At the movie's outset, Queen Gedren appears on horseback wearing a full-facial veil of transparent black silk. Although it appears to be a shroud to protect the queen's beautiful face, Sonja is able to rip through it with a nasty spiked weapon.
Who else is disturbed by this element of the story?
How would a silk shroud be protective?
It's purely decorative. Of course the weapon would rip through. It's just a bit of material.
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Of course, yet how ironic the queen would comletely shroud her face to protect it against the elements, yet a spiked weapon of one of her own guards easily tore through that filmy finery.
shareNo, the point is there is no protection at all. It is not there to protect against elements, weapons, sand, flies or anything.
It is decorative only, like a logo on a baseball cap.
Might as well argue that a crown doesn't protect a king from a sword...
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Apparently so. I simply felt a woman as vain as Queen Gedren, who would massacre an entire village over a gash to her face, would naturally protect her prized complexion while out in the elements. She did look fabulous in that see-through, full-face black veil, so I suppose that's the point....
shareA woman so prone to such immense violence over petty things probably rules by fear and therefore would not expect someone to actually have teh courage to even attack her, much less succeed. Therefore she'd have no need for protection. The downfall of the strong is that they must *show* they are strong. For Gedren, one of her strengths (in her opinion) is her vanity and it's better to show off* what she's got than hide it away.
But given how this film was done, I don't think they really went that deep into the psyche of the characters... ;-)
*I note that many evil characters in movies, who have some powerful thingamajig or device, always have it in a fancy display case to show it off!
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Obviously, Gedren ruled by fear with her immense army; however, it only took a freak of opportunity by Red Sonja that one would steal one's sword and cruelly gash their queen's flawless face.
"What are their lives compared to this?"
I think she has a point...