Hellen Mirren in the role of
Elisabeth Windsor in the role
of the Queen Elisabeth.
An actress in the role of a Queen: "The Queen" (2006), Stephen Frears.
Contradictory representation of public and private reactions of the British royal family and the Prime Minister of Her Majesty, Tony Blair, to the death in car crash of Diana Spencer, former Princess of Wales.
The ambition of the director for his main actress in this film, the british Helen Mirren, was the super iconic representation of none other than Elisabeth Windsor, the Queen of England.
The hard mission of Mirren was to build, beyond the public figure, a succesful icon of the person, in theory, underlying her.
The excuse was the days after Diana's death. That moment in the history of England in which Elisabeth was forced to add unusual nuances to her character. Humbling herself, for example, to communicate some personal feelings to the people, it is to say showing humanity. And this by the request of their own government, for the survival of the royal institution in its darkest hours.
But through the window that the film opens, figuratively, to the private life of the Queen, what we see is exactly a notable absence of such a thing. What we can see is precisely the image of someone who thinks constantly about her high public performance, totally devoted, therefore, to his role. And all that we just know of Elisabeth Windsor by this mean is her unconditional loyalty to Elizabeth II, her desire to persevere in the royal ideal that she considers she represents.
One last question: the disturbing coexistence of a super icon and its object. Just a decade separates the events of their narrative film. The important people that are represented there, are still alive when the film is released and it is not inconceivable that some of them, even the Queen, could have attended the screening.
I wonder what thoughts go through the head of somebody who watches the fictionalized story of her real/royal fiction, passing in front of her eyes,
Rubén Díaz de Corcuera.
Super icons.
December 6, 2009
Cat on cat.
Game of differences.
Conflict between copies.
Aching sphere.
An actress in the role of a queen.
Those that are looking at us from the mirror are other ones.
Self icons, anthropomorphous reliquarys and other objects with sentimental value.
Fresh corpse.
Aurora Borealis, fatuous fire.
Signs of only beings, beings of only signs.
Solid projector.
Body soup.
The metaphysic query.
The replicator god.
Self Reincarnation.
COMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCES
Relating opposed extremes: abstract art and the human replica in science fiction cinema.
OWN RELATED WORK
Solaris variations (2009).
Auto Pigmalion (Sine die).
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Sign.
Significant.
Interpreter.
Reference.
Denotation.
Object.
World.
Reality.
Icon.
Super icon.
Ultra Sign.
Índex.
Alterity.
Economy of expression.
Abstract.
The everything.
The absolut.
Recognition.
Extreme Signs.
Extreme signs as object of research.
Denotation as a problem.
Iconicity as a progress towards object.
Abstraction as a problem.
The everything as a problem.
Conclusions
Ultra signs.
Abstraction.
The everything.