The Hollow Crown DVD Review
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At school everyone moaned when they got told they had to study Shakespeare because they didn’t understand the language or found it boring, I was unfortunately one of them. however back in the summer of this year when I found out that the BBC was airing remakes of some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays featuring Tom Hiddleston, I done a little bit more than jumping for joy. Being a fan of his and finding Shakespeare easier to understand when he portrays such roles I was excited.
The Hollow Crown is a series of feature length films of some of Shakespeare’s famous plays including Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 & 2 and Henry V plays of politics, family and power.
The series was aired as part of The Cultural Olympiad for London 2012 Fest and featured some of Britain’s most famous Shakespearean actors of all time including Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston as they three things with roles from Maxine Peake Julie Walters and Rory Kinnear.
And now from 1st October it’s your chance to relieve some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays of power, corruption and greed from the comfort of your own home.
The series began with Richard II portrayed by Ben Whishaw as the self indulgent man who reigns with no care as to his peoples welfare and who gets overthrown by his cousin Bolingbroke(Rory Kinnear) who later becomes King Henry IV(Jeremy Irons).
When he becomes king however, he feels guilty over the Civil War and Richard’s death and it doesn’t help that his son Prince Hal (Tom Hiddleston) who later portrays Henry V is a constant trouble maker who couldn’t care less about becoming king and who cares more about getting drunk and having fun.
Tom Hiddleston does a superb job as the cheeky care free Prince Hal doing a brilliant impression of Henry IV. There is also a scene in which Hal has a conversation with his friend in a sauna with them both topless which is bound to make all the women swoon!
After a telling off from his father and being told he will become King when his father dies, he starts to get his act together. When he later becomes Henry V he is left to bury his fathers past whilst fighting his own battles.
Henry V is probably the most famous Shakespeare play and features the `Once Under the Breach` monologue, one of the most famous monologues to date as well as the scene in which Henry woos Catherine. As both Prince Hal and Henry V Tom Hiddleston does a superb job making every woman wish it was them he was wooing.
Directed by Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock, The Hollow Crown is definitely worth a watch for the superb acting of some of the most famous British Shakespearean actors of all time alone, if not for the acting for the beautiful cinematography, costume, language and getting to see Tom Hiddleston in both leather and topless.
Emily Pontin
Rating: 12
UK Release Date: 1st October 2012
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Maxine Peake, Rory Kinnear, Patrick Stewart
Directed by: Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock
Buy Hollow Crown: TV Mini Series [DVD]
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