Elizabeth: The Golden Age

[rm]

beemerbike found the trailer that makes me cry and cry and cry:
http://www.elizabeththegoldenage.net/site.html?main=3&sub=1

I want to talk and talk about it, but don't know the words for not sounding foolish about it. Other than when I watch this trailer, which is a masterwork of music and editing and manipulation, it makes me feel in its duration not only as if my own life is somehow on so epic a stage, but as if I feel and live with its same intensity at every moment of every day, even if saying such a thing is melodrama, foolishness or just simply incorrect. It is epic and ferocious, and for some reason unknown, tells me I am too.

Comments

[punzel.livejournal.com]

I wonder if some people will have the opposite reaction, "my life is small compared to armies and queens."

I saw this preview at the theatre and, as you describe, it was epic beauty. The part that got me was this:

"We mortals
have many weaknesses
we feel too much
hurt too much
all too soon, we die
but we do have the chance
of love."

[rm.livejournal.com]

For me, I think I really lost it when she was standing on the giant map. But yeah. And Clive Owen swallows words like no one else.

[drfardook.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out David Starkey?

He's a historian who specializes in court history. You might have a lot of fun with his work as the field seems pretty focused on how the court used symbolism in their cultural productions (plays, paintings, etc) for political ends.