The Question was Elizabeth A Virgin? Or was Elizabeth "the illegitimate heretical whore" that is a great question. Her reign as Queen will always be remembered and not because she lived until nearly 100 but she walked in the ranks of males. Took her fathers position with great honor after suppression and illegitimacy and was [...]
Category: Elizabeth
Elizabeth and Golden Age : Mythology and Melodrama
Question "‘you make a distinction in your audio commentary of "The Golden Age" between mysticism and melodrama (one being a product of the East and the other of the West). I wonder if you might elaborate on this for me’ Mythology are the stories that are buried deep inside ourselves, that struggle to connect our [...]
Fim Design and narrative : Elizabeth
My last post sounds more complex than it is. Theory always does, and theory comes for me in hindsight often as I look back at my films and wonder 'what was going in my mind when I made those decisions'. ? The central focus in Elizabeth was Power. The PLOT conflict was between Elizabeth and [...]
Trainspotting and Elizabeth
Here is the text of an sticle that appeared today in the Daily Telegraph in London. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/28/bftrainspotting128.xml Shekhar Kapur, director of Badit Queen, Elizabeth and Four Feathers, explains to Marc Lee why he could never have made Elizabeth had it not been for Trainspotting Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth are two of the [...]