Elizabeth (1998) - Part 1

Elizabeth 1998 - Part 1
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Film & Animation

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• Elizabeth
• 1998
• Cate
• Blanchett

[velvetQueen699999]

It's a shame that Cate Blanchett didn't win an Oscar for this!!!

[TheBeezusjones]

well, just because they saw gore and horrible violence doesn't mean it was a great thing... and it doesn't mean we should continue to show them violence. now is a long way from the middle ages. should we have slaves just because we did in the past?

[chevyss67222]

she done what any queen would have done all she had was her half sister to protect her to rule england for she was decieved from such lies a up evil land and it was destin to her sister elizabeth and her only to rule the land so dont judge... dont judge what she had to do protestant or catholic let it be to her own judgement when she was queen to rule england....god be..

[telamon2011]

@ThePharaoho

As regarding history, well, the winners tend to write it. Elizabeth was smart enough to have scribblers living off the state such as Shakespeare, Marlowe and Spencer to write various plays and poems to her glorification. She was one of the earliest practitioners of political spin control. As for the "Bloody Mary" label, well, Peter the GREAT and Catherine the GREAT killed far more Russians than Ivan the TERRIBLE, but just like Liz, they patronized the right artists and writers.

[telamon2011]

@ThePharaoho

Please, Elizabeth was responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 Catholics (3,000 in Ireland, 1,000 in England, nearly half of the Irish victims being women and children, and in the case of the English Catholic monks who largely took care of the peasants after Liz initiated the Anti-Poor Laws of the 1570s, death by slow disembowelment, far more painful than burning at the stake in which most died quickly of asphyxiation). Laws against Jewish shopowners were also passed under Liz.

[ThePharaoho]

@telamon2011 Well England didn't have that problem. The problem was religious intolerence by the Catholic monarch over her own people who had mostly been protestant. She should have been carig about the peoples wellfare, not about what God they served. If she would have done that and actually had a mind of her own instead of taking direction from Philip, she may would have achieved something worth-while. And not be remembered as "Bloody Mary?"

[ThePharaoho]

@md991free No, he has the power because she foolishly did everything he commanding because she was foolishly in love with him.

[telamon2011]

While the Protestants were dancing in the fields, the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox were spilling their blood against the Muslims who even then were trying to topple Western civilization. It was easy to be liberal and tolerant in the sixteenth century when one was so far removed from the most dangerous menaces in the world.

[govno78]

@velvetQueen699999 The only reason why Cate didnt win that year is because Gwenyth Paltrow was already an established actress. I totally agree with you velvetQueen Cate should have won, and on top of that Gwenyth gave one of the worst acceptance speeches in the history of the Academy Awards.

[Bimfirestarter]

@IncendioFlames YEAH, NO KIDDING!!! I thought this opening was different!

[IncendioFlames]

the version i remember watching had background information going such as "henry viii is dead" "mary is on the throne" "catholics fear is the rising of...." then it showed the title, Elizabeth.

[NKismynextgoal]

@Laraisawesome

No, this scene is, but most of the film is about doubts about love and betrayal in dangerous times, and very little blood is spilled (exept a few 'clean' murders). My stomach had more problems with the portrayal of a bishop Gardiner in Elizabeth's rule while the man was dead for some years :-)-)

I liked this film for the good directing, acting, the music and the clothing. Not for historical accuracy.