Word: regalness
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...Lucas in trouble over the hair" by designing coiffures every bit as grotty as Princess Leia's bagel buns. One of Amidala's dos looks like a fan belt, another like huge shoulder pads. He designed Amidala's raiment to be elaborate too. "George wanted the Queen so regal she could sneak out the back of the dress," he says, "and no one would know she was gone." Trisha Biggar spent a year fashioning the costumes. "It's George's first costume drama," she says. "The movie will have lots of girl appeal, especially the Queen's costumes...
...Part of audiences' attraction to "Shakespeare in Love" was its constant depiction of beauty--from the gold embroidered costumes, to the regal estates, to the gorgeous Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes. And while the screenwriters could have retained this beauty and still had Shakespeare direct his sonnet to a young man, beauty alone could not have won audiences' praise as it did--the movie's heterosexual romance made all of the difference...
...only comic relief from this overload of testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...
That is the sound of Dench understatement in action. When she appears onscreen as the regal, nay, godlike, Elizabeth--with skeletally white skin, burning eyes and all aquiver in that bejeweled and befeathered costume like some sort of monstrous dragonfly--multiplex audiences have erupted in cheers. With barely 10 minutes onscreen, she makes her terrifyingly omniscient Elizabeth pivotal to the film, with players and viewers alike perched breathlessly on her every word. Dench attributes this potency not to her own skill but to the deference the film's other characters show her. John Madden, who directed her in both...
...Snow Queen and King (Jennifer Glaze and Zachary Hench), whose elaborate steps in the midst of nearly-blinding snow must be next to impossible. The Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier (Jennifer Gelfand and Paul Thrussell) also demonstrate unparalleled grace and splendor, with an air that is nothing short of regal...