"The Merchant of Venice" disappointed me

Derek 2022-03-21 09:02:41

Yesterday, I accidentally saw this Shakespeare drama filmed in 2004 in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States on a TV channel. I happened to see that part of the trial, the most famous scene of "One Pound of Meat".


It is a pity that the actress Lynn Collins who plays Portia seems to be a little dull, and her limbs and eyes lack agility and enthusiasm. That is a smart, agile and enthusiastic beauty who has been interpreted by countless actors!


I like the tone and costumes of the whole film. Pacino, the actor who plays Sherlock, is the best. Unfortunately, the quality of the dubbing cannot be complimented.


After watching this scene with a painful feeling, I really have no interest in watching the part where they flirt after returning to Portia Manor.


11 September 2006 London Fog


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The Merchant of Venice quotes

  • Bassanio: For thy three thousand ducats here is six.

    Shylock: If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

  • Shylock: I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be - by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard - but I will better the instruction.