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The screenplay for the acclaimed Miramax film of the same name, providing an intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Royal Family in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death.
"What's most daring about it isn't that it's a satire. It's a story that dares to paint people in power as complex, rounded, conflicted human beings just like you and me."
--Peter Morgan
In the days following the death of Princess Diana, Great Britain exploded in a paroxysm of public grief that shocked the tightly contained, tradition-bound world of the Queen of England. The grieving nation was desperate for comfort from its beloved queen, and for many days it did not come. Elizabeth II, stunned by the unexpected depth of the public emotion at Diana's passing and the vitriol of the British media toward her for not joining in, was forced to realize that her people felt abandoned and were in danger of abandoning her. This is the story told in The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, and James Cromwell.
Peter Morgan's screenplay, drawn from extensive interviews, devoted research, discreet sources, and informed imagination, shows us one of the modern world's last great monarchs as she has never been seen before -- as a vulnerable human being in her darkest hour, struggling to preserve all she holds most dear.
1997年，當戴妃意外在巴黎身亡的訊息傳出之后，英國公民極度震驚與悲哀。但稍后，他們卻被憤怒的情緒浪潮所吞沒。他們遲遲等不到他們愛戴的女皇公開對戴妃的死表示哀悼。英國人民不能理解，甚至在祭悼戴妃的花束上寫上對女皇不諒解的咒罵。
《The Queen》細膩地展現了女皇在面對這個皇室危機時的心境轉變。先是驚訝英國人民對戴妃的如此盛情，后是不解與無助，而最終是毅然選擇在自己守候多年的傳統價值觀中退讓。在看似冷酷的表象之下，其實掩藏著女皇的偉大之處。
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