エリザベス:ゴールデン・エイジ

以前視聴したエリザベスの続編です。「エリザベス:ゴールデン・エイジ」は、16世紀のイングランドを舞台にした歴史ドラマで、ケイト・ブランシェットがエリザベス1世を演じています。彼女は強い意志と決意で国を導き、迫り来る困難に立ち向かいます。あいかわらずケイト・ブランシェット演じる英リザべス1世はなんか神々しく、あの女王のために、命をはって国を守る気持ちわかります。当方おっさんですが、国を守るため筋トレだ～。

監督のシェカール・カプールは、美しい映像や華やかな衣装、そして壮大な音楽で時代背景を生き生きと描き出しています。物語は、イングランドとスペインの政治的な紛争や、王国を分裂させる宗教的な緊張感など、時代背景を生き生きと描いています。

今回の映画については前作の”エリザベス”同様、下町の英語が皆無なので、聞きやすい部類に入ると思います。英語学習者にとって、この映画は、英語力を向上させるだけでなく、英語圏の歴史や文化を学ぶ貴重な機会となります。例えば数で圧倒するスペインの無敵艦隊が英国沿岸まで迫った時、さながら鎌倉時代の元寇のように、嵐が味方になりました。その際、嵐の風を利用した焼き討ち船（敵の艦船などを破壊するため爆発物を積んで流した）を使って相手に大きな損害を与えたシーンなどとても興味深く思いました。

当たり前ですが豊かな言語表現や生き生きとした描写が語彙力や理解力を向上させ、魅力的なストーリーやキャラクターが視聴者を魅了します。「エリザベス:ゴールデン・エイジ」は、英国歴史ドラマが好きな人には必見の作品であり、英語学習者にとっては、英語力と英語圏の歴史・文化について学ぶ絶好の機会となります。

 

以下今回感心したフレーズデータベースに入れましたのでここでもご紹介します。

Mars is due to take the ascendant. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I murdered God's anointed Queen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

This's not to be spoken of afterward. A kiss. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

It is something, after all, to take a blank on the map and build there a shining city. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me! (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You, this helpless bundle. I looked at you in your crib. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

When the storm breaks, each man acts in accordance with his own nature. Some are dumb with terror. Some flee. Some hide. And some spread their wings like eagles and soar on the wind. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The Spanish are barely a day away, Majesty. We must withdraw to safe ground. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The is gold. Courtesy of a Spanish ship that found itself unable to complete its journey. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Hear celestial music. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Pay her the compliment of truth. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I suspect him of being a professional charmer. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Male desire confers no distinction. 欲は果てしない(エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I'm no courtier. Never have been. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The storm clouds are gathering. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

But I will not punish my people for their beliefs. Only for their deeds. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The day of danger truly dawns. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You've always been a fellow who delighted in surprises. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The beauty of Your Majesty is dazzling to my eyes. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Well, there are duller professions. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

So you must drive that fear down deep into your belly. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I would be loath to die so bloody a death. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Now God's most dutiful son makes holy war to punish me. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

My constant endeavor is to earn that love. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You have the ear of the Queen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

How blessed am I to stand in your fabled presence. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Your most serene Majesty, bright star of our firmament. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Tell him if he wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite, he'll wish he'd kept his hands in his pockets. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

What do the stars foretell there? (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

fire ship《歴史》火船，焼き討ち船（◇敵の艦船などを破壊するため爆発物を積んで流した）(エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Grace?

-Oh, Lord, provider of all things, we offer Thee our humble thanks. In the name of the Holy Trinity, amen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

With this ring, I thee wed.

With my body, I thee worship.

And with all my worldly goods, I thee endow.

In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You live in the grip of fear. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

There are husbands to be had. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Virginity is an asset that holds its value well. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Have I reason to fear? (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Am I so hideous you can't even look me in the face? (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

How many Catholics are there in England, sir?

-Immense numbers, Majesty. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Our inaction is perceived as weakness. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Some men rudely suggesting infertile. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I have traveled here to this illustrious court. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

That's the trouble with intrigues, isn't it? (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

This Armada that sails against us, carries in its bowels the Inquisition. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Philip of Spain is a God-fearing man who cannot declare war without a just cause. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Put Philip on a leash. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Your laundress was found to be carrying letters in her washing. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Turn your mind to that threat. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

May we have wisdom not to fear shadows in the night. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I'd dress him up in mulberry colored silk.(エリザベス Golden Age)

 

We present our humble masque. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You weren't even much of a murderer. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You eat it. Very nourishing. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

There must be any amount of princes in the undiscovered lands across the sea. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I care for your safety. The threats to your person are real. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You're Walsingham's pawn! (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I pretend there's a pane of glass between me and them. They can see me, but they cannot touch me. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Say what you mean to say as plainly as possible. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You know that you're Papists. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I would never presume to tell my Queen what to do. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

If that is your prophecy, sir, you prophesy again. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

If that cannon's primed, set the fuse! (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You ask my permission before you rut! Before you breed! (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I find the air has become stale. I am sensitive to the smell of open sewers (like the nest person). (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Your Majesty's most loyal subject. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

At first, it's no more than a haze on the horizon. So you watch. You watch. Then it's a smudge, a shadow on the far water. For a day.: For another day. The stain slowly spreads along the horizon taking form, until on the third day, you let yourself believe. You dare to whisper the word. Land. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I think it must be hard for so great a queen to know the simple pleasure of being liked for herself. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

What if enemy ships should sail up the Thames, can the docks be closed? (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

My thoughts turn dark. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

With this ring, I thee wed.

With my body, I thee worship.

And with all my worldly goods, I thee endow.

In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

You traitress. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

Soon England's true believers will rise up against the bastard usurper Elizabeth and slit her throat. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

When that bastard usurper is dead, my lady will be queen. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

The Spanish speak openly of Mary Stuart as Queen of England in waiting. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I am trapped in my own web. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

I'm a ward of the Queen. I can't court a man without her permission. (エリザベス Golden Age)

 

This man has seduced a ward of the Queen. And she has married without royal consent. (エリザベス Golden Age)