{"id":20410,"date":"2024-07-20T20:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2024-09-29T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:23:30","slug":"media-cromwell-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20410","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/FiLM: Cromwell, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6699-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6699-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6699-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stars_08_four-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stars_08_four-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/stars_08_four-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just watched this film. And loved it. Ok, it\u2019s fairly heavily loaded with historical inaccuracies. But, as George MacDonald Fraser remarked, in <em>The Hollywood History of The World<\/em>, \u2018The main thrust of&nbsp;<em>Cromwell<\/em>&nbsp;is true, it gets a great deal of history, and the sense of history, right.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As our pal Pat lamented, as the credits rolled, \u2018What happened to British film?\u2019 And this is an exemplar of a style of filmmaking that Britain once did quite often, and often <em>very <\/em>well. The no expense spared historical epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6701.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6701.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6701-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parliament or King?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cast is stellar, and acquit themselves very well. Richard Harris doesn\u2019t look like Cromwell, but he plays the role with great elan. Likewise Obe Wan Kenobi, in the role of Charles I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the military history buffs, seeing Edgehill and Naseby recreated is great fun. And indeed, the whole costume drama aspect of the production is superb. Marston Moor &#8211; a parliamentary victory, and the biggest battle of the ECW &#8211; is left out, however. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6708-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6708-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6708-1-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6708-1-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The battle sequences are fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I won\u2019t synopsise the plot. Suffice to say that I found the two hours twenty-odd run time epic, but not overwhelming. In fact, I read online (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cromwell_(film)\">wiki<\/a>) that the first cut of the film was three and a quarter hours long. I would love to see that version. What got left on the cutting room floor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like any good media, on an interesting subject, this film makes me want to learn more about the real history. And that, I reckon, marks it out as a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"519\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6706-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6706-1.jpg 519w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6706-1-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"613\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6700-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6700-1.jpg 613w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_6700-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched this film. And loved it. Ok, it\u2019s fairly heavily loaded with historical inaccuracies. But, as George MacDonald Fraser remarked, in The Hollywood History of The World, \u2018The main thrust of&nbsp;Cromwell&nbsp;is true, it gets a great deal of history, and the sense of history, right.\u2019 As our pal Pat lamented, as the credits rolled, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=20410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA\/FiLM: Cromwell, 1970&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-5jc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23582,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions\/23582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}