Gunpowder, Treason & Plot [Region 2]
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In Theaters : 2004 |
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Gunpowder, Treason & Plot [Region 2] Customer Reviews
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Although it oversimplifies the complex social and religious turmoil of 16th and 17th Century England and Scotland, the film is very good in its presentation of the more-French-than-Scottish, Mary Stuart and in the first-of-its-kind portrayal of King James as a gay man. Presented in two parts, the film is riddled with historical inaccuracies, (e.g. James visiting his mother Mary Queen of Scots on the eve of her execution, no mention of the overt Catholic sympathies of James's Queen, Anne of Denmark, to name two,) but it does provide some good historical background on clan rivalry in Scotland, the impact of the Reformation in Scottish and English politics and how this led to the desperation of some Catholic peers to attempt the improbable Gunpowder Plot. For this reason, part two, which presents the conspirators as reacting to their perceived betrayal by King James, is the "better" of the two episodes.
For lovers of this period of British history, the Stuarts (Mary and James) and the other "usual suspects" are all present and accounted here for in a very entertaining, well-acted, if not historically accurate, series that includes portrayals of Lord Bothwell, Lord Darnley, Lord James Stuart, John Knox, Elizabeth I, Robert Cecil, Robert Catesby and the ever popular Guy Fawkes
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