The Treatment of the Heterogeneous "Army" by Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's "Henry V".

Title: The Treatment of the Heterogeneous "Army" by Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's "Henry V".
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The Treatment of the Heterogeneous "Army" by Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Olivier in Shakespeare's "Henry V".
In Act III, scene ii of Shakespeare's Henry V, we see firsthand how King Henry's army is heterogeneous, made up of men with four different accents from four different regions, English, Scottish, Irish and Welch. This scene is the only time in the play when these four men from four regions all interact together Both Lawrence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh present this scene very differently in their film versions of Shakespeare's play. In my paper …showed first 75 words of 2082 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2082 total…in their king. Branagh on the other hand, leaves out the aforementioned scene and makes the differences between these people so hard to distinguish from each other that it is the war that brings them together, not the great King Henry. And in fact, there is very real danger facing them in my clip, and their king turns away from them right at the moment that they would expect a great king to protect them.

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