S03: Dedicate to Delicacy

这篇大概两个月之前写的，中途因为毕业论文的ddl断掉了，只写了两集，今天突然想起来就先发出来吧。狠长，口水话，慎看。

王冠拍到第三季，整体剧作水平只增不减。换了一批演员只让我注意到了两批演员对剧中人物动作习惯细节的完美继承，比如Phillip亲王经常站在更衣的房间里低头却抬眼地看着女王、Tony因小儿麻痹症而轻微跛足、Margaret公主抽烟的姿势和眼神、甚至Martin向女王报告时因问题棘手而偏头眨眼……更不提女王本身的微表情与动作的精到。三季的主要任务都非常明确，第一季主要交代温莎家族的背景和女王继任前后的转变，第二季主要解决女王和Philip之间的感情问题，到了第三季女王和Phillip之间就非常甜了，还时不时发糖。而第三季的每一集相较于前两集更有主题感，集与集之间相对独立，每一集都对王室家族的一个问题作了剖析，我狠喜欢。

E01: Olding

Olding是新任工党（左翼）首相Harold Wilson在初上任时，Philip亲王从lunch club听来的所谓Wilson在KGB（苏联情报机构）的“代号”，本集基于此和Annibale Carracci的《真理和时间的寓言》（Allegory of Truth and Time），阐明了真相和表象的关系。另一方面，olding也可以理解为“逐渐老去”，呼应了片头女王看着两版邮票自嘲“old bat”，表明新一季的时间跨度。

真相和表象在本集中有三组对立：艺术作品视觉表象掩盖下的真相：作者的不确定、画面的深层寓意；身边有着双重身份的亲信，和本有着先入为主的偏见最后却证明可信可靠的新合作伙伴；王室和国家的面子工程，和对奸细的忍气吞声。如何从表象中揭露真相？只有依靠时间老人。

时间在大多数文艺复兴的艺术作品中都被描绘成老人的形象，以片中Annibale Carracci的《真理和时间的寓言》为例，直接复制Sir Anthony Blunt的原话：

An Allegory of Truth and Time，Annibale Carracci，1584-1585，oil on canvas

As time passes, so we learn. Truths are revealed.

In the late Renaissance, painting after painting, masterpiece after masterpiece, seem full of hidden intentions, multiple meanings. Annibale Carracci’s Allegory of Truth and Time, painted in 1584 or 1585. This winged figure here, rescues a young woman, his daughter from the darkness. He is Time, she is Truth. And this figure below trampled by truth is Deceit. Carracci’s message is clear: be patient, the truth will out. The message in coded in the painting is repeated in reality.

Deceit is two faced, she has a second monstrous visage. Truth may lie beneath the surface, buried, forgotten, but time has a way of uncovering it.

One thinks as the Merchant di Venice, truth will come to light, murder cannot be hid long, a man’s son may, but at the length, truth will out.

拿着沙漏的时间老人从黑暗中救出拿着镜子的真理

E02: Margaretology

在前两季不断被探讨的女王和Margaret的角色关系算是在第三季的这一集做了集中的回答。其实姐妹俩本身关系很好，但女王生性内敛、不喜受人关注却需要肩负重任、成为英国乃至世界最受关注的女人之一，Margaret生性自由张扬、永远需要他人的关注与赞扬却只能位居公主、永远活在女王的阴影下，角色矛盾由此而来。在之前的剧情中，Margaret在女王外出时代替女王执行王室工作，风格一反王室的威严沉闷，个性而富有人情味，得到了舆论的偏爱却被女王质疑为不稳重和浮夸，Margret反批女王没有性格，女王回应：“人民想要的是稳定性，个性使人民恐慌。”

Margaret坚守自己的but（大家都知道在英文中but前面的都是废话）

谈及父亲George VI对俩姐妹的评价，女王说：“Elisabeth is my pride and Margret is my joy.” 但是Margaret坚持：“Elisabeth is my pride but Margret is my joy.”

对君主角色的探讨贯穿三季，这一切可以缘于George VI的哥哥Edward VIII为了与离异的Wallis Simpson结婚而放弃王位，延续至Charles作为一个有性格、有想法的王储与曾任国王Edward VIII的共鸣。在传统的王室和保守党观念中，君主应该神圣至上，更多地是一个符号象征而不是有血有肉的人，给予人民精神的凝聚力、来源于神秘感的威严，而非现实生活的真实感。王室做过一系列透明化自身的举动以拉拢民众，在不同的时期却得到了截然不同的反馈，王室也仍在不断探索二者之间的平衡。

关于个性化与符号化，借用Philip亲王引用的一段服务过四位君王的私人秘书长Tommy Lascelles关于温莎王室的理论：

He asked me to imagine a mythological creature, a Reichsadler, a polycephalous, a two-headed eagle. For the purposes of this conversation,I want you to think of it as representing us. This family，your family. There have always been the dazzling Windsors and the dull ones. Your father…dull, sorry. Your grandfather, too. George V, deadly dull. At the height of the Great War, when the Tsar and the Kaiser and the Emperor of Austria were dazzling the world, where was he? He was sticking stamps in his album. His wife, Queen Mary…ditchwater. And so it goes, through George V to Queen Victoria and back. An uninterrupted line of stolid, turgid dreariness. “Culminating in me?” Well, yes, but...alongside that dull, dutiful, reliable, heroic strain, runs another. The dazzling, the brilliant, the individualistic, and...the dangerous. And so, for every Victoria, you get an Edward VII. For every George V, you get a Prince Eddy. For every George VI, you get an Edward VIII. For every Lilibet…you get a Margaret.And she may have had a success in Washington, but let's not delude ourselves that serious diplomacy can be achieved through drinking and dancing. Let Margaret have the glory, but let's not rewrite the constitutional rulebook because she got lucky once.

照片上是Margaret

最后整理一下此剧目前尺度最大的dirty jokes，是Margaret为了帮助英国政府得到美国经济援助，应邀与美国总统约翰逊在白宫共进晚餐，在after party上俩人对酒的打油诗。

M: There was a young woman from Delaware/ Who liked to make love in her underwear/ A terrible prude/ She would never go nude/ And her bum, hips, and tits she would never bare.

J: There was a young man from Wisconsin/ Who was blessed with an enormously large Johnson.

M: There was a young lady from Dallas/ Who used a dynamite stick as a phallus/ They found her vagina in North Carolina/ And her arsehole in Buckingham Palace.

然后俩人亲了一下