YMMV / The Queen

• Harsher in Hindsight: After Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8th 2022 (just a few days after the 25th anniversary of Diana's death). Now the scene with the stag takes on a more heartbreaking tone. What's more, she died at Balmoral, the very place Charles and the boys were vacationing when Diana died.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Prince Philip derides the public for "sleeping in the streets for someone they never knew" regarding their hysteria over Diana's death. 25 years later the public essentially did the same thing for Queen Elizabeth when she passed away, with over 250,000 people standing in line for hours to pay their respects during the 5 days that she lay in state at Westminster Hall, as well as lining up along the route of her several funeral processions, many of whom indeed admitted to having spent the night out there in order to get a good viewing spot.
• Humour Dissonance: The writer and director discuss this on the DVD Commentary. Having watched the film alongside audiences in Britain, America and Vienna, they were fascinated by the fact that only some nationalities found jokes that had been deliberately inserted into the script as funny, whilst others were laughing at things that were meant to be serious (such as the Americans laughing at the Prime Minister eating fish-fingers or footage of celebrities turning up at Diana's funeral).
• Signature Scene: Elizabeth witnessing the stag. A beautifully staged moment, both Awesome and Heartwarming at the same time.
• Tough Act to Follow: In 2023, the film became this to the first four episodes of the sixth series of The Crown, which dealt with exactly the same time period (that show's overt emphasis on Diana may well have been due to her not having appeared in this film, except in archive footage).
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The stag.
  • Could be a case of Epileptic Trees as according to the DVD Commentary, the writer suggests that he meant for the stag to represent the Queen herself (that the stag made it to fourteen points suggests it was lucky to have survived for such a long time). Most people naturally assume that it's Diana, hunted and then killed.
  • A bit of Fridge Brilliance for the stag meant to represent Princess Diana, who shares her name with the Roman goddess of the night, and the animal most commonly associated with her is the deer.

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