The film "Elizabeth" - a new milestone in the histrory of England
On October 30, 2020 the leader of the club "Movie Fans", the senior lecturer of the Department of Foreign Languages, Tleugabylova Z. A. held an on-line event which included the film "Elizabeth"(1998) screening and discussion in English. The event was held according to the plan of the club with the 1st-year students of the specialties "Management" and "Economics" of the Higher School of Economics and Business.
During the discussion, the students asked each other questions about the film, showing the level of their proficiency in 4 types of interrogative sentences: (General, Alternative, Special and Disjunctive questions).
Elizabeth is a British film directed by Shekhar Kapoor. It is a historical drama about Queen Elizabeth I of England. The main role was played by Australian actress Cate Blanchett,
The film begins with showing the time of Mary I Tudor’s reign, King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s daughter. Queen Mary, as a zealous Catholic, persecutes Protestants. Mary has no children, which means that her half-sister Elizabeth, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s daughter, is a Protestant heiress to the throne. By the order of Mary, Elizabeth is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower, but the dying queen never passed the death sentence, and after her death, Elizabeth automatically ascends the throne.
A new loyal Elizabeth’s ally becomes sir Francis Walsingham, who heads the intelligence and counterintelligence services for her. After an unsuccessful military campaign against Scotland, imposed on Elizabeth by her advisers, the Queen passes an "act of uniformity" through Parliament, confirming that the Church of England will be Protestant and independent on the Holy See — the vote goes well thanks to the absence of the most irreconcilable bishops, whom Walsingham locked in the basement. The loss of England causes the Pope’s anger, and he sends a Jesuit priest, John Ballard, to England to assassinate Elizabeth and extol the Catholic Mary Stuart. Finally Elizabeth cut her hair as a sign of breaking with her past life and proclaimed that she would forever remain a virgin Queen, "married to England”.
