Mary Queen of Scots – Review (with Spoilers)
Mary Queen of Scots reminds you of how different the world would be if men knew how to stay in their lane.
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Mary Queen of Scots Ending (Spoilers)
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As in real life, after the betrayal of her family and those in Scotland, Mary escaped to England where she was held in captivity. That is, until Elizabeth heard one too many whispers of Mary seeking to usurp her and decided, with a heavy heart, to kill a fellow queen. If for the sole sake of maintaining her power and appeasing her council who maintained she was a threat to the crown.
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I found it incredibly weird and even with it not being made into a big deal, it was hard to not question how would Elizabeth end up with an Asian woman as one of her dressers? Why and how would a Black person end up not only on her court, but an ambassador? I didn’t find it a big enough deal to note, since I fully expect this to increasingly happen in the future, but for a moment I questioned if the scenario would even be plausible.
I’ll see if one of my subscriptions have Reign. Maybe it’s on Netflix? They have quite a few CW programs.
There have been quite a few previous films and TV shows focused on Mary, Queen Of Scots.
You might be interested in the TV series, “Reign”, which was made a few years ago and focused on Mary’s teen/young-adult years in France.
(indeed, she spent so much of her early years in France that by most accounts she had a very pronounced French accent – something that no screen depiction has went with…. Ronan in this film and Samantha Morton in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” both play her with something approaching a modern Scots accent… whereas Vanessa Redgrave in the 70s “Mary Queen Of Scots” film and Adelaide King in “Reign” go for generic Received Pronunciation)
Mary and Elizabeth actually never met in real life. Most versions that cover this period of her life invent a fictitious meeting between the two, and make Elizabeth more emotionally invested in Mary’s fate than she likely was… probably because such a conflict is more dramatic than Elizabeth casually ordering the imprisonment and eventual execution of a distant relative that she’s never met and doesn’t know.
I’m curious, what do you make of the colour-blind casting in this film? I know that this film has cast black and Asian performers in the roles of people who were historically white, and in positions of power that it would be impossible for a person of colour to attain at that time period.
I feel ambivalent about this. It’s nice that people of colour are getting more opportunities, but sometimes I worry that colourblind casting can take its toll on suspension of disbelief, even in a film where historical accuracy is not a top priority.