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Wolf Hall
"Wolf Hall" is on BBC One tonight at 21:00. I found the books to be all but unreadable, but I am looking forward to this dramatisation. Anybody else planning to watch ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Liked it for the story (which didn't need inventing by Ms. Mantel). Like other posters I can't resist anything to do with the monstrous Tudors. But the script was replete with linguistic and other anachronisms, wasn't it? Sticking pins in wax dolls? "Not an overwhelming success"? I was waiting to hear that Wolseley had "gifted" Hampton Court Palace to the king. I can see many reasons for updating the language, but the sloppy use of current vernacular set this viewer's teeth on edge. It reminded me (by the total contrast) of the great film "A Man for All Seasons" and its glittering script written by the great Robert Bolt
"I take it you wont be happy when they 'shoe-horn' Lenny Henry or Idris Elba into it.".
What a marvellous image! Lenny as pantomime dame playing, whom? - Anne of Cleves? At the small cost of the sacrifice of historical accuracy what a marvellous opportunity to challenge racial and gender stereotypes.
What a marvellous image! Lenny as pantomime dame playing, whom? - Anne of Cleves? At the small cost of the sacrifice of historical accuracy what a marvellous opportunity to challenge racial and gender stereotypes.