Postby Suzanne Crowley » Wed May 20th, 2009, 11:22 pm
Yes, the costuming and scenery are gorgeous. I spend half the time looking over the characters shoulders at the background. I wonder, did they really have that much fabric everywhere? Curtains in doorways, walls, lots of tapestries, rugs, lots more sumptous than I thought was true. Every scene in The Tudors looks like an old master painting and that's why I enjoy it so much! Just like the movie, Girl With a Pearl Earing - you just watch because it is so beautiful. So gorgeous. And yes they veer off history a lot, but other things, they get exceedingly correct. A scene will come up, and a quote will come to my mind of what really happened, and then wallah - the character says the actual line. And yes, Jonathan Rhys Meyers is over dramatic but so fun to watch! I guess much funner than what Henry really looked like (although when he was young he really was handsome it is said). My husband even watches with me and says many of the men at his work watch too, he was surprsied, they were talking about it at lunch.
And C.W., I have bought your book and have it in my TBR pile. The cover is so pretty!
Does anyone think Henry really said Anne looked like a "flanders mare?" I tend to think so, it sounds like him.