Could you say this film could be used as propaganda in favor of the Royal family?
shareIf the intention was to make this film a propaganda piece, I got the feeling it was slanted more toward Diana than the Firm, until the Tony Blair character went ballistic at one of his lackeys, in the Queens favor.
shareLOL True. It was a VERY balanced film, shedding light on so much and making me realize what the queen went through.
shareIf anything, it's slanted against the Royal Family. Elizabeth, Phillip and Charles all came up lacking in this movie.
One thing I'm not sure of - in the movie, when the Queen finally agrees to go to London for the wake, it's mentioned that this is the first time she's been among her subjects since she was crowned. That's about 40 years, given that Diana died in 1996. That's a long time to be isolated from your people.
Anyone know if that is true or not?
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I do not view the film as a propaganda piece for either the Royals or Blair's Governement. It showed flaws on both sides, the Royals being ignorant of the growing situation and showing arrogance whilst Blair's PR team used Diana's death as an advantage by making Blair make statements such as "The People's Princess".
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
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I suspect that your question is rhetorical, but nevertheless, I don't think it was deliberately intended as propaganda, mainly because if it was, it certainly turned me AGAINST the concept of monarchy (not for).
The Royals came across as arrogant and woefully detached from the people they purport to represent. Yes, protect/console the young children who just lost their mother, but DO also perform the duties that are practically their sole responsibility to the nation (in the compact that allows them to live luxuriously in palaces with guards and servants).
To just skip off to a hunting reserve in Scotland as their nation is in shock, to learn how they really felt about Diana and were two-faced about it to the public, to hear them resisting and even mocking the funeral arrangements (particularly Prince Phillip), and the way the Queen treats Tony Blair who loyally continues to give good, reasonable advice,and even defends her, made me wonder why reasoning, grown people (I understand children's fascination with princesses, magic and fairy tales) tolerate such an institution, particularly when their common human behaviour seems to cause embarrassment and scandal.
If The Queen was propaganda, it sure was not pro-monarchy.
I agree it certainly was not pro monarchy quite the opposite. The stag scene was clearly to make the viewer believe that the Queen cared more for animals than humans, Diana in particular. The film was pro Tony Blair pretending that he saved the Royal Family from themselves. The Queen and the other members of the Royal Family are shown as uncaring pigs and the press are totally exonerated. The reality is different when Diana was alive she was continually hounded on the day she died the Mail On Sunday published an uncomplimentary piece.
The film is clearly Pro Blair and anti Royal.What people seem to forget is that when the film came out Blair was not as popular as he once was due to the illegal Iraq war, so it can be argued that this film is an attempt to redress that.
And the Queen warns him that the press and the public mood would eventually turn against him like it did for her.
shareIt doesn't portray the entire Royal family all that favorably. In fact, for the bulk of the film, Tony Blair is the primary voice of reason. Only Elizabeth comes across as a member of the Royal family with a fair amount of decency. In the end, it's not a film that flat out indicts the monarchy, but it's not propaganda on their behalf either.
shareOld post, but I don't think so. A respectable period between Diana's death and the film's release had transpired, so people were able to view the occurrence objectively and with less emotion, yet at the same time, honor the sadness and loss.
The film was less about assigning blame and centered around what could be described as a perfect storm between old world and modern.
In the last scene between Tony Blair and the Queen, Tony says that the week surrounding Diana's death would ultimately prove to be a positive for the monarchy, and unquestionably that statement has become true even more so in the ten years since the film's release, for the tragedy did force a more modern monarchy which we especially see among the younger royals.
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