A Man for All Seasons (1966) - I'm Not Threatened Scene (5/10) | Movieclips

[@e1ay3dme12]

That just may be the sharpest, most densely-packed dialogue ever recorded on screen.

[@natashaa5179]

This level of dialogue would make the writers in hollywood today very angry

[@lawrencewood289]

Robert Bolt was intense! Great screenplay. Scofield's acting is SUPERB!

[@Mathemagical55]

Bizarrely all four men were called Thomas: Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, and Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk.

[@MichaelGilman489]

The British 'Johann'

[@loandbaxhuku9617]

A Thomas for Every Season, ay?

[@MarloweMcAngus]

Thomas Wolsey was also involved, of course... and Thomas Beckett had a similar relation to King Henry II as Thomas More has to Henry VIII here.

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King Henry VIII: "Oh wIll somebody rid me of that troublesome Thomas?!" (General rush to exits of half his administration)

[@robertotamesis1783]

If the Vatican 2 hadn't been implemented at time English Anglican church not exist.

[@tomhamilton5261]

Perfect film. Magnificent cast, music, acting, music and direction. A film for all seasons and to take it through your life.

[@feslerae]

If you pause this video at any time it looks like an old painting. I don't know if it was intentional or not but you can't make anything like this today.

[@stephenbrady4829]

That is a very good observation. Casts the film in a different light

[@harrytd]

A couple of other films have this painterly quality; Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is excellent and Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract. Another film about Carthusian monks is worth watching for its sheer but spare beauty m, as well as spirituality, is Into Great Silence.

[@slicksalmon6948]

Wolf Hall uses the same technique.

[@BigFellaThx]

I always loved the tone of Cromwell's "how should I threaten?" like he's both at once insulted by what Sir Thomas said but also curious as to how Thomas thinks he should be threatening him

[@bradleydavies4781]

Like a Minister of State .

[@BigFellaThx]

@@bradleydavies4781 oh, justice is what you're threatened with!!!!!

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@bradleydavies4781 this was a real bit of shade cast at Cromwell because he was indeed very low born from the ‘dockyard bully’ class whereas More was sophisticated and urbane

[@zhongwa]

"So weigh a doubt against a certainty, and sign." Actually, not a bad line of argument. But it's loyalty to the King vs. love of God, and as Sir Thomas later points out, only love of God is love right through. And that is ourselves.

[@PFagioli]

"only love of God is love right through," I think he says that earlier in the film.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Better stay with a church founded on one rock, than one founded on two.

[@funnyavi]

What I find interesting about this scene is that the priest does the best job of arguing against Thomas. Not the bureaucrat or the nobility, but the clergy. Earlier in the movie a clergyman is chancellor. The clergy are shown to be extremely intelligent but also very good at argument and politics. Shows a lot about what it took to be in a position like theirs in the first place. Previous Chancellor said that Moore should have been a clergyman. Funny when you think about that is a position of true power and influence that required more talent back then than nobility or bureaucracy.

[@thedifferenttraveller5684]

The Holy Church had been given an immense talent (due to evangelisation and its role as the sacred deposit of the Faith by direct divine revelation) in the craft of translating the Holy Scriptures, and the copyist monks played the role of modern-day printers. A lot of writing was done to supply the hundreds of scrolls that made up the Old and New Testaments in France, England, Italy and Germany during the entire Middle Age, the most brillant of humanity times. As a result, the literacy and education of the nobility depended entirely on the clergy. As you can see, from the Merovingian period onwards, only the clergy educated future monarchs in Europe. This is to say that intellectual life, or the pursuit of letters to build up one's knowledge, was and continues to be part of traditional Catholicism, and had a major social impact right up until the Protestant heresy and then the French Revolution.

[@davy_K]

The church was awash with talent until the Black Death. Since priests had to give last rites most of them became infected and died. After that the church would take anyone to get the numbers back up again. Admittedly this film is set after that but obviously some talent remained! 😀

[@lawrencewood289]

@@davy_K Most of your comment makes no sense. The clergy always believed in education though with a spin...that shows. Later examples include Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin

[@brandonallen3808]

Leo McKern who plays Cromwell is really underrated in this movie. Really makes you hate his character unlike in Help!, even though he's still the villain, he's at likeable. Great actor.

[@mercurious6699]

Wonderful play, and Scofield is equally wonderful.

[@nansmith8703]

Scofield is incredible

[@3frogfriends]

Superb writing. Most audiences today probably couldn’t handle it.. it’s too good!

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I’m 33 and can stand it just fine. I cannot abide these kinds of comments

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@viborgvee8399 Perhaps some are immune, some few.

[@gregforse2563]

The best film script ever written. Dialog God level

[@thudar9]

Robert Bolt wrote Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago also.

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@@thudar9And The Mission (1986)

[@lawrencewood289]

@@thudar9 It shows 🙂

[@darrenleiberman6250]

I never realised you could cram so much talent into 2:52. Magnificent.

[@Ruda-n4h]

'For myself I have no doubt,' 'No doubt of what?' 'No doubt that I will not sign.' Ha, ha. Cromwell's in knots.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

One of the best actors of all time

[@patrickc3419]

He was terrific in Quiz Show, & Hamlet.

[@mictomlinson8115]

Mental gymnastics 101. Love it :)

[@britpackdog4545]

If they still made stuff like this, I'd start watching again

[@星yve6wns]

Saintly lawyer. It's a rare thing. One wonders why he isn't the patron Saint of lawyers.

[@baraxor]

He is. Or rather, one of them.

[@pontiusaquila6907]

Well he is the Patron Saint of statesmen and politicians

[@smellincoffee]

Lawyers have patron demons, not angels.

[@margaretklos8937]

St. Thomas More is the Patron Saint of lawyers.

[@mcmanustony]

This is a caricature. More in reality was a monster.

[@Tengobaila3]

My favorite movie, my favorite Hero, Thomas More!

[@CaptainAhorn]

Cromwell is completely out of his depth against Moore, and is just smart enough to realize the beating he takes, but only after it’s administered.

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My grandfather loves this movie.

[@Mayovanimates]

These are loyal times, my friend. Loyal times indeed.

[@SomeoneHasToSayIt2525]

There is no better film. A film for all seasons.

[@DrCruel]

Certainly pertinent to the present day, in a world of fanatic woke evangelicism.

[@Anna-Jade]

Anne Of The Thousand Days is also excellent.

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

Paul Scofield has two interesting trivia tidbits to him: 1. Of the 24 people to complete the Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy, and Tony), he did it in the fastest time, needing only seven years to complete it. He was the sixth person to do it chronologically. 2. He's one of only eleven people to win a Tony and Oscar for the same role. Scofield won the Tony for playing Thomas More in the stage version of "A Man for All Seasons" in 1962.

[@justicewokeisutterbs8641]

Such a satisfying film...unlike the tripe they produce these days. I remember as a child seeing giant banners for it in downtown Chicago.

[@fporretto]

That screenplay was the high-water mark of screenwriting for all time. Indeed, Robert Bolt, after deciding that he would attempt a play about Thomas More and Henry VIII, said that he consciously strove for a "bold and beautiful verbal architecture." For my money, he succeeded beyond the dreams of screenwriters everywhere.

[@johcafra]

Bolt's next stage play was Vivat! Vivat Regina! I commend it to you; it may be strike you as familiar.

[@railtonfeagus8539]

Thank you. I never knew that.

[@kyleurban20]

"then I am not threatened"

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[@charlesrobert6211]

Then justice is what you're threaten with. Then I'm not threatened. What a solid stand he made for truth that still echos today.

[@lonellfletcher]

As a Christian, the fellowship lines ended me!!!!

[@mirko7587]

"So I'm not threatened".

[@juliusbertsch1219]

Awesome video guys.

[@lesliesheppard2503]

Great film.Beautiful use of language.

[@lefantomer]

"Since when has it been possible to insult Henry VIII"? Sorry, couldn't resist.

[@baraxor]

I thought that Horace Rumpole never prosecutes.

[@spanieaj]

Who (in today's society) could wield a linguistic sword like Sir Thomas More did in this scene?

[@jalenmcpherson3203]

Classic movie 🙌⭐🎥🎞🎬🔥💯

[@memewhile8053]

good old days

[@MPL616]

6 Oscars including Best Picture, Director (Zinnemann), and Actor (Scofield).

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love this film

[@dundidily6185]

A KZbin channel with 38 mil gets 45,000 views in a minute while a channel with 41 mil gets 200 views in 2 minutes. Susan plz explain

[@conservativemike3768]

Oh just sign the damn paper!

[@jimgilbert9984]

This movie will be on TCM again on 8/23/24 at 8 PM.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

This play is amazing, then I am not

[@mahdiyusefi9957]

Interestingly, Thomas More preferred "Papal supremacy" over the "Divine Right of the King" and gave his life for it. But opposing "Papal supremacy" undeniably is the first act of the enlightenment era. Even Henry the eight was reluctant to do anything but his marriage to Ann Boleyn on this matter, but his deed in opposing the pop power in determining right and wrong put a question in front of others that if pop has no right to ban a King's marriage or divorce, how can he be legitimate to tell us what is god's order? Yet Thomas More was right, if we forsake our conscious for the expediency of whatever; eventually, we will end up in chaos. As the "Divine Right of the King" became a dictatorial doctrine for centuries, we overthrew a papal tyrant and replace him with a monarch tyrant. I wonder now no Kings out there and people have been set in place of God, pop, King; is really no tyranny out there? Or again, we've just changed our tyrant?

[@NgqabuthoLloydMafu]

We've just changed our tyrant actually the pope hasn't lost his power yet the church fathers ( protestant fathers that is) believed the pope was the antichrist Martin Luther said "I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist." (Martin Luther) The bible says 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw that one of his heads was, as it were, wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world wondered after the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Papal Rome hasn't lost its power yet.

[@brittoncain5090]

@@NgqabuthoLloydMafuImagine calling the 'reformers' Church Fathers lol. Trying reading real Church Fathers, like St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose.

[@Gunleaver]

"I don't know whether the marriage was lawful" - says the guy who pushed hard for the marriage IRL, because Anne Boleyn was his sister's daughter.

[@gawainethefirst]

I believe the marriage in question here wasn’t yet to Anne Boleyn but Henry‘s first marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Specifically, whether the Pope had the authority to grant dispensation for Henry to wed Catherine

[@Gunleaver]

@@gawainethefirst The same perspective and motives still apply. My point is that Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk during the trial of Thomas More, had a vested interest in supporting the king's position and was not the indifferent bystander he was posturing as. The point is that however nicely Norfolk tries to talk More around, he has no friends in that room, that an array of different interests, bureaucratic, religious and aristocratic, are arrayed against him, and he is actually being attacked from every direction, in the guise of friendship in at least one case. Norfolk is not just going with the flow and doing what the king wants, he actively WANTS Anne to become the new queen, because he stands to gain by his sister's daughter being the number one woman in the realm, and his sister's grandson sitting on the throne someday and he supports whatever methods will get her there. Including the death of his "good friend" More. That argument More has with Norfolk when he deliberately insults him to end their friendship so Norfolk won't be dragged down by him is actually a bit of hindsight Bolt is engaging in. For years, the Howard family, who hold the title of Duke of Norfolk, the most senior & highest ranking noble title outside the royal family, have been the premier Catholic family in England, and allegedly the mainstay of Catholicism in the realm, and the reality is that they were total sell-outs when Henry VIII opened the door to the Protestant movement he did so much to denounce before it became convenient for him to turn on the pope. Two of Henry's six queens (and the two he had executed) were the daughters of Norfolk's siblings, as was one of his mistresses and he was happy to put them on the throne, as well as marry his own daughter to Henry's illegitimate son, regardless of his family's alleged devotion to their religion.

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Why is Cramer dressed like a cardinal?

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No Religious exemptions for Vaccine mandates ????

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Galatians 5:19-23,

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Woke motion picture industry needs too make movies like this instead of the junk they produce today.If they can.

[@Anna-Jade]

Films like this could never be made today.

[@conor-m]

For a man known for his silence, he sure does talk a lot in the film

[@gawainethefirst]

It’s not that he remains silent, it is what he remains silent about.

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I ant seen or heard of this movie ever Jack 👽👽👙

[@seaglass22]

Your loss. An absolutely wonderful film with staggeringly good acting.

[@keithapps]

Sir Thomas Moore was the Chancellor, appointed by the King, second in line in the state after the king, he forgot his oath to the king and put the catholic church above the King. Not a good idea with Henry VIII.

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This is the most absurdly slanted movie ever produced, trying to make Thomas More appear saintly and humanitarian: the same man who said, "The smell of a heretic's burning flesh is sweet in God's nostrils". He not only destroyed anyone owning a Bible but ran his own interrogation and prison in the basement of his home in Chelsea. More was a murderous religious fanatic whom the Vatican-sponsored film industry depict as "christ like". Meanwhile, in this film reformers like Thomas Cromwell are made to seem piggish and nasty. A disgusting distortion of history.

[@gerardmackay8909]

Where did they make him appear saintly? Whatever the truth of your 21st century revisionist coruscation of the character of Thomas More this film neither portrays him as saintly nor portrays him as a great humanitarian either. It DOES reference the fact that he was the only Lord Chancellor who did not enrich himself and never took bribes (verifiably true) but the whole focus of his character in this film is that he would not compromise his conscience, despite the pleading of his distraught wife and daughter, right up to his appointment with the axeman and literally does not touch on saintliness or humanitarianism AT ALL. Oh and by the way Cromwell was a very capable statesman but he WAS a sinister thug (not that I would view a 16th century man through a 21st century lens the way you are eager to do so)

[@lawrencewood289]

1. Your quote is normally attributed to Martin Luther. 2. Thomas Cromwell was no reformer. He was a sycophantic power-seeking toady.

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The movie is great but they get Cromwell all wrong, and put More up as the fully righteous

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