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Back in 2011 Michelle Williams played Monroe at odds with Laurence Olivier on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl” (1957) in Simon Curtis’ “My Week with Marilyn.”
Flouting the nobility-of-war theme of the History Plays, and the iconic dimension that made Laurence Olivier’s 1944 Henry V a rallying post for the British war effort in World War Two, Michôd’s film is a determinedly solemn and violent affair, which makes a sober political point at the end – but not before it has treated us to two hours of bleakly realistic historical reconstruction and some lugubrious drama.
If this doesn’t sound like the Henry V you remember from the movies, it’s because Sir Laurence Olivier’s version of Henry V cemented a different version of the character in the popular consciousness.
In Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film of “Henry V,” the St. Crispin’s Day speech is directed at a country fighting Hitler.
As director, Gibson's control over thousands of extras, in the swift succession of gruesome hand-to-hand battles, is as effective as anything in Laurence Olivier's Henry V.