Anyone watching 'The other Boleyn girl'??

[Italiangreyhound]

Seems like a pretty crap time to be a woman (or a girl)!

Anyone know how true it all is??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Boleyn_Girl_%282008_film%29

Yup, I am. It's a great film but very uncomfortable in places.

It's one small way that the women are all set against each other, sister against sister, the queen against the new ladies in waiting.

It's basically bullshit :)
Mary and Anne were both at the French court of Francis I and Mary was his mistress first. She had a bit of a rep actually.
Jane Parker and George Boleyn were married, very unhappily.
Henry Percy and Anne were betrothed and very much in love but Wolsey and his father split them up and married him off to Anne talbot. It was a miserable marriage for both of them and Percy died bitter and without an heir.
Some think that Mary's dc were Henry's, but imo if they had been, he would have legitimised them, especially the boy Henry Carey.

It is dismal and depressing but i think women are still set against each other and screw each other over similarly today. I really do like the film bit find it hard to watch. Anne is portrayed as particularly twisted and devious....

Recording it to watch tomorrow, just watched a program called a time travellers guide to the Elizabethan era or something like that and it was pretty bleak to be a women then also!

Eric bana is bloody gorgeous though...

Thanks all for your wise words.

It does seem a bit romantisied!!

Feel sorry for Natalie Portman, she is more feisty and (personal opinion here!) more beautiful! Not that that should count for anything but as I say just my thoughts (before am hounded!!).

My goodness, imagine coming in and telling your mum, dad and uncle how many times you bonked!!!!!!!!! Sorry that over simlifies..... it's pretty crapola.

You won't feel sorry for Anne when she decides to screw her sister over. I might switch off at that point!

Actually I like Dominic Cummerbund! Myself. But he is decidedly wimply in this!

Oh Bollux... I meant to record this but forgot! Is it repeated anywhere?

Yes, I know, I know, I can guess how it all ends! I have actually seen it before but I am just thinking of it now. She wanted to marry this bloke, did, then her bloody uncle comes and craps all over her parade. Why does the uncle have so much power!!

Badvoc any ideas??

thenightsky just start watching no and read up on wickipedia, I missed the start too.

Kirsten Scott Thomas oh no --- Allowing the men to believe they are in charge!!!

It's ok, I know it's not real. Back to the ironing!!!

'She wolves' reminds me, there was a series of programmes under than name on BBC iplayer a few months ago - it might be you can find them on youtube? They were really good and IIRC touched on this time period.

I think it probably was a fairly unpleasant time to be a woman, but I also think Anne and Mary's real-life parents weren't very nice even by the standards of the time.

Italiangreyhound i cannot coz DH is watching a DVD. What channel are you on? I might find it an hour later somewhere perhaps.

The uncle had power because he was the head of the family (oldest son of Mary and Anne's father). He had a lot of political power as well.

Urgh listen to them, planning to keep the king tempted while he can't shag one daughter, by dangling the other in front of him. Lovely.

BBC2

Hang on, the uncle was surely the rather of the girls' dad?

I am not sure if Anne would have been telling the kind women were equal! Bit modern, or am I being agesit!

Is the brother meant to be gay, in love with his sister or just not interested in his wife, sorry, not a loaded question, just seems he was pretty quick to reject the marriage.

Yep. Sorry, I am running a temperature and in any case fairly dim.

The uncle was the oldest son in his generation of the family, which is why he had power.

I mean telling the king women were equal!

Oh it all goes horrific from now on - think my brain can only cope with something mindless.... Like Family Guy.