Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
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"Queen Elizabeth I played by Cate Blanchett Queen Elizabeth I: "I, too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!" "
"Tutta kauraahan tämä on ja mekkospedeilyä, mutta 1500-luvun ye olde englanti ja Cate Blanchett notta hell jeah."
" Director: Shekhar Kapur Starring: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà and Abbie Cornish As Elizabeth I's cousin Mary Stuart conspires with King Philip of Spain to topple the throne, Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's trusty advisor works tirelessly to protect her from the many plots and conspiracies against her. Preparing to go to war against the Spanish Armada to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her attr"
“Painterly images and beautiful scenery cannot hide limp-dick kitsch of Elizabeth: The Golden Age, no matter how much pageantry they throw in front of you. It’s a vibrant production in service of historical revisionism and soap opera fable. It screams to the heavens and clatters like thunder while dipping into a particularly squeamish form of English jingoism. How did we come down so hard from 1998’s Elizabeth to this sound-and-fury sequel? Maybe because the first film was about the transformation of a young girl into a symbolic figurehead, digging down deep into the psychological complexity of how that transition happens. The fires used to forge a woman into a monarch gave way to how that monarch became a frigid, rigid, unpleasant freak show. Then there’s a major problems with t” read more