According to the "behind-the-scenes production and origin of creation" on Time.com, screenwriter Mark Norman was inspired by his son Zarrick Norman to create this film: 1989, Zarrick, who was studying Elizabethan drama at Boston University, hung up the phone and called his father, saying that he had an idea and came up with a peculiar movie idea. Finally, the main story line is clarified, that is, what if Shakespeare encountered brain drain while writing the immortal masterpiece "Romeo and Juliet"? What gave the young poet the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet? Norman explained: “Through Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare found his voice. What makes this masterpiece unique is the fusion of genres, a love story and comedy that culminates in a heartbreaking tragedy. I Started wondering how he got the idea." After some deliberation, Norman thought of making Shakespeare fall in love with a woman who was acting as a man, "because Shakespeare was married," Norman said, "so he was bound to He has been through love affairs, and there will definitely be a shadow of his personal experience in Romeo and Juliet."
Obviously, the screenwriter has captured two key elements of the original "Romeo and Juliet": First, the touching love story must have its own Real life experience, so this must be Shakespeare's work showing his love experience; second, love is originally a happy thing, and it is a thing that inspires creative inspiration (especially the many vivid and vivid poetic descriptions in the film, it is difficult to be immersed in love. revealing all this), why is it possible to avoid a tragedy in the end and write it as a tragedy? Therefore, the screenwriter discovered two possible obstacles. One was that Shakespeare was married when he wrote "Luo", and the other was the disparity of identities between the two parties (though Shakespeare was a writer, he was only a commoner). And in his creations "The Merchant of Venice", "The Great Delight", "Twelfth Night" and "Cymbeline", there are "women disguised as men" plots. Obviously, such plots may also be derived from his "impressive" "Emotional" experience.
Movies created on this basis are naturally "real and moving", so let's go back to the time and space of Shakespeare's creation: when Shakespeare was exhausted of inspiration, he met aristocratic girls who loved theatrical performances and disguised themselves as men to participate in the performances. Love inspired him to turn the comedy "Romeo and the Pirate's Daughter" into a "Romeo and Juliet" show of "pure love", and the obstacle of love determines that their relationship is ultimately only one. tragedy.
In addition, I think Gwyneth Paltrow's heroine in the film is quite appropriate, pure and full of enthusiasm; on the contrary, Shakespeare's role lacks the corresponding sense of "maturity". 17.2.12
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