The high point of the ceremony was Olivier's own voice resounding in the battle speech from "Henry V".
He is best known for an eve of battle speech he gave in 2003, a copy of which is said to hang in the Oval Office.
The piece intersperses the adapted text from Shakespeare's history play, including the Agincourt battle speech, with Walton's rousing musical arrangements.
When negative reviews become uplifting, pre-battle speeches from military movies.
Just before the big battle, Knightley gives a stirring Braveheart-style pre-battle speech to rouse the troops in which she talks about "freedom" and "the pirate way", which the nasty British Empire is seeking to wipe out.
At the start of the Tory party conference last autumn Colonel Tim Collins, of Iraq war fame ("the best eve-of-battle speech since Henry V at Agincourt"), declared himself a candidate for Kent under the slogan, "rat-catchers, not social workers".
Colonel Tim Collins, the former army officer famed for his inspirational eve-of-battle speech to his troops in the Iraq War, has confirmed that he wants to stand as an elected police commissioner in Kent.
The consequences will be felt for a long time.Mrs May introduced the conference to her party's first official candidate for a post of elected police commissioner: Tim Collins, a former British army colonel who shot to media fame during the Iraq conflict with a widely-praised eve-of-battle speech to his men.
Collins, who shot to fame with his rousing eve-of-battle speech to troops before the invasion of Iraq, told the Ulster Unionist Party that it was 'time Northern Ireland got in step with the rest of the world' and accepted changes to the British army.
And the finale must be one of the most emotionally violent ever televised, with a message, delivered in Spartacus's pre-battle speech, that rings through the ages as he fights for those "forced to toil and suffer while those in coin and position see their fortunes grow beyond need or purpose".
