Shakespeare might be pissed when he saw this?
In the original book, the Jewish businessman Sherlock is a greedy, stingy, narrow-minded, vengeful, and ruthless miser who makes money with usury. And Antonio and others are kind, tolerant, benevolent Christians.
At the beginning of the movie, the persecution of Jews by Christians is discussed first. For example, Jews must wear red hats when they go out, and they are bullied and spat on on the road. Secondly, Jews are not allowed to have property, so they can only make a living by lending usury (since they are not allowed to have property). Jews have property, so where do Jews get money to lend usury?).
After smearing Christianity and whitewashing the Jewish salacious operation, the "Merchant of Venice" turned the world from the original protagonist against the greedy, shameless, ruthless and vicious loan shark Sherlock, who insisted that Antonio cut a pound of flesh. Antonio and other Venetian nobles join forces to bully a poor old Jewish merchant Shylock. ?
I have no prejudice or prejudice against Christianity or Jews, just shocked that Shakespeare's work can be altered in this way?
Although it is possible to re-interpret this kind of thing from a classic story, such as the Grimm's fairy tale series, it can be changed from black to white, and the good and the bad are reversed, which also has a good meaning. However, the re-interpretation of "The Merchant of Venice" obviously feels different from the re-interpretation of Grimm's fairy tales.
All in all, it's hard to say. Because Sherlock's character has changed, the most classic one in the original works who fights poison with poison and uses a rogue way to conquer Sherlock's vicious one "You can cut off a pound of Antonio's flesh according to the contract, but you can't let him shed a drop of blood, because in the contract only If you write about the flesh, it's yours, if you don't write about the blood, it's all yours." It seemed very difficult to describe, and it seemed that a group of nobles were bullying the honest Sherlock.
In addition, the heroine recruiting her husband is like an ownerless property looking for a master. The male protagonist was impoverished and borrowed 3,000 yuan to ask for marriage. After the empty-handed white wolf got the female protagonist, the female protagonist called him "my master". Makes people feel speechless.
The male protagonist swore not to give the ring that the female protagonist gave him to others, and turned around to break the oath and gave the ring to the secretary. Although the secretary was disguised by the heroine, it was enough to see that his oath was like a fart, and he could break his promise if something happened.
As far as the movie itself is concerned, the scenery of Venice Water City is so beautiful, and the background music is so beautiful, it is still pleasing to the eye.
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