# "A Man for All Seasons" (1966) **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-man-for-all-seasons-1966/480255 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [January 7, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-man-for-all-seasons-1966/480255 "2009-01-07T18:35:14Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo) #### Post date: [January 8, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-man-for-all-seasons-1966/480255/9 "2009-01-08T04:25:36Z")
> [@](#): > > The History Channel did, I understand, one of those pieces comparing the film with real life, which I haven’t seen, and would like to. From what I’ve heard, their complaint isn’t that the play/movie is inaccurate, but that it’s incomplete, not mentioning, for instance, Bishop Fischer of Rochester, who did get executed long before More for his opposition to the King. Another major inaccuracy is that they make such a major point that More never said that Henry was wrong. This is true but only in the narrow legalistic sense - what the script never mentions is that More wrote several books in which he denounced Henry’s actions (albeit without mentioning the King specifically by name). The script ignores this in order to make More look completely innocent and undeserving of his fate. The reality is that while the law was unjust, More was guilty of knowingly and repeatedly breaking it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-man-for-all-seasons-1966/480255)._