Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-shakespeare-in-love-written-by.html 10 out of 10

 

Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-shakespeare-in-love-written-by.html

10 out of 10

 

 

Shakespeare in love was in the program again last night and could not miss the chance to see this motion picture, that is so exhilarating, complex, amusing, romantic, inspired, splendidly acted, no wonder that it has won seven Oscars and so much more, including for the disgraced monster Harvey Weinstein

 

I have read in Variety an article about the making of the film, which could have been cancelled altogether, seeing that it got off to a bad start, when Julia Roberts was involved in the project – and she had been the reason why a studio had approved the financing and then they travelled to England to work on it

 

Julia Roberts had been made famous by Pretty Woman, but the producer who tells this story had hindsight and thinks she was still too young at the time, I think she was twenty five, and exuberant, sure that she will have Daniel Day Lewis as her partner, because he was so handsome and funny, and she wanted this to happen

She has sent him a dozen roses with a note ‘Be my Romeo’, only the fabulous actor could not do it, because he had already been engaged and I think he had started work on In The Name of The Father (another tremendous achievement, Daniel Day Lewis has never acted in a flop) and could not do Shakespeare…

 

Nevertheless, Julia Roberts was very upset, did not pay attention to the actors invited for the casting, neglected Fiennes and some other wonderful men, that were not well known at the time, but would become huge names later, such as Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, and this nearly destroyed the prospects of the movie

One day, when they asked for Julia Roberts, they found that she had gone…hence, we have Gwyneth Paltrow in the leading role, winning an Oscar for her performance, and what a dazzling tour de force that is, albeit she is yet another bizarre personage off the stage, first we had that crying at the ceremony, then later, she became involved in an outré outfit, I think it is called Goop, the subject of jokes at late night shows…

 

Shakespeare aka Joseph Fiennes is in love, as we find from the title and Viola de Lesseps aka Gwyneth Paltrow is his muse, albeit she wants to be on stage and disguises herself as a man, in order to get a part…

 

Their love is impossible in the Middle Ages, when the rich would not intersect with the poor – indeed, there are plenty of jokes and felicitous situations, dogs attacking on stage, for the fun of the public, and then when they ask ‘who is he’, the answer is ‘nobody, the author’- the actors, writers, did not enjoy the special status they have today, at least the super stars, who have impressive fortunes…

It is true that while Johnny Depp was worth more than half a billion dollars, something we have learned from the mediatized trial, wherein he accused his wife and she said he is a wife-beater, she defecated on his bed, he intoxicated himself often and so on, there are many arrests who cannot make a living…

 

There is in fact a strike, for the first time in more than fifty years – I forgot how many – writers and actors walk out at the same time – the last time when that happened, Ronald Reagan was the head of the union of writers and Bob hope made a joke along the lines of ‘people with a swimming pool refuse to get out of it’, or words to that effect – and I am frustrated because I cannot watch my favorite Seth Meyers show

This is just one of the many wonderful things about Shakespeare in Love, the fact that it does not propose an impossible, sweet, corny, banal take on the story, pretending that William Shakespeare and Viola could overcome the obstacles and somehow elope, or just convince everybody that they are made for each other

 

Indeed, one of the best known economists of the present is Thomas Pickerty http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2020/07/91-out-of-100-for-capital.html and he argues that in the old days, the encounter between the personages of Jane Austen would have been impossible, never mind the marriages that we celebaret in the pages of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility…

This imaginary Shakespeare – the genius existed, but he did not encounter this lady, and the affair is just imagination – finds the inspiration he needs, and maybe we can celebrate the end of their romance, if we listen to Andrei Plesu http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/05/obscenitatea-publica-by-andrei-plesu.html he quotes another luminary and says that the ‘good life is not auspicious for the creator’ or words to that effect, thus, if the greatest author had found happiness with a resplendent woman, he would have been to comfortable, tempted to savor life’s joys to sit at the table and give us so much bliss http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/07/romeo-and-juliet-by-william-shakespeare.html for eternity

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world    – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html