorry for them. They want THAT too! Own everything and everyone and STILL they NEED someone to feel sorry for them. To forgive them. It's pathetic. Never forget this. Never look at anyone on television and/or sitting in that oval office and forget that there is someone who MUST be in that 'inner circle' to at LEAST pretend to feel sorry for them. A confessor, a wife, a mistress,,,someone who will tell them their BS behavior is necessary and forgiven.

@erikareyes8122

Жыл бұрын

Well said

@blackbird5634

Жыл бұрын

@Dreaming you forgot to post🤣

@blackbird5634

Жыл бұрын

@Dreaming I grew up with an ''over achiever.'' who thought that all his success gave him permission to behave badly. On top of the wealth, charm, good looks and public status he wanted (more than anything) for those of us close to him to feel sorry for him. And to forgive him for his abuse, good gawd did he NEED ''forgiveness!" All that Catholic guilt! *I will take 2nd or 3rd place and have friends rather than ''go for the gold'' and wind up all alone on the podium. I hope you are out of the toxic relationship and forging a new future! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I know I said this on another site but, if only she could have been Anne of the Thousand Weeks then she would have outlived Henry. Something to think about I guess, not much we can do about it now.

Who else really sees Judy garland in Genevieve bujold?

@craigdavidson5613

Жыл бұрын

Who else really sees Emma Watson in Genevieve Bujold?

@amandae8437

9 ай бұрын

Me

@amandae8437

9 ай бұрын

​​@@craigdavidson5613no one except you

They used her like a broodmare

It bothers me that the costumer received an Oscar when the hoods and coifs are wrong!

“I’m that Berlin girl, and I’m up nexy I broke England from the church, yeah I’m that sexy. Why did I lose my head? Well my sleeves may be green But my lipstick’s red~~~”

@beheadedtheaterqueen1756

2 жыл бұрын

“DIED”Jane Seymour the only one he truly loved “RUDE” when my son was newly born I died but I’m not what I seem or am I stick around and you’ll suddenly Seymour

Name is Anne. Not Nan.

@Roheryn100

Жыл бұрын

Nan was a common nickname for Anne back then. Some state papers and letters even refer to her as “Nan Bullen”.

english subtitle pleas

@h.calvert3165

5 жыл бұрын

But they're SPEAKING English! 😳

Why are you so against people watching this movie film mattinee cinema talking pictures channel why put this film drama on and why put talking pictures on if you are so against people watching through talking pictures stop nodding no either wise.

LOL Mandela Effect!! It's "now" "Anne of THE Thousand Days". Google it! I remember it like you though!!! 🤣

@1231rockchick

3 жыл бұрын

It always was

Good film well ok film quite badly cast though 😏

It seemed like Anne was mean and bitchy throughout the whole movie

@crazycrittergirl7672

Жыл бұрын

Claire Foy probably looked the most like Anne, but Natalie Dormer is the GOAT of Anne Boleyns. I think she embodied the firey spirit of Anne better than anyone else ever has. But what was up with that accent of hers? She sounds more Old Hollywood Transatlantic than British. Then again, most of the actors do.

@Roheryn100

Жыл бұрын

Mean ? Because she was in love with another man and didn’t want to jump into bed with Henry, only to be discarded as her sister Mary had been ? That “mean” ?

@lanawarzynski6944

Жыл бұрын

@@Roheryn100 I know I was just talking about the character

@BLTKellys

Жыл бұрын

@@crazycrittergirl7672 Genevieve Bujold is the greatest Anne. If you knew a damn thing at all about the real person you’d know she had a slight French accent from growing up in the French court.

@GuineaPigEveryday

Ай бұрын

If you think Richard Burton’s character is the nice one you’re either out of ur mind, from the 20s or been watching too much Tate. Either way, wrong, ‘too mean’ for a woman who’s used as an object and a tool and who’s opinion, and choices and power over her life stripped away? She only manages to get her strength by manipulating Henry and even then she pays dearly

Bloody shame , innit !

Socially condoned rape vibes similarly (not equal to) capital punishment.

Sexual harassment makes me a sad panda.

Biden

Very good film; Anne was miscast, her role required a better looking, attractive woman. ..

@meaganwillcott3177

7 жыл бұрын

Anne was not conventionally beautiful so it is said. She was more interesting and educated which captivated the king. I personally think Genevieve was too pretty. Helena Carter was pretty good representation of what Anne looked like, but i think Genevieve and Natalie Dormer captivated Anne's personality.

@christophepena9450

7 жыл бұрын

Sporty Smith hum...miscast!?...she has won a golden globe and an oscar nomination for this role...she's a brilliant actress here. ..and in her others parts...in cinéma AND theater!!!

@larciabella

6 жыл бұрын

AGREED!

@chooseyourpoison5105

5 жыл бұрын

Anne herself was not beautiful by the standards of her time - she had large black eyes, a rather small mouth and a swarthy complexion; her looks were the sort that depended on dazzle and expression rather than features. Having said that - Genevieve Bujold, not attractive? Are you blind, man?

@imme246

5 жыл бұрын

@@chooseyourpoison5105 That being said, she probably would have been considered very pretty now.