#his aura...

alatriste (2006)

countenance is ok, even if more apathetic than majestic, which is the historical interpretation they are going for.. but one i think is wrong. i am contractually obligated to give some points for the only somewhat good-looking golilla i have ever seen onscreen, and for the best hair in the list (someone remembered you can look at portraits for historical costuming instead of winging it). also in one scene he wears a nice plumed HAT (!!!) — they remembered you have to give them hats!

7/10

alatriste (2006): version 2

top 5 worst wigs ever? look at what they stuck on his face for the mustache lol

4/10

el rey pasmado (1991)

a passing grade because there was a visible effort in costuming (perhaps the best effort ever made to portray 1620s spanish fashion— which... wow... THIS is the best effort?)... but they still made the mistake of conceptualizing the golilla as a paper plate. minus one point because they directed gabino diego to always look as stupid as he could and yes, that IS the point of the movie, but i don't have to like it

5/10

el ministerio del tiempo (2015-2020)

just awful lol. the outfits... welcome to the renaissance faire sire

2/10

velázquez, pintor del rey (1990)

nice... the wig is terrible but at least they got a guy who looks suitably exhausted in every scene. i don't think he looks a lot like philip iv but many of the features are there so i see the vision :] (maybe if they had shaved the eyebrows?)

7/10

the spanish dancer (1923)

movie didn't care one bit- might as well be a stock king character. i have to admit though that silent movie intertitles can be very funny (twould be a dangerous precedent, sire / i am speaking to my husband — leave us, olivarez")

1/10

aguila roja (2009-2016)

no

-100000/10

don cesare di bazan (1942)

lovely actually... great nose. he spends the movie trying and failing horribly to score with the protagonist's love interest. some dubious costuming choices (see "velazquez" in the background) but this is the 1940s and anyway this is riding on mustache alone

9/10

alatriste (2015)

who the fuck is this? two bonus points however because the spirit remains: his first scene is him sneaking into a brothel and then he subjects olivares to bad poetry

2/10

BONUS: mary and george (2024)

he shouldn't really be here... he's not a character and he's onscreen for 3 seconds. also not very surprising that the writing team was so unfamiliar with like, everything that they'd get the wrong king of spain while sleepwalking through the spanish match... however, i have to say it is incredibly funny to me that they've clearly mixed him up with philip iii in what might be the only recorded case of someone remembering philip iii unprompted. one extra point