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Vanessa take the throne as Mary, Mars 10 2009
I love a historical film...hmm...because after watching the movie, you can research online or in a book, and compare differences between the film and what really happen. This film about one of my favorite royal women - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, who was raised in France as a Catholic, claims the Scottish crown from her mother upon her death,after her husband, the King of France died of an ear infection that spread to his brain (there wasn't a cure back then; or much of anything). But she runs up against religious prejudice, both from the Protestant Elizabeth (who had encountered anti-Protestant bias before she took the throne) and from Mary's Protestant half-brother James Stuart (Patrick McGoohan). Elizabeth, whose own reign is shaky (given a strong Catholic presence in her country), is nervous about her Catholic cousin--and made more so by Mary's seeming inability to appreciate the political niceties of the period.
In the film, the ever-luminous Vanessa Redgrave (Camelot) takes on the role as Mary, and the sharp-edged Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth (who knew a thing or two about palace intrigue). And Vanessa received an Oscar nomination for her performance. So overall, I would say about this film is that I love it from beginning to end, and I love the original soundtrack in the film, and as I say many times I love a film with a good soundtrack.
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Mary Stuart Was A Failure As A Queen And A Human Being, Mai 12 2001
The major mistake of Mary's life, which led to all her other disasters, was Marie of Guise's decision to have her daughter raised in France as the bride of the Dauphin. Feted and spoiled by the French Court Mary grew into a narcissistic young woman who believed the world revolved around her and it was her absolute right to have whatever she wanted when she wanted it. Political operator she surely was, but alas neither shrewd nor savvy, her penchant for intrigue proved disastrous because of her inability to accurately read other people and tendency to operate on wishful thinking. Her main aim on her return to Scotland was to obtain something better than that remote heretical Kingdom. The success of her early reign was largely due to her indifference to Scottish politics which she left to her highly able, and quite loyal, half brother the Earl of Moray. When her negotiations for the hand of Don Carlos, heir to the throne of Spain and criminal lunatic, fell through Mary's ambitions turned to England. In her mind her claim was much better than Elizabeth's and she was certain she'd get massive support from the English Catholics. Her marriage to Darnley was motivated both by her desire for that worthless young man and for the English Crown - to which he also had a claim. The marriage, opposed not only by Elizabeth but by Mary's own nobles, was the begining of her downfall. Darnley proved to be weak, vicious and a major political liability. Besides Mary met somebody else, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. He was violent and unscrupulous but also completely loyal to Mary, as his father had been to her mother during the latter's troubled regency. That her sexual relationship with Bothwell began long before her supposed rape is proved by the fact she miscarried five month twins during her captivity at Lochleven, after being married to Bothwell a mere three months. Bothwell and Mary had good reasons for wanting to be rid of Darnley but the means they hit on must qualify as the most idiotic in the history of political assassination. Darnley was seriously ill, probably with syphillis, and being nursed by his wife after an eleventh hour 'reconciliation' at a remote house called Kirk o' Fields. The logical course would have been to slip the invalid a quiet overdose instead Bothwell and assorted co-conspirators decided to blow the house up with gunpowder. Mary, just to make her complicity more obvious, after leaving the house on the fateful night to attend a wedding sends back for an expensive coverlet on her bed. Worse still Darnley escapes from the house before the explosion and has to be finished off by hand - his cries clearly audible to the neighbors. As far as Mary was concerned with Darnley out of the way the coast was now clear for her and Bothwell. She either didn't realize, or didn't care, that her Lords opposed the match and her people were appalled by it. The result was outright rebellion that led to her imprisonment, forced abdication and eventual flight to England. From the moment she set foot on English soil Mary intended to steal Elizabeth's crown. Typically she overestimated both the support she could expect from English Catholics and from the Kings of France and Spain and her various plots were notable for their ineptitude. Mary Stuart was accessory to the murder of one husband and abandoned another the moment he ceased to be of use to her. She was a shameless liar insisting that nobody had the right to question the word of a Queen and died with a lie on her lips, swearing on the bible that she had never wanted Elizabeth's death, an oath given the lie by her own written words. She was in short a rotten human being as well as a bad queen.
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See it for the Score, Janv. 30 2004
I was checking this movie out because I was interested in buying the DVD. How disappointing to see it's not available.The movie itself is extremely interesting, but I wanted it just for the soundtrack. This is one of John Barry's best scores. I guess I'll just have to go listen to Moviola again...
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