Lady Murasaki wrote:Trapper John wrote:That Man for all seasons was a very good film. I think it was the first I ever watched where I thought after, that was a great film without exactly knowing why I liked it so much.
Maybe the main actor and the way he delivered his speeches. Always left me wondering what was the point of dying for his beliefs when everyone around just didn’t care and wanted to appease the mad monarch. Whenever I watch it now I just wish he’d save himself by agreeing to the divorce and the break from Rome so he could live. But he never does.
Yeah, particulary as it happened anyway. Funny isn't it that it parallels closely, for different reasons, the situation between Henry II and Thomas Beckett 400 years earlier (there are good films about that too) It seems the throne and the church haven't always been easy bedfellows and the throne always wins.
PS, Don't shed too many tears for More, he had a few people burnt at the stake for heresy and admitted he'd had children and retarded people beaten for minor religious infringements.
Anyways, I better stop off topicking the thread.