Gory content?
Someone told me the scenes of Hanging, Drawing and Quartering in this production were even more graphic than those in "Elizabeth I". Is that true?
shareIt’s been a while since I have seen ‘Elizabeth I’, but IIRC, it is slightly more gruesome in ‘Charles II’ as we actually see brief clips of someone being eviscerated and blood is almost raining down on the victims. Don’t let that put you off though, as there is not a constant stream of violence depicted and that scene is incredibly brief. You do see in a scene involving the Great Plague of 1665-1666, a clip of bodies being thrown into open graves, but aside from that there is really little violence. But the scenes of violence are necessary (if that makes sense). They add something to the story and are not gratuitous. That was also the case with ‘Elizabeth I’; when violence was shown it was not completely irrelevant. So the hanging, drawing and quartering scene is bloodier in ‘Charles II’, but they don’t show, for example, someone head’s being hacked off as they did in ‘Elizabeth I’.
‘Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am’