W.E. (stylised as W./E.) is a 2011 British historical romantic drama film written and directed by Madonna. It stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, Oscar Isaac, Richard Coyle and James D'Arcy. The screenplay was co-written by Alek Keshishian, who previously worked with Madonna on her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare and two of her music videos. The film was panned by critics and was a box office bomb. However, it managed to earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design .
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Directed by | Madonna |
Produced by | Madonna Kris Thykier |
Written by | Madonna Alek Keshishian |
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Music by | Abel Korzeniowski |
Cinematography | Hagen Bogdanski |
Edited by | Danny B. Tull |
Production company | Semtex Films |
Distributed by | Optimum Releasing |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Budget | £11 million ($15 million) |
Box office | £560,645 ($868,439) |
The film tells the story of two women separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop is obsessed with King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally's research, including several visits to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally's journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis and Edward, from the early days of their romance to the unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.
Screenplay
Wally Winthrop is a lonely housewife, living in 1998 in New York City. She is neglected by her psychiatrist husband, William Winthrop and finds solace in the love story of King Edward VIII and his lover, Wallis Simpson. Wally travels to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, showcasing items used by Wallis and Edward in their lifetime, and reminisces about their relationship.
In 1930, Edward throws a party at his new home in Fort Belvedere, in Windsor Great Park where he meets Wallis through his mistress, Lady Furness. The two develop a mutual attraction, despite Wallis being married to Ernest Simpson, and become lovers while Lady Furness is abroad. Back at Sotheby's, Wally is interrupted by a guard named Evgeni, who takes a liking to her.
Edward and Wallis continue their love affair while touring throughout Europe, where he gives her a number of jewels and assumes the initials W.E. By the end of 1934, Edward is irretrievably besotted with Wallis. He decides to introduce Wallis to his parents, King George V and Queen Mary, but she is portrayed in a bad light by Edward's sister-in-law Elizabeth. A distraught Wallis wants to end the relationship but Edward pacifies her.
In modern day New York, Wally's husband William refuses to try to conceive a child with her and she subsequently starts In vitro fertilisation. Wally gradually becomes attracted to Evgeni and eventually goes on a date with him. She asks Evgeni more about Edward and Wallis's story, while pondering on her relationship with William. After attending an auction at Sotheby's, where she spends ten thousand dollars, Wally returns home to a drunken, confrontational William. He beats Wally, leaving her badly injured on the floor.
The National Government refuses to recognise the relationship of Edward and Wallis because she is a divorcée. On the night of 11 December 1936, Edward broadcasts to the nation and the British Empire explaining his decision to abdicate the throne in favour of his brother Bertie. He says, "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King, as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love." Wallis, who has fled to Villa Lou Viei, near Cannes, hears of this and has no choice other than to join Edward.
Back in New York, Evgeni has been trying to phone Wally, who lays unconscious. He runs to her apartment to check on her, finding her injured on the floor. He takes her back to his home in Brooklyn. As she recovers, Wally finds a new hope and direction in life. She falls in love with Evgeni, divorces William and moves on.
Reading a series of letters, kept in millionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed's collection, Wally realises that Wallis was stuck in a relationship with Edward for the rest of her life. An imaginary monologue with Wallis shows the two women discussing the similarity of their lives, but in the end only Wally has found happiness. She leaves behind her fascination with Wallis and Edward's relationship and learns from her doctor that she is pregnant.
- Abbie Cornish as Wally Winthrop
- Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson
- James D'Arcy as King Edward VIII
- Oscar Isaac as Evgeni
- Richard Coyle as William Winthrop
- David Harbour as Ernest Simpson
- James Fox as King George V
- Judy Parfitt as Queen Mary
- Haluk Bilginer as Mohamed Al-Fayed
- Geoffrey Palmer as Stanley Baldwin
- Natalie Dormer as Queen Elizabeth
- Laurence Fox as Bertie
- Douglas Reith as Lord Brownlow
- Katie McGrath as Thelma, Lady Furness
Development
Madonna had written the script for W.E. with director Alek Keshishian. Her then husband Guy Ritchie helped Madonna with the script and the screenplay, advising her to seek meetings with several actors such as Mark Strong and Toby Kebbell, who both had major roles in Ritchie's last film, RocknRolla. Madonna started writing W.E after she had finished filming her directorial venture, Filth and Wisdom (2008). W.E was actually an idea she had before Filth and Wisdom, but instead she filmed the latter, as she felt that she did not have enough experience to shoot a big-budgeted film like W.E. She described the whole film as a much bigger story:
There are more characters, and three of them basically changed the course of British history. King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to be with an American woman, Wallis Simpson, and that's part of my story, so I've had to do an enormous amount of research and interview people. So I have an enormous responsibility to that, and then I have a responsibility to the actual auction, which really happened. Then there's the new story, the point of view, which is this girl who has this obsession and is going to the auctions and stuff. So it's a much more layered, complicated piece than Filth and Wisdom.
—Madonna, speaking in May 2010 about the allegations against Wallis Simpson.
After the writing began, Madonna realised that she needed help as the subject was vast. She enlisted the help of Keshishian, who was well acquainted with Madonna after directing her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare (aka In Bed with Madonna) and two of her music video clips. The writing process was dynamic, with Madonna and Keshishian e-mailing their developed scripts to each other, or through telephone conversations and also by writing on each other's laptop. W.E. was initially reported to be a musical about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward and Simpson. However, Madonna confirmed that although they are in the film, the main story was not about them. It was about a woman called Wally Winthrop, a young married New Yorker in 1998 who is obsessed with what she perceived as the ultimate romantic love story—Edward's abdication of the royal throne for his love of Simpson. The character of Simpson acted as a spiritual guide for Winthrop, in the film. The timeline presented in the film ranges from pre-World War II England (1936–37) to New York in 1998, and the storyline swaps between these two eras. Madonna decided to use the Sotheby's auction of Edward and Simpson's estate in 1998, to flash backward from.
Madonna's inspiration to direct the film came from the controversial lives of Edward and Simpson. She recalled from her experience that if she brought up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, "it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room. Everyone erupts into an argument about who they were. I mean, they were very controversial – and continue to be. So, of course, I'm very attracted to that." She investigated the history behind the abdication and tried to understand what led Edward to leave his royal throne. The singer spent two years researching the life of Simpson and writing the script. She wallpapered an empty room in her house with pictures from auction catalogues and photographs of the Duke and Duchess throughout their lives. "I was sitting in a room that was completely and utterly inundated with their images so I could soak up their energy. I was trying to understand the nature of their love story and trying to figure out for myself if there is such a thing as perfect love," she said. However, not interested in making a biopic about Simpson, Madonna created the modern-day story about the character Wally Winthrop, so that she could have a point of view in which to tell the narrative. She explained later: "We can all read the same history book and have a different point of view. So it was important for me to not present the story and say, 'This is the one and only story,' but to say, 'This story moved me and inspired me.' That's how the two love stories were created." One of the first characters that Madonna developed for the film was a Russian immigrant living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan, called Evgeni. The character was inspired by Eugene Hütz, who played the lead role in Filth and Wisdom. Another motivation behind the project was the celebrity aspect of Edward and Simpson, who became the subject of intense media scrutiny and public vilification and were ostracised by the Royal Family. Madonna, being interested in the cult of celebrity, found that many of the rumors surrounding Simpson's life are untrue and she could not find any empirical evidence supporting them. Hence she wanted to portray Simpson as a human being with flaws, imperfections and a vulnerable side. "The message of the film is to realise that in the end happiness lies in your own head and that we are in fact in charge of our destiny," she said.
Costumes
After finishing the script and starting work on casting and production, Madonna realised that the budget of film was going to be high. Simpson's character had around 80 costume changes with dresses by designers like Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Madeleine Vionnet and Elsa Schiaparelli. Most of the actual dresses were kept in museum archives, hence unobtainable to Madonna. Instead, many of the couture houses offered to crea
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