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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Looking for Elizabethan era films
« Reply #30 on: 10 December 2012, 04:59:44 PM »
Along with the Henry VIII series (which is 10 times better than The Tudors!)

The Tudors can be hilariously bad. It has been derisively named "Sexy Tudors" over here. The inestimable Kate Beaton had some great cartoons on the subject:



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I think the CBC blew half its budget on The Tudors because the whole time that I lived in Toronto, every bus and every subway car was plastered with Jonathan Rhys Meyers' pouting face and ten yards of cleavage. I believe we've all learned a valuable lesson here, and that is William Cecil may have been a crack statesman, but if he wants to me to give a shit about him he better start hitting the gym.


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Offline commissarmoody

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Re: Looking for Elizabethan era films
« Reply #31 on: 10 December 2012, 08:55:41 PM »
  yeah the Tuders, was a little over the top on the sexiness element. But it at least got my GF at the time interested in history for a bit.  ;D
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Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: Looking for Elizabethan era films
« Reply #32 on: 10 December 2012, 11:24:22 PM »
Henry de Navarre is a good film, if not quite as good (IMHO) as La Reine Margot. I suspect however it may be slightly more historically correct!

I can vouch for Le Princess de Montpensier too.

Don't be put off by the subtitles. No-one does costume dramas films like the French.

 

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