Comments on: Golden Age Diary

By: Scott Stillwell

Scott Stillwell — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:33:34 +0000

hi! my name is scott and i really liked your elizabeth movies. i bought the soundtrack but 2 parts from the golden age i liked wernt on there. so im not sure if youre the person i should be asking but do you know where i can get the music from the first fotheringhay castle scene when it shows annette getting the letter from the washer woman and stuff, and when elizabeth is shot at/mary stuart’s arrest
thank you for any help you can get me!

By: ABDUL RAZAQ

ABDUL RAZAQ — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:26:45 +0000

sir..
is this film released in India.i cant see this film,except only trailers.then why did u approach Ar rahman for doing music for this film.

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:56:31 +0000

I haven’t seen Elizabeth “The Golden Year” but will get it soon. I am very fond of the history background of Elizabeth I. I find your method, views and challenges in continuing the saga of Elizabeth I. Your eye for acquiring the best talents and usage of the camera leaves me wanting to see more of your movies. If Cate Blanchard won’t consider the 3rd movie of Elizabeth. How about re-doing of King Henry VIII and his beginnings on how he became so hard and difficult in fighting with the Catholic Church.. please continue your challenging ways of making these wonderful epic movies.
Thank you for opening a world of history to those that love it!! Angela

By: Surender

Surender — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:27:23 +0000

Hi Shekhar,
I haven’t seen the Golden Age as it hasn’t been released in India. However, I was able to see Cate on Tonight Show with Jay Leno. From the clip that Jay featured on the show, I gather that this is going to be one special film for Cate. She is one of the most gifted actresses I have seen during last twenty years.
I am a bit concerned about the reviews your film has received across continents. Cate has received all the accolades and everything else has been impaled by the bile-laced-words from critics, who somehow and for some reason cannot digest the resplendent grandeur of the film.
Do you believe that your attempt to re-create history may have take away the juice from the story?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:02:57 +0000

I’m from Germany and I waited for this movie since years. I get Goosebumps when i saw the trailer of THE GOLDEN AGE. I can’t wait till the movie starts into the cinemas. Wonderful and thank you Mr Kapur for this movie.
Elizabeth is the most famous redhead in hisotry.
Best regards from Berlin, Germany,
Carsten Berger

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By: shekhar

shekhar — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:41:49 +0000

thank u RepansedeScoye, shekhar

By: RepansedeSchoye

RepansedeSchoye — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:09:23 +0000

Thank you for your diary entries, and for being so extraordinary with your fans and the readers here. I’ve read these since they’ve been posted, and it has earnestly shown uncommon warmth and interest in the audience who will be watching “The Golden Age,” and, I warmly believe, is a rare contrast to others in the industry. This is true enough that I hope others–including studio executives and those greenlighting films (Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, as well as someone like Mike Medavoy excepted) whom I hope will warmly take this as an example in knowing that no filmmaker needs to pander to what they believe to be the lowest common denominator among audiences. What resonates and is true in terms of intent and emotion are the only things which matter, and those which have that kind of intelligence are the ones which achieve the greatest true longevity. Far too many people in the industry seem to be bent on unmitigated solipsism, and I am so warmed by the sense that you aren’t one among them. That Elizabeth was so nuanced and intelligent, in addition to a beautiful film which took that important chance on Cate Blanchett, means the world.
If you should ever feel like working with Clive Owen–and perhaps Cate Blanchett–again, there is a book which is making the rounds at the moment about WWI–The Illumination: A Novel of the Great War. It is in part about the war correspondents on the Western Front–and the few in the trenches–during and following the last weeks of the war. You were asking about divinity in one of your posts–this is a reflection of what the divine means, perhaps when it matters most–in this case among those who are facing a war about which it seems far too many people have forgotten, realizing that loving another human being–whether it is filial love, romantic love, or the Schopenhauer sense of seeing another’s well-being in that critical moment between life and death being more important than your own–is the closest thing to knowing the divine. In the hell of war, that kind of love is the only thing which helps you remind you that you are indeed alive, and still human, and perhaps is the only thing which can heal those who have faced such an experience. It is like Parzival asking the question which heals, because he has given of himself, not expecting anything in return, but because of that selflessness, he is given the Grail itself. If you get a chance, take a look at it–it may be an important book to be made into a film, and one perhaps you could do the truest justice.
With true, warm regards,
RdS

By: joe

joe — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:26:22 +0000

dear mr kapur, i really am interested in the relationship between elizabeth and mary queen of scotts, they have said that they never met, but in three movies that i have seen they have met. i hope that in your movie they meet and have a huge fight,since mary always thought elizabeth was a heritec since her mother was not royalty and the british people per anne of a thousand days felt she was a whore.

By: Pradip Biswas

Pradip Biswas — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:09:33 +0000

Hiiii Shekhar sir,
I am a great fan of both you and Mr. Deepak Chopra.I have almost seen all of your released films.But somewhere down the line I feel kind of incoherent connection in your films,except Mr. India and Mosoom.Sir I am extremeely sorry for being quite personal,but believe me this is an honest feeling of one of your great admirers.
I am also requesting you to do something on the combination of spirituality and super natural phenomena, because I believe that could be a excelent coherent masterpiece.
Thank you.