Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Shekhar Kapur

Escritores:

William Nicholson (written by) and
Michael Hirst (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 octubre 2007 (USA)

Género:

Biografía | Drama | Historia | Romance

Frase comercial:

Woman. Warrior. Queen.

Plot:

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.

Plot Keywords:

Queen | Court | Intrigue | Spain | America

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Elizabeth: Die Hard With a Vengeance

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 15

4:05 AM

MAX

Reparto

Jordi Mollà	...	King Philip ll of Spain
Aimee King	...	Infanta
Cate Blanchett	...	Queen Elizabeth I
Laurence Fox	...	Sir Christopher Hatton
John Shrapnel	...	Lord Howard
Geoffrey Rush	...	Sir Francis Walsingham
Susan Lynch	...	Annette
Elise McCave	...	Laundry Woman
Samantha Morton	...	Mary Stuart
Abbie Cornish	...	Bess Throckmorton
Penelope McGhie	...	Margaret
Rhys Ifans	...	Robert Reston
Eddie Redmayne	...	Thomas Babington
Stuart McLoughlin	...	Savage
Clive Owen	...	Sir Walter Raleigh

También conocida como:

Elizabeth - Das goldene Königreich (Alemania)
Elizabeth - L'âge d'or (France)
The Golden Age (UK) (working title)
Elizabeth - La edad de oro (Argentina) (Spain) (Uruguay) (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

114 min

País:

UK | France | Alemania

Idioma:

Inglés | Español | Sueco

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

UK:12A | Canada:14A | Germany:12 | South Korea:12 | Finland:K-13 | Ireland:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #43467) | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Taiwan:R-12 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | France:Unrated | Hong Kong:IIA | South Africa:13V | Brazil:14 | Malaysia:U | Australia:M | Sweden:15 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Argentina:13 | Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) | Iceland:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Motion Picture ZETA Produktionsgesellschaft

Trivialidades:

Angharad Rees, best known for her performance as Demelza in the 1970s BBC television series "Poldark" (1975), designed some of the jewelry worn by Queen Elizabeth and her ladies in waiting. Pieces from Rees' Qing Dynasty Collection are seen throughout the film.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: In a scene in which Elizabeth is speaking with another character with a fireplace in the background, blue gas flames are visible at the bottom of the fire, notably in the bottom right corner of it.

Citas:

Queen Elizabeth I: I cannot accept the fruits of piracy, Mr. Raleigh.
Sir Walter Raleigh: Philip of Spain is no friend of England, Majesty. The more gold I take from him, the safer you will be.
Queen Elizabeth I: Well, well - a political pirate.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Love Theme - Arrest

Elizabeth: Die Hard With a Vengeance

This rates as high as it does for me because of the cinematography. It is dazzling and Blanchett can't be denied, but "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" is like a chick-flick with explosions plus costumes, super hair, and loud, intrusive music. The result is faux epic.

My wife summed it up well as we left the theater: "I feel like I've just flipped through a coffee table picture book for two hours and somebody turned up the stereo." History wrote this plot but Nicholson and Hirst thought they could do better. They couldn't, or certainly didn't. Freshmen composition classes come up with better stuff. Trite, forced, predictable. Did they even run this by an expert in English history? You gotta wonder. The script is oozing with 21st century mores and clichés. It made me think (during the movie, mind you) of the way Dutch painters depicted Homer and Aristotle in the garb of 17th century Holland. Are we that dumb? Sir Walter Raleigh is a caricature and Sir Francis Drake, never properly introduced, was a throwaway. Geoffrey Rush is wasted as Walsingham. Come to think of it, nearly everybody is wasted. Every single character is underdeveloped, with the possible exception of the title character—possible exception.

"Golden Age" set the target high and then turned and fired in the opposite direction. Realizing the script had missed, Director tried to make up for it with window dressing. Substance would have served this queen better. With the colon in the title, I almost expected to see Bruce Willis saving the day.

You can see why "Golden Age" came out in October because it's not going to compete for Oscars in categories that anybody cares about. With all the budget they had for this movie, you'd Universal could have found better writers.