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1. Review on “Much Ado about Nothing” 2011/06/18 17:28
Much Ado about Nothing is adapted from one of William Shakespeare’s best-known comedies. Shakespeare’s drama has been enjoyed for nearly 400 years. Some people think this success is because the plays are about things which will always be part of human life and experience, which are relevant whatever century the audience live in — emotions such as jealousy, ambition, justice, love or hate. There is an alternative theory that the plays are written in such a way that each age can interpret the plays in its own way.
1993 version of Much Ado about Nothing is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also plays the role of Benedick. The film centers around two romances — Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson.) For Hero and Claudio, as with any immediate attraction, they have a lot to learn about each other. Beatrice and Benedick, on the other hand, have known each other for quite some time but they need some push from their friends to help them realize and admit their chemistry to each other.
The movie opens with a dark screen and the words “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more” fading on to the screen. As the famous poem continues, we hear Beatrice (Emma Thompson) reciting the poem. The black screen drops away so that we can see a beautiful countryside and the residents of the villa lounging in the grass, eating bread and grapes, drinking wine, and listening to poetry in a landscape that begs to be described as sun-splashed.
I personally like Beatrice best not because of her beauty but also her personality of the role. Compare with Hero, Beatrice is more beautiful and attractive. She act out the toughness and proud of a woman, and also the cuteness and double-dealing of a woman in love. The role of Beatrice is well captured by Kenneth Branagh.
Many people avoid Shakespeare because the language is archaic and can be difficult to follow. This is true if the play is simply read or poorly acted. But this cast truly makes the language come alive and you’ll soon forget that the usage is dated.
2. Review on “Pride & Prejudice”2011/06/20 22:44
Pride & Prejudice is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence, the first of the novel, introduces the reader to the marriage theme that will outline much of the book.
The story follows the Bennet sisters, a group of fine young women who, with the assistance of an overbearing mother, are in search of appropriate men to marry. Only the father seems immune to the high drama going on in the household as Mother Bennet strategizes over how to get her brood married off.
Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) is the defiant one of the bunch, struggling against class restrictions and only wanting to marry for true love. She meets up with the taciturn Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and is both repulsed and attracted to the wealthy gentleman. As the two are forced together in various social situations, Darcy soon wises up to the fact he’s smitten with the fair Elizabeth. Meanwhile Elizabeth rejects a foppish suitor, becomes enamored with Darcy’s enemy, and watches her sisters fall in and out of love before ultimately giving into the fact she and Darcy are meant for one another.
This story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. And I think that Keira Knightley brings Jane Austen's book to glorious, pulsating life! She gives a star-making performance.
I really like this movie because it makes you believe in true love, happily-ever-after and all the other stuff a romantic comedy promises but so seldom delivers. When Lizzie and Darcy finally accept each other, I felt an almost unreasonable happiness.
Much Ado about Nothing is adapted from one of William Shakespeare’s best-known comedies. Shakespeare’s drama has been enjoyed for nearly 400 years. Some people think this success is because the plays are about things which will always be part of human life and experience, which are relevant whatever century the audience live in — emotions such as jealousy, ambition, justice, love or hate. There is an alternative theory that the plays are written in such a way that each age can interpret the plays in its own way.
1993 version of Much Ado about Nothing is directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also plays the role of Benedick. The film centers around two romances — Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson.) For Hero and Claudio, as with any immediate attraction, they have a lot to learn about each other. Beatrice and Benedick, on the other hand, have known each other for quite some time but they need some push from their friends to help them realize and admit their chemistry to each other.
The movie opens with a dark screen and the words “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more” fading on to the screen. As the famous poem continues, we hear Beatrice (Emma Thompson) reciting the poem. The black screen drops away so that we can see a beautiful countryside and the residents of the villa lounging in the grass, eating bread and grapes, drinking wine, and listening to poetry in a landscape that begs to be described as sun-splashed.
I personally like Beatrice best not because of her beauty but also her personality of the role. Compare with Hero, Beatrice is more beautiful and attractive. She act out the toughness and proud of a woman, and also the cuteness and double-dealing of a woman in love. The role of Beatrice is well captured by Kenneth Branagh.
Many people avoid Shakespeare because the language is archaic and can be difficult to follow. This is true if the play is simply read or poorly acted. But this cast truly makes the language come alive and you’ll soon forget that the usage is dated.
2. Review on “Pride & Prejudice”2011/06/20 22:44
Pride & Prejudice is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence, the first of the novel, introduces the reader to the marriage theme that will outline much of the book.
The story follows the Bennet sisters, a group of fine young women who, with the assistance of an overbearing mother, are in search of appropriate men to marry. Only the father seems immune to the high drama going on in the household as Mother Bennet strategizes over how to get her brood married off.
Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) is the defiant one of the bunch, struggling against class restrictions and only wanting to marry for true love. She meets up with the taciturn Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and is both repulsed and attracted to the wealthy gentleman. As the two are forced together in various social situations, Darcy soon wises up to the fact he’s smitten with the fair Elizabeth. Meanwhile Elizabeth rejects a foppish suitor, becomes enamored with Darcy’s enemy, and watches her sisters fall in and out of love before ultimately giving into the fact she and Darcy are meant for one another.
This story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. And I think that Keira Knightley brings Jane Austen's book to glorious, pulsating life! She gives a star-making performance.
I really like this movie because it makes you believe in true love, happily-ever-after and all the other stuff a romantic comedy promises but so seldom delivers. When Lizzie and Darcy finally accept each other, I felt an almost unreasonable happiness.
