tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post4488108369080191373..comments2023-12-19T08:12:59.428-08:00Comments on Post-Punk Cinema Club: Shakespeare in Love (1998)a ppcc representativehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03533616493105736109noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-3852720870786452572012-02-22T18:22:08.286-08:002012-02-22T18:22:08.286-08:00This movie will always be in my memories! Gwenyth ...This movie will always be in my memories! Gwenyth Paltrow was absolutely beautiful in this movie. Her leading partner was not too shabby himself. This is one of the best romantic movies I have ever seenCeskahttp://biteatongue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-45519284702295898312011-01-20T01:00:29.703-08:002011-01-20T01:00:29.703-08:00Brazil is a terrific film. Very Stoppardian. He ...Brazil is a terrific film. Very Stoppardian. He also wrote the screenplay for Empire of the Sun, Spielberg's excellent rendering of J.G.Ballard's autobiographical novel. Stoppard is known primarily as a playwright - perhaps Great Britain's foremost (along with Alan Ayckbourn). His plays are intellectually taxing but always enjoyable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-10272293884561606072011-01-20T00:45:35.192-08:002011-01-20T00:45:35.192-08:00"Eliza - do you like Stoppard's other stu..."Eliza - do you like Stoppard's other stuff?"<br /><br />The only films I have watched where he is credited as a screen writer are (can you tell that I had to google him? :) ) <br /><br />The Russian House - I don't really remember much about it<br />Enigma - I liked it.<br /><br />But my personal fave would be <br />"Brazil" though he is a co writer in that one.eliza bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997101330508195099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-56086812868620796822011-01-19T08:20:37.572-08:002011-01-19T08:20:37.572-08:00I referred not to quality but to popularity, a poi...I referred not to quality but to popularity, a point germane because this is a "difficult" film and was, I believe, unexpectedly successful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-80886394925951511562011-01-19T08:07:26.799-08:002011-01-19T08:07:26.799-08:00And by "have polarizing opinions", I mea...And by "have polarizing opinions", I mean "provoke" them.a ppcc representativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03533616493105736109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-69526763939308963482011-01-19T08:06:57.822-08:002011-01-19T08:06:57.822-08:00Oh! Who knew this movie would have such polarizing...Oh! Who knew this movie would have such polarizing opinions. I can definitely see how the tone of the film might be seen as a bit self-congratulatory - I felt that way a bit about Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I think people often use as a measure of their own cleverness. Eliza - do you like Stoppard's other stuff? <br /><br />And, for the record, the PPCC doesn't subscribe to the view that movie quality can be accurately proxied by popularity or Oscar wins. Those are, if anything, very imperfect measures of a particular demographic's tastes - nothing more!a ppcc representativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03533616493105736109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-32604341171370691342011-01-19T01:35:02.183-08:002011-01-19T01:35:02.183-08:00Still, they must have done something right. The f...Still, they must have done something right. The film won 7 Oscars and made 100 million dollars in its first year alone (it is not the money, but the numbers of people that the money suggests must have seen it that impresses). Like most people who saw it, I enjoyed it immensely, and I do pity you, dear Liza, dear Liza...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-54498610590805231452011-01-19T01:07:41.538-08:002011-01-19T01:07:41.538-08:00to Wynn Wheldon
Oh the name is fictional no dou...to Wynn Wheldon <br /><br />Oh the name is fictional no doubt :) <br /><br />I wouldn't cast RF in that role but he is the better actor (by far) in the family. Never seen him give a bad performance. JF's performance came off as too forced, too aware for my tastes (as the film was but the other actors -such as Mr.Rush- managed to make it work in a way JF couldn't) GP was like in another film and all I can remember of her is her hair. <br /><br />to Anonymous : Many of the references being too obvious and self congratulary was a big turn off for me. I felt like someone telling a joke (badly) and the only one who's laughing at it is him/herself. <br /><br />Having said all of the above, I really wanted to enjoy it (as I do with every film) but couldn't. And feel envious of the people who did.eliza bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997101330508195099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-25669299950083875962011-01-18T14:52:24.690-08:002011-01-18T14:52:24.690-08:00Paltrow does a good English accent, and she's ...Paltrow does a good English accent, and she's an extremely passive actress anyway. Her strength lies in her delicacy. The film itself is a Stoppardian delight, full of in-jokes, word play and allusion. The more you know about the Elizabethan theatre, the better it is. In that sense it is perhaps best seen as a commercially successful art house movie, with enough straight laughs to keep the groundlings happy. I know that sounds horribly condescending, but how many in this movie's audience would have got John Webster jokes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-20583518400344007472011-01-18T13:47:23.134-08:002011-01-18T13:47:23.134-08:00@eliza I am with you 100%!! This film was a disapp...@eliza I am with you 100%!! This film was a disappointment for me, too. Gwynnie's performance was subpar and her accent was worse.<br /><br />Yick.Filmi Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182245444783020664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-90539726055571843422011-01-18T10:01:36.858-08:002011-01-18T10:01:36.858-08:00Poor Eliza Bennett (a suspiciously metafictional n...Poor Eliza Bennett (a suspiciously metafictional name, methinks). JF in my books is an altogether better actor than RF (horrible even to contemplate him in this role), and brought a fetching nervous energy, and obvious intelligence, to the screen. Perfect casting. As for Gwyneth: well Hollywood stars with good English accents are fairly rare. I thought she did fine. Amadeus is the superior film, no doubt, but how can you fail with a soundtrack like that?WPWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397697783602472471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-45180186532291751032011-01-18T01:05:50.409-08:002011-01-18T01:05:50.409-08:00This film to me was a huge dissapointment. Everyth...This film to me was a huge dissapointment. Everything in it felt fake and in your face. I loved the cast apart from the two leads - JF doesn't have any of his brother's good qualities in acting and Gwyneth Paltrow is... well I have no words for that performance.<br /><br />I certainly wished that I was able to channel on the vein that fed everyone else but as far as I'm concerned, this film was a total fail yaar. <br /><br />Now Amadeus, I really really loved. At least the lead performances were both excellent.eliza bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997101330508195099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79723819638700739.post-68220502358377291162011-01-17T18:56:02.370-08:002011-01-17T18:56:02.370-08:00You made me fall in love with this movie all over ...You made me fall in love with this movie all over again!Avahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274222598587327676noreply@blogger.com