The Favourite is a court comedy based on the true historical events of Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and Queen Anne.
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was a British military strategist and statesman who made great achievements in the Anglo-French War. And his wife, the Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, is smart, bold but irritable, and is a close friend of James II's daughter, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), and her best friend. Influential advisors and women officials. It can be said that the Duchess of Marbo has long dominated the Queen's decision-making and actually controlled the affairs of the court.
During her favor, a salary of up to 5,100 pounds a year, she also pushed the Queen to support her husband's war, until another female official, Abigail (Emma Stone), took advantage of the situation. After retiring from the position of the Duchess, her friendship with the Queen officially broke down, and she ended up with her tragic fate of going into exile with her husband.
Three women in one play, in this court-backed play, the competition for power, desire, and love is highly concentrated. Whether it is the supreme queen, or the darlings who are affectionate or false, who is it? I can't get rid of the loneliness, fear and sadness deep in my heart. It has nothing to do with who you favor and who abandons you. The balance of interests is the most important direction of favor and abandonment, and it is not something that any favored person can try to change and control. There are dozens of episodes of domestic palace fighting dramas, but the depth and thoroughness of these two hours cannot be compared. The gorgeous scene picture makes you feel like you are in the scene, an exclusive value-for-money scene crossing observation.
The British actor Olivia Colman, who played Queen Anne in the film, performed a thrilling and exciting interpretation of a complex and changeable queen image, so the film won the 91st Academy Award for Best Actress.
Queen Anne in history was the last queen of the British Stuart dynasty, and her ruling style tended to be moderate and pragmatic. Many Whigs tried to put pressure on the queen to seek more political rights, but were suppressed by the queen, after 1710 Fired many Whig MPs. This historical fact is also restored in the movie, and the relationship between the Queen and Sarah Churchill has come to a fork in the road.
The seventeen children born to the queen all suffered unfortunate deaths one after another, and Queen Anne suffered a lot of mental shock. She is not only a queen of an empire, but also a heartbroken mother. The seventeen rabbits that the Queen regards as treasures are mentioned many times in the play. These rabbits correspond to her children who died prematurely. The birthdays of the rabbits are the days when the children die.
Not only that, Queen Anne was plagued by illness all her life. After the age of 30, she was gaining weight, her legs were severely ventilated, and she even needed a wheelchair and crutches to move.
Director Lanthimos used a lot of wide-angle lenses, fish-eye lenses and low-angle tilt shots to create a grotesque, alienating atmosphere, "attempting to expose the futileness of "alive" through excess "existence", Queen Anne's emotional caprices , hysteria, and various perverted games in the palace, "all of them tell the absurdity and boredom of "existence". In order to satirize the debauchery of the court, the queen loves to raise rabbits, the royal family loves to play duck races, throw tomatoes naked, and dance modern dances and other strange settings. The language is also spicy and exciting, and the taste is very heavy.
By the way, I just watched Emma Stone's "La La Land" the other day. I saw her in an early 18th century palace the next day, and I was confused at first sight. The movie is amazing!
It is said that "The Favourite" was the first drama Emma Stone received in her career that required wearing a corset. Because of this, her internal organs were displaced, and it was difficult to even bend over. Reclining on the sofa in a very strange position. On the set, Emma Stone couldn't even sit down, and "smells menthol every time before starting work, otherwise I can't breathe." After filming for a month, I found that my internal organs were forced to displace. "The doctor said it was the lower part of the stomach, which made me have more sympathy for the women of that era."
What era was that? It is said that it began in Spain in the 16th century. The literati enthusiastically praised the beauty of women's curves, especially the waist, which is preferably so thin that a man can wrap his arms around it. The history of corsets has been shown in many films and literary works. This perverted aesthetic has lasted for centuries. Fortunately, we can untie the shackles and breathe freely.
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