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The Private Life of Henry VIII

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The Private Life of Henry VIII	comment	The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 film directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie, Robert Donat, and Merle Oberon.The film opens with a title card describing Catherine of Aragon as being an honorable woman whose life was of no particular interest. It thus omits Catherine entirely, and picks up the life of Henry VIII (Laughton) on the day his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon), is being executed. While Boleyn is going to the block, everyone is having a good time at court, preparing for the marriage of the king and Jane Seymour (Royalty), who replaced Anne in his affections. After Jane dies in childbirth, Henry somewhat reluctantly agrees to marry German princess Anne of Cleves, but takes an instant dislike to her when she comes to England, and swiftly gets a divorce. Meanwhile, scheming social climber Katherine Howard finagles her way into the king's bed and becomes his fifth wife—with tragic consequences for her and her lover Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat).Star Making Roles for Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, and Robert Donat. This film is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, ignoring the Protestant Reformation and the political turmoil of Henry's reign and focusing solely on his love life. The tone is satirical bedroom farce. The portrait of Henry as a fat, gross libertine with disgusting table manners was tremendously influential with regards to modern public perception of what Henry was like.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: King Henry VIII, who likes eating, drinking, and wenching.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: Henry makes his first entrance in the film just as one of the ladies-in-waiting (Katherine Howard, as it happens) is making some very critical comments about him throwing Anne Boleyn over for Jane Seymour. Henry is amused.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The film ends with Henry married to Katherine Parr, who, as in real life, is more a nurse than a wife. In the last scene she nags him about overeating before covering him with a blanket and telling him to take a nap. After she leaves, Henry gets up and gets a chicken leg from the table. As he's digging in, he looks straight at the camera and says, "Six wives, and the best of them's the worst!"
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Henry makes his inaccurate observation that "Elizabeth will never learn to rule so much as a kitchen," the guard behind him quickly but clearly rolls his eyes.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: When Laughton is first seen in the film, he is standing in a doorway in the exact same pose◊ that Henry VIII struck for the famous Hans Holbein portait◊. The first shot of Anne Boleyn is likewise an imitation of her famous portrait, with her monogram necklace.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Henry utterly fails at evaluating his daughters.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Anne Boleyn before her execution, calmly going to the block, as history records she did in Real Life.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: After a comic sequence in which Henry tries to sneak into Katherine's room, only for guard after guard after guard to shout, "The king passes!", he finally gets there and says, "No one saw me, Katherine, I swear!"
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: It's the English court in the 16th century, fancy period dress is required.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Among other things, there's the Dawson Casting of Binnie Barnes as Katherine Howard, and the fact that Jane Seymour is depicted as dying the night that Prince Edward is born when in fact she died 12 days later.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_57de4e72	type	Beauty Inversion
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_57de4e72	comment	Beauty Inversion: Done deliberately in-universe by Anne of Cleves, who has no desire whatsoever to be Henry's Queen. So she makes herself up to be as homely as possible, makes weird bug-eyed faces, and generally acts obnoxious. It works, as Henry, who himself was lukewarm about the marriage, recoils, and offers her a divorce immediately.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Although really, Laughton as Henry isn't that fat. Henry in his later years got so fat that he had to use a lift to get to the second floor of his castle.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Laughton really goes to town in this movie. Practically every line is bellowed. Naturally, this won him the Oscar for Best Actor.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: One of the highlights of the movie is the banquet scene in which Henry chugs wine by the flagon, while also attacking a chicken, tearing it apart, flinging the bones and the innards all over the room, splattering everyone unfortunate enough to be sitting near him.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Henry makes sure to call Thomas Culpeper "Thomas Culpeper" so the audience will know who he is.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: The ladies-in-waiting at the court, who are basically Henry's pool of mistresses, and gossip endlessly about his sex life.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: As Henry makes a pig of himself at dinner (see Jabba Table Manners below), to everyone's disgust, he says, "There's no delicacy nowadays. No consideration for others. Refinement's a thing of the past! Manners are dead!" As demonstrated by the anonymous woman who turns out for the execution of Anne Boleyn.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Henry spends literally about five seconds mourning Jane Seymour, then he is cheerful again.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: The whole court, as seen when Henry makes an unfunny joke at table and everyone in the room howls with laughter.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Jane Seymour dies after giving birth to Henry's son.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Katherine Howard here portrayed as a schemer who uses her sexuality to seduce Henry and get herself made queen, while in real life she was The Ditz who got in over her head and was a teenager half the age of actress Binnie Barnes.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_e3277b30	type	Contrast Montage
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_e3277b30	comment	Contrast Montage: The opening sequence cuts back and forth between the grim scene of Anne Boleyn's execution and the happy, flirtatious fun of life at court as Henry's getting ready to marry Jane. It even has Anne say, "What a beautiful day," as she stands on the block, only for Jane to say the exact same thing much more cheerfully back at court.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Private Life of Henry VIII / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Changing the letters that go next to Henry's "H" on the pillows of the royal bed.
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