Re: Shakespeare in Love
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:18:14 +1100
Glad you liked it, Jim (: I did too - and I'm an extra-finicky
Shakespeare-nut, too (as you all know by now). I too was worried by the
inaccuracy of the basic premise - I kept waiting for them to mention that
Romeo and Juliet was already a famous story when S. adapted it - but later
I realised that the attitude the writers have taken is actually analogous
to the attiutude Shakes. himself took to history - if it doesn't make good
drama, fling it out. You don't find in history books that Richard III had a
hump on his back until *after* S. wrote the play (likewise in my Ancient
History class we were constantly warned off things that had come into
common currency simply cause that's the way they did it on `I, Claudius',
the TV series (: )
But I'm sorry, if Cate Blanchett doesn't get the Oscar I'll be very upset.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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Jim wrote:
> The larger part of the storyline was pure BS regarding the facts of
> Shakespeare's facts, so far as I can tell.
>
> But oh, such Wonderful BS :)
>
> Perfect tribute to Shakespeare. Loved every minute.
>
> Jim
>
> PS My wife tells me Gwyneth Paltrow has been flashing herself across the
> screen ever since her break up with Brad Pitt, and I'm beginning to think
> there may be something to that....
>
> "The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
> try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
>
> --F.K.
>
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