荣耀[六十年

剧情简介

Sixty Glorious Years is an exe=$-#r)cis]?e$:\ in$^ the creation o,.f iconography, both for]+@ Victoria and %
)]its star, Anna ]Neagle (who subse [\)quently# became known as ' -Regal Neagle'). ` Just as Elizabe!-th I co!mmi*+-ssi +@oned artists@!# to creat:] _e f
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lat(-%te *ring iconic imag*e \s[ f%or pu - blic co$
%nsum`\#pti^_on, so this)^ :*fil* +m per!for!,^ms a simi;#(lar function, for Neagle is more %%beautif(-/ul tha n the real l ife Vic+:to.)ria. Con#tro(;vers ial events (such as the 'Irish pro`,?)blem') are
+omitted )and unpleasant as !pec#[ts of V:\ic =toria's ch aracter ] (her petulan,#ce%., arrog anc/e
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av;-ouritism \` and %'right to +: p#[rivi*`*leg!e') )@are gloss*`! ed over as e:nd/ea  %r\in;,g little 'w@hims'. Alb er\@t a@cts as][ a mo^$;derating influence when= s@+/he ; -go[-es to$o far.　　T ]!he )film:
 followe ,d a ye_]ar after the highl`/)
y su-;+ccessfu`l Vi(ctoria ` t$he;. Great (d. Herbert Wilcox^ , 1937). Again the screenplay\ :
+i._s _-.by Mile?`!s Malleson and$$ Robert .Vans,]#i%\)ttart, and m`a_$ny of$\ the supporting)_`
cast (th$
e cream of acting talent of peri$+od(@) re$(peat the;.ir (?roles, _this time _]_,fo?r the col[our camera:@s. This was- - %the $\?first full lengt#
h Technicolo!.r f/#ilm of cine@ matographe+ r Fre d*+die Young, =))wh o captures \!% the spect+!(a@(cle o[:\f =! # royal weddings, grand bal!ls and opul
/ent =interiors, with s!c%enes actually film///ed at royal
*;#palac[_$es. ?Vivid$, bat?/tle scenes, =,;#set in A[\lexande?
r ]]*K.;,orda's e);mpire ter#+ritory (Sevastop=-ol and the =+Sudan), riv(\$al tho ?se in Th :e Fo +ur  Feathers? (d.:
Zoltan Ko:];,rd_a 1939).　@: .　./\
.The [ title m_)usic set
$s +the tone a r^)ega l!# ch%[oir sings over a sho,
:-t of the cro:*w.n. Elgar#:, 's 1901)/]`^ 'Pom
p an,d Cir@(c.=umstanc#e.:' +(march is hea:(rd during the - di
$amond j.$?ubi\lee celebrations an$-d?:, a^(s V;#./ictoria'+._s 
coff`%in lies in state^, th#[e!*-% film conclu`]des with Anthony Collins' stately  musi;_%[c accompa`.nied b\ y%_ the@, text o.)f Rudy]]ard ^Ki`pling's/ 'Le%st w.\-e forget[/'. Combined with(` the emotiona`_l/!^ :/ ap#_peal of
=scenes of Vict$oria c#; *onnecting w%%-ith her 'ord% i+nar;y f[=olk', this is stirring stuff]^._ ]　　/:@:The] film `co/ nnects with!@ contemp]\;orary e-`vents of 1]938.!),? The release of two celebra)*?t.ory royal film_ \#s wa`))s intended to $boost public. )affection f=_or the mo -na [rchy`` in(* the wake^ of!]^ Edward VIII'@s a;bdicat $ion. An,.glo..- -G`er man rela$[tions +were anothe);r touchy@ _sub!/`ject. +With; anoth er war on th@ e hori$^zon, influent ia ;l voic-es want`]* ed appease(ment, and the ^,_fil^ m could be seen to fit t%;hat agenda.  Vict;(oria herself@+[ was of mainl ]y,+ G`` e\.=@r,_*m:!an descent, nick^=named 'the grand`#mother of Eu#. rope', while Albert is !/a 'good German!', ch:[a*rmingly pla[ye$d? by Anton Walbrook as a(: cul=%tur:%%)ed, _decent man.　　Six#ty Gl _)orio[%;u
s Year#_s now se:em. :s und* uly f !orm;(al and reverenti^\al+.( Had movies existed during Victoria's r.eign (they only emerged)# a #t th`e ? -end) thi.s might @have  been the kind of film+ p]roduced. Unl$]ike@ Mrs : ]Brown (d. J ohn Madden, 1=\99?7-$:), it is all so v *!/ery,[ 'Victo)-rian'./　　$(=R]oge -#r Phi$.l+-ip Mellor