Does this quote sound familiar to you? No?!
Well, if it doesn’t I will recommend you to see the movie Elizabeth I - The
Golden Age. This week, our blog will focus on this movie. We’re going to
discuss some scenes of it and you better leave a comment or…you shall «Go back
to your rathole!» (Elizabeth I).
I’ve chosen one specific scene to talk about. In
my eyes, it shows Elizabeth’s strength, determination, courage, BUT, at the
same time, shows fear, insecurity. Well,
we can’t ask total courage when you are the queen of England, in eminence of
being assassinated by your enemies, right? With all this talking I haven’t told
you yet what is the scene I will read into…curious? I will leave you a clue…
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Do you already know what it is?! I hope so!!!
In this scene, Elizabeth confronts the Spanish
Ambassador and the message he brings from the king of Spain, Filipe II, her
major enemy. The virgin wears a sumptuous yellow dress and a sophisticated
hairstyle. Both this visual characteristics of her will spoil as the time goes
by and as her strength is threatened by the heaviness of the power. Also in
this part of the movie, all the other characters are dressed in black our
mainly with dark colors, which calls our attention to the importance and
authority of the Queen.
About the soundtrack, we can say that in this
particular moment and in the majority of the movie, it is slow, powerful,
heavy, deep and tenebrous, which confirms the relevance of this specific scene,
that will end up being a turning point in the movie, once it is mainly from
this stage that the queen starts revealing stress, madness and BRAIN SICKNESS
(yes, she was a crazy women…In the good way, of course!). We can check this
decline not only in her quotes but also in the colors she wears.
Finally, the interesting part. Now, the puritan
frees the devil inside of her and shows us a big attitude and braveness…OMG, I
wanna be like her! Now I leave you with this brief part of her discussion with
the Ambassador:
Queen
Elizabeth I: Go back to your rathole! Tell
Philip I fear neither him, nor his priests, nor his armies. Tell him if he
wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite he'll
wish he'd kept his hands in his pockets!
Don Guerau De Spes: You see a leaf fall, and you think you know which way the wind blows. Well, there is a wind coming, Madame, that will sweep away your pride.
[turns to leave with his ministers]
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!
Don Guerau De Spes: You see a leaf fall, and you think you know which way the wind blows. Well, there is a wind coming, Madame, that will sweep away your pride.
[turns to leave with his ministers]
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!
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XOXO, Oh My Gossip!
Sara
The combination between the specific scene you have chosen, the soundtrack, costume design and the excerpt from the script gives your comment a full and comprehensive perspective. Well done!
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