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Script: The Favourite

A great film and script. I assign in my classes. I have the students do a brief character analysis of the three main characters. Everyone "gets" the Queen, and Abigail (emma stone), but almost none of the students notice Sarah (Rachel Weitz's) underlying motivation is one of patriotism and love of country. I am tempted to read something about the American mind into this -- that is, we understand frailty and we understand ambition and manipulation, but perhaps we don't quite understand on a basic level, the concept of duty.

Then again, she's probably the hardest character to "read" of the three.