The Other Boleyn Girl And Fanfiction
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about The Other Boleyn Girl and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this awesome fanfiction-based movie, you might wish to skip this post.
Every so often, there will be a debate in writing communities about whether or not fanfiction is a valid type of writing.
The Other Boleyn Girl, the movie, based on the book by Philippa Gregory, is definitely fanfiction.
The names of the characters are real. Certain things like Anne Boleyn marrying King Henry VIII and then being beheaded are historical facts.
Most of the rest of it is completely made up.
Heck, even the birth order of Mary and Anne Boleyn has been fabricated.
Mary, in the movie and in the book, resisted becoming the mistress of the King Of England, as another example. She didn’t want to cheat on her husband.
According to many historians, in reality, she was the mistress of the King Of France before she was the mistress of the King Of England. And her first husband was aware of that before he married her.
So I doubt there was much resisting happening.
I KNOW The Other Boleyn Girl is fanfiction.
I KNOW it has very little historical content.
Yet I still very much enjoy the movie.
It has an amazing cast (Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Kristin Scott Thomas, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, and more). The costumes are gorgeous. The story is entertaining.
It works for me as a movie.
Fanfiction is a valid form of writing (as long as you observe copyright).
Don’t let anyone tell you any differently.
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