Shakespeare In Love

Shakespeare in Love - Review

Hello all,
I recently watched the movie "Shakespeare in Love" and wanted to write about it. I quite liked it.
+William Shakespeare 
I was expecting an old-fashioned movie with confusing language and that I wouldn't understand the film at all. But I think they've modernised it to an extent to which it's undertsandable but still realistic. Good job there John Madden.

Throughout the film I was completely intreagued, but I don't know if that was because of the goregous eye-candy and accent of Shakespeare (played by Joseph Fiennes) or the story. At first the story was exciting, this rich beautiful maiden, Viola (played by the stunning Gweneth Paltrow) who didn't play by the rules and who do anything to be the woman she wanted to be, even if that meant dressing up like a man.

I loved how the bond between Will and Viola instantly became love after about 2meetings. Similar to Romeo and Juliet, it didn't take long at all for them to fal in love. And when they did, it was magic, Though the love was seen to be wrong and forbidden, it was the most pure, hympnotizing love i'd ever seen. They were so engrossed in eachother. The acting, I thought, was amazing, it's rare, in romantic movies that you're really convinced the lovers are in love. These 2, there was no question, their eyes and expression made you feel all the emotion of every word they spoke. Though maybe that was because the movie was based on the guy who wrote the most intense romance of all time.

I also enjoyed how as their love developed so did the play he was writing, and how you saw the progression of Romeo and Juliet being written.

Lastly, I was exprecting more of an ending. I thought, maybe Lord Wessex or Viola would have suffered a major death or trauma. But it was very simplictic, quite sad though. Viola was forced by the Queen to join her husband Lord Wessex in Virginia, whilst Will Shakespeare must remain in London and he carried on writing plays. Though I was expecting more drama, I thought it was very clever how at the end it showed Will basing his next very well known play "Twelth Night" on his love, Viola.

Overall, not the best movie I've ever seen, but I'd watch it again and reccommend it to you guys.

Anyway, I hope you all have a VERY Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I'll write to you all in 2013 ;)
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