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Robert Bolt (1924–1995)

Autor(a) de A Man for All Seasons

35+ Works 4,861 Membros 56 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Born in Manchester, England, where he attended the university, Robert Bolt was teaching school in 1957 when his play Flowering Cherry, with Ralph Richardson in the title role, was staged in London. The success of the play persuaded Bolt to devote himself to the theater. The Tiger and the Horse mostrar mais (1960) which, like its predecessor, concerns the paradoxes of idealism and detachment, appeared three years later. In the meanwhile, Bolt had written for BBC radio the short play about Sir Thomas More, which he was to expand into his international triumph, A Man for All Seasons (1960). The play brought Bolt the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1962, and, for the screenplay, an Academy Award. Bolt wrote a series of screenplays for David Lean including Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Ryan's Daughter (1970), in which personal melodrama is again played out against romanticized history. The stage work Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1970) confronts Queen Elizabeth's rigidity with the femininity of Mary of Scotland. State of Revolution (1977), written for the National Theatre, is a portrait of Lenin as a sensitive leader imprisoned in his ideals. Some of his other works include The Bounty, The Mission, A Man For All Seasons, and Without Warning: The James Brady Story. He died at age 70, in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, following a long illness. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Robert Bolt

A Man for All Seasons (1960) 3,065 exemplares
Lawrence of Arabia [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 641 exemplares
Doctor Zhivago [1965 film] (1965) — Screenwriter — 340 exemplares
A Man for All Seasons [1966 film] (1966) — Screenplay — 249 exemplares
The Mission [1986 film] (1986) — Screenwriter — 161 exemplares
The Mission (1986) 103 exemplares
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew (1600) 80 exemplares
The Bounty [1984 film] (2002) — Screenwriter — 53 exemplares
Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1971) 43 exemplares
New English Dramatists 6 (1962) 37 exemplares
Ryan's Daughter [1970 film] (1970) — Screenwriter — 33 exemplares
The Tiger & The Horse (1961) 6 exemplares
Three Plays (1967) 5 exemplares

Associated Works

Laurel British Drama: The Twentieth Century (1965) — Contribuidor, algumas edições88 exemplares
14 great plays (1977) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
More's Utopia and its critics (1964) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares

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Sweeping and visually resplendent, The Mission is a powerful action epic about a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires. It reunites key talents behind The Killing Fields: co-producer David Puttnam, director Roland Joffe and cinematographer Chris Menges. Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture Award, the film earned seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and won a Best Cinematography Oscar . Robert Bolt's thoughtful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's rich score won Golden Globe Awards. The Mission is screen storytelling that weaves a haunting spell.… (mais)
 
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"Sweeping and visually resplendent, The Mission is a powerful action epic about a man of the sword (Robert DeNiro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires. It reunites key talents behind The Killing Fields: co-producer David Puttnam, director Roland Joffe and cinematographer Chris Menges. Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture Award, the film earned seven Academy AwardO nominations* (including Best Picture) and won a Best Cinematography OscarO. Robert Bolt's throughtful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's rich score won Golden Globe Awards. The Mission is screen storytelling that weaves a haunting spell."

The Mission depicts the challenge of conscience that confronts us all in a world convulsed by power, greed, and violence. Its power lies in the way it convinces us that the fierce conflict-ridden world we see on the screen is similar to the one in which we live today. At the same time, The Mission is a deeply moving film that reminds us of the vitality of love, the miracle of grace, and the transforming power of acts of conscience. (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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Somehow, in my mind I had confused this play with "Murder in the Cathedral". Both dramas about important advisers to English kings who met a bad end. So, apart from any other reason, I'm glad that i have at last sorted out that the are two very different plays and two very different kings and principle characters. It's actually a beautifully crafted play with great character development. Though, maybe Thomas More, comes across as just a bit too saintly for a real person. I think he captures Henry rather well ...bluff, sporty, well aware of the demand on him to produce an heir. And Thomas...more or less self made, clever, gentle, prepared to think the best of everybody, but not prepared to compromise on his religious beliefs. I found it rather fascinating that, given the turmoil around the catholic church and the role of the pope and the politics surrounding Charles of Spain that Thomas couldn't find it in himself to compromise. It certainly would have been easy to do and easy to justify. So I guess, he had just bought, holus-bolus, the story of Jesus giving the keys to the church to Peter and by succession to the current pope. (Despite the fact that there had been more than one pope simultaneously and the orthodox church had long done away with the authority of the pope).
As far as the bible is concerned, you could pretty much take whatever line you wanted to defend. Either Henry marrying Catherine or having the marriage annulled ......could be justified from biblical verses. What I found especially fascinating was that Thomas More was apparently held in such high respect that when Thomas asks Henry.."Then why does Your Grace need my poor support?" Henry replies: "Because you are honest. What's more to the purpose, you're known to be honest". Not a bad reputation to have.
And he can't say that he wasn't warned by Henry..that he (Henry) "would have no opposition".
Over all I found the play quite captivating and fascinating. A great exposé of those tumultuous times.....as Common Man explains....of those most involved in his trials: Cromwell was found guilty of high treason and executed, Norfolk found guilty of high treason but the king died of syphilis one day before he coud sign the death warrant, and Thomas Cranmer was burned alive. And, of course, Sir Thomas More was executed. (Not a great time to be close to the throne). Five stars from me.
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