There are a lot of facial close-ups, high-value actors, costumes inlaid with gold and treasures, magnificent music, and the location shots are very elegant. The actor who played Ivan's POSE skills is unbelievable. The laughing point is that the palace gate in Russia is like a dog hole. Everyone can bend over and pass sideways. It was not until the last emperor's aunt planned the church assassination that I found out that this relative of the emperor was a woman. .
Zhdanov said that Eisenstein made Ivan the Terrible a nervous person. And Stalin thought: Ivan the Terrible was an extremely cruel person, and it was okay to show his cruelty. But it should be explained why it is cruel. One of Ivan the Terrible's mistakes was not completely eradicating the five feudal families. If he eliminated these five major families, there would be no chaotic period at all. And Ivan the Terrible, no matter who he executed, he always regretted and repented endlessly. It was God who stood in his way in this regard. Should be more decisive.
Stalin said: You have made the Tsar an indecisive man, like Hamlet. He is always told what to do. rather than making his own decisions. Tsar Ivan was a great and wise ruler, and if you compare him with Louis XI (have you read the book about Louis XI laying the foundations of the despotism for Louis XIV?), then Ivan the Terrible is like Louis XI. Can't be compared. The wisdom of Ivan the Terrible is that he always stood on the national standpoint and did not allow foreigners to enter his country, thus preventing the penetration of foreign influences into the country.
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