• Jorgens on Chimes at Midnight
• Falstaff and Hotspur are decadents of chivalry but life affirming and warm
• Set against the Machiavellian s: Worcester, Northumberland, Bolingbroke–brutal and humorless
• Sh. Exposes both feudalism and New men
• Forces us to change perspective, shift sympathies
• Themes
• Generational strife–parodied by Hotspur
• Fathers have ways of trying to control Hal
• Henry with use of rigid high walls-freezing rigidity
• Falstaff in the inn always moving
• Holiday and everyday
• Death and rebirth
• Welles:
• Falstaff is greatest conception of a good man
• Faults are small…his goodnes sis like bread, like wine
• Lost the comedy
• Film is saturated in pastness
• Framed by nostalgic exchange with Shallow–the central idea of paradise lost
• Homorous passages
• Hotspur in the bath
• Progression toward decadence after Shrewsbury–illness and cynicism
• Visual styles of court–vertical and static, vs tavern–horizontal, shifting
• Masking at court, where King feigns strength and the Percies feign loyalty
• Hals true vs. Falstaff and Hotspur’s feigned rebirth.