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Shakespeare in Love LMAO THE NURSE creating an auditory distraction for the…maid? And her fanning herself cuz she’s all hot and bothered. MAN SHAKESPEARE, you lovesick dumdum, took you long enough to realize “Thomas Kent” and Viola are the same person. All right, so I didn’t really like how they slept together so soon. So lusty. As is Romeo and Juliet….. Ok so I know I’m slow-witted but I didn’t realize that Sam character was supposed to be Juliet until around the time he complained about the dress being too suffocating. He looks a bit manly to be playing a girl. And I didn’t realize it was Shakespeare playing Romeo at the end until he says “adieu”. I always felt rather ambivalent about Joseph Fiennes because of his playing of Merlin in Camelot, but I LOVED him as “Wilhelmina”.  The fight scene between Shakespeare and Lord Wessex reminded me of the one in Hamlet for some reason, but I can’t remember anything that happens in Hamlet :( And it’s only been like 7 months since I read it for Bible as Lit. Is Moulin Rouge! based on this? Anyway, I liked all the comical moments but I think there were too few. And I was kind of expecting an extremely tragic ending. For a few moments, I actually thought Shakespeare was really dead and I thought Viola was really going to stab herself. Oh well.  I think, on the Romeo and Juliet subject, I really like the version with Leonardo DiCaprio. I like how they are both alive for a few fleeting seconds. So much anguish :( Judi Dench captured all my attention during her scenes. Yay :D

Shakespeare in Love

LMAO THE NURSE creating an auditory distraction for the…maid? And her fanning herself cuz she’s all hot and bothered.

MAN SHAKESPEARE, you lovesick dumdum, took you long enough to realize “Thomas Kent” and Viola are the same person. All right, so I didn’t really like how they slept together so soon. So lusty. As is Romeo and Juliet…..

Ok so I know I’m slow-witted but I didn’t realize that Sam character was supposed to be Juliet until around the time he complained about the dress being too suffocating. He looks a bit manly to be playing a girl. And I didn’t realize it was Shakespeare playing Romeo at the end until he says “adieu”.

I always felt rather ambivalent about Joseph Fiennes because of his playing of Merlin in Camelot, but I LOVED him as “Wilhelmina”. 

The fight scene between Shakespeare and Lord Wessex reminded me of the one in Hamlet for some reason, but I can’t remember anything that happens in Hamlet :( And it’s only been like 7 months since I read it for Bible as Lit.

Is Moulin Rouge! based on this? Anyway, I liked all the comical moments but I think there were too few. And I was kind of expecting an extremely tragic ending. For a few moments, I actually thought Shakespeare was really dead and I thought Viola was really going to stab herself. Oh well. 

I think, on the Romeo and Juliet subject, I really like the version with Leonardo DiCaprio. I like how they are both alive for a few fleeting seconds. So much anguish :(

Judi Dench captured all my attention during her scenes. Yay :D

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