The first movie I watched after CFA level 1 was Shakespear in love, a 1998 old movie. When I was in high school, I cheated a whole set of "Shakespeare Complete Works" from my aunt, and I watched a lot of them, but I never watched this film about Shakespeare's young romance. identity of. The reason is naturally the unfortunate plot synopsis, which described the film as a fancy romantic comedy, a farce with a sense of history. But after seeing it with my own eyes, the judges, who like to pretend to be elegant, did not dazzle again on this film. I think it is very difficult to see a film that can express Shakespeare's plays and poems in such a smooth and original manner.
There are several domestic versions of The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Among them, Zhu Shenghao and Liang Shiqiu's version has the most influence. I used to hold the Liang version. Although Liang Shiqiu's literary attainments are higher, in fact the Zhu version is more mainstream. However, no matter which version, the dense text on the thick book has no soul, the beauty in the rhythm of the language and the passion in the lines disappear in the reluctance of the text. Therefore, when reading, you can only understand the details of the story more, but forget the beauty of poetry. The Victorian classical English in Shakespeare's original works is also prohibitive, unable to appreciate the artistic conception of the original.
So when I say that I read the most historical dramas of Henry and Richards, the patriotic and angry youth literature describing Joan of Arc as a witch has now been forgotten. Only the beautiful sentences of Hamlet and Luo and Zhu Zhong, which cannot hide their emotions even if translated, remind me of the taste of Shakespeare.
The film "Shakespeare in Love", according to the plot, is about Shakespeare, who fell in love with a wealthy girl who was about to marry a nobleman, because of the encounters in love and the emotions that burst out of his heart, he wrote "Romeo and Juliet". A timeless classic. In fact, the plot in "Luo and Zhu" is put on Shakespeare, and this masterpiece is interpreted from another angle non-stage.
In the original work, Romeo is a son who is too emotional, and Juliet is a fourteen-year-old girl who is not familiar with the world. In contrast, Shakespeare in this play is a low-ranking writer and actor with low financial resources and low status, who sometimes loses inspiration and really has nothing, but has a confident and fearless heart. Viola is the daughter of a wealthy businessman who has been agreed by the Queen to marry the Lord. She understands the meaning of responsibility, identity, status and family, but she still loves drama and poetry, and longs for pure and transcendent love. The gap between these two people is more distant and hopeless than the distance between the sons and young ladies of the feuding family.
Balcony confession, feuding duel, cheating death, and sleeping in the same grave are the most classic episodes in "Luo and Zhu". Because of the real pain and romance in life, the stereotype and stage sense in the drama are removed and become reality. And vivid. When shakespear was having an affair with Viola, he recited the poems he had just written about the ages, and suddenly these sentences came alive, they regained their soul and emotion, which made people intoxicated.
When vulgar troupe owners give up their demands for vulgar comedy of dogs and pirates, when greedy funders are moved to tears for a paltry role, when rival theatre owners give up hatred for the honor of actors, when indifferent and mean When the Queen also acknowledges the meaning of love and tragedy. I have to feel that people are emotional animals after all, so what is money and power?
In the end, the film's heroine, Gwyneth Paltrow, ends up marrying Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, a true British poet of the era.
There may not be as big a separation between drama and reality, fantasy and reality as imagined.
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