Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a sequel to Elizabeth. After ten years of experience and ten years of hardship, the movie retains Queen Cate Blanchett and loyal minister Geoffrey Rush, and the others are new faces. The first episode of the movie has won many awards in various film groups. The two episodes were immediately put into production and pursued with success. The time between the first episode and the sequel was as small as one year, but at most two years. However, "Elizabeth: A Time of Glory" and the first episode were separated by ten years, mainly because of Cate Blanchett, who played the queen back then. The age is still young, if you want to play the middle-aged Queen Elizabeth in the sequel, the face is immature, and the acting years are still young, so you can't take on such a big responsibility, the director waited ten years, waiting for the actor's naturally increased wrinkles and refined skills; The makeup of the middle-aged queen who is not angry and self-possessed cannot be interpreted by advanced makeup. The power of the middle-aged supreme, the helplessness of not being able to dominate love, and the lack of experience can not be handy, the director's painstaking waiting, the audience is naturally looking forward to it. Let's see if the works after ten years are still good.

Frankly speaking, the sequel is not as good as the first episode. Cate Blanchett's superb acting skills are like the incarnation of the virgin queen who saved the movie. The movie has too many side branches to take care of, and I can't explain them one by one. I have to use the queen to deal with the love triangle of pirates and maids. Even Mary's mutiny, Spain sending troops to attack the British Isles, and the relationship between monarchs and ministers, the ratio of love and romance is the most important. If the sequel is more romantic dramas than historical dramas, the score will be greatly improved.

The Queen's strengths are in the deep palace, and her knowledge and astronomy and geography rely on loyal ministers to give advice, read literature records, and visit astrology experts. The pirate Raleigh is the queen's telescope to know the new world. Even though the status of the sea robbers and the queen of the deep palace is very different, he brought fruits and gold bars from the American continent; his body is adhered to the salt of the sea from the expedition, and the sun burns and burns the rough skin; the queen is intoxicated by navigators Hope, international vision, and the sharing of the new world experience of the indigenous tribes on the other side, and the white-skinned, short-statured, English-speaking foreign prince seeking a marriage, who has the same status, but is full of flattery and superficial praise. He smiled and asked foreign guests to talk in their native language. The atmosphere was like an old friend who had not seen him for many years. Elizabeth could speak at least two languages, not a woman who only knew secret jealousy. When the queen was wondering how to deal with the invasion of Spain's coast, even if Raleigh stood in the palace corridor and looked at the queen, the queen immediately ordered him to bow her head in an angry tone. It was about the national crisis. The queen knew the importance and was not in the mood to flirt. . At the end of the first episode of the movie, the queen still left the rebel courtier and lover Count Robert in the court and the opposition, and did not send the guillotine. She loved the Count, but put on a wig and painted a body with white powder, no longer with the Count In the past, he was a good partner for dancing Vodka while stepping on the beat, and he was a stranger who would never talk. In the second episode, she didn't listen to Walsingham's advice, she fell in love with pirates, love would not blossom, the Queen was the Queen of England appointed by God, her smile lines in the bathtub full of petals, the kind of old age without thick makeup, It is necessary to moisten with love to reduce the smile lines, however, when love is confused and infiltrated into the national conditions, the Queen asks Raleigh to kiss her lips, saying: [I'm dying], when I'm dying, I can't forget it, it's totally It is the plot of a typical American soap opera. Where is the wise queen? The Spanish fleet is in the air, trying to think of countermeasures, just looking for the mystery of the stars, escaping the powerlessness of the unprecedented invasion with a light kiss; the queen is discussing the battle with the ministers Fang Ji's tone trembled, the Queen lowered her head and sighed, the golden light emitted by the nearby golden battleship was a great contrast to the disdainful golden light of the self-proclaimed European hegemon.

The reversal of religious awareness in that [miracle] was embarrassing. The shadow of the religious warriors in Spain embroidered with the red cross was the image of the king and emperor of Catholicism. Extermination of the holy war of the believers who believe in God is determined by an unexpected group. The change of the sky may be a natural phenomenon. Human ingenuity can overcome the sky. The queen actively blesses the baby boy who has run out of love for men and women, and turns to love for the people Virgin Elizabeth.

Written by Patrick Chan on May 12, 2008

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