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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
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3/15
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Ah, Virginia, but the story takes place in 1593 and the colony didn't exist until 1607.
Ah, Shakespeare is single and in love with a rich lady, but the real Shakespeare was married and had three kids.
Ah, Romeo and Juliet, but it wasn't originally written by William Shakespeare who only improved it further.
Ah, the fully haired Joseph Fiennes with a bit of a beard underneath his neckline, but the real Shakespeare was half bald
and sported a well-developed beard.
Ah, the inconspicious Elizabeth I is seen at the theater, but it can't be possible without the massive royal entourage
which would've attracted attention.
Ah, Will, but it'll be worse if they called him Bill or, better yet, Billy.
If you ask me to name some of the worst Best Picture winners ever, Shakespeare in Love immediately comes to my mind.
It's quite bad. Hence, Saving Private Ryan was the rightful choice.
Why...just watch the Omaha Beach scene.
Half of the screenplay is line-for-line copied from Romeo and Juliet. Yet oddly, William Shakespeare isn't credited
as the writer of the screenplay. Hence, I believe it's called plagiarism. The other moiety contains some of the most
rubbish language I've ever heard. It's because I've read a lot of classics and know what to expect. Yet it sounds nothing
that's remotely close to the richness of the English language. Hence, it took me four days to complete the film as I
kept falling asleep due to the incessancy of theatrics.
As for the acting, it's so appalling bad that I can't believe there are Oscar winners and nominations out of this tripe. Of
them all, Gwyneth Paltrow turns in the worst performance I've seen from an Oscar winner in decades. It's incomprehensible
that she got away with pretending to be a man. On the other hand, Joseph Fiennes is obviously recruited for his looks,
has no acting talent, and belongs in the background of a George Michael's black-and-white rock video.
Shockingly, Judi Dench won the Oscar for her seemingly two-minute performance. If there's a case when costumes had won the
day, it's this. Wearing her overdone apparel with the hideously-looking carrot top, Judi Dench looks stupid and even more
when she's compared to what the real Elizabeth I looked like in oil paintings. The way she spoke is also unbecoming
of royalty.
All in all, despite the lavish costumes, Shakespeare in Love was highly praised for the wrong reasons when
it's, in fact, a never-ending film of monkeys in clown suits pretending to act.