"The Crown" is a British drama launched by Netflix in 2016. It tells the historical story between Queen Elizabeth II, the British cabinet government, and the royal family since World War II. The show is said to be running for six seasons, with a budget of £100 million, with each season spanning about ten years. Judging from the two seasons that have been broadcast, the film highly restores the historical details of the British royal family on the screen, from the royal family's wedding, to the queen's coronation ceremony, or the queen's visit, every scene is quite elegant, and historical images. High fit. In the soundtrack of the film, Hans Zimmer, the master of the soundtrack for award-winning films such as "The Lion King", "Foot Fighter" and "Inception", was invited, and the play also boldly used famous fragments of classical music for many times. , adds a lot of classical flair to the show.
In the first season of The Crown, the film mainly portrays Elizabeth in the game vortex between the rise of progressive thought after World War II and the British tradition of the old system, and how, as a wife or sister, how to maintain her marriage and her sisterhood with her sister . What's special about this show is that it delicately shows Elizabeth's painful transition between the two very different identities of queen and ordinary woman. Elizabeth feels the burden under the queen's halo all the time. Her mother and the cabinet represent the traditional consciousness of the United Kingdom. They are traditional, conservative, self-styled, and only want to maintain the royal status of the royal family. The younger sister, Princess Margaret, is a representative of women in the new era after World War II. She has a strong sense of self, dares to love and hate, and believes that her life should be dominated by herself. In her eyes, her sister is just an arrogant and domineering queen. And the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, has lived in the Queen's dazzling light all his life. However, none of this was what the Queen wanted. She loved her husband and promised her father would never betray her sisterhood with her sister. All because of that heavy crown.
The Queen's husband is the unrestrained Greek prince, Philip Mountbatten. When George VI died suddenly and Elizabeth rushed to the throne, Prince Philip, the queen's husband, asked Queen Elizabeth to keep the surname Mountbatten after her ascension, which meant that the Windsor dynasty should be renamed Mountbatten Dynasty, and their children all continue to have the last name Mountbatten. Prince Philip insists this is for granted, as wives and children throughout the UK follow the husband's surname, which was also initially approved by the Queen, but the proposal was met by Elizabeth's grandmother, the Queen Mother , and the Cabinet. be opposed to. The Windsor Dynasty was the British King George V during the First World War in 1917, in order to show his determination to fight to the end with the German monarch who is related to him, he announced that the British royal family name and the surname of the royal paternal descendants would be changed to a typical British surname" Windsor". In the end, under the pressure of her grandmother and the cabinet, the queen who was caught in the middle had to lose faith in her husband and chose to continue to use Windsor as the name of the dynasty and the surname of her descendants. But in fact, in 1960, before the show, seven years after the death of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth announced that the surname of her descendants would be changed to a combination of her husband's and her own, namely Mountbatten-Windsor. This also reflects Elizabeth's constant efforts to balance and compromise between the two identities of queen and wife.
Similarly, in order to make her husband feel more involved in the royal family and make him feel more valuable, the queen decided to make him the chairman of her coronation committee, that is, her husband will have full control of her coronation ceremony. The decision was unsurprisingly met with unanimous opposition from his mother and the cabinet. It just so happened that the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, is also a "reformer". He believes that the Queen's coronation ceremony should break the tradition of coronation ceremonies of British kings in the past, and should be more simple and close to the people. He decided to let ordinary people attend the ceremony on the spot and pass the TV broadcasts live to the world. This has heightened the confrontation between the conservative cabinet and Prince Philip. Churchill suggested to the Queen that such a coronation ceremony is absurd in his routine report every Tuesday. It is a royal ceremony as a business. Under the pressure of the crowd, the queen decided to support her husband's plan, but on the condition that her husband knelt before the queen at the coronation ceremony. This is undoubtedly a balanced solution for the Queen in the game between the old school and the reformist.
Queen Elizabeth is in a dilemma for her younger sister, Princess Margaret. At the age of 22, Princess Margaret, who dares to act, dare to love and hate, fell in love with a married man who was 16 years older than her, the pilot Colonel Peter Townsend. After his successful divorce, Princess Margaret decided to marry the Colonel Townsend. Although the Queen was shocked when she heard the news, she saw that her sister was truly in love with Townsend, and she decided to support her sister's marriage when she saw her happy appearance. Unexpectedly, the Queen's mother angrily reminded her that marrying Townsend would be a scandal for the royal family and would destroy the royal family's sacred royal status. And his uncle Edward VIII had to abdicate because he insisted on marrying the divorced American celebrity Wallis Simpson . The mother mentioned that the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 stipulated that any member of the royal family who married before the age of 25 must obtain the monarch's consent to marry. Therefore, it is recommended that Princess Margaret wait until she is 25 to marry so that she does not have to ask the Queen's consent. The Queen took this advice to her sister Princess Margaret. But they don't know that this is actually a delaying tactic by the Queen Mother and sent Townsend to Brussels, Belgium, hoping that the two-year separation will make the princess forget Townsend. Then two years later, Princess Margaret still insisted on marrying the returning Townsend. The queen thought she could travel her own promise this time and let her sister get what she loves. But the cabinet represented by Anthony Eden staunchly opposed the marriage, arguing it upended the tradition of the Church of England, which stipulates that divorced people are not allowed to remarry while their first spouse is still alive. The pedantic and outdated tradition of business has once again kidnapped the queen, forced her to betray her sisterhood again, and deeply hurt her sister Princess Margaret.
Perhaps because Queen Elizabeth was in the special era of the collision of old and new ideas after World War II when she succeeded to the throne, she had to make difficult choices under the double pressure of the two forces, and she often had to make compromises in order to balance the interests of both parties. . Many times we think that compromise is a manifestation of cowardice or failure, but in modern society, a compromise that can balance the interests of both parties is not a manifestation of wisdom!
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