The Tudors is the story of King Henry VIII starting from when he was a young man and still married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. It is a major production that is 38 hours long. It is beautifully done and is historically accurate (I hope).
I do wish it were not so sexually explicit. There are parts where it is downright nasty. (This means I can’t recommend it to my grandchildren in the hope they will begin to find history as interesting as I do.) I’ve seen nasty in my life but I find myself wishing they would have gotten Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn, Ethel Barrymore, Barbara Billingsley, Harriett Nelson to star in it and, when the nasty part started getting nasty, the camera would move away and your nasty imagination would have been allowed to take over.
The real interesting part is all this quality movie making is brought to us by the Television Industry. You may want to come to the defense of Hollywood and tell the Smartfella that Hollywood could do this kind of good stuff also. The operative word in your defense of Hollywood would be “could”.
They could but they don’t because they are too busy bringing us Car Chases, Machine Guns, Machine Men, Comic Book Characters, Car Chases, Sex, Hollywood Celebrities Standing On Red Carpets Looking Stiff (so we can adore them and their clothing) and (did I forget to mention?) Car Chases.
If they insist on having all those machine guns shooting all those bullets, at least they ought to teach the shooters how to shoot. The Hits to Bullets Shot Ratio is about as low as the Worthwhile Historical Content to Trash Ratio of these productions.
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
When I was a child I paid 12 cents to get into the Carrolton Theatre and I got a full 12 cents worth of entertainment. Today I still get a full 12 cents worth of entertainment when I go to see one of these Hollywood “Blockbusters”.
Would I kid u?Smartfella
