tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post2824576174237005983..comments2023-08-16T10:10:36.008-04:00Comments on Silly Hats Only: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, Shekhar Kapur) [3]Paul C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-56364678490304564942007-10-13T23:27:00.000-04:002007-10-13T23:27:00.000-04:00Perhaps, but Elizabeth's internal conflicts (sketc...Perhaps, but Elizabeth's internal conflicts (sketchy as they are) never feel like "oh, I need a man to have an heir," but "I wish I had a man to make my knees weak and my soul feel complete." I got the stuff about others questioning her effectiveness as queen because she hadn't yet produced a king, but the movie sort of elides that in the end in favor of Elizabeth briefly considering a hot'n'sexy affair with bad-boy charmer Walter Raleigh.<BR/><BR/>And I suppose I felt the need to comment on the anti-Catholicism because I grew up Catholic. At the current time I'm an agnostic, but my childhood was spent in the bosom of the Church.Paul C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699493473242261477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9688582.post-54850444593214654072007-10-13T17:57:00.000-04:002007-10-13T17:57:00.000-04:00Paul:In semi-demi-kinda-sorta defense of one detai...Paul:<BR/><BR/>In semi-demi-kinda-sorta defense of one detail in this vile and hateful film**:<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth wasn't a successful woman, she was a queen. One of the duties of a monarch is to produce heirs, and so it doesn't mean anything sexist to show her fretting about finding the right man. You're quite wrong about a double standard; indeed, any film about Elizabeth's father Henry VIII could hardly avoid being largely about this powerful, successful man wrapped up in a search for the right woman.<BR/><BR/>(The historical problem though is the film begins in 1585; Elizabeth was born in 1533. The Walter Raleigh stuff is pious legend, albeit one that long long LONG predates this film. The story of Sir Walter Raleigh's cape and the mud was THE examplar of chivalry in British boy-culture when I was a wee lad.)<BR/><BR/><BR/>** BTW ... you're only the second not-explicitly-Christian critic I have read to have noted the anti-Catholicism of the film (beyond vague talk about "historical inaccuracy").Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04455995233905299363noreply@blogger.com