But at no time was it more challenging than his first time 'round. No, this really is what I want. I've never done anything like this before. But you'll have tell me more than you can't do this. The battle montages begin with the awful expectation of the English and their battle cries.
Arrows fly, man hack away at each other, horses topple into the mud.
This relentless hacking away in a field soaked with mercenary blood, where you cannot see beyond your own sword, makes us feel the isolation, the exhaustion of each soldier. Branagh knew exactly what he wanted to follow this action. Now we could see the scale, scope, and meaning of the battle, which for frames had been obscured by the immediate physical demands of battle. He knew this felt right from his understanding of playing Henry on-stage for so long. This moment in the drama deserved a big wide moment, in which emotionally through the music it grew, and offered a kind of massive relief for the audience.