Playing a king, especially a queen, is extremely challenging for an actress. The king is a person with a dominant position. It is essential for the king to show deterrence, and the innate softness of women contradicts the domineering of the king. Therefore, to play the queen should let the domineering cover the softness, but also show that the queen is faded. The appearance of a lower king, as a contradictory aspect of a woman's natural tenderness, sensitivity, and vulnerability, is very difficult to interpret, not to mention a well-known queen of a generation like Elizabeth I. Kate won the Oscar for best actress for this film, and it can be said that her "Elizabeth" makes people feel that her performance interprets this image vividly.
Kate is a rare actor in costume dramas, with fair and clean skin with wax like texture, high nose, blue eyes, extremely narrow cheeks, iconic high and full cheekbones, dark thin lips, extremely rich Classical temperament, coupled with the drama actor background, has performed Shakespeare plays for many years, and the temperament and skills honed in costume drama performances have long been deposited in the bones. In "Elizabeth", her classical dress is amazing, and her eyebrows are very light brown. , Kate's originally dark brown hair was also dyed light reddish-brown, and her face was whiter because of the powder, highlighting a pair of light blue eyes and thin lips, full of mystery and cold temperament, interpreting the identity of Elizabeth. Noble, compared to ordinary women, Kate's face is sharp and angular, and the facial features are too sharp, giving a manly look, but when she smiles slightly, her full cheekbones soften the extremely hard facial lines, full of radiance. Femininity, it is rare to endow the queen with feminine softness. When Kate took the crown to the throne, the picture was exactly the same as that of Elizabeth. The masculine facial features are combined with feminine expressions, and the combination of hardness and softness is a rare face to interpret the image of the queen.
In the film, Elizabeth ascended the throne when Britain was in crisis and cleaned up the mess left by Mary I. At this time, Elizabeth had no ambition to rule, and could only settle the overall situation to keep her own safety, but for a young girl Say, everything is too scary. Before "Elizabeth" took office, Kate does not know whether it was the director's request or her own intention. In the first half of the film, Kate always avoids the camera, her face is lowered, her thin lips are hidden, and her eyes flash uneasy. , she drew her sharp blue eyes up, showing Elizabeth's sense of unease before she took the throne. When she was in love, her face was lowered even lower, and she smiled slightly, and she could only see the corners of her mouth raised from her full cheekbones. Charming and moving, and in the disturbing acting skills, there is a manifestation of the Queen's ambition. When Mary I called Elizabeth to the front and asked, and at the same time hinted that the throne would be passed to her, under the low and respectful eyes, we saw that we wanted to laugh and hide the trembling. The corners of her mouth illustrate that Elizabeth's heart has been turned upside down, she is calm, and her blue eyes are sharp and firm. We have seen the beginning of a generation of ambitious queens.
The best scene, in my opinion, is when Elizabeth announces a decree to fight a woman against a crowd. It's not easy to interpret nervous emotions. Before the decree was issued, the scene was the only scene in the film that was shot directly. This scene was a turning point for Elizabeth. Whether she could persuade the ministers meant that she could. Whether to get support or not, the audience felt her tense atmosphere face to face with Elizabeth, but she was only immersed in her own emotions and did not communicate with the audience at all. Kate's line skills played a prominent role in this scene, and she changed well. Several accents and intonations were used as exercises, each of which gave people a different feeling, and her nervous pauses seemed natural, but after ascending the throne, she was still nervous at first, every sentence was short but unpleasant , after watching "Blue Jasmine", you should know that Kate is very good at speaking fast lines, but in "Elizabeth" her speech rate is quite slow, especially the long ending is very smooth, the Queen's charm is all in this long It appeared in the ending sound, but when teasing, the slightly raised tone was not coquettish at all. In this scene, she changed from a disturbed girl to a woman who emphasized her own identity. Finally, the symphony sounded, and she became the queen. Kate's exquisite acting in this scene shows this important transformation, but also emphasizes that the monarch is a woman.
Yes, Elizabeth is a woman after all, and she will be disturbed, confused, and even crazy in the face of love. When Kate plays Elizabeth as a woman, her blue eyes are like fog, and her hard facial features are like She is as soft as being covered by a veil, completely immersed in love. When she is uneasy, she will shrink back, dance her hands around her face and in front of her body, and defend everything, but it can change in an instant, which is amazing.
Most of Kate's roles since "Elizabeth" are strong, noble, and arrogant. Even if she falls into the ghetto like "Blue Jasmine", putting on mental illness will not affect her extraordinary aura at all. It seems to have been integrated with the word queen. But it's too high. The Queen has been around for a long time. Everyone feels that the distance is too far and they are tired of watching. Maybe next time, I don't know if I can see Kate break through the drama and see the amazing performance in "I'm Not There" again.
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