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Summary: GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLL Power!
Review: Okay, so maybe it's not as historically accurate as it could be. Those are called documentaries. The movie is cast most tastefully, and the costumes and sets are convincing and beautiful. The story is a bit compressed (it would be hours and hours if they tried to fit everything in) but it tells the story well.
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Summary: A princess becomes queen
Review: I have seen this film twice; once at the cinema and once on video. I think it is a very good film, but not the type you would like to watch many times. I believe the director has tried to make the film as authentic as possible, and the days of Elizabeth I were very hard. People were cruel to one another, and this is portrayed in the film. Still, the filmmakers have not speculated about the violence, it is just that if you are going to make an authentic film of the days of Elizabeth I, it is difficult to leave out the gruesome parts.In 'Elizabeth' we meet a princess, and later on, a queen, in her twenties. During these years she had to fight to stay alive, and to keep her throne and country. It is an interesting film for those who want to know more about Queen Elizabeth and her era.
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Summary: great actors-poor script
Review: Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush were perfect casting for the historical personages they portrayed. Unfortunately, the script is such a total distortion of history that they were wasted.
If you know any history, you know that Elizabeth was no political innocent at the beginning of her reign. She knew what she was doing and had the sense to listen to Cecil (here portrayed as an impotent fool). I watched this movie in disbelief of its manifold inaccuracies. Particularly distasteful was the character assassination of Mary of Guise.
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Summary: Elizabeth is Nearly Accurate Historically
Review: Elizabeth is a great movie which accommodates both the world of facts and history with the world of entertainment and Hollywood. The movie is a relatively accurate historically, but overall it focuses on the way it really was back then and is an exciting film.
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Summary: Elizabeth
Review: In my viewing of the movie Elizabeth I though that the movie was very interesting and educating at the same time, it was not made to be a documentary. Yet it was still a very good film. Their where some parts in the movie that where tweaked to make it seem more interesting, but it was still a pretty factual film. It showed the very divine moments that stand out well in my mind that what in the early part of her rein over England. In the movie Elizabeth it showed England as it was then. It also showed how Elizabeth came in and decided to stay unmarried and rule country, and prove that to everyone else at the same time. A stand out part which was the closing of the film is when they showed Elizabeth making her final stand saying she was going to stay unmarried by cutting all of her hair off, in a buzz cut. That was a very powerful and moving scene to end the movie on. That particular scene showed Elizabeth's massive amount of courage and strength, to prove to England she will not be married and forever remain the virgin queen.
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Summary: European History, Elizabeth
Review: The movie was very entertaining. It was more of a serious movie, and not a comedy. If you are simply not into history, it is worth the 1 1/2 hours to watch the setting and beautiful costumes. It takes you right into the time of when it was supposed to take place. Even though it was not entirely historically correct, it still gave you a great over view of the history, and the scandals of the monarchy, which was what made it entertaining. It also showed Elizabethan monarch, and the turmoil that was going on at that time. It was great to see that Queen Elizabeth was able to stay in power for over 20 years as a female, without getting married.
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Summary: elizabeth
Review: In general the movie was very enjoyable, it is very interesting and extremely entertaining. However the movie is very historically inaccurate, but had it been made fully accurate it would not have been nearly as entertaining and a lot longer. Although the actual plot might not be fully true, the movie helps show many other aspects of the time period, such as language, costume, and architecture, it does this very well which helps make it a bit more accurate.
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Summary: My Review for Euro. History
Review: I gave it a rating of four stars, just because of the small confusion it caused because of its historical inaccuracy. In my opinion, however, this was a great film. It was very well thought out and was possibly incorrect historically for entertainment purposes. I think that was very clever too, which made it more exciting to watch. The affairs that took place, and different conspiracys added suspense to the film, on the other hand had it been 100% accurate according to the actual history it would have been a bit of a drag, and not really movie material. It would have been more like a biography, which is sometimes kind of boring to watch. This film touched base with many different situations and aspects of the era, and kept me on my toes the entire time.
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Summary: Elizabeth: Changed But Still True
Review: The movie Elizabeth like many other historical movies has the original storyline altered to make it more enjoyable to the viewers. Though much of what had been shown in the movie was not entirely true, it was based purely on facts. The fact that Elizabeth had shown such a small interest in men for most of her reign and had never had a great love story to tell, details about the relationship between her and Robert were embellished to give the movie a more romantic plot. Though much of this movie had strayed from the true information the movie gives a great idea of what Elizabeth went through in the time before and the early parts of her reign. The important facts were all based on what had happened when Elizabeth was queen. The movie was very accurate about what would have gone on during that time, much of what was said and shown usually in the background was an accurate representation of those times. The tower of England was not just something that the creators of this move made up on the spot, it was a real place designed for exactly what they showed it for in the movie. The torture they had shown, and the building style were taken straight out of Elizabeth's reign. The movie Elizabeth though not always true to the story gives a very good idea of what life during Elizabeth's reign would have been like for her.
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Summary: more entertainment than history
Review: This is an excellent film with a great cast, rightly fit for their roles. Combining fact with fantasy, Elizabeth is more entertainment than actual history due for the most part to the dramatization added to the story to keep the viewer interested.
Lacking in historical accuracy mainly because of the combination of such a great array of incidents that occurred over a much longer period of time, and the main focus of Elizabeth's romance with the Earl of Leicester. But all of these features seem to be necessary to add more feeling and emotion to the plot.
Regardless of the inaccuracy of the facts, the great costumes and atmosphere seem to make up for a lot, as well as the praiseworthy acting that so accurately depicts these characters.
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