I chose to write a review on Shakespeare in Love written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and directed by John Madden for paper three. I have heard from many people that it was a great movie and with a wonderful plot and great acting. This movie presents a hypothesis of how the Romeo and Juliet came to be. I was very impressed by the amount of detail that was paid to recreating the; I loved how the story just seemed to draw you in, not only behind the scenes of the theater, but into the mind of the playwright.
This movie is a comedy because no one dies; all the main characters live throughout the entire movie. The only character that did perish was Christopher Marlowe, but he was not a main character even though he was Shakespeare's competition as a playwright. This was a comedy with an ironic ending, both Will and Viola (like Romeo and Juliet) learn that their love cannot be because of society and they are forced apart, but unlike Romeo and Juliet they both live and there is a hint in the end that there could be a happy ending, although no details are given other than the play Will is writing when the movie ends.
The only aspects of the movie I did not care for were the nudity and its slow and confusing beginning. The love scenes could have still been as powerful and moving without showing Viola's breasts, we all still got the idea of what was going on and feelings as well. The movie did have a slow beginning and did not start to get interesting until after Viola is discovered by Will to be the actor playing Romeo and then romance ensues. The beginning was confusing because it just dumps the viewer right into a scene where Henslowe is being tortured because he owes debts. After the movie has been going for a while, the viewer can piece things together and figures out what has lead up to where the movie begins. I do not see anyway in avoiding this, you do not want have some kind of introduction that spoils the play, but it would be nice for something to be there to help the viewer figure out what is going on and not have to watch it twice because the first half of the movie was missed trying to understand the plot.
Love and Beauty The backbone of Shakespeare's sonnets is love. ... He emphasizes the importance of personal expression and art - which is why his masterpiece is still reviewed, analysed and cited today. Immortality Shakespeare, like many sonneteers, portrays time as an enemy of love. Keeping love alive is not easy. One knows that life inevitably comes to an end, but does love? ...
Silence as a Sign of Emotional Intent in Shakespeare's Coriolanus as in Other Works Volumnia, in her final appearance in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, passes over the stage in silence as she is hailed as " the life of Rome" (V.v.1). ... Love, loss, joy, anger, and depression have all met muted silence in the comedies of Shakespeare. 7 Translating this fact to pertain to Shakespearean dramas show a thematic relevance to the work of Shakespeare as a single body, and lends itself to a major theme in Coriolanus. ... Harriett Hawkins, a feminist critic of both literature and mass culture,...
Just substitute William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet for the actual television show and Verona Beach for the location. ... Baz Luhrmann Tells the greatest love story of all time, in our time. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and greed. ... Shakespeare's heart-wrenching tale of doomed love is told with passion, beauty, wit, furious energy and a worldwide, best selling soundtrack. ... Baz Lugrmann's Romeo And Juliet is a very interesting and intriguing interpretation of Shakespeare's tale of two star-cros...
In his chapter "The Final Paradox," Irving Ribner seems to believe that Shakespeare was addressing and returning to the theme of damnation, feeling that he has shown this in his earlier plays. ... Damning his soul, I've had a hard time in believing that is what Shakespeare was implying when writing the play. ... He feels that the final act shows Cleopatra's regeneration, her rejection of lust, and her acceptance of love. ... Ribner tops even himself here with It seems as though through-out this review Ribner has become too wound up in his own world of Christianity, morals and chast...
Shakespeare clearly brings out the importance and irrelevance of the major and minor characters, respectively. ... I wonder if its because Iago loves evil for evil's sake, he is motivated by his jealousy of Cassio and Othello, or he's motivated by a force he simply doesn't understand. ... I found Shakespeare's choice of a black man to be scorned and treated wrongfully indirectly in Othello to be very negative. ... Even though there are people who can understand Shakespeare's language, there are also people such as myself, who have yet a long way to learn Shakespeare an...
The production that I selected to critically review is Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann's version of forbidden love and the eventual suicide deaths of young Juliet and Romeo is translated with a unique integration of modern setting and language without losing the original texture and meaning of Shakespeare's work. 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is evidently intended for a younger demographic of viewers, partially due to quick paced and choppy editing, modern cultural allusions, as well as star power consisting of a cast ...
Shakespeare Coursework Romeo and Juliet" Analyse the way in which Baz Luhrmann interprets themes, characters and language during the opening scene of "Romeo and Juliet" Romeo and Juliet is a timeless, classic, love story written by William Shakespeare. The play masterfully tells the tragic love story of two "star-cross"d lovers" Romeo and Juliet. ... Baz Luhrmann's version of one of Shakespeare's most loved plays portrays the classic story in a modern day setting. ... He stated "If I update the language I would no longer be able to call my film William Shakespeare's Rome...
This was evident when Ophelia came to talk to Hamlet about her love for him. ... How could Hamlet, even if he realized that Ophelia was helping her father spy on Hamlet, allow himself to be so harsh with the love of his life? ... In this scene, Ophelia completely looses her mind as the love of her life turns out to be the murderer of her beloved father. ... This does not follow Shakespeare and does not capture the true meaning that Shakespeare was trying to deliver through his writing. ... "Mel Gibson's 1990 version strives for realism, with remarkably accurate medieval sets and costum...
Romeo and Juliet is a love story that expresses how powerful love can actually be. ... Upon reading reviews from his earlier works, it was clear that audiences favored his use of the complex components of the music he created. This is expressed from some critique review from www.lyricsfreak.com in which it states: "Sondheim's work is notable for his use of complex polyphony in his vocal parts.... This creativeness and importance to details of the text is what makes Shakespeare and Stephen so interestingly similar. ... All that can be seen and understood is the realization that he is ...
