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# Henry V

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Olivier's masterpiece
  

*by B***W on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2013*

Though there were previous films of Shakespeare plays Olivier considered this one to be the first.  He was right. Using three strip Technicolor he recreats the middle ages of Friossart's Chronicles beginning the film with the camera descending into 16th Century London, past London Bridge across South Bank and into the Globe Theatre where the groundlings are assembled for a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth.  We see the actors backstage preparing for their entrances (including the boys who played female roles) and the first few acts are shown on the Globe stage itself. Olivier solves the problem of "opening up" the filmed stage play by taking us out of the theatre at the same time that the play shifts to Southampton.  At first we see scenes filmed on sets that clearly use overblown and artificial looking painted backdrops; then to outdoor locations in Ireland for the battle scenes.  The backdrops are purposefully overdone.  Olivier said that Shakespeare (especially in Henry V) can come across as looking too unreal on film.  By using such over the top sets the actors in their theatrical costumes would come across as appearing more real.Another technique was to reverse the usual camera work for the scenes with famous orations.  Instead of moving in for close ups during the "Once More Unto The Breach" or the "St. Crispins Day" speeches, Olivier does the opposite.  The scenes start in  medium close and as the volume intensifies the camera pulls back to a long shot to take in not only Olivier's powerful renditions but the grandeur of the sets.  It works brilliantly.Then there are the performances.  Besided this being a record of Olivier's sheer vocal and personal power in his youthful prime we see the familiar actors from the British stage of that day such as Felix Aylmer, Leo Genn, Esmond Knight, Leslie Banks and Robert Newton. They deliver stage-like performances on film which is what Oliver intended since this film is a stage play taken outside and then, at the end, back into the Globe for applause by the audience of Shakespeare's time - and for us, the film audience of today.Mention must be made of William Walton's magnificent score.  It's a classic and has been recorded on CD.  The music evokes the Bard's era in the quieter scenes and delivers tremendous emotional intensity in the battle scenes, most notably in the cavalry charge of the French Knights at Agincourt.Yes, this was a film made at the urging of Winston Churchill to buck up the English audience under seige by the Nazis during the Second World War but Olivier transcends mere propoganda by creating the Shakespeare film to end all Shakespeare films.  The Criterion release is definitely the one to purchase.  The electronically remastered version dispenses with the cracks and fuzzy frames that were seen for years in old prints.  This one brings out the grandeur of Laurence Olivier as both actor and director. This film is a must.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This is the Gold Standard
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2004*

This is a brilliantly conceived movie-within-a-play-within-a-movie that showcases the genius of Laurence Olivier.  Today's audiences are exposed mainly to Olivier the movie star. But if you want to see a purer form of acting, see Olivier the stage actor. This is possible by watching his Shakespeare plays on film.  And these films are by  Olivier the "auteur," long before the title was coined.  Olivier's is the legacy to which Branaugh, the darling of the current generation, fancies himself the pretender.And lest you're expecting a camera pointed at a stage, don't worry. Olivier, who produced and directed most of his Shakespeare films, has actually used the film medium to enlarge his plays' visual scope, while maintaining the intimacy that is the essence of live theatre. Moreover, Olivier is mindful of how daunting the language of Shakespeare is for modern audiences and has modified much of the original script to be more comprehensible, while preserving the feel of Elizabethan English.Olivier's "Henry V" was to England what Eisentein's "Ivan the Terrible" was to Russia - a familiar history rendered as a national epic, for morale purposes, while audiences were fighting off the Germans during World War II.  There are other parallels. For example, both use static, formalized composition, in Henry V's case, meant to resemble the images in medieval illuminated manuscripts and books of Hours. (In Ivan's case, according to Kael, like Japanese Kabuki.) Thus, a soundstage "exterior" backdrop becomes a tableau that serves to enhance, with its flat perspective and subjective scale, the view we have of that fabulous Age of Chivalry, for which the play's Battle of Agincourt was the closing act.I've always sneered at the extravagant accolades which show business gives its own. But after seeing this film, or the equally brilliant "Hamlet," I can understand why this man was so good that a knighthood wasn't enough, and why he was raised to the peerage.By the way, the Criterion DVD is beautiful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Still Worthwhile
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2013*

This version is a bit dated since the Branagh one came out, but it has a few things going for it.  For one, the introduction that sets up the South Bank, the Globe, and the audience and actors getting ready for the performance to begin.  I use it every semester on the first day that I teach Shakespeare to get the students thinking about how the plays might have been performed.  For another, in the final scene, the women are actually played by men, as they would have been in Shakespeare's day.  And you can't deny that Olivier had a wonderful command of the language.

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