re: The king (Netflix)

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Thanks for the info. I enjoyed it but was wondering how factual could it be. Thanks for clearing it up. So, what about the entire manipulation part?

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Well the Dauphin is a fictional character invented by Shakespeare.
The real Dauphin was a little kid during the reign of Henry V and was almost certainly not even at the battle of Agincourt, definitely didn't die there. I think the single combat thing is what happens in Shakespeare's play? Honestly I don't know much about Shakespearean plays.

As far as the manipulation in court to get him to attack the French... I have no doubt his political advisers would have pushed him in that direction, but faking an assassination attempt? I doubt it, they were actually already at war with France when he took over so no real need to provoke him.

They really should have named this movie Agincourt because it was just a build up to that one event and not his reign in total, Henry V reigns for 7 more years after Agincourt and fights in countless other battles, weird they stopped the movie in the middle of his reign. I guess the point was to show how he became a well known warrior king, and they succeeded with that.

The movie seemed a little rushed for no reason though, the character development was quick and the plot jumped around, I was hoping they were rushing through the crap to give us a long epic battle, but that didn't really happen.

I liked how they portrayed medieval sword fighting as basically a street fight with swords and armor instead of a skilled display of swordsmanship and honor, because they former portrayal seems more realistic.

Chalamet was phenomenal in Beautiful Boy

The story on that is Thomas actually died during the 100 years war on behalf of his brother (Henry V). I think they just sped up his death timeline for the sake of the movie's storyline, so not much detail would be provided I would imagine

The screen grab they use is very “battle of the bastards”

Just finished this. Thought it was absolutely incredible and the best movie Netflix has ever put out

Chalamet and Patterson equals shitty product no surprise

Oof true that, I started watching it but dropped off after a couple of episodes.

Enjoyed the movie, however it would have been better off as a 10 part series and they could of stuck with with more historical accuracy.

Anzicourt has some scenes that look like they were copied and pasted straight from the battle of the bastards.

I can’t even imagine how difficult hand to hand combat must of been as a fully armored man-at-arms in those days. Those guys were literally just trying to beat the piss out each other in the mud, while stabbing at the necks.

Could arrows even penetrate heavy breast plate?

Even with the historical missteps, it was still better than most of the stuff I watch.

Epic scene when Hal is we crowned