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  glenn@ wrote:
  Okay... I am a huge history buff and can write with some authority on this subject manner. Firstly, the book the movie is based on is rubbish. In the interest of making the book more "titilating", Philippa Gregory takes every slander and baseless rumour about Anne, which most modern historians have discounted, and present them as fact. The movie at least makes a more balanced version of Anne, so for that I'm grateful, but it rushes through a complicated and fascinating time period and does everything a disservice. The "Great Divorce" of Henry Viii and Katherine of Aragon takes maybe 5-10 minutes of the movie, the real story took place in about 6 years. I think it just tried to tell a story of two sisters when the reality is that Mary's story (the Other Boleyn Girl) is a footnote in history that is barely worth repeating, and Anne's story is easily the more facsinating and ultimately shocking. Eric Bana was wasted at H8 and was only given brooding looks (either lust or anger, take your pick) as "acting" instead of great dialogue. Scarlett Johannsen was basically the Girl with a Pearl Earring again... voluptous, pleasant and accomodating and ultimately a little dull. Natalie Portman was never quite believable as Anne; she played her as innocent, then vindictive and seductive, then terrified. But she never got at the heart of her character, which was perhaps the fault of the screenplay. Genevieve Bujold in "Anne of the Thousand Days" or Dorothy Tutin in "The Six Wives of Henry Viii" have probably done the best versions of Anne, though Natalie Dormer is quite intriguing in the TV series "The Tudors". Check those out over this any day.
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