How Is Henry V A Good Leader

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Hal/Henry did a great job portraying the man Henry V was, he showed him as a leader and the audience can see what kind of person Hal was off the screen as well. You can see that Hal was a leader off the screen and it showed in the film. The audience can see in his eyes that he was a leader at heart and I would say that he was born to play that role. He did a great job making a new memory of how people thought everything happened. When big scenes were coming up many people thought they knew what was going to happen and look like but Hal surprised many viewers by making a familiar memory new.
In the second scene in the play, when he made his first appearance, you can tell what kind of a leader Henry V was. It showed that he was tough and and a clever leader, “ We must not only arm ourselves to invade France, but must also apportion troops to defend against invasion by the Scots, who will see this as a perfect opportunity to attack.” (1.2.159-162). This quote shows that he a fearless leader who will lead his people and stop at nothing until he gets what needs to be done finished. Hal was a character that the audience knew he was going to live and was going to be inspirational. …show more content…

From the way people saw him they knew that any other actor that played this role was never going to capture the essence like Hal did in this film. This film gave people the opportunity to have a picture of Henry V in there head when reading about this story and the movie company picked a great actor the become that leader everyone was picturing in their head. He did a good job showing his emotions in this film, the audience could feel his emotions as he was acting and could feel what he was feeling. Basicly everything he was feeling the audience was feeling the same. When he was feeling mad the audience would understand why he was mad and support him in that situation by getting mad

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