Sounds like a great plan Mya LOL

It’s funny how my opinion of the movie has changed when I first saw it I fell in love with it, but after reading the book it was based on I have discovered it really is a crap movie story wise. Regardless of historical inaccuracies, the pacing of the story and development of characters is crap.

Mya Elise said

Okay, fine, i admit it. I admit when i first read the book i liked it. I did. I was engrossed in it until i got my but up and did research and discovered this website and found out OTBG was a big lie. And the Q & A in the back of the book made me really wanna rip PG’s eyes out. If you haven’t read the Q & A, here are some of the Answers from PG :

“Anne was clearly guilty of one murder” Um no never been proven.

“George Boleyn was the obvious choice for Anne to get a baby, if she cheated.” Really!? Really???!!!

She also supports the idea of George being a homosexual. This was never proven either.

“She (Anne) did not dare to sleep with him, which would have destroyed her chances at being his wife.” How in the world could Anne have known Henry would want her as a wife?! Why would she even think to be become his wife at all? Nobody knew he’d break with the church and divorce Katherine for her. N.O.B.O.D.Y !!!! 

Then if you own the DVD and go to special features on one of the features Phillipa is being interviewed and keeps going on and on about how Anne was a ‘bad’ person.

 If you really admire and love Anne, then this is not okay in any sense. Watching and reading her being continually slammed and slammed is sick. You know, Anne should of cheated and become a witch and everything else because if lies like this are gonna be told then what was the point of her declaring her innocence? And if she was just gonna become beheaded then what was the point of her fighting so hard? …Sorry if i seem like i’m ranting. I just get sensitive about this stuff. I firmly believe Anne was innocent and didn’t deserve any of the punishment she got.

That is exactly what happened with me! I loved it, until I realized how inaccurate it was..

This film made me so angry, and the only bits i really liked was the judgement and execution of anne because it really moved me and it was just about the only point in the film which would allow someone who had no knowledge of tudor history any sympathy towards anne. THere were a lot of problems and inaccuracies with the film, one of which that i haven’t really seen being picked up on is that even if you do have a lot of sympathy with mary and see her as the victim in quite a few senses as i do she wasn’t some innocent girl who caught henry’s eye. She was known as a sl*t in france and england and is said to have slept with the french king. And it really annoyed me how pg tries to make the incest accusation plausible when it was so probably fabricated. i wouldn’t mind if people who actually know the facts watch the film but it makes me really angry that people think they are learning history from this and i really, really hate pg for acting like she knows everything when she has so many inaccuracies in her work.
To give credit where credits due though i must say that the tudor atmosphere really came across in the film. I just really wish there was a fore note that warned that the film was very inaccurate. i did enjoy a lot of the acting though i thought natalie portman did well with what she had been given and got me crying a lot for her execution and judgement as i said earlier. And i thought some of the supporting actors were really good, though i thought thomas boleyn should have been shown as less sympathetic (no disrespect to mark rylance who i think is a great actor, I’m more dissing the script) as far as i can see most of her family weren’t great people and her father is supposed to be scheming and greedy. I must say though I’ve read many people complaining about their dislike for jane rochford she isn’t have meant to have been a very nice person, though with george boleyns behaviour towards her you can kind of see why. One good thing about this film is that it has obviously made a lot of people get more interested and do more research into the tudor period which can only be a good thing

i.3tudorsxx Henry seemed some how to be able to bring out people’s sympathy. I don’t know how he did it? He malnipulated people to feel sorry for him..People did hate Anne, and yet I can’t see why. COA was too old to bear anymore children, so being pratical it would be only right for COA to withdraw to a convent or whatever. Surely the people could see Henry’s point of view about wanting to produce a Son and heir and a couple of spares to keep the Tudor line going?
England kind of had a monarch Queen in Matilda and she made a Dog’s breakfast of ruling, of course we know Stephen soon put her in her place. But the point is Henry didn’t want to have England ruled by a Queen not matter how well trained she was to fit the role. Obvisously Henry had no idea that Mary would make the same screw up’s as Matilda, and that Elizabeth would (to quote from Anne of a thousand days film) build an England that he could never build. But he was frightened by the thought of a female ruler..
Would the reaction of the people towards Henry be the same about wanting to divorce COA if it had been a Princess from abroad, that was the object of his affections?..
Would COA have stepped aside if that had been the case?
Anne was a formidable woman. One of great courage and determination. it’s just unfortunate that she fell into Henry’s web, and got devoured.
She trusted Henry and he betrayed her.. Anne was an innocent victim of one man’s greed, lust and vindictiveness..

Scott tudor said

i know of two sisters who are of full blood, one is olive skin dark hair eyes, the other is blonde blue

Actually Scott, there isn’t a definete description of Mary I’m inclined to think that Mary had mid brown hair colour and hazel eyes.
Also genetics are very funny things and can produce suprizing results. Looking at accepted pictures of Mary and Anne it’s hard to believe they are actually sisters. The same could be said of Henry’s Mary and Margaret Tudor they really are very different to look at.
To be honest of the Boleyn sisters Mary is a lot prettier than Anne, but then Anne has something in her face that makes her a lot more noticable then Mary and somehow attracts peole to her more than Mary does.

Elliemarianna said

Mademoiselle Mya said:

It does feel like her enemies are winning. Like what Henry wanted soo bad (for people to believe she was evil and everything) is still being believed today. I really wish i could just give him a nice slap, or what some people call a Bitch Slap. He deserves that. For everything he did. Just one nice hit and make him realize what he did. He needs to feel ashamed and guilty.

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Don’t forget a hard kick to his baby making facilities!

Only after I’ve smashed him around the face with a very large polo mallet Ellie.