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The two most powerful eras in British history were under the rule of the Queen, elizabeth, who ruled for 45 years but never married, and Victoria, the grandmother of the longest reigning in British history and descendants of the European royal family, but the fates of the two women were different. Elizabeth's heir to the throne is somewhat lucky, after all, squatting in the Tower of London before ascending the throne is not the only heir to the throne, Victoria has become the only child of her father due to the early death of Princess Charlotte, Prince of Wales, and has become the only heir, so that from an early age as a future queen to cultivate and even ascend the throne is regarded as a matter of course, there is no special danger and obstacle.
During his reign, Victoria had adopted an iron fist to expand British territory, and the story of Britain transforming itself from an ordinary European country into a powerful empire that the world feared in the midst of a raging war, was almost rotten by novels and movies. The film, titled "Young Victoria," ignores queen Victoria's heyday and instead focuses on love life from the year before boarding to the time of her marriage to Prince Albert. The story is enough to break the impression of the rich family in the media report that there is "little true love", and the public's aesthetic is obviously more willing to believe that the marriage between the prince and Cinderella or the princess and the poor gardener has a real love ratio, so that the film finally received a high score of 7.3.
Not to be reduced to a luxury version of the documentary
There is almost no one in England who does not know that Queen Victoria can even be said to be very highly regarded by almost all The British people, not only because she is the queen of England who reigns most often, but also because of the unprecedented economic and cultural prosperity of Britain during the "Victorian era" and the social system has undergone a transformation from the rise of capitalism to monopoly capitalism and reached the reputation of "empire where the sun never sets". However, the death of her husband also made the Queen depressed and allowed her to leave London for a long time to live in seclusion, even if she did not wear a crown in public, but always dressed as a widow and always wore only black, so that during Victoria's long period of seclusion, the Prime Minister was unable to ask the Queen for everything and her power gradually increased and promoted the improvement of the British constitutional monarchy. The biggest problem in making a film based on the love life of Queen Victoria is that the comments and stories involving political figures are too familiar, and the script is the biggest problem, especially for women like Queen Victoria who are loyal to love, they can't be too whitewashed or too critical and sarcastic.
The film's director, Jean-Marc Varé, revealed that he had gone through many historical works and documents in order to understand all the stories of Queen Victoria's youth, and even interviewed all the royals he could contact with with the screenwriter Julian Fellowes and asked them about the image of Queen Victoria. Although Julian Ferros had a 30-year unsuccessful career as an actor before working as a screenwriter, at the age of 53, he won the 74th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his first screenplay to be made into a film, "Gosford Manor", and since then, his works "The Flashy Family", "Young Victoria" and the musical "Mary Poppins" have been widely acclaimed, and in 2011, he won the 63rd American Television Emmy Award for Best Screenplay for "Downton Abbey". As the screenwriter of this film, he admitted that in the process of writing the script, he asked almost all the writers who had written the biography of Queen Victoria about the questions and even the details, and finally positioned the script in the love life that can best show the true charm of political figures.
The film was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Makeup at the 82nd Academy Awards and was ultimately won by Sandy Powell for Best Costume Design, but in Dawa's opinion, the film was not reduced to a luxury version of the "historical re-enactment" documentary thanks to the strong cast. Emily Blunt, the airbag assistant who won the nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Film at "The Queen Who Wears Prada," became an absolutely convincing queen, even imitating the queen's accent with no sense of contradiction to the change from a submissive little girl to a powerful monarch. This person won the British Film of the Year Award for best british film at the British Film Awards that year with an absolute advantage over the decadent, yearning for a girl who is free and easy to be controlled in the independent feature film "My Summer Love", Emily Blunt has also become the focus of attention and even more important roles in mainstream works are willing to extend an olive branch to her, and the excellent performance in this film has made her nominated for the 67th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in the Film Series and her career is getting smoother.
Rupert Friend, who plays Prince Albert, is known for being a same-sex lover who played the role of Johnny Depp in "The Prodigal Son" and Mr. Wicken, who pursued Elizabeth and caused her "prejudice" against Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice", and at the same time successfully embraced her outside the scene, and the affair with Kayla Knightley and even the wedding date are often in the headlines of the British tabloids, and this person's appearance is also believed to be similar to Knightley's "blacksmith boyfriend" Orlando Knightley. Bloom is strikingly similar. The performance in this film is full of aristocratic majesty and temperament, and even the subtle layers of feelings in the marriage of political transactions are very well expressed, and the demeanor of the affectionate husband is also fascinated by a little girl because of her handsomeness. In addition, Miranda Richardson, who plays his mother, Duchess Kent Strassen, and Jim Broadbent, who plays William, are oscar-nominated film queens, while Paul Bettany, who plays the Viscount of Melbourne, is a neurotic bandit and a polite scientist. An all-rounder of various types of characters, such as the troubadour of the Hanging Erlang and the rigorous and wise Naval Doctor.
Arranged marriages also have true love
Queen Victoria did not have the wisdom and skill of her predecessor Elizabeth I, nor did she have outstanding beauty and charm, but she had a happy married life and a large number of children, and during her reign, she achieved the glory of Britain and launched the Opium War to knock on the closed door of China. It should be said that this gifted and noble status and the first half of her life as a woman who naturally became a crown were very happy, especially the legendary love with German Prince Albert was also envied by countless royal families because it was a rare true love in policy marriage. Before focusing on the love between the Queen and Albert, the film uses Victoria's dull and repressive childhood life to lay the groundwork for the pursuit of freedom and independence after ascending the throne, stubborn and even obedient. Of course, victoria was controlled not only by Sir John Conroy, a personal adviser who had forced the signing of a regency agreement, a mother who had not allowed her to live in Windsor Castle and even a set of rules, and the Viscount of Melbourne, who had replaced the Queen's attendants with cronies. There is also the king's uncle who wants to protect Belgium through Victoria, and the Prince Albert he has cultivated since childhood has undoubtedly become a pawn to win Victoria's heart.
Unfortunately, in this arranged marriage between uncle and mother, Albert and Victoria's first meeting did not go well, and Albert, who could turn Victoria's favorite opera and musician backwards, obviously did not win the queen's heart, but finally bravely said his inner thoughts and bluntly said in the chess game that "you should find a husband to play chess with you instead of replacing you" pried the queen's nerves, but the queen at that time still decisively refused Albert's help and made the future emotional contact between the two people mainly letters. Speaking of Victoria's first love, it was actually given to the Russian Crown Prince Alexander II, who was invited to her 20th birthday party, who was much more handsome than the Queen's 50-year-old Lord Melbourne and a few points more mature than the cousin Albert he had seen before, and the key was that he was a typical high-quality rich and handsome man who was extremely well educated and proficient in four foreign languages and was particularly pleasant to get along with the Queen. It was only this relationship that caused resentment in the British Parliament, including lord Melbourne's explicit opposition to Britain's association with the frenzied expansion of Russia, so that the Queen's first love quickly died and Alexander II later married the young daughter of the German elected Archduke Hesse Darmstadt and had six sons and two daughters.
After the Duke of Melbourne's party struggle involved the Queen causing serious protests to smash windows at Buckingham Palace, her marriage was quickly put on the agenda of the British Parliament, and her lover Prince Albert, who had long been ordained by her mother and uncle King Leopold, also went to Windsor as promised after numerous secret letters with the Queen, and Victoria also decided to formally propose to the Prince after meeting Albert for the second time. The marriage of the two diluted the impact of the Queen's previous protection of the Duke of Melbourne leading to the unstable throne, and the Queen's impression of Albert during the short honeymoon together also went from handsome appearance to the philosophy of language arts and proficiency in shooting horseback piano and even the omnipotence of mathematical biology, and it is said that Prince Albert was indeed educated at the University of Bonn in Germany and had the nickname of "walking encyclopedia". The married life of the two was relatively peaceful and sweet, and the queen did not let the prince interfere in the affairs of the state and only allowed him to manage the affairs of the palace, but many incomprehensible state documents would still consult Albert and he also showed great talent and wisdom in helping the queen deal with the affairs of the country.
Although the prince was not as popular or lace-up news as Alexander II,200, who had many lovers and illegitimate children after his marriage and even secretly married his lover 40 days after his wife's death, there was still some friction and quarrel between the two of them. For example, there are reports that the queen who was unable to make her husband because of the quarrel with the queen over the issue of the eldest princess's tutor finally had to admit her mistake, and the quarrel in this film stemmed from the dissatisfaction caused by the prince who slowly became acquainted with the politicians, so that the queen felt above himself, and the reconciliation section was also very dramatic: the prince blocked the sudden gun for her during the trip with the queen, of course, the prince also naturally had more opportunities to participate in politics after this incident. Victoria erected the Albert Monument in Hyde Park next to Kensington Park in honor of love, and across the road is the Concert Hall named albert. And the two did love and conceived nine children in their lives and intermarried with the royal families of European countries, so Victoria was known as the "grandmother of Europe" and her septic gene also endangered the European royal family due to the intermarriage between the royal family, of course, this is all a later story.
Pour a few drops of cold water on trivial stories
Throughout the film, the greatest fortune in the life of Queen Victoria, the "grandmother of Europe" who has been commemorated by the people of Britain and even the whole of Europe, is not to be born and destined to become a queen, but to be able to marry Prince Albert, the man who loved her all her life and worked for her for half her life and even gave her life. Romeo and Juliet can also be regarded as a door-to-door household, but unfortunately, the relationship between the two families is more appropriate, so the love between Victoria and now Elizabeth II is even more lamentable That the original fairy tale can really come true. The film inherits the tradition of fine sets and gorgeous costumes of British royal court dramas, and the dialogue between the two when playing against each other is also a timeless classic.
However, although the winning point changed the painful state of the British royal family trapped in the imperial power and portrayed Victoria's positive and optimistic mentality of learning to cope with politics, the emotional progression and change between albert and Albert are also described beautifully. The scene is naturally magnificent and also chose the former residence of Princess DaiAna, Kensington Palace, where Victoria lived before her coronation, Churchill Manor and Buckingham Palace and Lincoln Cathedral to shoot inside and outside, but I always feel that it is not brilliant enough under the embellishment of luxurious clothing. If you think about it, you can only blame Victoria's life as long and smooth and lack of enough gimmicks of dramatic conflict, so that the plot is too much like a running account or even no highs and lows and how to look at it is a bit disappointing, even the marriage to the prince and the ascension to the throne and other highlights of the British heritage film style are also pitiful.
Therefore, the screenwriter fictionalized the bridge section where the queen's husband and wife stepped forward to save his wife under the gun in the face of assassination, trying to get rid of the film's biographical account, but this also made the current Queen Elizabeth II extremely unhappy: relying on the ancestors to eat is excusable, and it is too unkind to take the ancestors to open the shabu ...
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