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Elizabeth: The Golden Age was produced in 2007 by the director Shekhar Kapur, as a

sequel to Elizabth a film from 1998, with the same director. Its a romance, drama, biographic

and historic film that hasWilliam Nicholson and Michael Hirstas screenwriter. The

soundtrack was made byA. R. Rahman and Craig Armstrong. In this film the main actors

are:Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I; Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh; Geoffrey Rush as Sir

Francis Walsingham; Abbie Cornish as Elizabeth Throckmorton (Bess); and SamanthaMorton as Mary, Queen of Scots.

The film takes place in England, 1585. King Philip II of Spain married Mary I of England

in July 1554, one year after Marys coronation in her country (Phillip II didnt get the

crown because the English parliament did not approve, so Phillip hadnt a lot of power

in England). In 1558 Mary dies and Philip II goes after the throne trying to convince the

English successor, Elizabeth, Marys sister, to marry him but she refused him.

In 16th

century Europe, where Queen Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) a red-headed, blue eyed, 52

years-old queen is well aware of the changing religious preferences of her people. She is

named the Virgin Queen because she wasnt married. She is strong, open minded,

comprehensive and a control addict. As a queen, she is conscious that the Spanish kingPhillip II (Jordi Molla) wanted to assume leadership of England and restore the Catholic religion

with his powerful armada and naval force. Elizabeth is willing to do everything to protect her

country so she prepares for war. As she does this, she tries to reconcile her duties as a queen

and her unexpected love for SirWalter Raleigh, a brunet with green eyes, 33 years-old,

English man, adventurous, and an explorer, what Elizabeth wishes to be the most.

Elizabeth realized that she would be unable to pursued her forbidden love so, in order

to keep Raleigh near, she incentives her most beloved lady-in-waiting Bess (Abbie

Cornish) to bond with Raleigh. Bess is a lovely 20 year-old girl, with blond hair and brown eyes

that is quite found of the queen and that has swore loyalty to Elizabeth. She accidentally falls

in love with Walter Raleigh and has his son. In that situation, her love for both Raleigh

and her unborn child suppers the love that she feels for her queen and ends up

betraying Elizabeth by marrying Raleigh. Elizabeth, then, seems hopeless seeing her

friend and her love together. Her closer advisor, Sir Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey

Rush) is a 53 years-old man, English, that his the queens old friend. Hes loyal to his queen and

a follower to the law. Hes the head of the intelligence departure at the time and he discovers

an assassination plot which the leader is Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, Elizabeths cousin.

Mary Stuart is a brunet, blue eyed woman that is ambitious and that wants the power that

Elizabeths throne would give her. When she is discovered, she is judged and

sentenced to decapitation. As a consequence to this, the battle between Spain and

England is at march. Despite the incredible naval power that Spain counted on, the

England ships that wore in disadvantage were able to win this battle.

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