cornbreadcrumbs:skeleton-richard:cornbreadcrumbs:reeve-of-caerwyn:Also on the subject of Thomas More
cornbreadcrumbs:skeleton-richard:cornbreadcrumbs:reeve-of-caerwyn:Also on the subject of Thomas More, he definitely gets a raw deal in Wolf Hall, but they gave him an absolutely smashing outfit.I will never understand why More had to be painted as an absolute villain. They set up Cromwell as a sympathetic pragmatist in the series. Great! All you need to do is play More as an idealist, and then Let Them Clash! Make their face-off full of questions and moral dilemmas! Why make More a douche, when you could make him interesting?In any case, he looks bamf here, and I love Anton Lesser.@tollers-and-jack can explain it better but from what I understand it’s because the show/book is from Cromwell’s perspective, so we get how he sees stuff. Anyway, St. Thomas More is my favorite saint!Oh I’ve read the books & seen the show, and I love them! The one fault I can’t forgive is the hatchet-job on More. It just feels so vindictive, especially when everyone else in the series is given a fair shake. Like, we’re clearly supposed to sympathize with Cromwell over Anne Boleyn, but they don’t paint her as a hypocritical monster!It’s unnecessary, and it feels like Hilary Mantel really hated A Man For All Seasons. Personally, I prefer the idea of More and Cromwell as a debate over how far you should elevate your ethics. When your life, livelihood, and that of your family is at stake, is martyrdom still worth it? Are you doing it for God, or for yourself? And on the flip side, how far will pragmatic service to the King get you? God doesn’t abandon those in need of forgiveness, does the King? Is it worth it to serve a monster?I like these questions, Wolf Hall definitely raises them. But because Mantel has a hate-boner for Thomas More, we miss out on so much!What is it recently with people having hate-boners for historical figures I love? First Dan Jones and Richard and then Hilary Mantel and More. More was seriously great (and A Man For All Seasons is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen) and that is a good question. More did what he believed was right even if today we look back and are like ehhhhhh about persecution of heretics and the like, but that was his period and he did a lot of good things (his daughters were said to have been better educated than the king, and More adopted several kids, which is why he’s the patron saint of adopted children, alongside lawyers and statesmen). (I call him my patron saint though he isn’t really any more, when I first learned about him I wanted to be an attorney, but his example was really important to me. My patron now is Jerome or Loyola) …I bet Martel is pretty gleeful when he’s killed? Dan Jones was like that about Richard in that pos documentary I watched the other day. -- source link
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