Elizabeth I (Mirren)－女神殿

伊莉莎白一世 Elizabeth I
240 min. 2006

I grieve and dare not show my discontent. I love and yet am forced to seem to hate. I do yet not say I ever meant. I seem stark mute, yet inwardly do prate.

I am and not. I freeze yet am burned. Since from myself another self I turn. My care is like my shadow in the sun. It follows me flying, flies when i pursue it, stands and lies by me, does what I have done.

Or let me live with some more sweet content, or die. And so forget what love ere meant.

上面那段quote是Bess寫給Duke of Anjou的字句，不同於Cate版的白痴女裝癖，Duke of Anjou可是和Bess情投意合。可惜英國人民極度反對和法國聯姻，婚事因此作罷，Bess也因此終身未嫁。

Mirren版從Bess登基開始，和Cate版後半部重疊，但前者似乎比較貼近史實。Walsingham在Cate版神通廣大，孔明刺客兩相宜，到了Mirren版只是嘮叨的老頭。同樣有Mary，Cate版是挫敗Bess的Mary of Guise，Mirren版則是被斬首的親侄女Mary Queen of Scots。

相當高水準的電視電影，將近4小時的片長分上下兩集，第一集是Bess和老爸Robert Dudley的點到為止，第二集是兒子Robert Devereux的野心勃勃。其實Bess挺可憐的，都被叫Bobert的男人背叛，老爸偷結婚，兒子偷生子還想篡奪王位。

Helen Mirren
as Queen Elizabeth I

登基後的Bess比起Cate版多了女人的豺狼虎豹七情六慾，The Virgin Queen死前最惦記的還是永遠吃不到的男人。