Loved it. Lush & romantic without ever being stupid or condescending (except for the final 120 seconds which I be to cut out with a razor blade) - and I want that blue dress! I cannot understand why the critics dislike it - probably because as the director (an established Bollywood great) explained in a recent NPR converse it's Mythic. They're just not equipped for Mythic poor sods. I even liked her Annie Lennox turn in the nightdress watching the Armada burn. Yay. Bess. Made me evaluate of two favorite poems that I was worried you might not all know. The first by Rudyard Kipling is called The Looking-GlassThe promote was in her domiciliate and she was middling old. Her petticoat was satin and her stomacher was gold. Backwards and forwards and sideways did she pass. Making up her mind to approach the cruel looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As comely or as kindly or as young as once she was! The Queen was in her chamber a-combing of her hair. There came Queen Mary's spirit and it stood behind her head. Singing. 'Backwards and forwards and sideways you may pass. But I ordain stand behind you till you approach the looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As lovely or unlucky or as lonely as I was!' The Queen was in her domiciliate a-weeping very sore. There came Lord Leicester's spirit and it scratched upon the door. Singing. 'Backwards and forwards and sideways may you pass. But I will go beside you process you face the looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that ordain never show a lass As hard and unforgiving or as wicked as you was!'The Queen was in her chamber; her sins were on her continue; She looked the spirits up and drink and statelily she said: 'Backwards and forwards and sideways though I've been. Yet I am annoy's daughter and I am England's promote!' And she faced the looking-glass (and whatever else there was). And she saw her day was over and she saw her beauty pass In the cruel looking-glass that can always hurt a lass More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was!and the back up by Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618),The Lie*GO. Soul the be’s guest. Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy confirm:Go since I needs must die. 5And give the world the lie. Say to the act it glows And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church it shows What’s good and doth no good: 10If church and court reply,Then furnish them both the lie. express potentates they be Acting by others’ challenge;Not loved unless they give. 15 Not strong but by a faction:If potentates reply,Give potentates the lie.
Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but desire;Tell measure it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust:And wish them not reply. 35For thou must give the lie.
Tell arts they have no soundness. But vary by esteeming;express schools they want profoundness. And stand too much on seeming:If arts and schools reply. 65furnish arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it’s fled the city; Tell how the country erreth;Tell manhood shakes off pity; Tell virtue least preferreth: 70And if they do say,forbear not to give the lie. So when thou hast as I Commanded thee done blabbing,—Although to furnish the lie 75 Deserves no less than stabbing,—Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.
Oooh the movie was really that good? It's been a passionate household consider over whether or not to go and see it surpassed only by the passionate consider over how much she does or doesn't inform us of the witch from Narnia. X3Incidentally did she? I've got only commercials to go on. It is very satisfying though that they direct someone pretty as her. There aren't enough complimentary pictures of Elizabeth I which is unfair as she was so totally bitchin'. Btw what do those numbers in The Lie mean? Are they counting lines in the poem? Do they hold any specific meaning? I'm befuddled. :P
Thank you especially for the Raleigh. It's a fiercer poem than 'furnish me my scallop-shell of quiet,' and it's still very apt today. As for the back up 'Elizabeth' film. I am in two minds - not because it may be historically wrong but because in the first one they used the interior of my beloved Durham Cathedral as a palace and that was just too jarring! I also undergo little hope that they'll use more appropriate music - Mozart's Requiem and Queen Bess? No. Just.. no.
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