Popcorn and Chain mail is back after a long hiatus. They are a group of historians that take pains to humorously rip into historical films for the ridiculous portrayals of people, places, and events. They give a good laugh as they rip into peoples attempts to remake history to there own ends.
There latest feast is The Other Boleyn Girl - a story that takes one sister that slept around and makes her a virgin heroine and the other a social climber and makes her the nasty villain, all the while botching history all the more.
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Birth of Anne's child.
Anne: What is it?
cutecoati: Cate Blanchett.
Anne: Wah!
Thomas Boleyn: Uhh, Your Majesty, not quite the son you expected… but she named the girl Elizabeth, after your mother!
fourth_rose: The Queen names the King's child without even consulting him?
King: If we can have a healthy daughter, we can have a healthy son.
cloudlessnights: As proven during his first marriage, I guess.
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Anne: *freaks out*
Mary: I'd so roll my eyes at you if that weren't way too dynamic and lively for me.
Norfolk: Okay, if her second pregnancy goes wrong too, I'd better prepare the next candidate. Miss Seymour, a word, please?
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