The Other Boleyn Girl

I just finished watching The Other Boleyn Girl.  I decided to watch it today because I just finished the book, which took me FOREVER.  The book was amazing... the movie not so much.  In fact, I pretty much hated it.  They leave out about 80% of the actual story, and then they twist around the parts that they left in.  For instance, Anne Boleyn lived in the French court for most of her youth, and eventually moved to the English court later to join her sister Mary as one of the Queen's ladies.  In the movie, everyone lived in England at Rochford (even though their house was at Hever really), and then the King visited them for 2 days, which never happened, and invited Mary and her husband William Cary back to court because he wanted her for his mistress. And then later in the movie, Anne is banished to France.  Never happened.

William Cary is another thing.  They have Mary marry Sir. William Cary in the beginning of the movie, then at the end it says that she married William Stafford, which happened, but they left out the whole part about William Cary dying of the Sweating Sicknes so it looks like Mary just went off and married someone else.

AND Mary had two children by the king: Catherine and Henry, and then another child later by William Stafford.  In the movie, she had one child.  Ridiculous.

AND Anne Boleyn never ever asked her brother George to sleep with her. And if she did there was no actual evidence of it. Anne was convicted of Witchcraft and Adultery, but in all reality, the charges were all based off of hearsay, and were not only centered around George.  Sir Francis Weston (George's lover), William Brereton, and a few other men in George's circle were also killed.

Plus, in the movie they make Anne, Mary, and George's mother some kind of compassionate feminist.  There mother didn't care about them at all!!! She always pretended she wasn't related to them when there was a scandal, like a miscarriage, or George and Anne being thrown in the tower. 

Arg.  Next subject...

Tomorrow is The MLMs show at Dr. Watson's Pub on 11th street.  May be hitting it up with Rachel and Devon.  Fun times.

And of course I had to add this next little gem.  My favorite movie and one of my favorite songs of all time merged together:

Almost Famous vs. TAI
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