Clevercell
Very disappointing...
AniInterview
Sorry, this movie sucks
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Red-125
"Elizabeth I" (2005) is a two-part TV mini-series directed by Tom Hooper. The film stars Helen Mirren as Elizabeth I, Jeremy Irons as the Earl of Leicester, and Hugh Dancy as the Earl of Essex.Any movie about the life of Elizabeth I is going to be inherently interesting. She was a larger-than-life personage, she reigned for many years, she was the monarch of a Protestant nation contesting for supremacy with powerful Catholic nations, and she imprisoned and ultimately executed her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.Her personal life was equally interesting. Although Elizabeth never married, and was called "The Virgin Queen," her love for her "favorites" was widely known at the time, and has been portrayed in numerous movies before this one.So, the questions are, "Why make another film about Queen Elizabeth I?" and "Why watch another film about Queen Elizabeth I?" For me, the answer to those questions is, to watch a great actor take this part and transform it into something unique, rather than just another role about the famous monarch.Helen Mirren is a great actor. She is probably the only actor to play both Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II, and she is superb in both roles. Mirren's Elizabeth I is intelligent, foolish, loving, cruel, mature, and childish. There is never a moment when she forgets that she's a woman, and never a moment when she forgets that she's a Queen. Mirren's work as Elizabeth is a tour de force of acting skills.Irons and Dancy are fine actors, but in this movie they are planets revolving around Mirren's sun. In this films the settings are lush, the beheadings are bloody, the tortures are ghastly, and the supporting cast supports well. You don't watch Elizabeth I to see any of these. You watch Elizabeth I to see Helen Mirren portray the queen. That's why you should find this movie, watch it, and enjoy it.
cottonswoods
I've watched this two-part series many times. I never tire of it. In my view, Helen Mirren BECOMES Elizabeth I. I have read many histories of Elizabeth I's life and the period. This movie makes the history come alive before your eyes. I never tire of Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons and now a huge fan of Hugh Dancy. The costume wardrobes, sets, acting are all superb. But, its Mirren, Mirren, Mirren who IS Elizabeth.I would have loved for several of the events that happen within this movie to have been explored further, those are Elizabeth's death and funeral, the war with Spain, especially the Spanish Armada, her relationship with the Duke of Anjou and would love to have seen more views of her palaces, as much as still exist today.Hugh Dancy did a spectacular job as Robert Devereaux, the Earl of Essex, which was really a tragic story, truth be told. Someone should pick up that story and explore it better in future movies. Jeremy Iron's Earl of Leicester was even more endearing and brought me to tears on many occasions. Irons was so expressive and became the part so well.I highly recommend watching this Elizabeth I... even many times. Each time you will hear and see things you did not see before. Elizabeth's dialog are often quotes for which she is famous, but woven within the movie. You will also see items which were both hers and her father's, Henry VIII.
badgerapple
The production contains an blatant error to anyone that knows of the Babington Plot. One commentator mentions the English historian Dr David Starkey had been on set and was much impressed. Well, shame on him. Chidiock Tichbourne, one of the Babington Plot conspirators, just before his execution wrote to his wife one of the most moving poems of that century. It follows at the end of this comment.In the production, this poem is given to Elizabeth by Cecil after Essex's execution and Cecil says it had been written by Essex the night before. She reads part of it which makes her weep. This was no doubt a deliberate error as a device to produce an emotional scene. The alternative is that everyone involved with the production were ignorant of the facts. Either way, so much for HBO respect for historical accuracy. If they get such a well-known incident wrong, deliberately or not, then so much for anything they ever portray.My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is but a field of tares, And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is past, and yet I saw no sun, And now I live, and now my life is done.My tale was heard and yet it was not told, My fruit is fallen, yet my leaves are green, My youth is spent and yet I am not old, I saw the world and yet I was not seen; My thread is cut and yet it is not spun, And now I live and now my life is done.I sought my death and found it in my womb, I looked for life and found it was a shade, I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb, And now I die, and now I was but made; My glass is full, and now my glass is run, And now I live, and now my life is done.
X_Natz_X
There is so much to say about this amazing TV drama and it certainly is one of the best i have seen by far. It shows Elizabeth Is early and late stages of her reign and a great cast has been selected to fit the roles perfectly including Jeremy Irons, Hugh Dancy and especially Helen Mirren. She displays the emotions brilliantly from passion to rage and truly grips the audience with her fantastic acting. A true icon who couldn't have represented one of Englands best-loved monarchs more perfectly. Once you begin to watch it you cant stop as the great costumes, scenery and script grips you. It is definitely recommended and one to be watched. I think it would be hard to out do this truly captivating drama played by the inspirational Helen Mirren. Not one to forget!!!
