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Summary: How could this movie get best picture!?!?!?
Review: "Saving Private Ryan","Life is Beautiful",and "Thin Red Line" are better and "Saving Private Ryan" should've won best picture. The movie was OK.
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Summary: A Must-See (And Read)
Review: "Shakespeare In Love" is one of my favorite movies of all time. Everything about the movie was brilliant--acting, screenplay, customes, etc. I'm a college student who has had a year of in-depth Shakespeare courses and I *know* it is fiction but it was the best kind of fiction--one that made you love the characters even more and want to re-read the plays for years to come. I loved all the inside jokes.
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Summary: Fabulous...
Review: ...particularly if you are one of those people who think Shakespeare is boring or too difficult (most of us remember the NIGHTMARE of getting through one play at school, right?). Well, kiss boredom goodbye, banish your nightmares and prepare for a TREAT! This is funny, intelligent, fast-paced and heartbreaking, all at the same time - rather like Shakespeare, in fact!
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Summary: A very brilliant and dangerous text, excellent discourse
Review: A very brilliant subjective vision of Norman and Stoppard's perception's of William Shakespeare's conception of art and himself put in a superb discourse.The big question the text poses is how far Plato is right in his claims that art is an immitation of life...Ýs Stoppard's a fourth hand immitation of the original Romeo and Juliet or what? The text also raises a controvertial issue as to what is the nature and FUNCTION of art? The irritating question is not "to be or not to be" but what will happen if, let us say, after a cosmic disaster nothing survived but few texts of Shakespeare and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE without its front page, and of course a man and a woman? How would future generations of students, critics and scholars read shakespeare? Norman and Stoppard's text is very dangerous.And releasing it is like playing with a cocked fire arm..one does not know when and how it will explode..very brilliant
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Summary: Superb!
Review: A wonderful movie. I kept on glued to my screen and never let any dialogue to be wasted. After the it finished, my state of mind was like the audience in movie that watched the wonderful performance of Romeo and Juillette and forgot even to cheer when play finshed. Worth owning!!! Those haven't watched it, certainly at loss!
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Summary: This movie never ceases to amaze me...
Review: As an actress and playwright both, this script speaks volumns to me. This is my favorite movie, and I obtain everything I possibly can about it. I already have the soundtrack and numurous newspaper,magazine, and online clippings...and now this screenplay. Reading it takes me back to the phenomonal movie (which I've seen three times). It will tide me over until I can buy the movie. My kudos to Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. I reccomend buying this if you loved the movie like I did. The only thing that bothered me about the book is that there weren't more pictures... "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
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Summary: Witty, intellectually stimulating screenplay.
Review: Great movie. Fun to see and HEAR. Very refreshing to watch a highly entertaining movie for educated adults. FYI to reader from Tenafly - ROMEO AND JULIET was written in 1596, TWELFTH NIGHT in 1600. The only KNOWN facts about Shakespeare are his date of birth, his marriage to Anne Hathaway, the birth of his children, and his death. Besides, this was a movie not a documentary. Relax and enjoy.
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Summary: IT'S GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: How can anyone dislike this film and screenplay? Perhaps the information wasn't all 100%accuarate, but writers and moviemakers often use creative license when producing a film with such a historic main character. This movie was worthy of a best picture nod, perhaps not as much as Life Is Beautiful, and should be considered a classic in centuries to come. You would have to be completely dense to not like what this movie stands for--love at first sight. As for the homosexuality of Shakespeare--did anyone ever personally ask him about his sexual preferance? Even if he was homosexual--who cares--THIS IS A MOVIE! And a great one at that!
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Summary: Simply the Best!!!!!!!!Five Stars Just isn't Enough!!
Review: I have not read the screenplay to this wonderful movie, but loved it all the same. I thought 'Private Ryan' would take home the Oscar for best picture, but was wonderfully surprised when Harrison Ford called out this title. All along since Ive seen the movie(and I saw Private Ryan before Shakespeare) I was hoping it would win, and it did. I do think a lot had to do with Harvey Weinstein's marketing genius, and to the victors belong the spoils. The movie's simple biopic of one of histories greatest English writers shed light on him being human, as well as passionate. Although there may be some historical inaccuracies associated with the picture(and obviously screenplay), its the realization, all be it fictional, that even the greatest minds suffer loss associated with the joy and heartache of life. The overall picture may not have been significant in the way 'Saving Private Ryan' was, but as Oscar has previously proved with 'The English Patient' and even 'Titanic', The Academy loves doomed romance. I also loved the small, yet very funny scenes, such as Gwynith's mustache, need I say more. Another great Tom Stoppard piece is 'Rosancrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'. Although the film had no spectacular war scenes like Private Ryan, or sincere comedic entertainment like Roberto Benigni(sorry about the spelling), the story survives on wonderful writing and good character acting, much like Shakespeare, Im sure, would have wanted it to be.
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Summary: RELAX
Review: I just want to say how much I enjoyed the screenplay and the movie. I took my nephew who is twelve because he was having a hard time understanding Shakespeare. After the movie he now wants to read everything by Shakespeare. A person in Turkey made a coment about this being a "cocked fire arm". what is he talking about? If this movie makes people want to read Shakespeare than I'm all for it. If it makes people understand his words than it's a good thing. People have to relax and enjoy, sure it's fiction, but what is fiction...it's the lie inside of the truth.
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