The movie and the history behind the Other Boleyn Girl differ. The movie skips over and or glosses over main points in history. The true story of Anne Boleyn is quite depressing, but in my research I found it to be extremely interesting. The movie, The Other Boleyn Girl had good acting, beautiful costumes and sets, and a good plot. However, if you are looking to do research on a school history project this is not a movie you want to be looking into, but if you are looking for a good movie you should watch it.
Anne Boleyn had a sister, Mary Boleyn and a brother, George Boleyn. Two of these siblings would meet a terrible and abrupt end of their lives. Mary was the oldest of the siblings, despite what the movie said. Mary started out life with a promising future; she was betrothed to a twenty-one year old emperor, to be married as soon as she reached the age of twelve. However, the emperor ended up not wanting to wait that long for a bride. She was then married to William Carey, a man of the privy chamber. (loads)The movie got the fact that she married William Carey correct. However, it forgot to mention that she had, had another engagement at an earlier time. Anne was the middle child of their family. The movie betrays her as beautiful child. And she may have been but, it was also rumored that she supposedly had a sixth finger, a mole, and a double nail. However, these traits are known more as myths. It is known however, that she did not look like most of the other women at court. She was darker skinned and had dark hair, while the other women mainly had pale skin and blond hair. It is possible that because of her not looking similar to the other women in court is what triggered the rumors of her childhood appearance to be spread...
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...et the movie betrays it as a good life. There was more to the role Anne played to get to queen then the movie was willing to give. In the end Anne worked hard, sacrificed everything, and got nothing. This movie had history almost correct, but Hollywood got in the way and the love and lust and even Anne herself had to be glorified and made bigger and better. This is why this movie is more fictional then not.
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Secondly, the book has no character in place of Mituba and so it greatly makes her existence in the movie questionable. She is usually only seen spying on Hester, like what is are we supposed to interpret from that. Unlike in the novel, the movie we find out is being narrated by Pearl (Arthur and Hester's child) rather than the by the author like in the book. The end too is much different than that of the book where no war takes place. So the book that is said to be an adaption of the movie greatly contradicts and differentiates from it. It is a Rated R movie and has nudity and sexually explicit
On Sept. 7th 1533, Elizabeth, the daughter of King Henry was born. The King of England wasn’t as thrilled since she wasn’t a boy, who would mean an heir to the throne, but it was still okay. Due to the fact that after 2 more births that resulted in death, Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1936 when Elizabeth was only 3 years old. As her father continued to remarry, divorce, and execute his wives, one more child would be born, resulting to Elizabeth having one sister, Mary, and a new born brother named Edward. After Edward was born, his mother Jane died. She was known for being the one wife that Henry actually loved. Elizabeth grew into a very smart girl. She was known as Bess as times spoke Latin, French, German, and Henry gave her a tutor to study with. Along with everything else, she developed a temper that would help her later on as being a Queen.
...nt for it to actually happen, both revisors stayed true to Anne’s diary. Though there were differences in Anne and Peter’s love life and how Margot and Peter progressed to only be friends, I would assume it was a difficult task to convert the diary to this format. The similarities like Anne giving the presents were the more heartfelt moments to show where Anne grew and made sense to include them in both. Both were heartbreaking to know that the Franks, the Van Daans, and Mr. Dussel had to endure this terrible time. Anne, Margot, and Peter having to endure it as children. Knowing that it is not fiction and this actually happened to not just them, but others is unfathomable to me and I will never be able to grasp it unless I am ever unfortunate enough to go through it myself. Maybe not even then.
She was a strong woman who held herself with dignity, but more importantly she was gracious and kind. While her legacy will live on as the “ugly wife”, she was much more than that. She was still able to attend royal events and her home became a place where many important people from all across the kingdom could come and stay. She opened up an orphanage on her property to help the children. She even managed to befriend Henry’s new wife, Catherine Howard. Despite hurt feelings, she made it known that they were on good terms by dancing with Catherine shortly after she was crowned queen (Borman). Anne was also beloved by Henry’s youngest daughter Elizabeth. The bond most likely formed due to their similar religious beliefs and rejection from King Henry. Anne’s strongest bond, however, was with Henry’s oldest daughter Mary. Mary was known to be ruthless towards reformers, yet not towards Anne (Boreman). Anne of Cleves warm and gentle nature was able to win Mary Tudor over. She handled all her relationships in such a way that makes her a role model for woman, showing how to be independent, gracious, and
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
Anne’s thoughts and perspectives of stuff she encountered with, or the struggles she endured weren’t shown in depth in the film. Her curiosity and wonders of countless stuff weren’t shown to the best of ability. Anne was a young girl figuring out many new things in life, in the film however her thoughts aren’t really elaborated. Making the film less interesting, considering the book is a diary full of her encounters of war and the disruptive life that she constantly envisaged throughout her life. She says, “What does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart. (20 June, 1942). This quote accentuates the way she wants to write stuff, in the film however she doesn’t
Annemarie's whole life circled around the lie about Aunt Birte, plus others. Her life changed, her relationship towards the adults changed, and last but not least, she learned the meaning and the way of
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She witnessed her first hardship when she had been only three years old. Her father, King Henry VIII, had ongoing suspicions about her mother’s strange behaviors, for he had suspected his second wife, Anne, to be performing the dishonorable act of adultery with more than five men of the palace’s chambers, one of the suspects being her own brother, stirring out a crime of incest and linking it to Anne. He then ordered the execution of Anne on the false charges of adultery which then stripped Princess Elizabeth of her title and left her going by Lady Elizabeth instead. Since Elizabeth had been declared illegitimate, many believed that she would never obtain the title queen. Fortunately for her, fate had it differently planned it out, and she grew to be the famous Virgin Queen of England.
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My community event took place on Oct 30th 2014 at three o’clock in the Willie T Library Auditorium. The event was held by another Gender Women Studies professor to elaborate on Intersectionality and how the film relates to gender women studies and the main topics of this course. The movie that was shown was The Other Boleyn Girl. After the movie there was a discussion that had taken place with everyone who watched the movie discussing topics and opinions of how this film connects to topics within the gender women study courses.
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