Re: Shakespeare in Love
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:34:07 +1100
I saw `Shakespeare in Love' a few days ago now and I loved it - a
beautifully
constructed and realised script, and I always cry when I see The Globe on
screen.
Although it was a United Press screening - that is, in a theatrette and for
all the reviewers for a major media company which made for a kind of odd
atmposphere - but all the critics seemed to like it too and I predict it
will rightly get some good reviews.
The inaccuracy in the main premise - i.e. that Shakespeare `made up' Romeo
and Juliet from scratch - worried me a bit (as did a few details such as
Shakespeare writing in Acts and Scenes -which he rarely did, if ever - as
Matt K knows I'm a stickler for Shakespearean accuracy (: ) - but then I
realised that the movie's cavalier attitude to history is actually parallel
to Shakespeare's own attitude - he didn't care wholly for what really
happened, but what current events he could make parallels to, what in-jokes
he could include, and ultimately what good drama could be made from it .
Nice to finally see the point behind Gwyneth Paltrow, too (:
Camille
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