Ransom and The Queen

Themes

Family

Crises

Grief & Loss

Leadership, Monarchy & The People

Authority & Power

Identity & Transformation

Parenthood & Children

Tradition & Modernisation

Change & Conflict

Voice, Storytelling & Legacy

Advice & Advisors

"At a kingly

distance from the human"- Priam

"Exposes to insult...

your royal image"- Deiphobus

Introduction & Analysis Tips

Seven lines at most

Contention.

Context.

Arguments.

Final sentence.

The Queen is a fictional film.

Ransom is an adaptation of the Iliad.

Don't let topic sentences go over 2 lines

Explain quotes (analysis and continue to think about them)

Control & Clarity are KEY

Analysis:

'Signifying to audiences'

'This humanity prompts'

'These revelations'

'An instrument of storytelling'

The gods "continue to

defy him"- Achilles

"The image that other men

will keep of him when he is gone"- Priam

Legacy

"fiery-headed agent

of such destructiveness"- Neoptolemus

"It is your government"

Queen's Painter

Mr Crawford

"Implacable

enemy"- Hector & Achilles

Cherie is a woman with "known

anti-monarchist sympathies"

"Shallow" curtesy

"Emotionally retarded nutters"

The monarchy "good as

killed" the Queen's father- Janvrin

Hermes (his arrival triggered by the "hooting of an owl") refers to Priam as

"father" rather than "your majesty"

"Cut the knot we are

all tied in"- Priam & Achilles

Ransom- Characters

Achaeans

Achilles

Patroclus

Thetis

Peleus

Myrmidons

Agamemnon

Iris/ Hermes

Priam (Podarces)

Hecuba

Hector

Heracles

Cassandra

Somax

Hesione

Idaeus

Briseis

The Queen- Characters

The Queen

Tony Blair

Cherie Blair

Prince Philip

Queen Mother

Robert Janvrin

Alistair Campbell

Prince Charles

Diana

The Queen- Symbols

Flags

Bagpipes

Balmoral

Stag Heads on walls

Stag (14 points)

Kilts

Cameras

Newspapers

Diana

Flowers

"Uneasy lies the head

that wears a crown"

Ransom- Symbols

Iris & Hermes

Earth Imagery

Water Imagery

Animal Imagery- Fingerlings, Jove's Eagle

Mules (Beauty)

Simple Cart

Priam- Price paid

Idaeus

Hector's Body

Griddlecakes

Ransom

The Queen- Context

2006 Fictional Film