Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Watching the Dance Scene (1/10) | Movieclips

[@seraphik]

man, cate blanchett really was the perfect elizabeth, wasn't she. she has the perfect red-gold hair, fierce eyes, and commanding voice of a queen.

[@SaintVodou]

Right? By the time hair, makeup and CGI got done, she could have stepped right out of that familiar portrait, and she has the presence to carry off the look. Always thought Tilda Swinton would have made a great QE1, but Blanchett owns this now.

[@seraphik]

@@SaintVodou ohhh tilda woulda rocked it too you're so right. and honestly Helen mirren was fantastic too as an older Elizabeth I (and II for that matter)

[@SaintVodou]

@@seraphik LOVED Helen Mirren as both QEs…and here’s something fun: Quentin Crisp is (as far as I know) the only male to play Elizabeth I-in ORLANDO, with…yep, Tilda Swinton…

[@magda23324]

Cate was Elizabeth. she's just reborn

[@alexandradeuen1610]

Der traum vieler männer .die nur einmal die woche zur domina gehen können .weil zeitlich oder geldes wegen nicht geht .als überbrückungshilfe und so schön .h

[@marieaug9322]

That wistful look, Bess is her stand in at this moment. What an actor. Brava

[@jessribong6047]

Cate is my Queen, she pulled this off!!!, shes the best....love her so much!

[@coeursouffle]

Them : starts dancing Elizabeth : *emotional damage* sad love story memory

[@LucyLovettLestrange]

To think Cate Blanchett got nominated twice for the same role! ( the first being Elizabeth back in 1998)

[@tomek4224]

That is great scene, the transition of music and the mood with the thoughts of the queen, when the memories come back..

[@mariolinadolcimicimuti7214]

Elizabeth the Golden Age ❤

[@AnnaBellaChannel]

Now everyone has to learn the the Volta. Great fun.

[@Bobaklives]

The flaw with this movie was every scene was shot so elaborately that the story got lost. Cate Blanchett's performance was stellar, but it was hard to establish much dramatic interest when the direction itself managed to hijack the film...especially compared to the first one.

[@sasa-ke2024]

And it would have helped to have the characters introduced. If I hadn't known the story of the Babington Plot, I would have been totally confused...as it was I was trying to work out who was Babington. No indication why Mary is a prisoner, either: you need to be a Tudor buff at least a bit

[@seraphik]

i agree... i feel like her performance is even better than in the first one, more mature and nuanced, but the movie is hampered by its own sumptuousness. it's like it somehow loses its grounding amongst all the noise and fury.

[@adopequeenatyrantkingaboss8057]

Those blue dresses in this scene are scrumptious.

[@moonytheloony6516]

I disagree. The movie was excellent.

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

Some of the ridiculous set pieces annoyed me. Beheading Mary in a Cathedral, the weird sheets hung all over the bedroom like some sort of pseudo-Arabian-Nights-themed bedroom. Stuff like that was a little silly and anachronistic, and always detracted from the story. But scenes like this make me want to watch the film again.

[@redmia9206]

A sad story of her😢😢

[@victoriamd9078]

They ALL did a fantastic job!

[@kapioleilanionalanielua]

The music that starts at 2:30 is not in the soundtrack. Or it is a different version of it. I scoured the soundtrack for it, because after the montage there is a swell of music, and I cannot find that in the soundtrack. After watching the first movie again, I found that the song is partly her theme from the first movie.

[@marielasolteroberrios9185]

Beautiful movie

[@maitham.alkhazragi5290]

A wonderful and fun movie, worth watching, an amazing performance for the actors🤔🤔

[@JMac7395]

Question: when Bess jumps what is Walter gripping or pushing on? Originally I thought the bottom of her corset but that seemed ridiculous 🤔

[@seraphik]

i think it actually is the bottom of her corset. at 1:26 you can see Elizabeth showing Raleigh where to put his hand, and she seems to be putting it right at the bottom edge of the corset. i mean either that or he was grabbing her by the crotch, which seems even more unlikely 😆

[@sasa-ke2024]

I want to know this too. I thought in the previous film, Lord Robert picked Elizabeth up by the waist...yes he does, I looked. But here it actually looks like his hand is going between her legs, and it's shot so you can't get a look and verify. Imagine if it was, a dance where a handsome strong man picks up a graceful lady....like that .... They would be all on fire

[@Retro-Future-Land]

I think it's the inside of the thigh and the dance is supposed to be one of the most controversial moves of the late medieval age. The Volta?

[@milliegarrett8459]

Yes, La Volta required the man to grab the corset, it was very scandalous!

[@y.janssen1793]

nope, its the base of her corset ​@@Retro-Future-Land

[@user-ik4xq9hm1x]

I feel utterly transported to the 21st century.

[@nizaro2004]

Name of music pleaaase

[@SaintVodou]

These opulent scenes make it easy to forget that even the upper class didn’t bathe, possibly had venereal diseases, and probably had lice…modernity has its advantages…

[@Meladjusted]

They did bathe. I find this is the weirdest topic that is either stated as "People didn't bathe" or "What are you talking about? The common people of the time literally had bathing houses from the medieval period onward" and these both come from historians and everyday people alike. It comes down to people interpreting terms and the meanings of messages from authority figures in ways they relate to instead of ways that are contemporary to the time period. They definitely didn't have ·our· style of bathing habits (i.e. they didn't bathe daily), but when you know that, in the 15th century, bathing houses were common in major cities and everyday people used them to bathe at least once a week (they were actually pretty important social spaces), they definitely didn't just decide to stop bathing altogether in the 16th century... Soap was manufactured in the Elizabethan period. Royalty had proper bathrooms in their homes complete with copper tubs. They absolutely bathed, we're just unsure how often was average for this time period because the information we have isn't very specific. Sometimes "bathing" could mean a full bath immersed in a tub, but it could also mean giving yourself a wipe down using a basin, or even just a dip in a natural body of water. So, figuring out exact historical bathing habits is difficult sometimes, but there was definitely not a long enough period in between baths where people were disgustingly dirty before even thinking about having a wash. People were not letting themselves get caked on body oil and dead skin (dead skin will cling to you if you don't use friction and something akin to soap to remove it) while their hair gradually became an immovable oil sculpture-because that's what happens when you don't bathe. It's not only gross and counter to looking good (which the wealthy were intent on as they peacocked big time), but it's also just really uncomfortable; your scalp would be a nightmare of itching that just would not be relieved without a wash. When it comes to body lice, they were ubiquitous. Just a fact of life. You wouldn't have even thought about how unappealing it is for there to be body lice because it wasn't like anyone was able to totally avoid them. However, you wouldn't have seen people, like, visibly covered in them either unless they were perhaps very poor and/or homeless and hence couldn't really help it, but that would most likely be a situation where the person's health is also being affected by being so visibly infested... The lice are literally a parasite specifically of humans, only ever spreading with direct contact between humans, and their textiles, and the Elizabethans just weren't scientifically advanced enough yet to stop them being a thing to contend with. I don't think body lice were fully curbed until, incredibly, the mid-20th century when good pesticides arrived... And we actually have a bunch of STD epidemics of our own right now due to poor education, lol. Somehow, there is a syphilis epidemic right now... ·Syphilis·! EDIT: Before anyone replies about it-yes, what I wrote was quite long.

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

I love the blue dress Bess has on, and I think that Elizabeth has a crush on Bess 😉

[@patrickhebdo5423]

She wasn’t mad that she got pregnant without permission, but that they didn’t let her watch 😂

[@esthertyndall9356]

Hi

[@giovannasisini9836]

La danza dalla provenza si diffuse nella corte parigina, poi in Europa. Era considerata piuttosto scandalosa, dato che l'uomo metteva una mano sotto il corsetto della dama, facendo forza per sollevarla più agevolmente

[@allanfifield8256]

Bess doing the dance looks a little beefy to be lifted every five steps. Sir Raliegh will get a bad back.