Showing posts with label Elizabeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Elizabeth - The Golden Age Movie Review

BOTTOM LINE: Good film about Elizabeth's adult life, but focusing too much on the Queen's melodramas.

THE GOOD: The film delivers a fair account of the internal psychology of being a Monarch. The film delves in to the personal life of the Queen and offers a very human side to her; at times, she denies herself the simple pleasures of life to ensure she can carry out her duty as Queen (suggesting at one point that her close matron of the Court, Beth, be allowed to sample these pleasures for her). Cate delivers a brilliant performance as Queen Elizabeth, showing us a very strong, yet vulnerable monarch. Supporting players such as Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen and Abbie Cornish are excellent. Period pieces often have the chance to show off production and costume design and this film succeeds extremely well in these departments. The film doesn't drag, with some solid acting, dramatisation, and cinematography. The music score was good.

THE BAD: This film deserves the 3-hour epic, full widescreen treatment. There were moments in the film where you feel it's about to break out and deliver the cinematic impact you're expecting, particularly with the impending battle with the Spanish armada, but the film chooses to return to Elizabeth and her personal life/problems. Not that spending time on the latter is a bag thing (and in fact is necessary even though it stoops in to melodrama), but the scope of the film seems diminished by focusing too much on her personal melodramas rather than her accomplishments as the Queen of England. As such, the storyline with Phillip of Spain almost comes across as an afterthought; he just pops up enough times to give the appearance of a threat, but not enough to make any kind of impact on the narrative. And being set in 1585, Elizabeth is historically meant to be 52 years old, yet Cate, lovely as she is, appears much younger than that!

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Elizabeth Movie - A Review

Queen Mary has her half-sister, Elizabeth (Kate Blanchett) thrown into prison tower for treason. By the way, it looks as if Kate Blanchett not aged one bit today since 1998. In reality, it was because Elizabeth was a Protestant, and the heir to the throne of England. Queen Mary's fate, Elizabeth. The Queen's forcing officials to admit Elizabeth, betrayal, but she stands her ground because she has committed no such act, which is accused of her. Watch outfor the head chop crazy power play by the mad Queen Mary in the interests of their religious will be held at the Elizabeth movie. Finally, Queen Mary & Elizabeth (Kate Blanchett) dies, inherits the throne. Eric Cantona in the Elizabeth movie, too.

I'm just a joke, but it is a man, as he looks like a diplomatic character from France. No, wait, it's definitely Eric Cantona! He looks like a great person in the movie and looked so small on the footballField. Made without formalities, they love with Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes) in a voyeur show for the joy of the chambermaids. As she is about loving sex last night, it is urgent in an extraordinary meeting called in the morning, apparently in contradiction to choose her lover, and whether for the war with the Scots in the north with its allies, France. What an experience it is named for the new Queen of England. Elizabeth sees evilat the Elizabeth movie.

Maybe it's because they prepare their country for the war, instead of tasting the refined luxury of having a queen to offer. Each character seems so uptight and stressed out in the movie. Maybe it's because of the ridiculous 16th Century male outfits that they wear (Lol) and not to mention the armies of France and Scotland, as ridiculous outfits men breathing down her neck to English. The moral of the story is that women never anger a who-isspared from their luxury in the Elizabeth movie. Women must have their luxuries, and even drag into the war, finally, to live in luxury to the fullest at the end. Queen Elizabeth unites the Church of England against the wishes of some bishops of England. With that done, the hard-core Catholics die hard fans, with the consent of Rome, a murderer, John Ballard (Daniel Craig) sent to kill the queen, who in their eyes a heretic.

Wow, a poison dress! Elizabeth finds out about theAttack early enough and has to kill Sir Francis, and recognize their enemies, to protect her throne. Unfortunately, the list is her ex-lover, Lord Robert, whom they spared, because she knows that he did so only because he broke the heart included. Then she begins to bear bad hairstyles and make her difficult to like a replacement for the statue of the Virgin Mary herself! Obviously, it is close to madness, and it is represented well in the film Elizabeth. Thenexplained married to England. She is now really mad! Pity the Japanese do not have you think of her as she looked like a geisha glorified at the end of the film Elizabeth. Not that there are no royalties to the Japanese film, but it would be a blast!

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