Word: agincourt
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...weeks, British radiomen had been trying to learn how to pronounce French ship names like Georges Leygues (rhymes with bag) while their French opposites set out to grasp the British pronunciation of Agincourt. For three days the Western Union fleet in Penzance harbor exchanged signals-and Pommery champagne for Haig & Haig for Bols gin. In Penzance, huge trilingual signs said: WELCOME-BIENVENU-WELKOM...
...amateur conchophilist, is the founder of the British Snail-Watching Society. Last week he, and the 70 members of his organization, celebrated their first anniversary by an all-night watch of snails (they roam chiefly at night) on the darkened byways of suburban London. . Like Henry V at Agincourt, the watchers could cry: "We few, we happy few"-for not only is conchophily a rare passion, but membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist...
...Quickly bestows upon them all--except Nym, who "cannot kiss; that is the humor of it", is contained all the heartache and tears-behind-the-smile that the business of men going off to fight has always been. This scene and that of the campfire on the eve of Agincourt where three Englishmen spell out for their king what war is all about--that it is not gaudy trappings and caparisons, but fear and mud and obscene smells--early an ice-cold shock of recognition for a world that has just got another war under its belt...
Inspired Sequence. But the most inspired part of Shakespeare's play deals with the night before the Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot...
...stranded on the verge of death and disaster. The man who made this movie made it midway in England's most terrible war, within the shadows of Dunkirk. In appearance and in most of what they say, the three soldiers with whom Henry talks on the eve of Agincourt might just as well be soldiers of World War II. No film of that war has yet said what they say so honestly or so well...