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1	* The ending is something of an homage to ''Film/TheGodfather''; as Elizabeth I remakes herself into a secular deity to lead England, she's commanded "let it all be done", causing her master of spies, Walsingham, to orchestrate a stunning series of assassinations, brutally executing her enemies and consolidating her power.
2	* Elizabeth getting The Act of Uniformity passed through Parliament. Walsingham helped by temporarily locking some prominent churchmen in the basement until the voting was finished.
3	* Walsingham torturing the priest sent to kill his Queen.
4	* At the beginning of the movie, Elizabeth is a prisoner of her half-sister Mary, who is being encouraged by her advisors to have Elizabeth executed. Elizabeth, though terrified, manages to hold on to her courage when sent to Mary to beg for her life.
5	-->'''Mary:''' When I look at you, I see nothing of [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII the king]]; only that whore, [[UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn your mother]]. My father never did so well as to cut off her head.
6	-->'''Elizabeth:''' Your majesty forgets, he was also ''my'' father.
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8	!!'''The Golden Age'''
9	* "I too can command the wind, sir! And I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!"
10	* Clive Owen's monologue on crossing the North Atlantic (taking words from UsefulNotes/SirFrancisDrake). The music and the "ascending to heaven" metaphor make it very beautiful indeed.
11	-->'''Sir Walter Raleigh:''' Can you imagine what it is to cross an ocean? For weeks, you see nothing but the horizon - perfect and empty. You live in the grip of fear: fear of storms; fear of sickness on board; fear of the immensity. So you must drive that fear down, deep into your belly; study your charts; watch your compass; pray for a fair wind; and hope. Pure, naked, fragile: hope. ... At first it's no more than a haze on the horizon. So you watch. You watch. Then it's a smudge; a shadow on the far water, for a day ... for another day. The stain slowly spreads along the horizon, taking form ... until, on the third day, you let yourself ''believe''. You dare to whisper the word: ''land''. Land. Life. Resurrection. Coming out of the vast unknown, out of the immensity ... into new life. ''That'', your Majesty, is the New World.
12	* The Queen staring down the barrel of a gun and refusing to back down.
13	* Her RousingSpeech at Tilburry, though some of it was made up.
14	-->When this day of battle is over, we'll meet again in Heaven. Or the field of victory.

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