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Actors: Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Anne of a Thousand Days |
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King Henry VIII is obsessed with siring a male heir, and Queen Catherine of Aragon has not borne him one. He casts his eye on a rebellious and haughty girl just back from France named Anne Boleyn, who takes on the high stakes game of getting the king to marry her before she will sleep with him, though he is of course already married. Henry endangers his courtiers, his servants, his kingdom, and eventually Anne herself with his obsessions about power and accession. Burton and Bujold are both wonderful in the lead roles and get good support from the other performers in this 1969 adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson play. Sets and costumes are excellent, and the movie has more forward drive than many other historic dramas, although a lot of detail gets left behind. Watch for an uncredited Elizabeth Taylor in a brief cameo as a masked courtesan who interrupts Queen Catherine in her prayers.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Anne of a Thousand Days |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- middle ages
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prince/king/queen/knight
Lover is...
- of a different social class
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- (man) muscular
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- Prince/Nobleman/King
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- prison
- castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Is this movie based on a
- play
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