Shakespeare In Love

[Reno]

I thought it did a good job in satirising the artists biopic. It acknowledged the absurdity of concluding that an artists work must be directly inspired by their life which is the kind of simplistic rubbish so many biographies want to make us believe. As Shakespeare's plots are frequently absurd and as not much is known about his life, he was a good artist to use. It certainly has more energy and originality then your average British hertiage pic and more in its head than most romantic comedies. It sort of did for British theatre what Adaptation did for Hollywood films.

If anything along these lines is shit, then it's the likes of Becoming Jane, the current Jane Austen biopic, which is exactly the kind codswallop that Shakespeare in Love satirised.

*opens umbrella in anticipation of a Dubversion spittle spraying rant*

 

[Looby]

It makes me when dub gets all lairy.

I quite liked it, that probably had a lot to do with Joseph Fiennes but I thought it was ok. Not the greatest film I've ever seen but nice.

 

[Dubversion]

Fiennes looked like fucking PRINCE in this film.

the mimsy twat

 

[Looby]

Fiennes looked like fucking PRINCE in this film.

the mimsy twat

No he fucking doesn't.

 

[Dubversion]

mimsy shite

 

[Looby]

mimsy

Dubversions word of the day ladies and gents.

 

[Dubversion]

our two new fish are going to be called Growler and Mimsy

 

[zygote]

I voted the last option but only because of post#3 I've never seen it or had any wish to see it but I saw me old mucker David Gamble getting the editing BAFTA on the telly and he thanked his mum and dad hehe. I see on IMDB he also won something called an Eddie. Original.

 

[Looby]

our two new fish are going to be called Growler and Mimsy

Fantastic.

 

[dylanredefined]

I am a pleb and I got the jokes great fun film .

 

[scifisam]

I hate hate hated it because of all the hundreds of things it got wrong about Shakespeare. The writer knew perfectly well he was getting them wrong, too, but he was 'playing with the myth of the bard,' 'adding to the Bardbiz industry' and being 'postmodern.' Problem is that, unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, this was aimed at the general public, many of whom now probably have completely wrong ideas about Shakespeare and will argue that their wrong ideas are right, because Tom Stoppard says so and he really knows his Shakespeare.

It was also shite.

 

[Guineveretoo]

It was a comedy, ffs! Surely no-one thought it was real?

Even if I hadn't enjoyed it, I would have voted that way just because it is funny watching Dub getting apoplectic!

 

[scifisam]

It was a comedy, ffs! Surely no-one thought it was real?

Even if I hadn't enjoyed it, I would have voted that way just because it is funny watching Dub getting apoplectic!

Lots and lots of people did, unfortunately. You know how some dim people thought the Da Vinci code was real? Well, some people who weren't dim enough to believe that nonetheless thought that SiL was wrong. I had people 'point out to me' that Rome and Juliet was actually Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter.

 

[zygote]

You know how some dim people thought the Da Vinci code was real?

What you trying to say here eh??

 

[Reno]

I hate hate hated it because of all the hundreds of things it got wrong about Shakespeare. The writer knew perfectly well he was getting them wrong, too, but he was 'playing with the myth of the bard,' 'adding to the Bardbiz industry' and being 'postmodern.' Problem is that, unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, this was aimed at the general public, many of whom now probably have completely wrong ideas about Shakespeare and will argue that their wrong ideas are right, because Tom Stoppard says so and he really knows his Shakespeare.

Wow, you really missed the point of the film, didn't you ?

 

[electrogirl]

boring.

never got all the way through.

 

[scifisam]

Wow, you really missed the point of the film, didn't you ?

No. But the point was only clear for certain people who appreciate satire that's as well-hidden as it was in this film.

 

[Lock&Light]

Anyway, despite the squabbles, most people think differently from Dubversion.

What a surprise!

 

[scifisam]

Anyway, despite the squabbles, most people think differently from Dubversion.

What a surprise!

Not by a huge percentage - 55% liked the film, 45% hated it in some form or other.

 

[Groucho]

Sliding Doors is better though

 

[YouSir]

Shakespeare In Love was... something I really don't care about.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

NB: anyone selecting the last option is, by doing so, giving dubversion and all other right thinking people everywhere the legal right to tear off their heads and shit down their necks.

*applause*

 

[electrogirl]

Sliding Doors is better though

i like that one.

thought it was good the way they made her love rat boyfriend likeable instead of the usual charicature.

also, everyone wanted her short hairdo when it came out, although it looks pretty naff now.

 

[lontok2005]

Shakespeare in Love? Terrific fun. Loved the way it made use of the conventions of Shakespeare's day to tell its tale of Shakespeare's day - cross-dressing, simple misunderstandings, lots of wordplay. It's Shakespeare done in Elizabethan I style for an Elizabethan II audience. Who cares that it's not an 'accurate' portrayal of Shakespeare the man? What is? You can't have a very accurate portrayal of a man whose personal life and character we know next to nothing about (we may well know about his tax evasions and his share-holdings in the Chamberlain's Men and the fact that he left his second best bed to his wife, but as to what kind of man he was, there's not much more than his actual plays and poems to go on). Structurally, it's a very intelligent piece of art; as an exploration into the relationship between an artist's life and his work, it's imaginative; and as an insight into the workings of the Elizabethan theatre, it's educational. And it's fun. Perhaps it has propogated misunderstandings of Shakespeare's character and life, but no more so than he did about Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra. Perhaps it did steal ideas and rehash old concepts, but for all his genius with language, the man himself, when it comes to plot, was a plagiarist a heart - just a very, very gifted one in a time when to be so, far from being disparaged, was considered praiseworthy.

 

[Miss Potter]

whimsy mimsy schmimsy I love it, it's one of those films to do the ironing to on a rainy Sunday afternoon