Before watching the movie, my opinion of Shakespeare was only to read the titles of all his works, and Shakespeare himself described in his mind the standard master portrait, which is unfathomable. The advantage of works like "Shakespeare in Love" is that it gives the audience an excellent imagination space for the creative impulses of literary masters. I always feel that for works with the most affection and nature, the creator's heart will always surge with magnificent waves, so that a good book or a movie can be sacrificed.
The production of "Romeo and Juliet", according to the description of the film, is just for me. The screenwriter of the film grafted the story of Romeo on Shakespeare and his lover, and cleverly used the two-line method of play within the play to connect creation and love. As for whether Shakespeare himself is as bohemian as the film describes, there is an example that may illustrate . Taiwanese writer Xiaobai has written a collection of essays called "The Lustful Hamlet", in which he conducted a joyful but not obscene study of various "lower body" issues in ancient and modern China and abroad. He talked about "Hamlet", Shakespeare's most outstanding work. At the time of the tragedy, he made a convincing exposition of the use of some words in the original English script and the accent of the actors' performances, and the resulting slightly obscene theater effect. It is not surprising that Fiennes interprets such a Shakespeare.
I also thought of "Confucius" directed by Hu Mei some time ago. The film was handled so seriously that it was ridiculous. Although Confucius appeared on the historical picture as a thinker and educator, why is it that in the contemporary era of cultural innovation, he is still stuck in depicting such an ancient philosopher who is similar in appearance but not in spirit, instead of learning from Westerners when they tell Shakespeare , refactored with modernity and creativity? In fact, whether it is "Shakespeare in Love" or "Romeo and Juliet: Postmodern Passion", even if the director remakes many details or modernization or entertainment, we can clearly hear the original sentences from Shakespeare's original works, and It feels harmonious, and when Confucius quotes the classic words from the Analects again and again in the film, we always subconsciously feel that this is the video version of the Chinese textbook.
However, "Shakespeare in Love" is so good that even the Oscar judges ignored "Saving Private Ryan" and presented him with a statuette, but I don't like the way this film is handled. Even if he has the ups and downs of the plot, even if he has a rounded two-line narrative, the deliberately normalized narrative and the typical Hollywood structure at least make me feel like a waste of time, the symbolization of characters (even if I say subverted Shakespeare) is An unforgivable injury.
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