IMDB SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE PLUS

A small conversation between Fennyman and Henslowe is added where they discuss about business. The sequence is largely the same as the scene used in the final film but parts are shown from different angles.

A slightly different version of the scene where Burbank and his men fight against Will and his actors in the theatre.Here we see that Viola survives the drowning and is washed ashore an unknown coast. The scene where Lord Wessex's ship sinks is also different. He also takes the 50 pounds and says 'Welcome to the Chamberlain's Men'. After Viola has left Burbage enters and stops Will from running after Viola. Here the conversation between Will and Viola is shorter than in the final film. The Region 2 DVD contains some deleted scenes: As the company rehearses his new play, William and Viola's love is transferred to the written page leading to the masterpiece that is Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare soon sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair, one they know cannot end happily for them as he is already married and she has been promised to the dour Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). Dressing as a man, and going by the name of 'Thomas Kent', she auditions and is ideal for a part in his next play. She is also a great admirer of Shakespeare's works. She loves the theatre and would like nothing more than to take to the stage, but is forbidden from doing so as only men can be actors. He is in search of his muse, the woman who will inspire him but all attempts fail him until he meets the beautiful Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow). The film gets most of the little stuff right, oddly enough would it had lavished the same care on the big stuff.William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is a known but struggling poet, playwright, and actor, who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) and Richard Burbage (Martin Clunes), but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing.

IMDB SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE PLUS

On the plus side, the supporting cast, sets, and costumes are excellent.

I hope we don't get a sequel called 'Shakespeare in a Jealous Rage' that shows him killing his wife so he can write Othello. Leaving aside the ample evidence that the playwright may have been the least blocked writer who ever lived, he always used other texts as the basis for his plays. Then there's the idea that Shakespeare was blocked and needed experience to write from. I normally like Paltrow, but this film lowered my opinion of her acting chops. But Gwyneth Paltrow in a tiny fake moustache is about as masculine as a troupe of ballerinas at a quilting bee, so believing that everyone was fooled requires some serious IQ-shaving. I'm not saying it wasn't possible for a woman to cross-dress in early modern England it happened. As for the love story and its theatrical issue, both were the height of silliness. I almost walked out when John Webster, who would soon be writing complex, intellectual plays, was depicted as a child torturing rats and informing on Shakespeare's company, but that was just one of many instances. Knowing a lot about Renaissance drama just makes the film galling, as real historical figures are wrenched from their actual lives and made to serve a contrived and fantastical plot. I disagree with those who say knowing Shakespeare adds to a viewer's enjoyment, unless what is known is a play or two and some half-remembered facts about Elizabethan London. I disagree with those who say knowing Shakespeare adds to a viewer's enjoyment, unless what is known is a play or two and some half-remembered facts I'm not usually one to fault a film for historical inaccuracy, but this one went too far-and then failed to compensate with a decent story. I'm not usually one to fault a film for historical inaccuracy, but this one went too far-and then failed to compensate with a decent story.

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