A man for all the seasons

Document Type:Coursework

Subject Area:History

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The creation of any film is meant to reach some key objectives in society. Film development help in the creation of the best environment for keeping the historical content alive. This has made the understanding and the overall outlook of some concept and issues that happened in the past real and connected to the present situation. Most of the historical knowledge and historical content can be kept alive and can also be kept for future references with the art of filmography. One of the key films of the 1960s which stands out as a key historical film that explains the major developments that happened in the past is the film “A man for all the seasons. Therefore, the whole creations on the character traits which are portrayed by King Henry VIII in the film are wholly true.

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The film develops the character of the King who was disgruntled in his life as the King due to the failures of his wives to give birth to a male heir in the family that was going to inherit the throne in his death. The king is in the record for being one of the married kings in the history of England. King Henry VIII is known to have married for more than six times, and all these are the true acts of affairs that wholly happened in the film. The film highlights the true identity of the King as a person who married a lot and who, due to his behavior, had a massive fall out with the members of the clergy.

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All the decisions and the developments that he made were fully on the scale and the circle of leadership, and the immediate members of the public were not included. The King and the persons who were near the helm of the kingship and the members of the clergy were the only people who knew of the feuds between the King and the Pope. The author developed the use of this distortion in the film to bring out the real events witnessed in the past and bring them to life through creating and developing the people’s reactions. The film uses the documents and the creations of the BBC Radio of 1954 to develop the film. This is one of the major primary sources that take a central stage in the development and the overall creation of the film.

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The film acted as a very instrumental concept that touched on human life and on the morality of the people who lived in the past. The film helped portrays the high moral standards that were required of the leadership in the past and how the same factor created a more concise way of using the past as a reference. The film generally, highlights how the Americans can use the past as a source of reference for the many values and characteristics that were witnessed then. The past, in this case, is made alive and well outlined with the use of the developments in the past to develop a more lively way of applying the same concepts. It shows how the Americans can relate to the past through the recreation of the affairs that happened then and also managing the overall occurrences in the past to shape the future.

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