Re: Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Fri, 2 May 2025 03:55:05 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

By coincidence, I recorded A Man for All Seasons off TCM, which is about
Thomas More. I'll get to that next. I've never seen a fictional
representation of Thomas Cramner.

For me the best part was when he debates (I think it was with his son
in law) whether he would bend the law to arrest the Devil - it's a
well known passage but Paul Scofield does the scene better than pretty
much any other movie scene I've ever seen.

If you have somehow missed it before now you are truly in for a treat.

I've seen this but it's been years.

It's one of those wonderful adaptations by people who wanted to adapt
the best aspects of the play for the movie, adapted by the playwright
himself. I am aware that Scofield's West End (and later Broadway)
performance was the stuff of legend, and that several better-known film
actors simply turned down the movie for fear of being adversely compared
to Scofield.

I've always wished that plays were routinely filmed but this is the next
best thing.

Despite not having a "bankable" star, the movie had a decent box office.
Oops. I almost said it was profitable.