Elizabeth (1998)
41KElizabeth: Directed by Shekhar Kapur. With Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox, Terence Rigby. The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
“And Elizabeth did whisper Robert Dudleyu0026#39;s name on her deathbed The movie is an imaginative interpretation of the way that things could have been u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eShekhar Kapuru0026#39;s film explores the instabilities of her reign, and the absolute horror and terror that surrounded the early part of her royal office without neglecting her relationship with her terminally ill sister So itu0026#39;s a glimpse of her girlhood into statehood, and the shedding that occurs, with the people who expended in her life along the way u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film shows Elizabeth growing up in an incredibly unstable, tumultuous environment But sheu0026#39;s an absolute survivor… Someone who has got no solid ground on which she walks So one minute sheu0026#39;s a bastard, the next minute sheu0026#39;s a princess, then one moment sheu0026#39;s an illegitimate daughter, then sheu0026#39;s a queen And itu0026#39;s a very relevant period of her life, because she was 25 when she became a female monarch u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are four men in Elizabethu0026#39;s life and all have quite different influences on what it means for a young woman to run the country so young, given that she comes to the throne under very difficult political circumstances u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s Sir Cecil (Attenborough) whou0026#39;s from an older regime giving her the traditions and the conventions that are the most orthodox; Sir Francis (Geoffrey Rush) Elizabethu0026#39;s great spy master, very astute, almost puritanical and rather dry bureaucrat; Robert Dudley (Fiennes) with whom the film suggests that she has quite a passionate, private relationship; and Norfolk (Eccleston), a major rival who doesnu0026#39;t regard that she is suitable to rule his England u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe motion picture succeeds in developing Elizabethu0026#39;s change and, basically, locks off parts of herself, and dehumanizes herself in order to wield her power among men”
