"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 story of a group of celebrities teaming up to bully a widowed old Jewish man.

  • Lyda 2022-03-23 09:02:43

    Portia is sophistry, so unfair to Sherlock. Shakespeare's comedy, is it a tragedy at all? "If you stab us, won't we bleed?" "If you tickle us, won't we laugh?" "If you poison us, won't we die?" "If you harm us, Shouldn't we take revenge?"

The Merchant of Venice quotes

  • Shylock: O father Abraham, what these Christians are, whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect the thoughts of others. I pray you, tell me this. If he should break his day, what should I gain by the exaction of the forfeiture? A pound of a man's flesh taken from a man is not so estimable, profitable neither, as flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say, to buy his favour, I extend this friendship. If he will take it, so. If not, adieu. And, for my love, I pray you, wrong me not.

    Antonio: Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.

  • Prince of Morocco: Dislike me not for my complexion, the shadowed livery of the burnished sun, to whom I am a neighbour and a near bred. Yallah! Yallah!