On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 sopran@a... wrote:
> And I just rented "Elizabeth"--the final scene with the Lux aeterna is
> powerful, but I couldn't help being distracted by the anachronism!
As someone whose specialty when I got my BA in History was Elizabethan
England, I have to say I was much more distracted by the horrifying
historical inaccuracy of about 90% of that film - even more horrifying
because the film made no apology for being so flagrantly WRONG - no
disclaimer such as "this film is a work of historical fiction, not a
depiction of historical reality". All in all, I was absolutely disgusted
by the whole thing - right down to the ridiculously fanciful costumes that
had no relationship to reality either.
K
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