In terms of film language, the director used a lot of montage techniques. The more consistent use was a dark gray background to set off Elizabeth's supremacy, and high-altitude vignetting shots under the lens to express Elizabeth's complicated mood at that time. However, there is no outstanding performance in the background music, and Elizabethan dance music is mainly used to respond to the background of the times. In terms of the performance of the actors, I think it is quite outstanding. Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth, first from the looks, her silhouette is very obvious. It has a neutral taste. Just looking at her, she can think of a professional woman. It is a type of rigid outside and flexible inside. In the past, the image of Elizabeth in my mind was an old virgin who was bloated and very irritable, but when I finished watching "Elizabeth", my Elizabeth was Cate Blanchett. She interprets Elizabeth's environmental character very well, she has an angry and prestigious look when discussing state affairs with the ministers, and her voice is full of thoughts. Emotionally, the loneliness and jealousy of the old virgin still appeared in the dark.
The film mainly revolves around the mental journey of Elizabeth, as the virgin queen, in the face of national politics and personal feelings. From the perspective of human nature, she sees a great British queen, especially in terms of personal emotions. Raleigh is full of curiosity and admiration, because he has the courage to take risks and has a character that does not flatter her. But at this time she was already married to England. And as a queen, she can't be in love with a commoner, she can't have love. There is a scene in the movie where she asks him to dance with her waitress. Then she said: "I want to watch them dance." On the screen, the color of the female waitress’s clothes is the same as hers, because she can’t dance, so he can only order him to dance, and then I want to see that he might be able to dance. Fall in love with him. When she knew that the waitress was pregnant with Sir Walter Raleigh, she couldn't show her jealousy and could only be dealt with by the accusation of infidelity to the superior by the subordinate, but how could a woman's nature be buried? This complicated mental state Cate Blanchett played well.
In the movie, Elizabeth has many sets of clothes and wigs, but the most profound one is the armor suit worn when reviewing soldiers during the war. The first is that the long wig gives people the image of freedom, even if it is scattered, it is noble. And the second point is that even if you wear armor, the characteristic of women's clothes is the sleeves, and the breastplate is flat with sapphires, and a white cloak is worn on the silver armor. This is Elizabeth of war. On the eve of the war, she didn't know the outcome of the war, even men would stay awake at night, and the screenwriter used her alone with Sir Walter Raleigh and her two scenes with astrologers. Especially in this dialogue between her and Sir Walter Raleigh by the fire, "Yi: If in other time and space, other worlds, would you like me?" Sir: I only know that there is a world, and I do like you." Then Yi asked him to kiss himself but he said that he would forget it. Astrologers are required to say that everything is possible, and this represents hope. And the scene where Mary is about to be executed shows the highest principle of the law, the basic western values that even the queen cannot change.
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