亨利四世

       当初BBC放出两分钟的preview clip时，tumblr的fandom简直要疯了。大概全世界只有J叔敢说: your cheekbone does not scare me! 看完整个两小时,我真心觉得这场戏是我最喜欢的，不仅因为our cheekbone got slammed,更是因为它是全电影里演技的最好的scene，没有之一。
    首先莎翁的文字挑战了我的耐心，自尊心，做为脑残粉的诚心，一切生不如死心！而且我还是很有自知之明地读the royal Shakespeare company出的版本 ，整个stage production从舞台设计到化妆都写得清清楚楚，每一句被删减修改的对白还被斜体了的版本！
    Act III Scene II在原著里只有henry iv和hal两人，电影里henry iv特别指明让三个小王子留下，看着哥哥受罚。细节虽小，却让henry iv作为父亲的权威更加突出，让hal的羞辱感更加强烈。
    好了，重点是演技。J叔叔的演技真是太好了！我喜欢他这么久都没看过他演莎士比亚，真不知道自己怎么称是他的影迷的！上一集小本演得很好，我觉得很重要的原因就是他的声音:unsympathetically cold and eccentrically crazy. Richard II从头到尾都很神经质，所以小本演起来只要保持一致就好。但是叔叔在这里情感和声音都是波涛汹涌，跌宕起伏~
       简单解剖一下就是，爸爸很生气，先是批评，自己觉得不过瘾，丢丢帽子，挖苦讽刺下儿子，说着说着真激动了，带着哭腔地坦白，其实我也可想多见儿子了。就是这一句话，save mine, which now doth that I would not have it do, make blind itself with foolish tenderness.爸爸几声大吸气，本来还手叉腰很powerful的样子瞬间捂脸抱头不知如何爱儿子。莎翁哪会写这么复杂这么人性的细节，爸爸真是太伟大了~【撒花
    再说our cheekbone， 用网球geek tom的术语说，跟J叔叔这样的爸爸演对手戏绝对raise his own bar。这场戏儿子在听爸爸训诫时，除了给他脸部镜头，他是没几句话的，靠的都是临场反应。爸爸说我站姿不端正，丢我帽子，我也就是可怜巴巴地看一眼帽子，心里小小抗议一下，继续我傲娇无所谓的表情，然后爸爸一番长篇大论，我目不转睛，他怎么转我怎么看。爸爸眼泪都要出来了，我眉毛挑挑好心疼啊。抛开our cheekbone got slammed，书上写得很明白（电影开头也有讲），hal玩世不恭是为了以后让大家对他刮目相看，整个scene到这一点，hal的脸上都写着“我就知道被爸爸请喝茶会是这样的结果”，但是之后体力不支的爸爸开始绝望王位不保：wherefore do I tell these news to thee? hal有三秒中脸部镜头，表情过渡从发慌着急到表决心保护爸爸，很自然令人信服~【真是好儿子，撒花

On the year of 2008, Olympic Game has been hold by England. For the sake of spreading England unique culture, which will also be beneficial to cross-cultural communication, BBC TV station has directed a series of film called Hollow Crown, which are some adapted works from Shakespeare’s history plays including RichardⅡ, HenryⅣ and HenryⅤ. To be honest, Henry Ⅳ is one of the greatest films I have ever watched.
Henry IV is a story about a king who stole the crown from his cousin, and is tormented by his guilt. Also, it's growing story about his son, a feckless young prince, who is always exposed to some blackguardly ruffians. However, when he suddenly is conscious of his father’s weighty responsibility and his massive burden, the prince, who seems to be cynicism, is forced to grow up and face his destiny. Then, on succeeding to the throne, the new young king takes his country to war, realizing he must assume his responsibility to strengthen national defense and fight against invaders. Eventually he becomes the greatest warrior king in English history.
In deep meaning, it's also an adventurous story of people facing an uncertain future, and of a country searching for a new sense of patriotic identity.
In this film, what deeply impresses me most is not father and son, but friendship and betrayal. In fact, this movie does not put emphasis on the relationship between HenryⅣ and his son HenryⅣ,but do stand out what happens between the young prince Hal and his so-called loyal friend Jack Falstaff. To some extend, the friendship and betrayal is the most dramatic aspect, running through the whole movie.
Jack Falstaff, as the leader of some ruffians, is almost paternal relationship with Hal, the young prince. Generally speaking, Falstaff is too much of a pretty crook, who is a congenital liar, congenital drunk as well as thief. However, Falstaff sets his affection on Hal, and the emotion shed by his eye really convince audiences that they own true friendship, conveying a message that even he is a ragtag, the prince still cherish their relationship.
However, that is totally wrong. Why Shakespeare is a most renowned writer, because everything that is Shakespearean is ambiguous. And in the most ambiguous but dramatically important scenes, Hal's split loyalties between Falstaff and his father of are central to both plays.①
Falstaff brings out the wayward and irresponsible side of Hal. However, the other side of the young prince's personality lies in this prince’s inherent essence. Although Hal seems like a terrible shit and he does some dreadful things, but in his inner world, he is a very upright person, he is also an ambitious and sophisticated politician.
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humor of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world.
That, when he please again be himself, being wanted, he may be more wondered at, by breaking through the foul and ugly mists of vapours that did seem to strangle him.③
The words from Hal’s mouth show his ambition, appearing in the beginning of the film, give us a warning.
So how could the writer, Shakespeare copes with this difficult problem? Why Shakespeare is being Shakespeare, because he solves it through a play within a play.
Prof.Jonathan Bate(Worcester College Oxford) claims that:
This fantastic scene, to my mind. Come on, I'll say it the greatest scene Shakespeare ever wrote.
This fantastic scene where they act out Prince Hal returning to court, being interviewed by his father.
It's an amazing piece of theatre, where you have Falstaff and Hal playing the parts of King Henry IV and Hal.②
In this play within play, Hal and Falstaff have an interesting pub game, they need to play the parts of King Henry IV and Hal, imitating a conversation between father and son.
As first, Falstaff play the role of Hal’s father, the present king, in the course of communication, Falstaff doesn't tell Hal to pull his royal socks up. Rather, he instructs the young prince to spend more time with a splendid fellow called Falstaff. Falstaff regards that he is a loyal and true friend around Hal. And sometimes, indeed, he is, at least many audience thinks so, including me.
Then, they change the position, Hal do an impression of his father, and Falstaff plays him. At the beginning, Hal pretends to be his father, being angry to interrogate his son, Falstaff, why he would play with a local ruffian. Later, Hal's perspective begins to change. He claims that his son Hal must banish his fat friend, Falstaff.
Then Falstaff say the most impressive words from his bottom of heart:
Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.③
The emotion from their eye contacts reveals that they are all touched by these sincere sentences. Especially Hal, he moves to tears, totally smothering his tears from his eyes.
However, the Hal say these words:
I do.③
Again, he supplies another sentences:
I will.③
That is really strange.
When Hal says “I do.”, he is within the context of the play within the play, as the acting the part, in his father’s tone. But then, in that instant pause, and the shift of the verb tense “I will” disclosures that he is speaking not within the play within the play, but as himself.
He is giving Falstaff warning that the moment will come, when he becomes a real king, he need to banish Falstaff.
What happens to Hal, why he needs to say these serious words?
It is believed that if you know the play well, if you love the play and the adapted movie, you cannot watch it with a dry eye.
So at the end of that game, there is a chilling premonition, and that what appears in the ending of this movie.
Gold save the king.③
With these cheerful sentences, Hal is crowned in Westminster Abbey, and eventually becomes the king. Then in the parade, Falstaff deliberately happens to meet his heart, Hal. Falstaff want to claim kinship and let the king give him some advantages. However, the king changes his voice, he is strict with this fat man, saying the follow sentence:
My lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man
I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.
I have long dreamed of such a kind of man so surfeit-swelled, so old and so profane. But, being awake, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence and more thy grace, leave gormandizing.
Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest!
Presume not that I am the thing I was.
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, that I have turned away my former self. So will I those that kept me company When thou dost hear I am as I have been, approach me and thou shalt be as thou wast, the tutor and the feeder of my riots.
Till then I banish thee, on pain of death
As I have done the rest of my misleaders, not to come near our person by ten mile. For competence of live I will allow you, the lack of means enforce you not to evil.
And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, we will, according to your strengths and qualities, give you advancement.④
That’s a very long monologue, but when Hal says these words. It is really powerful and awful. Does he totally forget the time Falstaff around him, like his father to care of him? Does he never remember the happy ages he enjoy his youth, not worrying his duty to take charge of a country?
So why he does that?
Hal is not to do this having a mater plan, he just has an idea of how he wants his life to go, he is aware of his responsibility, who knows the fun will have to end one day.
Therefore, both these acts speak volumes. Hal gets rid of formal himself,
And I think that is the most dramatic aspect of the whole movie. Making you so convincing that Falstaff and Hal is a pair of close friend, but the end reveals that they break down their relationship in this way. So amazing, is not it?
 But the ending has its own premonition and reliable explanation. The most ambiguous part seems not so ambiguous, thanks to our greatest writer, Shakespeare.
Like the so-called “O. Henry-style ending”, disclosure when the movie ends the people of the psychological situation changes unexpectedly, or the fate of the hero suddenly reversed, giving audiences an unexpected result, but also be associated with real life, resulting in a unique artistic charm.


Reference:
①,② From: BBC Documentary: Shakespeare Uncovered_Jeremy Irons on the Henrys.
③ From: The movie: Henry IV
④ From: The Book: Henry IV

没办法，考据癖又发了，其实我还一集都没撸，看剧之前，可以先大致上撸一下The Hollow Crown的时代背景。
就从亨利四世登基的1399年说起。

单就这个孤零零的年份来看，也许天朝人没有什么感受，但就在这一年的前一个年份，也就是1398年，明朝的开国皇帝朱元璋病逝在都城南京应天府，而随即即位的是皇太孙朱允炆，年号建文。

同样是跳过儿子，由孙子即位的理查二世，其人生历程同建文帝颇为相似，都是在拥有强大权力的叔叔们的阴影下，成为了君主；都死于非命；帝位/王位都被叔叔或叔叔的后代篡夺了。

此时，英格兰、法兰西以及后来加入的勃艮第，正处在著名的“百年战争”之中（1337年爱德华三世在位-1453年亨利六世在位）。

爱德华三世是英格兰国王，爱尔兰领主，1327年-1377年在位。由于他的母亲法兰西的伊莎贝拉是法王查理四世的妹妹，爱德华三世以及其后的多代国王都宣称对法兰西王位有继承权；

理查二世的父亲是爱德华三世的长子，黑太子爱德华，如果黑太子没有早亡的话，将是他继承王位成为爱德华四世；

理查二世是黑太子的次子，也是最小的儿子；

爱德华三世有七个儿子（又似乎是八个？数不清，总之好多个），次子是克拉伦斯公爵，安特卫普的莱昂内尔，

第三个儿子，兰开斯特公爵，刚特的约翰，他是亨利四世的父亲，所以理查二世跟亨利四世是正经堂兄弟，是Hal小王子的堂叔父，他在亨利四世当时还是德比伯爵被放逐的时候，收养了Hal；他是都铎王朝的亨利七世的母亲玛格丽特郡主的祖父；

第四个儿子，约克公爵，兰利的埃德蒙，他是阿金库尔战役（1415年）中死掉的约克公爵爱德华的父亲；在爱德华死后，约克公爵的封号被授予了埃德蒙另一个儿子的儿子，也是埃德蒙唯一的孙子理查金雀花；理查金雀花是约克王朝的第一位国王爱德华四世、第三位国王理查三世的父亲；约克王朝的第二位国王爱德华五世是爱德华四世的儿子，是著名的“伦敦塔王子”的其中之一；爱德华四世的长女伊丽莎白公主是都铎王朝的亨利七世的妻子；

第七个儿子，格洛斯特公爵，伍德斯托克的托马斯，在理查二世在位期间，这位叔父一直跟理查二世作对，死后格洛斯特公爵爵位被夺，其子汉弗莱只继承了白金汉伯爵；

亨利四世是兰开斯特王朝的第一位国王，1399年他继承了兰开斯特公爵的爵位，同年登基成为英格兰国王，兰开斯特公爵的爵位被授予亨利四世的长子威尔士亲王、蒙茅斯的亨利（也就是Hal），Hal有个哥哥爱德华，早夭，所以Hal是实际上的长子；

1399年，理查二世被关在伦敦塔，时年32岁；他的堂弟亨利四世与他同岁，时年亦是32岁；Hal小王子12岁；日后打败了阿金库尔战役的法国国王查理六世31岁；

1415年，阿金库尔战役，亨利五世此时刚登基2年，正值28岁大好年华；法王查理六世时年47岁，法国公主图卢瓦的凯瑟琳不知几岁，但鉴于当时欧洲女子婚龄大多较早，公主这时候大概10-15岁；其后的1420年，英法签订《特鲁瓦条约》，法王查理六世放弃其子王太子查理（日后的查理七世）的继承权，以换取英王亨利五世对其王位的承认；王太子查理时年12岁；

根据《特鲁瓦条约》，亨利五世在1420-1422年间，自称“法兰西太子兼摄政王”；

1422-1429年，亨利六世是实际上的法兰西国王；

1429年，夏尔七世（也就是查理六世的王太子查理）在圣女贞德的支持下，在亚眠登基，时年26岁；贞德时年17岁，1431年，19岁的贞德被勃艮第人烧死；

法王查理六世有精神病，这也许是日后英格兰国王亨利六世精神病的由来（可见选老婆定要查清家族病史的重要性）；

法国公主图卢瓦的凯瑟琳在1421年生下了亨利五世唯一的儿子，日后的亨利六世；之后与欧文都铎生了亨利七世的父亲埃德蒙都铎；亨利七世曾说过：我家的先祖通过一系列联姻获得了王位继承权（大意，忘了哪里看到，当时我就斯巴达了），大概指的就是这个；

亨利六世在位期间，爆发了著名的“红白玫瑰战争”，主要就是兰开斯特家族与约克家族之间的争斗（是不是有宫廷大戏的赶脚啊XDDDD），亨利都铎一脚踩着约克家族的船（妻子家族），一脚踩着兰开斯特家族的船（母亲家族），最后夺得了王位；

亨利七世的母亲是兰开斯特公爵、刚特的约翰的孙女，她的父亲是兰开斯特公爵与第三位妻子凯瑟琳·斯温福德所生的儿子索默塞特公爵约翰·博福特，是爱德华三世的曾孙女；

亨利七世的妻子是约克王朝的伊丽莎白公主，爱德华三世的五代孙女；

亨利七世在登基后，用各种理由和手段，逐步除去了其他对王位有威胁的人，致使后来他的孙子爱德华六世因为没有子女又宣布他两个姐姐是私生子后，议会找不到其他继承人，因此最后爱德华六世在临死前还是恢复了玛丽公主和伊丽莎白公主的合法身份；

亨利八世活到成年的三个子女全都登上了英格兰王位；

自爱德华三世去世（1377年），直到伊丽莎白一世去世（1603年），226年间所有英格兰国王/女王都是爱德华三世的血亲后代；

伊丽莎白一世没有子女，她死后英格兰的王位由苏格兰国王詹姆士六世继承，称英格兰和爱尔兰国王詹姆士一世；斯图亚特王朝开始；

王太子的封号虽然有“威尔士亲王”的爵位，但一直到1536年，亨利八世在位期间的《威尔士法案》，才将威尔士并入英格兰；

自1413年亨利五世登基后，兰开斯特公爵的爵位就被并入王室头衔，再也没有单独授予某位王子；

战争场面像俩村打架其实是因为英格兰本身没有多大啊，加上当时英格兰在法兰西的几块飞地（所以亨利五世才能渡海去法兰西的地盘跟人打架），也就一米米的领土；法兰西当时也还没统一，勃艮第什么的都还不是法兰西的；所以我天朝人习惯了两个部落打架都几万十多万的场景，总觉得英格兰法兰西这小猫三两只（英军万余法军两、三万）就号称“有划时代意义的战役”的档次的国战实在不够看啊不够看；

我皇明都有火器营了，英格兰国王还带着农民在泥巴地里打滚，太落后了！

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金雀花王朝
——爱德华三世
——（黑太子爱德华，爱德华三世长子）
——理查二世

兰开斯特王朝
——亨利四世
——亨利五世
——亨利六世

约克王朝
——爱德华四世
——爱德华五世（伦敦塔中的王子之一，另一位王子是他的弟弟约克公爵理查）
——理查三世

都铎王朝
——亨利七世
——亨利八世
——爱德华六世
——玛丽一世
——伊莉莎白一世
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延伸阅读
莎士比亚：
四部曲——理查二世，亨利四世上下，亨利五世；
四部曲——亨利六世上中下，理查三世；
亨利八世（合写）

约瑟芬·铁伊：时间的女儿——关于“塔中的王子”非常独特的一篇小说；

太喜欢这段独白.试着翻了一个.
参考了好几个其他版本的翻译也不知翻得有没有错.剧中抖森走在小巷里,配乐加上声音,太感人了.

I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world, that when he please again to be himself, being wanted, he may be more wondered at, by breaking through the foul and ugly mists of vapours that did seem to strangle him.

If all the year were playing holidays to sports would be as tedious as to work. But when they seldom come, they wished for come, and nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off and pay the debt I never promised, by how much better than my word I am, by so much shall I falsify men's hopes. And like bright metal on a sullen ground, my reformation, glittering o'er my fault, shall show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to se it off.

I'll so offend ,to make offence a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will.

我把你们这些人都看透了，我会暂时容忍你们这种浅薄无趣的幽默。

我会效仿太阳，它可以容忍蔓延的乌云遮蔽它洒向世间的光辉，
但当他想要再次显现真实的自己时，它会冲破那些令它窒息的污浊的雾霾，
使人们感受到对它前所未有的需要，从而对它发出由衷的赞叹。

如果终年在游戏中度过，那游戏也会变得像工作一般令人生厌。

世间的事情都是这样，
唯有偶尔为之，才会使人感到饱经等待的惬意，
唯有不期而遇，才会使人感到发自内心的惊喜。

所以，当我抛弃了这些放荡的行为，
我会担起那些本该由我承担的，我从未承诺过要担起的重担，
向人们证明我并不像我平日表现出的那般荒唐，
我的作为会远远超出他们对我的期望。

像是了无生气的大地上发出耀眼光芒的金属，
我的洗心革面，会被以往的错误衬托得格外令人动容，
使我显得比那些从未沉沦过的人更加卓越。

我把肆意妄为当做我的手段，
当所有人都对我绝望了的时候，
我会让他们看到力挽狂澜，洗心革面的我。

Hollow Crown这个帝王三部曲里，读原著时我最喜欢的就是《亨利四世》，《理查二世》有极为华丽的辞藻和精心雕琢的大段独白，把语言的魔力发挥到了极致，《亨利五世》有君王气势雄浑大气磅礴的战前宣言，读来汪洋恣肆酣畅淋漓，但我最爱的还是《亨利四世》里Prince Hal成长的故事。从终日流连酒肆与市井之徒厮混的浪子到独撑寰宇的英武帝王，Hal的成长历程动人心魄，想到他失去了的，割舍掉的，又难免扼腕叹息。

《亨利四世》改编电影的难度要小于《理查二世》，从两片的对比来看，前者的完成度也确实更高一些。《理查二世》导演的个人风格过于明显，加上原剧本身人物刻画重点集中，使得片子更像是小本展现个人惊人才华的舞台。《亨利四世》高度还原原著，叙事结构严谨中有创新，深入刻画了多个人物丰满的形象，其中Falstaff无疑是极为浓墨重彩的一笔。Simon Russell Beale的表演令人赞叹，把那个既狂妄又懦弱，自私虚伪却又惹人开怀的大胖子演得活灵活现。Hal对Falstaff的感情很复杂，一方面他排斥生父亨利四世父权的威仪，尽力逃避宫廷权谋倾轧，所以对于和父亲完全相反，颓废荒唐活泼有趣的Falstaff不自禁地亲近向往；一方面Hal本性高贵，他也不齿于Falstaff虚伪懦弱的一面，况且Hal深知胡天胡帝的日子总有尽头，表面堕落心中清明的他自己也有意无意间树立了一道心理防线，不能放任自己对Falstaff的感情过于深厚。抖森把Hal这种复杂而纠结的心理表现得深入且细腻，他和Simon Russell Beale联手奉献了本片最令人拍案叫绝的两场精彩表演之一——小酒馆里的戏中戏即兴剧。对父王惟妙惟肖的模仿，面对Falstaff的恳求犹豫不忍，终于回绝，细微的表情和眼神拿捏得精准微妙。

另一场精彩对戏是Prince Hal Summoned to Court一幕。铁叔老戏骨了不用说，把一位君王面对叛臣四起的焦虑忧心、对继承人不肖的愤恨和一位父亲对荒唐儿子的恼火无奈疼爱完美糅合在一起，举手投足眉间眼角浑身是戏啊！！！（NC粉自重﹁_﹁） 抖森面对前辈的精湛演技也不怯场，被掌掴后的惊愧羞愤，面对父亲对自己的失望和心灰意冷，从一闪而过的受伤眼神，到心痛再到坚定决绝的誓言，抖森的把握非常到位。

Northumberland阵营中，Percy的选角很棒，活脱脱就是我想象中的那个勇武但少策谋的霹雳火。他夫人让大小姐来演有点出乎我意料，不过效果出奇地好，两人的对戏花火四溅张力十足。

战争场面略过不谈，BBC你是有多缺经费啊！内战就是这种两个村打群架级别的场面么抹泪！இдஇ
      
在战役末尾有个最令我心碎的片段——当Hal以为Falstaff战死时他是真心伤痛哀悼，而Falstaff却用厚颜无耻的谎言抢夺Hal杀死Percy的功绩，致使Hal对他彻底失望灰心，舍弃对他的感情。这里Hal先是完全怔住了，一脸难以置信的表情，最后用一个无奈的生硬笑容最后一次纵容了Falstaff的谎言，他的眼神里完全没有笑意，此后也再未正眼看过Falstaff一眼。
Falstaff这个角色真是让人爱恨交加又无可奈何，前一幕他可以诙谐逗趣引人发笑，转过身又暴露出虚伪无耻的一面让你恨得牙根痒痒。我在读原著时从来不能肯定他到底是怎样看待Hal，到底对他有没有真诚的感情。有时候我觉得这个大胖子并不像看上去那样脑满肠肥终日昏昏，他精明世故看得比谁都清楚，因此对Hal或许真就没什么感情可言，即使有，也都被他自己压制掉了。
而Hal，尽管开篇他就有一番“众人皆醉我独醒”的独白，表明这些放浪形骸的行径都是自己刻意为之的韬光养晦之策，但他毕竟年轻心热，排斥父亲的同时潜意识里必然仍旧渴望有个父辈的Figure相伴，Falstaff正好填补了这个位置，和他形成一对终日嬉游寻欢作乐的市井“父子”。他对Falstaff绝对有真挚的情分在，因此此处的“决裂”也格外令人叹息。

总体来讲我爱这部《亨利四世》胜于《理查二世》，剧情更丰满，布局更严谨，冲突更细密，群像刻画更是到位得多，各位演员的表现都无可挑剔。抖森的表演张弛有度，细腻而深沉，在众多老戏骨的映衬下也不露怯，应该是得益于他本人良好的戏剧素养和对莎剧的热爱。不过本片中抖森的演技倾向于“求稳”，没有小本的理查二世给我的惊才绝艳的震撼感，当然这也和剧本和角色气质有关，希望抖森在《亨利五世》中诠释那位英武的军神能够大放异彩，虽然作为肯尼叔叔NC粉的我私心觉得这真的是个非常艰巨的挑战。不过从爵爷到肯爹，一代代杰出演员在演绎这个角色时似乎暗中有个默契的轨迹，即逐渐淡化他的战神光环，每一次新的演绎都比前辈更侧重于挖掘亨利五世人性化的层面，我也很期待抖森的亨五能有新的突破，一切就看导演怎么安排了。

我要坚持写完这个系列，哪怕只是只言片语。

历史上亨利四世在位期间的这次叛乱，一半由于马契伯爵莫提默的被俘而亨利拒绝出资赎回，一半因为亨利要求佩尔西不要收取俘虏的赎金而损害了诺森伯兰家的利益。但最根本的原因，还是由于诺森伯兰是最早支持亨利回国讨公道的人，他自认为自己是亨利登基最大的功臣，理应享有一切荣光，所有要求都应该被满足，而亨利则一方面害怕他权势过大，另一方面马契伯爵莫提默对王位的继承权也使得他无法安稳的坐于王座之上。因此这场战争是无法避免的，如果说谁是这战役的胜者，无疑是年轻的威尔士亲王。

这部本子相比上一部《理查二世》显然更适合改变成电影，基本上都是群戏，更便于突出布局与冲突，而不是单调的一个人对着镜头大段念白。如果说上一部让我们被小本同学深厚的台词功底所震撼的话，这一部戏的精华显然在于两对“父子”间的你来我往。亨利与哈尔，福斯塔夫与哈尔。

虽然亨利是哈尔生父，但从最开始铁丝叔满心遗憾的独白便可看出，他反而更希望是哪个夜游的仙女弄混了他的诺森伯兰的孩子，使得两个哈利入错了门户。虽然历史上Hotspur要比哈利王子大很多，但此处莎翁为了凸显父子戏的冲突而对历史有了些许改动。
同样的，表面上看放浪不羁的哈利和福斯塔夫更像是市井里一对寻常父子，喝酒作乐不问世事。而只有在人群中自省的一刻，我们才能看到哈利心里和其年龄表象所不般配的成熟。这里的一段独白也是全剧我最喜欢的一段。深埋在他各种胡作非为下的那颗青年的心，才像是王座的嫡传。
因此这样的父子戏势必会带来贯穿全剧的冲突，相比而言，最后那场仿佛泥地打滚的战争场面就不值一提了。

整场看下来，我最爱的两个场景，一是戏中戏，福斯塔夫和哈利互相扮演亨利四世和哈利自己，尤其是后半段当哈利坐上那个寒碜的王座，带着一顶破烂毡帽，俯视下面那个脑满肠肥的胖子在胡言乱语的时候，瞬间表情的变化，哈利在那一刻已经初具人王之相。另一个是经跟在后面的哈利被召唤至王座前，铁丝叔和抖森的对戏几乎让人看得想在嘴里咬点什么东西才够过瘾。铁丝叔时抑时扬，愤怒与忧伤，情绪转换自然流畅，真心让人膜拜。而相比老戏骨来说，抖森已经做得足够好，【当然有可能是因为我是脑残粉】但这两个场景下抖森的眼神和表情都给得很到位。先是一句I do. I will. 前后两个词时态的变化，已经完成了一个身份的转接。前一刻他是假扮的亨利四世，后一刻他是未来的亨利五世。而在堂前，听到父亲说自己会毫不犹豫投靠佩尔西的时候，那个眼神真的传达出了一个受伤的儿子面对父亲的失望的无比心痛。如果硬要说抖森的不好，或许是在台词的表达方面，有点太抖森了，闭着眼也能感觉出来他说那样一句话时候是什么样的神情。所以有人说他是本色演出，一笑就裂等等，但我希望他日后能像铁丝叔一样把台词的吞吐拿捏到无比自然。当然这需要时间……

最后，作为脑残粉，不得不嘲笑一下抖森童鞋那晶莹剔透的口水，据我观察至少喷了三次……每次台词长点，情绪激昂一点，势必会喷口水……我说抖童鞋。。。这是不是可以练练？不然以后谁敢跟你对戏哇！最后的战争戏是在很冷的天气情况下拍的，并且由于解手不便而不敢在下身套太多裤子，很杯具的结果就是这次不光喷口水了，连鼻涕一起喷了啊抖童鞋！！不知道躺在地上装死的福斯塔夫有木有受到流弹攻击……哈哈哈……

最后的最后，导演，我就想问一句话，抖大咚的裤子裆前面的三角形是特么做什么用的？