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Wheel of Wonder Winner! Elizabeth (1998) Watch Along (Patreon)

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2026-02-27 13:05:06
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2026-03-02 04:42:06
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EEK! Congrats to this month's winner!

Catch up with you all below in the comments!!

xx

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W.O.W Spin Winner #41

Comments

Noell G

OMFG!!! LFG

Daniel Conderman

As a WASP, this is a good movie, but historically inaccurate to make the story work.

RFK Fan

Good Choice Noell. Cant go wrong with Cate!!

VivendoBem

Cate's great, but Miranda Richardson will always be my Queenie!

Clay F

This is one of my favorite movies. Watched it several times. Congrats Noell. Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress. I've always thought the over-blown attacks on historical accuracy miss the point. The movie is a highly-entertaining adaptation, not a documentary. The movie accurately captures the high-stakes, treacherous atmosphere of the court, the intense rivalry between religious factions, and the central, scandalous romantic tension. While condensing timelines, the movie successfully highlights her transformation.

Teemu Laitinen

Next then the sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). It's not regarded as highly as this one, but I really enjoyed it too. As far as this one goes it's always a joy to see Cate do her thing. Happy to see John Gielgud in his small role as The Pope and Richard Attenborough too. Geoffrey Rush is always great. This film also has my favorite Dr. Watson Edward Hardwicke from the Granada Television series of Sherlock Holmes with my favorite Sherlock played by Jeremy Brett.

Brandon Meng

One off from my pick, I am dying inside

Clay F

Enjoyed this rewatch with you. I love Geoffrey Rush in this. Other movies in which I like him: The King's Speech (2010) Quills (2000) (he is great as lead in this) Les Miserables (1998) Munich (2005) Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Robert Berry

Please bring back "The Wheel of Wonder" song... I miss it... 🥺

Ken Schneyer

A great reaction, A. I really enjoyed it. Of course the film took a lot of liberties with the facts, but the facts, if anything, are even wilder than the film. Elizabeth I was the most skilled and subtle politician in Europe, and one of the reasons why she never married was that, so long as she could hold out the *possibility* of marrying another monarch, it gave her leverage with all of them. She grew up in an era where, if you had a claim to the throne, your choices were either to take the throne or die; it is absolutely true that she came within a hair's breadth of being executed in the months before her sister's death. And yes (as many books and films portray), becoming a conscientious national leader often means giving up your personal life altogether. "The Lion in Winter" (1968) shows this in spades. You'll note that, when she is told that she is queen, she says, "This is the Lord's doing; it is wonderful in our eyes." Those are Elizabeth's actual words upon hearing the news; it is a quotation from Psalm 118: the previous line of the psalm is "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone of the temple." Sir Francis Walsingham was one of the most gifted (and deadliest) spymasters in history, and indeed he was entirely loyal to Elizabeth throughout her reign. He did *not* assassinate Mary de Guise, and although it was rumored that she may have been poisoned by the English, there is no real evidence of this. (After the death of Henry VIII's third wife, when he was shopping for a new bride, he sent emissaries to the then-young Mary de Guise. Her response is reputed to have been, "Tell King Henry that if I had two necks, he could have one of them.") It is unlikely that Elizabeth and Robert Dudley ever had sex, although there was constant gossip accusing them of it during their whole lives. They both lived into old age, during which time he served her loyally and competently in a number of capacities. She outlived him by 15 years, but after her death, his last letter to her was found in her bedside table; it seems he genuinely was the great love of her life, although she was never able to do anything about it.