What was the movie Elizabeth (1998) about?!
Question: My theater professor recommends that I watch it, but I would like to know what it's about first--just a short summary of the plot would be fine and what did you think about it? Thanks. It'll save me money.
Answers: My theater professor recommends that I watch it, but I would like to know what it's about first--just a short summary of the plot would be fine and what did you think about it? Thanks. It'll save me money.
I bought the movie. It was 'that' good. It was about the death of Mary (aka 'bloody Mary') the Catholic Queen. Her father had a mistress, Anne Boleyn. He had her beheaded. (not in the movie) and Anne had a daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was a Protestant in a Catholic dominated England. Mary had to leave the throne to Elizabeth and didn't want to, but was forced to, she was dying. Elizabeth took the throne and began the real upheaval of the church, as she was Protestant and to have that on the throne, well, she was going to have her life threatened. Many royal advisors were at her disposal. They all urged her to marry. She chose to remain unmarried. The one man that she loved, was not appropriate for her, and she could not marry him... so, she became married to her office...and known as the "Virgin Queen"...it is a deep movie, I watched it twice to pick up what I missed the first run through. The sequel, just came out as well. It is good too.
Worth the money. And the time. Good for educational reasons if you don't know anything or little of the Catholic/Protestant England and the rivalry on the throne that way.
Recommended...two thumbs up!
Big request to "summarize" the Queen of England :):)
queen elizabeth.
its how queen elizabeth became queen and why she was known as the virgin queen
i watched it for the first time this week, i liked it... if this is the same movie that your teach was speaking of
Do u like history?...............it is a well made movie about queen elizabeth.we loved it
Check the following link..
It has the summary..
Enjoy!
It's about one of the most prominent figures in English/British history, Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of King Henry the 8th. When she came to the throne England was a tiny island nation with little or no world power. When she left the throne, Britain was the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. The navy built under her rule became the rulers of the seas...
Watch it. If you believe in girl power, here's somebody who by far eclipses Oprah or Madonna when it comes to that.
It's about Queen Elizebeth I. When catholic Queen Mary dies the succession goes to Elizabeth, the protestant half-sister Mary was not prepared to execute. The new queen finds herself surrounded by advisors, some supportive but some plotting to restore the catholic line by almost any means. She is also under pressure to marry and produce an heir, but her lover Lord Robert Dudley is not considered suitable. Elizabeth realises she has some decisions to make, the most important being who rules England.
A Bit of History:
Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed three years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Perhaps for that reason, her brother, Edward VI, cut her out of the succession. His will, however, was set aside, as it contravened the Third Succession Act of 1543, in which Elizabeth was named as successor provided that Mary I of England, Elizabeth's half-sister, should die without issue. In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Movie Synopsis:
In 1558, the Roman Catholic Mary I of England dies of a cancerous tumor in her uterus, leaving her Protestant half sister Elizabeth as Queen. Elizabeth had previously been jailed for a supposed conspiracy to murder Mary, but has now been freed for her coronation. The film shows Elizabeth being courted by suitors (including Henri, Duc d'Anjou, the future King Henry III of France, whom she rejects) and urged by Cecil to marry, which, as he states, would secure her throne. Instead, she makes love with her childhood sweetheart, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Elizabeth deals with various threats to her reign, including The Duke of Norfolk, a Catholic in her court who conspires to have her murdered, and the effective ruler of Scotland, Mary of Guise, who allies with France to attack England's forces. At the end of the film, Norfolk is executed for his conspiracy and Mary is assassinated by Elizabeth's advisor, Francis Walsingham.
Dudley is permanently banished by Elizabeth when she finds out that he is married. The film ends with Elizabeth assuming the persona of 'The Virgin Queen', and initiating England's Golden Age.
Lots of movies made about Queen Elizabeth, but this one focuses specifically on how she consolidated her power in the early years of her reign, setting the stage for it to become one of the longest and most stable reigns of those turbulent times. She essentially quashed the Catholics who were trying to regain control of the throne.
If your theater professor recommended you watch the movie, maybe he wanted you to actually study Cate Blanchetts excelent performance as queen elizabeth 1.