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A Man for All Seasons - An Inquiry

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2008
  • A scene from the 1966 movie "A Man for All Seasons". Thomas More has been imprisoned for refusing to sign the Act of Succession recognizing Anny Boleyn's offspring as the legal heirs to the throne of England. Here he has been called before Secretary Cromwell, the Duke of Norfolk, and a bishop from the new Church of England. They try to get him to sign the Act, whether by threat or reason (Cromwell and the bishop) or by plea to friendship (Norfolk). More refuses to sign.

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  • @kaylarose1081
    @kaylarose1081 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    "And when you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, would you come with me -- for fellowship?"

    • @user-cr3ti1vj6f
      @user-cr3ti1vj6f หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      he was sent to hell for burning people alive, not because of his conscience

    • @johnfisher247
      @johnfisher247 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      A conscience can be malformed and so a following conscience is not enough. One has a duty to form and inform a moral conscience. So many today have malformed consciences.

    • @frank2453
      @frank2453 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@johnfisher247
      Well that's not entirely it. Had you followed your conscience your entire life, but still preformed abominable acts you would be in danger. Not for following your conscience, but for not fulfilling your duty of study to inform your conscience. We have a specific duty to learn and absorb the teachings of God in order to form a good conscience.

  • @bigbob1699
    @bigbob1699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    When talking is elevated to a high art form .

    • @publiushamilton4030
      @publiushamilton4030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Imagine that. Not an f-bomb or n-word in sight / earshot. Some current Hollywood scribes (including one highly overrated one in particular--I'm thinking of you, Q.T.) could learn a thing or two from watching this film.

    • @jnagarya519
      @jnagarya519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It is first in the WRITING, by Robert Bolt. Also did "Lawrence of Arabia".
      Paul Scofield knew how to make language live.

    • @gemmeliusgrammaticus2509
      @gemmeliusgrammaticus2509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It’s called rhetoric.

    • @johnbryant6572
      @johnbryant6572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brilliant isent it using a voice has an amazing power.

  • @aegontargaryen9322
    @aegontargaryen9322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Paul Schofield gave one of the best performances of all time in this production

    • @gardenvape4021
      @gardenvape4021 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      here, here…

  • @TheRjb2010
    @TheRjb2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    “Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign.”

    • @kevinhockersmith8149
      @kevinhockersmith8149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tell the President that!

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tell Mark Sargent that as well 👍

    • @jessiejames7492
      @jessiejames7492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      seems like we are going through this now with pondering on whether the covid vaccine is safe or not. those in charge arent giving us answers as much as we need to know except take it and you will be protected. false promise . we are still getting it and spreadingit. but like sir thomas more we still have no choice not to take it . do or die

    • @gardenvape4021
      @gardenvape4021 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      …this is powerful stuff, for sure 👌

  • @robmaddison8645
    @robmaddison8645 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    'Then I am not threatened'. Wow, the calm conviction which he spoke that line with brought a lump to my throat. The real hero's are moral men with true hearts.

    • @rickymaroo253
      @rickymaroo253 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thomas More had torture devices brought to his own home so that he could personally rack people whom he suspected of being protestant. Not particularly moral behaviour..

  • @fporretto
    @fporretto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    The Robert Bolt play of *_A Man for All Seasons_* is one of the greatest works of its kind -- and it was the basis for this production. It's been my favorite movie ever since I first saw it.

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The remake with Charlton Heston was more of a comedy than a drama as I remember it.

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes, and of course Paul Scofield reprised his stage performance for this film, which rightly won him an Oscar.

  • @alexeton
    @alexeton ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The screenplay and acting in this movie is breathtaking,in my humble opinion the best in the history of cinema.

  • @martinbamba8681
    @martinbamba8681 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The silence of Thomas More speaks more

  • @stravinsky1300
    @stravinsky1300 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Sir Thomas More knows being calm is to his advantage. Having been a judge himself, he knows fully well what Cromwell is doing: trying to control the pace of the interrogation and fire pointed questions at him rapidly, to get him to make a slip that can be used against him. More knows his best defense against that is to be calm and collected. He also knows that while Cromwell may speak quickly, he can't control when (or if) More will answer, so More takes deliberate pauses to reduce the tension and choose his words with care.

    • @LordGreystoke
      @LordGreystoke หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does it matter?? More lost his head anyway, Yippee, he stayed true to his conscience and it cost him his life. Did the rest of Henry's staff ultimately give a damn?

    • @michaelbayer5094
      @michaelbayer5094 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@LordGreystoke Of course, it mattered. It is why we in the English-speaking world have a right to a jury trial, the right against self-incrimination, the right to remain silent, and why a conviction requires proof of our state of mind to be found guilty.
      As this scene shows, some men (Cromwell and Rich) will do anything to serve the King's interest, even it means violating the conscience of the accused (the Archbishop), while others will seek to placate the king in order to maintain their position (the Duke). Either way the result is depotism and tyranny. More's principled stand preserved the rule of law and constitutional government for later generations. Without More losing his head in this unjust manner, England could have reverted to absolute monarchy. It would take nearly a century but the English Civil War would establish Parliamentary supremacy when the English king would lose his head. Maybe what you fail to grasp is that sometimes preserving liberty requires self-sacrifice even martyrdom.

  • @bigbob1699
    @bigbob1699 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is what owning the stage looks like .

  • @TheSnowballEarth
    @TheSnowballEarth 13 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Thumbs up if this film is in your personal Top Ten!

    • @bradfordmiller4287
      @bradfordmiller4287 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As far as I'm concerned, it's the greatest movie ever made. Great story, so witty, great acting on the part of everyone in it, great costumes - just a magnificent work of art.

  • @AllenbysEyes
    @AllenbysEyes 16 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    This is my favorite scene of the movie. I performed it for several Forensics speech competitions (though I had to reduce my role to More, Cromwell and Norfolk). Some of the best dialogue ever written for any movie/play ever, and needless to say, great acting all around.

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My favorite is 'Give the Devil Benefit of Law for my own safety'

  • @dseanmat
    @dseanmat 14 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Thank you for posting this scene, which is a flawless example of great writing, directing, and acting!

  • @jackbuckley7816
    @jackbuckley7816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Not being allowed books while imprisoned, wow. I certainly feel his pain!

    • @rsr789
      @rsr789 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No internet either, proof that there is no god! 🤪

  • @Pa-tk1dx
    @Pa-tk1dx หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Justice is what you are threatened with.
    Then I am not threatened.
    What a line!!!!

  • @frankg3rd1
    @frankg3rd1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I wish the this movie were celebrated by the cable networks and scheduled to be aired often. " A Man for All Seasons" and the movie " Shane " to me are both visually and verbally my favorite of all time. Both were shown to me in the 3rd grade in 1976.....just amazing films.

    • @ohmightywez
      @ohmightywez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Catholic school? Once a month our nuns would walk us all to the church and we would watch a movie. Of course there were the saint movies, like this, and Becket and Song of Bernadette. But we also saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Pollyanna, The Voyages of Sinbad and dozens of others that I love to this day.

    • @frankg3rd1
      @frankg3rd1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ohmightywez Lol ! Yes...Catholic School ! Amazing that they were confident that these films would be enjoyed by 3rd graders lol !

  • @OscarDeltaSierra
    @OscarDeltaSierra ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A.K.A: What happens when you vainly try to trick a trained attorney and highly-experienced judge into accidentally incriminating himself.

  • @integral
    @integral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Jesus. The incredible talent in that room, working with such a brilliant script. Beyond words.

  • @Anonymous-nn6ht
    @Anonymous-nn6ht ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A man of principles though passes away but his/her soul remains alive forever.

    • @barriolimbas
      @barriolimbas 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      All souls are forever. But the soul of the man of principles, is rewarded with everlasting glory and happiness.

  • @milosbez
    @milosbez 13 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    "Thank you thomas, ive been trying to make that clear to his grace for quite some time"- hilarious!

    • @pbrazor50
      @pbrazor50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I love the look on Cromwell's face when Norfolk says, "I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not, . . ."

    • @jimstanga6390
      @jimstanga6390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was almost a ‘Monty Python’ moment…”Oh, yes, I suppose you’re right!”

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pbrazor50 Norfolk's statement is bordering on treasonable - expressing doubt about the marriage.

    • @TruthLivesNow
      @TruthLivesNow ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stevekaczynski3793 ...come for fellowship sake...

  • @JaimeGirl
    @JaimeGirl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A master class in eloquence both on page and spoken word- just brilliant

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

    • @sparkyrunner4283
      @sparkyrunner4283 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or a bunch of opotunistic judges and government officials that would sell their mothers into prostitution for some recognition !!!!

  • @thibaud1832
    @thibaud1832 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    3:53 love this moment when the movie predicts the Internet: More makes an argument and the Archbishop immediately replies by interpreting what More said as the exact opposite of what More just said.

  • @michaelmckay3179
    @michaelmckay3179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This man, Thomas more, sought every legal avenue to avoid his execution, but in the end, man's law is not.long enough for us to keep.within Gods. Thus at the end of all our lives we must choose God's law over mans

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately, like he said, if we break God's law than God should arrest us, but with man's law it is left to man and his faculities for his protection 👍

    • @LivingWatersUtube
      @LivingWatersUtube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Confer Thomas More's conversation with Roper about the necessity of human laws, "England is planted thick with them", in this world.

    • @bradfordmiller4287
      @bradfordmiller4287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I look at it as a classical tragedy. More's downfall was that he believed that the law would save him. I'd have whispered in his ear: "If the powers that be want to get you, they will - damn Magna Carta and the King's Coronation Oath." I would have advised him simply to attend the wedding, not giving it his blessing, but simply attending it as the King's friend. As he said at his trial: "The world must construe according to it's wits." If people wanted to believe that by attending the wedding he was giving iy his blessing, so be it, but it wouldn't be true.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bradfordmiller4287 I don't know that he believed the law would save him - after all, swearing to the act was the law. At the same time I don't think he was courting martyrdom.
      People tried to stay within the law while following their religious beliefs - for example, in the 17th century Catholics in London often queued up to attend mass in foreign embassies of Catholic states. As foreign territory mass could be celebrated in them, while illegal in England itself. It was all a very narrow tightrope.

    • @bradfordmiller4287
      @bradfordmiller4287 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stevekaczynski3793 - On the contrary, not only in this scene but throughout the movie More states his case that he has done nothing for which he can be harmed. His legal stance is impeccable, right up until the end. The only grounds for them condemning him is the perjury of Richard Rich and the sham of a trial. As a brilliant attorney, he believed that the law would protect hin, and it was his downfall.

  • @servicekid7453
    @servicekid7453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    These are terrors for children Master Secretary, not for me. What a badass Sir Thomas Moore was.... 😮

  • @Milordvega
    @Milordvega 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    BRILLIANT. BRILLIANT DIALOGUE.

  • @jimstanga6390
    @jimstanga6390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It’s interesting to note that the actors are of such stature that John Hurt is a background character…of course, this was early in his career…

  • @AllenbysEyes
    @AllenbysEyes 13 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I performed this scene for a Forensics Speech Competition senior year of high school. Did pretty well too. Thanks for uploading this, it's complete brilliance in writing/acting and brings back a lot of great memories.

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm not sure I'd have his guts. Not sure at all. It's one thing to admire him, quite another to step into his brave shoes.

    • @user-bi9nu8lq5g
      @user-bi9nu8lq5g 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I am not unsure , I would sign it in a heartbeat.

  • @Charles-ij1ow
    @Charles-ij1ow ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dam this is fire, surprised it's not more popular.

    • @bradfordmiller4287
      @bradfordmiller4287 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Consider mankind.

    • @andrewg.carvill4596
      @andrewg.carvill4596 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's disturbingly challenging: In what evils might I be acquiescing, because 'everyone accepts it' ?

  • @prospero4183
    @prospero4183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Rich is a slimey, I love an actor who can play the cowardly worm.

    • @baraxor
      @baraxor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The historic Richard Rich, sharing a name with a comic book character, is really a true life comic book villain.
      He betrayed practically everyone who ever placed confidence in him, one after the other.

    • @erpollock
      @erpollock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He played Caligula in I, Claudius.

  • @daveybalmer
    @daveybalmer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    If only we could have this precision of language from all of our governmental officials instead of the often empty rhetoric now relentlessly and mercilessly inflicted....

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It takes good education to be able to think this well. The US Education has gone down hill since the Government took it over

    • @Mourtzouphlos240
      @Mourtzouphlos240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@55Quirll I take it you both do not remember George W Bush and do not know that until he ran for public office, had never set foot in a public school.

    • @Mourtzouphlos240
      @Mourtzouphlos240 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liberal Democracies have always existed upon empty rhetoric. A slave owning rapist who did not see Native Americans as people and wasn't elected by any modern definition of "the people" said "all men are created equal."

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mourtzouphlos240 I remember that idiot, surprised he was elected twice and could put two sentences together 👍

  • @peterrollinson-lorimer
    @peterrollinson-lorimer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brilliant screenplay by Robert Bolt, CBE. When words such as these are given to actors such as those, it is no wonder at the Masterpiece that this is.

  • @everettamador9885
    @everettamador9885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Cromwell just wanted to make Moore's life a living hell....Cause he was wielding power...

    • @newperve
      @newperve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's more than that, Crime may be powerful but he's vulnerable. Of the previous 2 chancellors one was about to be sent to the tower when he died and the other is in the tower. If things endded badly he could face the axe (spoilers he did). The King was getting impatient.

    • @patty1094
      @patty1094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "More"....not Moore

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The courtier standing in the doorway to the chamber with a dance going on had tried earlier in the film to interest More in supporting him in a case, and was rebuffed.

  • @emameyer
    @emameyer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "some men think the earth is round, some other think it's flat"
    sadly, this is still true today...

  • @akosigundam
    @akosigundam 14 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow, all three Thomases together!!!

    • @Mpshfromlowell64
      @Mpshfromlowell64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Four, actually.... Cranmer, Cromwell, More, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. More often addresses his friend the Duke as “Howard”.....

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exceptionally common name at the time, mainly because of Thomas Becket.
      Resenting his defiance of an earlier king, Henry VIII later ordered Becket's tomb in Canterbury to be demolished and Becket's remains destroyed.

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The tension between Cromwell and Norfolk is apparent.

  • @PInk77W1
    @PInk77W1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    St Thomas More, pray for us

    • @LordTalax
      @LordTalax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are you incapable of praying to the invisible sky man?

    • @DMCK2000
      @DMCK2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@LordTalax pls leave athcuck

    • @dwightschrute900
      @dwightschrute900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Saint Thomas more, pray for us!

    • @davidpnewton
      @davidpnewton ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whilst More was murdered and indeed martyred, that sort of language is the kind of thing that prompted the reformation and shows the very real problems with the church of the period and its doctrinal descendent.
      In Christian theology Jesus is the intermediary and no other is needed. Thomas More is dead. No one who is dead can "pray for us" any more than anyone who has not yet been born can "pray for us". If you want someone to pray for you then ask a living person to do so. Otherwise pray yourself.
      The dead cannot pray for you. You cannot pray for the dead and have it be anything but empty, useless words. Once you're dead your fate is determined. There is no such thing as purgatory in correct Christian theology. That is simply a heretical invention of Medieval individuals who forgot sola scriptura. Purgatory, indulgences, worship of idols in reliquaries and worship of idols as statues carried around in parades were the biggest things that triggered the reformation.

    • @PInk77W1
      @PInk77W1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@davidpnewton
      Jesus literally picked 12 men to be intermediaries

  • @transonicbuoy1
    @transonicbuoy1 14 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    The voice is a wonder, because it isn`t public school. It isn`t sloane ranger, it isn`t BBC, it isn`t posh, it`s not even what folk would call classical. Unique and much missed.

  • @spasjt
    @spasjt 15 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    OH JUSTICE IS WHAT YOU'RE THREATENED WITH!!!!!!!
    Then I'm not threatened.......
    LOL!!!!!
    Brilliant!!!!!

    • @slappy8941
      @slappy8941 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your and you're are different words with different meanings.

    • @spasjt
      @spasjt ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@slappy8941 It sure is. 👍

  • @nickmedley4749
    @nickmedley4749 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It’s strange how some still think that St. Thomas More was a bad man. He was truly a saintly man.

    • @kevinyin2663
      @kevinyin2663 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      His enthusiasm for the murder of English Protestants does not strike me as saintly

    • @nickmedley4749
      @nickmedley4749 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kevinyin2663 He did interrogate multiple Protestants in his home, but he never tortured them or was enthusiastic about the murder of Protestants. It was an unfounded claim against him that there is no evidence for. If he had, the Anglican Church would have never declared him a saint in the 1980s.

    • @eoinMB3949
      @eoinMB3949 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It doesn't surprise me that there's a campaign to muddy his name. The devil hates the saints and of course those who belong to him will do whatever they can to discredit st. Thomas

    • @santijauregui459
      @santijauregui459 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kevinyin2663the Protestants killed Catholics with glee as well wheresoever they had the power to do so. Such were the times.

    • @DanBeech-ht7sw
      @DanBeech-ht7sw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Who had Christians killed for reading their Bibles

  • @larryparis925
    @larryparis925 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Elites typically suffer at the hands of other elites.

  • @nicholaswestley9851
    @nicholaswestley9851 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Richard Rich was a toad for all seasons.

    • @thegreatselkie6009
      @thegreatselkie6009 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Absolutely!!!

    • @gallantgallstone1100
      @gallantgallstone1100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No better slave, no worse master.

    • @davidweihe6052
      @davidweihe6052 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The “Man For All Seasons” was Sir Thomas’s butler who had to be released from More’s service and ended up as his headsman.

    • @Occident.
      @Occident. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Brilliantly played by John Hurt. The greatest of all English actors.

    • @nicholaswestley9851
      @nicholaswestley9851 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Richard Rich went on to be the 1st Baron Rich and one of his great grandchildren Robert Rich became the 2nd Earl of Warwick. From contemporary sources we know that Richard Rich was despised by those around him, but that may have been due to his close association with Thomas Cromwell. Robert Rich became a distinguished naval officer and fought for the Parliamentarians during the English civil war.

  • @Gunleaver
    @Gunleaver 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how Rich is in the background just so they have someone in the room whose name is not "Thomas."

    • @patty1094
      @patty1094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HAHA... excellent observation. Too funny. 😄

  • @mattb9310
    @mattb9310 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They should have asked More about modifying / rewriting the Act, in order to find out which part he was opposed to. Or at least focus on this aspect for a while longer. I doubt it would have worked though

  • @GeraldWilson-pe7dn
    @GeraldWilson-pe7dn หลายเดือนก่อน

    The story of St. Thomas More is truly astounding because it about a man who understood that one's immortal soul has an eternal destiny based upon what he must choose in this life, that is for good or evil. Thomas More refused to sign the Oath of Supremacy of his King because to do so would be to give his approval to King Henry as head of the Anglican Church of England after the break with the Pope in Rome. Thomas More was threatened, imprisoned, and even his own family pleaded with him to change his mind but Thomas More knew that to do what was morally right is all that mattered. If only in this day our modern leaders and politicians would follow the same way that St. Thomas More did!! Pray for us St. Thomas More you truly are a man for all seasons!! 🙏

  • @bartsanders1553
    @bartsanders1553 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And Cromwell lived happily ever after, serving the King to a very old age and being held in high esteem by Henry till the day he died.

    • @khalidcabrero6204
      @khalidcabrero6204 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Cromwell was executed only five years later. It was Richard Rich who lived to a ripe old age.

    • @bartsanders1553
      @bartsanders1553 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@khalidcabrero6204 Dude! Spoilers!😂

  • @francisconsole3892
    @francisconsole3892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    All the sycophants surrounding a monstrous excuse for a king.
    Nothing new under the sun.

  • @plharn
    @plharn 13 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    @richo61 Well this is a movie based on a play. It is, of course, going to have a protagonist and be told from a character's perspective--hardly propaganda. It is also misleading to say he executed people for reading the bible in English. His issues were with what he saw as inaccurate translations with the Tyndale Bible. As Lord Chancellor there were six heretics put to death, but this was hardly an uncommon practice for heresy at the time for Protestants or Catholics. Think Calvin.

  • @danielgorrell4299
    @danielgorrell4299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love Thomas so much!

  • @bigbob1699
    @bigbob1699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh don't you just hate it when the great ones make it look so easy .

  • @ppuh6tfrz646
    @ppuh6tfrz646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    3:40 Although it's a great response, I'm surprised More would admit that it's his conscience that's preventing him from signing the Act of Succession.
    And I'm equally surprised that Cromwell didn't make anything of it.

    • @Turinos92
      @Turinos92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I think the fact that he placed Norfolk in heaven and he not, threw Cromwell off. Also, he doesn't explicitly say that it is his conscience that is prohibiting him, but more a retort at Norfolk's suggestion to go along with an act, regardless of the moral implications, for the sake of fellowship in the act; using a bit of an extreme example to prove the point.

    • @ppuh6tfrz646
      @ppuh6tfrz646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Turinos92 More *specifically* says that if he swore to the Act he would not be following his conscience.

    • @Turinos92
      @Turinos92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ppuh6tfrz646 No, he implies that. The film informs us that its an important legal distinction, exemplified when Cromwell catches that More has an objection (through More's use of the word objection, similar to the use of the word conscience in this situation), Norfolk correctly assumes that More does, and More replies that they need more than assumption for why he won't sign; he needs to say it clearly and directly so that there cannot be any doubt that he has an objection. This is especially important given the seriousness of the penalty for objecting, and More's position as Chancellor. You are indeed correct that he views it as an issue of conscience, but Cromwell cannot assume anything, no matter how closely More's language flirts with outright objection.

    • @ppuh6tfrz646
      @ppuh6tfrz646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Turinos92 No.
      More says in response to a request that he swear to the Act that he will not be doing his conscience.
      He specifically says that.
      You don't know what you're talking about.
      I'm not wasting any more time discussing this as you're denying something that is clearly there onscreen.

    • @Bersztipflag
      @Bersztipflag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ppuh6tfrz646 No, More never says that if he swears to the Act he would go against his consciensce. What he says is that if he does not follow his conscience he will go to hell, unlike Norfolk who in following his conscience will go to heaven. As is clearly explained by Turinos92. I perfectly follow what you are talking about, and will not waste any more time arguing with someone going against clear evidence.

  • @joehopper7373
    @joehopper7373 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And here, gentlemen, we see the patron saint of politicians doing good service to his position.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well, that was edifying - now, back to TikTok and ‘’The Kardashians”marathon...

  • @ijunkie
    @ijunkie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can't be outwitted. Don't even try

  • @Eshayzbra96
    @Eshayzbra96 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The acting and dialogue is suburb

  • @Smokeslikeachimney
    @Smokeslikeachimney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beauty and grace

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome film 🎥

  • @mercian7
    @mercian7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Any Person that wishes to vote should watch this Film

  • @rupertcordeux6479
    @rupertcordeux6479 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder if that short dance tune has a name. I would love to hear it properly.

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this particular scene brings mind sir humphrey on YES MINISTER. hIS long monologues. so funny

    • @narmale
      @narmale หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, I must express in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to the newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions on the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a progressive constriction of the channels of communication, culminating in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis, which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the function of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!
      Hacker: You mean you've lost your key?
      such a great series

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sign in the name of fellowship! Smarmy.

  • @freyasslain2203
    @freyasslain2203 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thomas More was executed in 1535 .
    And now , it is 2024 , Thomas More is more beloved today , than ever before
    That screams volumes.

  • @rsinclair6560
    @rsinclair6560 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The individual vs the State. You have the RIGHT to remain silent.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not in that era. You also had no right to a defence lawyer although More was a lawyer and so could defend himself. You could refuse to plead, but that could result in having weights placed on your chest until you pled or were crushed to death.

  • @JDimitrius433
    @JDimitrius433 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:38 the LAW requires that you COOPERATE with the investigation! they want to understand, help them, all else is detrimental to the state

  • @ushoys
    @ushoys 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Find me 11,780 votes”

    • @martthesling
      @martthesling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Expect Democrats use voter fraud.🤷‍♂️

  • @josepsolemir3365
    @josepsolemir3365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Saint Thomas more, pray for us!

  • @avemaria7147
    @avemaria7147 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Es una bellísima película solo que m gustaría la traducirán en español felicidades x compartirla gracias

  • @Grace-hc6dn
    @Grace-hc6dn ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Saint Thomas More 🙏for us.

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rumpole is so much nicer when he's representing the defense.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      The actor played an obnoxious medical officer who is a prosecution witness in "King And Country", a film made a few years earlier.

  • @geertdecoster5301
    @geertdecoster5301 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Norfolk should have said, yes, I'll keep you company there too

  • @ijunkie
    @ijunkie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At the end "the king's conscience" is a euphemism for the Lord Chancellor, i.e. Sir Thomas More.

  • @daveybalmer
    @daveybalmer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is unfortunate Sir Thomas Moore should be so sure of the conditions under which a person could be guaranteed of a place either in heaven or in hell. Because of his surety, many non-believers, under his orders, were burned at the stake. I would like to think that he did ultimately find himself in hell but the entire premise was of course nonsense and despite his beliefs and oratory, he, like everyone, never experienced either. . . .

  • @NearVSMello
    @NearVSMello 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @richo61 No one from this time was cuddly. When judging the character of a historical figure it is unfair not to consider the times he was brought up in - whether or not brutality and murder was socially commonplace.

    • @ppuh6tfrz646
      @ppuh6tfrz646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cardinal Wolsey was fat and cuddly.

    • @patty1094
      @patty1094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ppuh6tfrz646 Orson Welles was fat, but not cuddly

    • @ppuh6tfrz646
      @ppuh6tfrz646 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@patty1094 I was being kind.

    • @patty1094
      @patty1094 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ppuh6tfrz646 😆

  • @HowardJohnstone
    @HowardJohnstone 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Rumpole is irritated by Caligula.
    Franz von Waldheim retires.

  • @ewancummins4975
    @ewancummins4975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No educated person in Christendom thought the Earth was flat. But we can forgive anachronisms in such fine writing.

    • @ewancummins4975
      @ewancummins4975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Doc Adam Does the OT refer to the Earth as a sphere? I can't recall anything like that, but I hardly look to the OT for such information, so I could easily have missed it. I was referring instead to Hellenistic science. Knowledge of the Earth's basic shape was never lost once it became the standard model.

    • @5quepasa
      @5quepasa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then its a good thing he didn't say "educated," huh? I don't see this as an anachronism.

  • @josephmcquillen6840
    @josephmcquillen6840 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you come with me for fellowship?

  • @akosigundam
    @akosigundam 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @kristina919: Good lord, no! What's with these 16th century Englishmen and their fixation for the name "Thomas"?

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was a popular name in England because of Thomas Becket. However Henry VIII disliked the fact that Becket had defied the king of his day and arranged for Becket's bones to be dug up and shot from a cannon.

  • @tomdumb6937
    @tomdumb6937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Priest in red was the white guardian in Dr Who...

    • @deezmemes126
      @deezmemes126 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice!

    • @dwightschrute900
      @dwightschrute900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s the archbishop

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cranmer had Lutheran tendencies but Henry never went full Protestant and Cranmer had to navigate around that. After Henry's death Cranmer was able to be among the leaders of the Protestant Reformation in England because the young Edward VI and more important, his advisers were inclined that way, but when Mary came to the throne an attempt was made to return to Catholicism and Cranmer was executed.

  • @avemaria7147
    @avemaria7147 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hola México estraudinaria película pero en México no todos sabemos inglés nos gustaría doblada al español ya que es una vida ejemplar para padecer x nuestra patria mexicana y como hijos de Dios gracias x subir el vídeo

  • @onastick2411
    @onastick2411 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Tyrant Tudor.

  • @LordTalax
    @LordTalax 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What was that awkwardness at 1:21?

  • @zacharycat603
    @zacharycat603 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    More at one point uses an outdated analogy - surely no educated person in his day still thought the earth could be flat (if educated people ever believed that).

    • @5quepasa
      @5quepasa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Umm... tons of educated people believed that. The heliocentric system and the nature of our world as a globe did not always have wide acceptance, though it was a theory that many scientists had long before Galileo (he just popularized it, and had the tools to better demonstrate it); however, astronomy is not the only branch of science, and there were and possibly are countless people whose educations, perhaps focused on philosophy or biology, never showed them the roundness of the earth. And if we went back to the 15th and 16th century, when Thomas lived (pre-Galileo, mind you), some would say that the earth is flat and some would say it's round.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@5quepasa I don't think educated people did, but they were less than 10% of the population.

  • @franceleeparis37
    @franceleeparis37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    First mistake Thomas made... by stating he had books...

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think it was a mistake, he was trying to see what Cromwell would do, when he denied him to see his family he got his answer. He would do anything to convict Thomas.

    • @franceleeparis37
      @franceleeparis37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@55Quirll I doubt it… Cromwell was being outclassed at every turn because Thomas had a mind like a razor.. this could only be attributed to him keeping himself updated.. we do not know what books Thomas was reading, but I am pretty sure it would have been law books.. Cromwell wanted to destroy Thomas will to live.. that’s my take anyway… 😏

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@franceleeparis37 More wrote a book in the Tower. He seems to have had at least some access to pen and paper.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cromwell is frustrated by his resistance, and it is an opportunity to make More's prison conditions harsher, even if inflicting torture is impossible.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To my ear, Paul Scofield’s accent sounds very much like Stan Laurel’s.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They both had roots in northern England.

    • @dorianphilotheates3769
      @dorianphilotheates3769 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevekaczynski3793 - Ha! That would explain it...always thought Stan Laurel was a South Londoner.

    • @phwbooth
      @phwbooth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dorianphilotheates3769 Stan Laurel was born in Ulverston, north Lancashire.

  • @robertmcginness4610
    @robertmcginness4610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vaccines now what comes next

  • @raduionescu9765
    @raduionescu9765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ALL TRUE SAINTS WHO FULFILL THE 10 DIVINE LAWS AND LOVE COMMUNICATION SINCERELY WITH GOD WE HAVE MUCH TO EARN INCLUDING ETERNAL AND HAPPY LIFE IN HIS HOLY KINGDOM

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      For my own safety sake, I will give the devil benefit of law!

    • @raduionescu9765
      @raduionescu9765 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@55Quirll PANDEMIC VIRUSES AND MANY CELEBRATES MANY SUPERNATURAL PUNISHMENTS ARE CLEAR SIGNS THAT DIVINE JUSTICE EXISTS AND THAT JUDGMENT IS COMING

    • @55Quirll
      @55Quirll 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@raduionescu9765 Divine justice given to those who have done nothing wrong? Sounds like a politician to me. Only wants those who vote for him and eliminates those who don't or have never heard of them.

  • @ngqabuthomafu6517
    @ngqabuthomafu6517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "so weigh a doubt against a certainty and sign"? What does that mean what is he saying?

    • @pbrazor50
      @pbrazor50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He is comparing Moore's supposed doubts causing him not to sign the oath, with his definite and certain loyalty Moore owes to his King, and arguing that the certain duty of loyalty outweighs Moore's doubts. Therefore he argues that Moore should decide the matter based on the one certainty -- that Moore has a duty to be loyal to the KIng and sign the oath. It is actually a very subtle argument.

    • @NYCZ31
      @NYCZ31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine a scale where one's doubt is on one plate while certainty is on the other plate. "Certainty would certainly outweigh doubt," is what the bishop is suggesting.

    • @ngqabuthomafu6517
      @ngqabuthomafu6517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pbrazor50 tHank you

    • @ngqabuthomafu6517
      @ngqabuthomafu6517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NYCZ31 Thank you

    • @ngqabuthomafu6517
      @ngqabuthomafu6517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NYCZ31 thank you

  • @SeattlePioneer
    @SeattlePioneer 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very nimble wit.
    Of course, in the end he was executed, wit and all.

  • @PInk77W1
    @PInk77W1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @rrdab1 u r completely mistaken. as usual. Notice how u didnt mention any law he broke. ST Thomas More, patron of politicians, pray for us. FYI i have his picture on my wall at home. peace

  • @rh9477
    @rh9477 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That little punk in the corner is thinking about trading his soul for wales

  • @thedukeofswellington1827
    @thedukeofswellington1827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why in gods name would you get into high office if your not.willing to bear false witness

  • @chopin65
    @chopin65 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Apart from Henry VIII, we only know of one other man who was as devoted to his principles, and he lost his head for it.
    The Lesson: there is no loyalty worse than being a king's man.

  • @RichardTLDR
    @RichardTLDR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shame the real man was not as good.

  • @AllenbysEyes
    @AllenbysEyes 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @AllenbysEyes Didn't realize I'd already commented on this. LOL

  • @larky368
    @larky368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Acting? Plot?? Dialogue??? What kind of a movie is this anyways?

    • @dannyhmmcup
      @dannyhmmcup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its no Transformers, that much I do know.

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Tommy Robinson would be familiar with all this!

  • @robertfield5904
    @robertfield5904 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Deute. 18:10-14,
    1 Timothy 1:9-10,

  • @stevenlight5006
    @stevenlight5006 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oo how religion destroys all