Showing posts with label Elizabeth (film). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth (film). Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2018

A More Realistic Take On...

Galloping in an Open Field with Two Athletic Horses Not Specifically Trained to Tolerate Anything Like Film Horses Are: A Fanfiction



(Word-for-word dialogue beginning at around minute 25) (WHICH ACTUALLY ENDED UP BEING FROM THE SECOND FILM, SO FORGET ABOUT THAT)

Holding on for dear life, Walter and Elizabeth, intending to have a nice ride out in the open countryside on their peculiarly identical Friesian horses, began to question their decision to do so.
            “AH!” cried Walter.
            “You have a stronger horse!” called Elizabeth from a few lengths behind him as his mount ripped the reins from his hands and ducked into a flat-out gallop.
            “Yours carries a lighter load,” he shouted back, though in turning to do so lost his balance and tumbled backwards over the horse’s haunches.
            In panic Elizabeth hauled on her horse to slow it and halt. Little to her knowledge her leg was bruised significantly, as she discovered later, for she had bashed her thigh on the stiff leather that held her right leg up in the sidesaddle, as she managed, with a great amount of pulling, to stop. Walter’s horse proceeded to gallop off back towards the stables, oblivious to the expensive Italian leather bridle that was torn from his face.
            Approaching her friend on her horse who relentlessly tossed his head in the air and jigged excessively in anticipation of galloping again, she hissed, “The Queen does not give way to others.”
            “Forgive me Majesty. My horse does not seem to know his place.”

What Tonypandy

The only thing I can say about this movie.
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      Where do I even begin with this movie? This isn't just Tonypandy, it's historical revisionism. The movie portrays Queen Mary as a diseased and possibly a bit deranged woman willing to fabricate evidence in order to place Elizabeth on trial. Many events are placed out of sequence within the film. For example Mary's false pregnancy was not discovered until after Elizabeth was already imprisoned.
   This film was painful. Even looking past all of the blatant changes, it reeks of the greatest flaw in late 1990's and early 2000's cinema; drama swollen with self-importance and "destiny". Certain actions come dangerously close to fourth wall-breaking precience, as if the writer forgot that the characters aren't supposed to know how things will play out. Every scene groans under the weight of how important it is, but the movie feels more like a two hour series of short vignettes than a coherent narrative, with little or no transition between scenes that contrast jarringly with one-another. scenes of loud noise and activity contrasted with almost total silence, cutting so abruptly from one to the next that they feel disjointed.

Sunday, April 8, 2018

BOOM ROASTED

In the movie "Elizabeth", Elizabeth takes the crown and does not have any support from the bishops. When she meets with them after a crushing defeat to the queen of Guise, she proceeds to roast them.
This scene reminds me of the scene in the Office when Michael Scott roasts the whole office.


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