Posted on 11/30/2022 9:12:04 AM PST by Rummyfan
Say what you will, there were some very memorable moments in it; and I only saw it once, in 1998. The moment when the female actor disguised as a male meets Queen Elizabeth I and starts to curtsy, then remembers to bow was very well played by Gwynnie (who has since turned into a crashing bore). And of course, the illuminated moment when you see Judi Dench as QEI. I loved the scenes inside the fabled Globe theater, such as the rowdy audience throwing food. Even Ben Affleck gave a great performance. The cast was stellar, including Joseph Fiennes, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Rupert Everett, Jim Carter, John Inman, Tom Wilkinson and Martin Clunes.
I'm going to have to see that again. I've gotten a kick from him in Doc Martin and his nature documentary on islands in the Pacific.
LOL; I just wrote a long screed about what was memorable about it at post 61. But I was a Shakespeare fangirl from early on -- read all of his plays and many sonnets even before graduating from high school, most of it on my own intiative; so seeing those characters brought alive, even in historical fiction, entertained me greatly.
Reading Will S. so young?—what I wasn't yet capable of understanding about adult life and intrigues in the plots was more than offset by absorbing a lifelong love of high-quality English language (still prefer the King James Version, for instance) and the craft of iambic pentameter.
Hmm.....
Watching SIL again, I was more able to appreciate all the Shakespeare that TomStoppard stuck in to the dialogue. There's so much of it you have to really pay attention or you miss it. My one complaint about Stoppard is that he's sometimes too clever for his own good.
“But it’s still a great movie”
totally great movie ... and i too watch it time to time ...
“That would imply a gender bias.”
worse, much worse, it implies ONLY TWO genders ... how long before “all other genders” is added for each category ... WHEN that happens, and it WILL happen, the Oscars will have finally been woked into oblivion ...
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” —Eric Hoffer
I’m so sorry to hear your sad news, Captain Peter Blood. Sincere condolences.
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
In any year other than 1973, Sham would have won the Kentucky Derby.
I watched How green was my Valley with my mom, every time it was shown on broadcast. It is a very good movie, with a stiff touch of reality. Life with Father, another one that was great, with reality at the end.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
The only good movies I can remember winning in the last 25-30 years were Braveheart and Return of the King. I may have overlooked a few, but most were self important Oscar bait.
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I liked CODA. It made me smile.
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I should have qualified it with ‘I’ forgot about it as soon as I left the theater. Personally, I enjoyed the movie as I watched, but it didn’t have any lasting value to me.
I have only read Shakespeare peripherally, but I know enough about it to understand that the artistic portrayals of human nature are very cleverly done in his written works, and are timeless.
Much the same impression I get as I read the Bible-I only began recently to really read it, and the timeless portrayal of our flawed human nature from thousands of years ago, unchanged up until today, is conveyed.
Shakespeare does that kind of thing in an artistic way, IMO.
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