A sequel to Elizabeth?
This can't be right. Can this be right? I think a lot of Mr. Kapur (the director) and Ms. Blanchett and am confident in their skills, but this worries me.
Elizabeth is my favorite film. It depicts the radical transformation of a feeling, loving young woman into a hardened monarch, shut off from everyone around her, even those closest to her, because she must in order to rule. In the last five minutes of the movie, Elizabeth becomes more than human, she becomes an icon, completely untouchable.
So, now Mr. Kapur wants to do a movie about "the battle between her life as a monarch and her personal life"? Did not the first film show the end of this conflict with "life as a monarch" clearly having pommeled "her personal life" into nonexistence? Why resurrect the same theme? Doing so would only make Elizabeth Part I's conclusions on that theme null and void, which in turn, would invalidate the entire movie.
This can't be right. Perhaps it isn't true. If it is true, then I hope there is more to it. There must be.
Damn you, Mr. Shekhar Kapur! Damn you and your confounded creative conundrums!
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