Becoming The Virgin Queen Elizabeth | Elizabeth

Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) cuts her hair and models her appearance after the Virgin Mary
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Academy Award® winners Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Richard Attenborough lead a distinguished cast in Elizabeth-the critically acclaimed epic of the queen's turbulent and treacherous rise to power. Before the Golden Age, Elizabeth was a passionate and naïve girl who came to reign over a land divided by bloody turmoil. Amid palace intrigue and attempted assassinations, the young queen is forced to become a cunning strategist while weighing the counsel of her mysterious advisors, thwarting her devious rivals and denying her own desires for the good of her country.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

My favorite line from ANY movie -" Observe, Lord Burghley. I am married...to England."

[@l.plantagenet]

That gets me everytime.

[@bloodflower11375]

A true icon ahead of her time.

[@nialangkim]

No one has done Elizabeth like Cate Blanchett. One can truly see how talented she was at the beginning of her career till now. We need good writers and directers to truly allow this type of masterful acting. Dame Judy Dench is also one that comes to mind in a role as Elizabeth, short but sweet. Enjoyed them both in Notes on a Scandal.

[@tahiti1]

And Glenda Jackson was amazing

[@salmon4703]

Helen Mirren too

[@jorgechavarria4799]

In the fandom of these two amazing actresses, Notes on a Scandal is basically the fight of the two Queen Elizabeths for the Oscar in 1999. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@elizabethwilmot556]

Glenda Jackson is also incredible

[@ditto1051]

don't forget Glenda Jackson. The best series on PBS of Elizabeth R

[@llchapman1234]

The iconography of how she opens her hands before sitting. Chef's kiss!

[@veramae4098]

Elizabeth's last speech to Parliament is called the "Golden Speech" She declares her love for England and all Englishmen.

[@edsfountain]

Melodramatic as all those lizards are!!!

[@themermaidstale5008]

It was her responsibility to lead and guide the nation and its people into prosperity, peace, safety and security. It’s a heavy duty and burden if done diligently and to the best of your ability. In return, she gets to live in all the palaces and wear the pretty dresses and jewels.

[@CelineMOON-x5q]

True! She informed me also to change the country there!

[@rics1883]

Cate Blanchett was masterful in portraying Elizabeth. Should have won the Oscar

[@RcsN505]

if only the Oscar actually meant good acting...

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

totally agree

[@atticusfinch3845]

Sadly GP won for a meh performance supported by a great actress molester to her win. These awards are crappy anyways.

[@wilsonwilson8496]

Correct! I’m still disappointed to this day that she didn’t get that damn Oscar!

[@ChalNjurshEp]

This should’ve been her first Oscar. O believe Gwyneth won and now we know why…

[@vas7ilissi8]

The iconography was exquisite in this film. She shed her old shelf, her hopes and dreams of happiness as single person and through her visual change she became the embodiment of married my image, my country and my people. What she told was that she would never be seen as a bride again but forever as the Queen. What incredible strength and conviction this decision required, I can only imagine....

[@gillianbrown8502]

So sad to see her ladies in waiting crying when they cut her beautiful hair

[@dogman4100]

This scene never fails to jerk a tear or two from my eyes. She had given her all to England.

[@Hallows4]

“The Virgin Queen could dominate her country’s present, but only by giving up any stake in its future.” Although it came at great cost, Elizabeth learned from Mary’s example: Even if she took a husband out of love, the question of power dynamics and the political machinations of others would always loom like a shadow. If she truly wanted to secure her authority and rule well, that authority could not be shared.

[@callanbailey8008]

Well said and she OWNED it 😂

[@mrbear1302]

Should have won the Oscar!

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

This makes me so sad, the girl is crying while cutting off all of Elizabeth's long red hair.

[@glennjoshua9950]

That long, last gaze on Dudley, a person still breathing yet no longer lives. Devastating.

[@TheGarynorman]

The clarity of your Elizabeth videos is fantastic! I have this on DVD and the picture is nothing like this. Is this a remastered version?

[@christinabroadhead3810]

Or is it a remastered virgin?

[@Fearless_on_my_Breath]

​@@christinabroadhead3810 Lol

[@GullibleTarget]

Get the blu ray

[@umitencho]

Robert is scared because he realized he broke her and there is no repairing what he did.

[@reuterromain1054]

IN REAL HISTORY LORD ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER, DID NOT DO ANYTHING THAT COULD BE CALLED TREASON! HE REMAINED ELIZABETH´S TRUSTED FRIEND AND ADVISOR UNTIL HIS DEATH SHORTLY AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ARMADA!

[@NikkiGloom]

best movie on a monarch ever. i was 22-23 when this came out. She was an inspiration to my manner.

[@rtdorion]

In place of a dark lord YOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEN!

[@Easy-Eight]

I could think of worse ways to go.

[@GullibleTarget]

"All shall love me and despair...."

[@monanggodang]

"I passed the test and I remained Galadriel and shall go to the West..."

[@ChalNjurshEp]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ChalNjurshEp]

DARK, and BEAUTIFUL as the STORM! TERRIBLE as the SEA! 😊

[@ljront3126]

A national mother. I agree!

[@MrJking065]

Virginia was named for Queen Elizabeth I of England, the “Virgin Queen” and is also known as the “Old Dominion.” King Charles II of England gave it this name in appreciation of Virginia's loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War of the mid-1600s.

[@diegomonteo]

Cate was perfect here ❤

[@Story-b4h]

3:53 she's sssooo beautiful

[@ElizabethPetrie-m3z]

The only thing I was disappointed with was using anachronistic music, beautiful as Mozart’s “Requiem” is.

[@leahwalker771]

We all have to marry to something in this life! 👍🏼❤️

[@BellaFirenze]

Mozart's Requiem.

[@Ancz7]

"So... Cloud white or Snow white?" "Yes."

[@Emacosa]

Great performance

[@RuatzelaFanai]

imagine all the england kings and queens return from the desth they would be absolutly strong😅

[@Vurbanowicz]

The film seems to imply that she held onto the reins by image manipulation--hair and makeup to create a virgin queen look. Blanchett does a great acting job here, but what a shallow script she had to work with. A better scene was when she whipped the bishops into line, but there was more to her than that. The pope praised her skill as the ruler of a mere island who yet oversaw the growth of a great empire--"and if only she were Catholic she would be our dearly beloved."

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

The Theatre of Power-good book on Tudor autocratic propaganda.

[@Cjcj89]

He actually said, more accurately, that she ruled ‘only half an island’.

[@christhody7112]

Elizabeth knew she was on a sticky wicket from the get-go. Most of her policies were carried out out,with extrene caution, many also underfunded.

[@vip-ov3dh]

She sacrifices her life to their people.

[@Tayeirand6]

Fabulous!!!!!!!!

[@Jessica-lt8ug]

so my little question in the mix is why Walsingham was crying at the end...🤔

[@GullibleTarget]

He met her as a spirited woman.of flesh and blood. He realises now that she has become remote, aloof. Elizabeth is gone. The Queen has taken her place.

[@maureenmurphy7817]

I have always thought he may have loved her himself, or at the least care for her very deeply, and he realized all that she was sacrificing as a human being.

[@daisyguzman9040]

ELIZABETH I 👑⚔️🛡🗡

[@fatslicemike]

Who's death is being marked by this requiem mass? Elizabeth the person?

[@erkuterkut1971]

Elizabeth the human person to be replaced by the divine person

[@ashwelljacobs8896]

She mourns the living of the man that have betrayed her. Sir Robert... he will always reminds her how close she come to danger. She never met with him in private but on her death bed she called his name.

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@ashwelljacobs8896that part is Hollywood revisionism. She still met with Dudley and they were still close

[@vilmamaria2178]

Porque Ela cortou o cabelo 🤷🤷🤷🤷??

[@ChalNjurshEp]

To show her personal sacrifice

[@vilmamaria2178]

@ChalNjurshEp .sou brasileira 🤷 não entendi nada

[@nataliahatfield]

​@@vilmamaria2178 oi, Vilma! A pessoa acima disse "Para mostrar o sacrifício pessoal dela". A rainha optou por, em vez de se casar e ter que dividir o poder, usar o poder da sua imagem para se consolidar como "a rainha virgem" que, em vez de se casar com qualquer homem, casou-se com a Inglaterra, seu país. Assim ela garantiria o temor do reino e a sua autoridade. Espero ter ajudado 😊

[@vilmamaria2178]

@nataliahatfield agora entendi 👍

[@callmeswivelhips]

DO you think this happened in real life?? To Queen Elizabeth?? Did she have a moment where she had a coming out out party to say, yea, I'm The Virgin Queen now, y'all!! Or was that not applied to her until later?? Like...when did it become clear that she wasn't going to be getting married????

[@karolinawww6834]

Don't think so

[@TheMouseAvenger]

I cannot say as to whether or not it happened in this universe. IF it did, however, that would have been most awesome! ^_^

[@callmeswivelhips]

@ Yea, this is where I was going with my original comment!!!!

[@davep7849]

Such silliness. Glad my ancestors had enough and got out of there soon after.

[@cyparris3]

Can you explain?

[@盧璘壽로인수]

@@cyparris3 probably a Puritan descendant who colonized Amurrica and its Native inhabitants #TheUglyTruth

[@davep7849]

@@盧璘壽로인수 puritans didn't colonize anything, agent. That was Spain, England, Holland, Portugal... Puritans came to live free of European hubris and corruption, and did so in largely uninhabited land peacefully with the local natives for a few decades. Commercial pirates, government entities, and violent natives created the first strife. The truth is indeed ugly, but certainly not what some paid communist propagandist would indicate.

[@dominique4570]

@@盧璘壽로인수exactly!!

[@盧璘壽로인수]

@@dominique4570 like what difference did their ancestor make? either way no one wins, and to OP you can't wash your hands clean from your ancestors' #AncientSins #CrimesAgainstHumanity

[@BueckerM]

Warum Mozart? Der war ja bekanntlich einige Zeit später. Ansonsten ein superguter Film.

[@janosnemate5795]

Aha,jó😭

[@DuckGold-c2e]

Thats enough insurance for á malba

[@DuckGold-c2e]

What embassy

[@JohnsDoor]

(Getting a haircut )

[@user-yb6tk1ru6x]

Queen amadala of the naboo

[@jimstanga6390]

That makeup had lead in it. Not good for you

[@elisabethhughes6005]

And who knows what we’re unwittingly fooling with now, huh? 😬

[@Junius]

Why did Elizabeth do this? I never watched the full film.

[@fjorgyn7438]

She chose to never marry or produce an heir and instead sacrificed her livelihood for the good of England, itself. A foreign marriage would have brought foreign policies to English shores, much like her sister Mary and her marriage to Philip of Spain, and an English marriage would have incited infighting amongst the noble houses and possibly the church. So, to avoid all of that, she decided to figuratively "marry" herself to her country and her duty as queen.

[@DragonHeir92]

Elizabeth's famous white makeup portrayed the virtue of the Virgin Mary. However, in real life she contracted smallpox that scarred her skin and caused hair loss. What's worse is this cosmetic was almost pure poison, and ate away at her remaining skin.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Except she chased a married man.... just like her Mom did. :S

[@notnek202]

Why are they playing music that wasn't even composed for more then 200 years after Elizabeth died.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

I believe that it is exegetic music, & not diegetic.

[@washingtonsilva5020]

I did not understand why these women are crying while are cuting her hair 🤭

[@Me-fo1kk]

Bit silly..

[@youtube_chaplain]

Fame and fortune can not save you from the fires of Hell. Where will you go when you die? You can not hide your sins from God... REPENT and believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved from the fires of Hell. Jesus loves you and He died on the cross for your sins...REPENT

[@dadevi]

Remind the devil of that when you see him in hell. No good person spends their time castigating others in their spare time, you wicked wicked Pharisee.

[@thestralvestral2724]

...yawn

[@SN-sz7kw]

No one is interested in your imaginary sky daddy. Go hang out with the Allah nutters.

[@karolinawww6834]

I hope the chaplain of KZbin had a little lie down after this. These are trolls created to sow division between people, religion is divisive. I may not believe, but I think I know where they are going in the next world. In this world, they live somewhere in Russia, probably

[@jessejauregui]

Trust and believe that these colonizers died in agony for their stupidity thinking of their dominion onto others 👆

[@l.plantagenet]

Sorry, but they didn't all "die in agony." Every country just about has colonized other countries so why don't you call them out?

[@sweetcheeks5775]

so salty

[@salamonthegreat]

Creating unity in the present is more much important than pointlessly lamenting about the past. Ancient China conquered Vietnam, the Franks conquered the Saxons , the Persians conquered the Egyptians. Not a special thing.

[@al16899]

Lol @jessejauregui it seems you are the stupid one for making such a narrow minded comment.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Remember, only white people can be called out for Slavery. China? "Oh, they had a big empire and culture so it was normal."