In fact, I was quite looking forward to the film of the Countess at the beginning. As one of the highest-ranking actresses in the UK, she may be the only one with the highest status. The achievements of the Countess in her acting career are self-evident. Not to mention that she is currently the actor who has won the most Oliver Awards in the UK. The only person who can break her own record can only be herself. Of course, it is no exaggeration to say that she is the greatest actress in the British drama world. Such a living legend of acting skills. Never doubt. And it is well known that actors who have achieved high achievements in the theater industry have certain advantages in movies. They have higher grasp and control of emotional nuances and lines than actors born in normal movies, and are more able to control a movie. There is also a more distinctive aura in the movie. After all, there is no NG in the drama. You need to perform in front of countless audiences. This kind of test is bigger than the film industry, and you have to be able to draw the attention of all audiences. Therefore, comparing the Australian Demon King and the British Duchess, I found that these two domestic drama stars are suitable for playing complex and changeable, neurotic or powerful queen-type roles. I recommend their cooperation in "Scandal Notes". , of course this is off topic. It is not the first time that the Duchess has played the role of the Queen. The ten-minute "Shakespeare in Love" won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and she also played Queen Victoria in "Mrs. Brown", winning the award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Best Actress Award from the British Film Institute, so she is familiar with playing Queen Victoria again, crushing everyone.
The most impressive line in the film is the Queen's own statement: "I am 81 years old. I have 9 children, 42 grandchildren, and nearly 1 billion subjects. I have rheumatism and a prolapsed uterus, and I have morbid bloat. , deaf in one ear. I have been through 11 prime ministers, signed 2347 bills, and ruled for 62 years and 234 days. I am the longest-reigning monarch in the UK, responsible for 5 royal families and over 3000 employees. I Bad-tempered, boring, gluttonous and fat, irascible and selfish and short-sighted, inside and out. I'm disgustingly authoritarian, nothing but I'm definitely not insane! If the whole royal family wants to disobey me then come on , come face to face. I can wait for you in the audience room right away." This sentence came out of the Countess's mouth convincingly, every wrinkle on her face, every line in her mouth seemed to say such a fact , At this moment, people and drama are one. In fact, Judi Dench, who was born in 1934, has reached the point where she cannot travel independently. The gradually weakening eyesight limits her steps, but it definitely does not limit her pursuit of art. Several actors at this age still treat their acting careers with high demands. In fact, this perseverance and unyielding attitude is highly unified with the role. I felt for a moment that she was talking about herself. In fact, we can't find a person who can interpret the complex emotions of the elderly Queen Victoria in the movie so well.
Queen Victoria, as the longest monarch ever ruled in the United Kingdom, during her reign, the United Kingdom reached the largest period in history through continuous colonial expansion, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and Britain also transformed from liberal capitalism to the era of monopoly capitalism , the economy and culture have reached the highest peak in history. In other words, Queen Victoria itself represents an era, the most glorious era of Britain. Her own greater contribution is actually the rapid development of the constitutional monarchy during her reign. With the current foundation, the royal family has also gained a high reputation in the later period of her reign. On the other hand, she lost her father in 8 months and did not receive preferential treatment from the royal family when she was young. She was raised by a strong mother, and she was bound by various rules and etiquette in the future, which developed her contradictory character in the future. His love life is also full of twists and turns. His first love, Emperor Alexander II of Russia, was forced to break due to political reasons; he got married because of political considerations, but unexpectedly reaps happiness, but her husband Albert died of a sudden illness in his prime; he had an ambiguous relationship with John Brown in his later years. As well as the conflicts with her children, this glorious monarch has a lot of room for drama. Time, and it is mainly based on a secret history of the queen, which increases the audience's desire to voyeurize, and has a strong dramatic tension and room for play, but this movie accidentally screwed up.
One of the obvious shortcomings of the film itself is to beautify the queen's human nature. Even if the queen in the movie has some small shortcomings, it seems to be to set off her glorious face and try to portray her kindness, her kindness An advanced view of equality, her persistence in maintaining the people she considers important, her incredible awareness of colonial reflection, and even her disregard for the important religious gap at the time. So that this role is not three-dimensional or even convincing. You can imagine an empire at the peak of colonial expansion, an empire that is trying to bring other backward countries into the ranks of its vassal states, but its monarch can easily reflect on colonialism in such an era. Colonial persecution, and so longing for colonial culture? Is there even such a high-profile use of colonial, religiously conflicted, statusless people of color? And at the beginning of the plot, you openly study the various cultures of the colony, without the cultural confidence of your own empire? However, Queen Victoria in the movie has reached the point where she doesn't mind religion, and the religious conflict at that time was not lost to the military conflict at all. The monarch of the greatest era of an empire can be stubborn, selfish, irritable, or even a little simple, but it is absolutely difficult to be completely paranoid, or not fully confident in his own power, or even have a high macro vision. For more than 60 years, he has dealt with more than 2,000 bills. How can a monarch with certain real power not have a certain overall concept or calm mind. Queen Victoria may not have the political literacy of the powerful Elizabeth I, her ambition to sacrifice everything for politics, but the monarch of a prosperous empire who has made herself a tie to European royal families through continuous and excellent marriages, not some Foresight or sacrifice is of course impossible, not to mention that she has certain real power and plays a huge role in politics.
Of course, the Duchess herself is quite good at portraying this lonely, willful and stubborn old lady, but it is a pity that the existence of this character is not convincing. To stubbornly defend the person or thing that you think is important is completely normal and real, and it is touching; unfortunately, the main creator has obviously exerted too much force and lost the bottom line. At the time of the evils, the queen, who was still determined to compete with everyone, was not a hero and was rather stupid at this time, a monarch who sacrificed his love for the Russian crown prince in his youth, a monarch who even cared about the happiness of all his children, even if it was true. It's almost over, and it's not stupid, so the climax of the whole play-the scene where the queen challenges everyone in the royal family is itself untenable and unreasonable. She can challenge everyone, but it shouldn't be the reason why everyone understands the drawbacks. Not to mention that the film portrays everyone around the Queen as vitriolic egoists with no other side, so much so that many characters use a face mask.
The biggest problem with the movie I personally think is the setting of another character. In the play, Abdul, as a clue character in the movie, can be said to be his appearance that inspired the Queen's greatest sense of rebellion in her life, and even said that it has revived the Queen. Youth against time. And such a "dazzling" clue character, what kind of character should he have, so that the queen can see ripples in the backwater-like life? I think it should be funny, knowledgeable, talented, like Sunny Guy, but unfortunately I don't see anything in the male lead. The male protagonist's excessive flattening is already fatal, and what is even more serious is that he has not shown any of his outstanding features in this limited flat, and some are just a kind of worship to the imperial monarch. After being reused by the Queen, he stayed in the UK regardless of the feelings of his sick companions, and the male protagonist who made his companions as servants and even brought another servant was selfish, especially after the low-level drama, people had to doubt the Queen's The drama with only a dozen or so seconds of aesthetics has already shown the superficiality of the male protagonist and his inner desire for power and surrender to others. Although the lover sees Xishi in the eyes, it is not convincing why the queen values Akadul so much. Even unceremoniously, the male protagonist in this play is a bit shallow, boring, and out of place. I suddenly remembered that the setting of the heroine in "Titanic" is also tired of the aristocratic restraint life, but the heroine in it is really unworldly, and such a good-looking, talented and interesting, How many people can resist the sunshine and save your life, let alone the obvious that many of his characteristics are exactly what the heroine yearns for, so it is reasonable and reasonable, and the heroine in the back is desperate to save him. Persuasiveness (ps: In fact, it’s almost the same if you have appearance), let alone the male protagonist in this movie is still suspected of being insincere, so what kind of magic power makes the queen give up her principle to defend it? This is the biggest mystery of the play. The queen who is desperate and even treats the hero as a great man in the play is really shocking. Even if everyone around the queen is written as selfish and self-righteous, it really doesn't bring out this flatness. What is the charm of the male protagonist. I'm afraid I'd rather accept that the male lead is somehow like someone the queen once loved. In addition, the completion of the Indian actor in this drama is really not very good, and there is no drama in his eyes.
Originally, a secret history would have a lot of room for development, but the emotional handling of this drama is quite unsuccessful. The ambiguous relationship between the queen and Abdul is not very easy to grasp. The line shot is unintelligible. Put aside the inexplicable progress of the relationship, the disappointment and anger when the queen knew that Abdul had a wife; the queen rushed to see him late at night after knowing that Abdul had deceived herself and angered him; and on the return trip. The two put their hands together in the snow, all of which are showing this extraordinary relationship, but the film does not promote the development of the emotional line at all, and picks up Abdul's wife and hopes that they will have children. The queen also seems to have no intention of the male protagonist in that regard. The constant intertwining of these two inherently contradictory relationships is really unintelligible. Not only did the director fail to combine this relationship, but it became more and more inexplicable, leading to the illusion that two directors had filmed two emotional lines, making people want to know what the queen really wanted? Do you have to risk everything just for such a company? How to forgive Abdul's mistakes again and again.
At the end of the film, the queen summons the male protagonist alone and tells him that he is her most important person, which is naturally unconvincing. Is the queen's descendants really so bad that the queen has to rely on such a male protagonist who has no shining point. In addition, I would like to mention another hero's companion who has a bright spot. At first, the two of them were in the UK. He was obsessed with returning to India. After the hero broke his promise to come back, he was forced to become the hero's servant. Later, he died of illness in the UK. On the way, there was no smearing of the male protagonist because the crown prince proposed to send him back to the UK and give him money compensation. This is the only bright spot among the supporting characters in the whole play, but it even more reflects the selfishness of the male protagonist and contrasts the dark human nature of the male protagonist.
So if a drama is not a comedy or a spoof, or even a historical drama, you still have to be very cautious and logical. The plot is a little boring, there is no memory point, and there may be some mistakes in memory, but I still want to say what magic power makes such a character without a flash point make the queen of the empire of the sun never set desperately defend it until she loses her mind.
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