Excited Ambivalence

Is excited ambivalence possible?

There's a new movie being made about my favorite monarch, but it's a sequel to a movie that is an affront to the tastes of all followers of the Cult of Glorianna, if not an affront to history.

The first movie - "Elizabeth" - overflows with historical inaccuracies and committed the unpardonable sin of dismissing Cecil from his Queen's service. In actuality, Cecil served her for the bulk of her reign, from before her accession until his death a few years before hers. In over forty years, he threatened to leave her service twice, and she promptly capitualted and followed his advice, the woman who didn't even capitulate to old age! Cecil is the man that she called her Spirit. Elizabeth would never commit the suicide of dismissing her Spirit. I was willing to forgive all sorts of historical inaccuracies in the movie for the sake of capturing the essence of her reign in a mere hour or so. But having Elizabeth dismiss Cecil was such a violation! Even more of a violation than showing Elizabeth rolling in the sheets with Dudley, which is a heinous enough violation on its own.

And now the same people are making a sequel.

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Cool Rumors
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about.com
Yahoo7 Movies
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Wikipedia
Indobase

So, of course I will be seeing this sequel. But .... I'm still so mad about the first one!