IT JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL FREAKING TIME!!!!!!!!
Ok. Fine. Not literally. But seriously it was probably in my top 5. SO SO GOOD! His signature may or may not be my desktop background right now. May or may not have already bought the movie...
Costuming
Win. All around. Every single outfit was designed for the character. They enhanced their personalities as well as showed general trends like social rank and situation.
Overall Setting
INTENSE! I seriously only noticed the music a few times because it went so well with the atmosphere. The movie was...I almost said dark, but it wasn't. It was just intense. Plot was fairly easy to follow but still made you think. AKA the scenes all made sense and flowed together really well, but the plot was intense enough to keep you engaged the whole time. AKA I felt like I was IN OLD ENGLAND! I seriously am going to make it to the Globe theatre someday. The movie made me feel like I was actually walking the streets and looking up at the Tower of London and standing on the floor section of the Globe. Some-freaking-day.
Characters
Well thought out. Especially Queen Elizabeth. Capturing such a complex women must have been the result of much thought.
The promotional posters for this play included the caption "Was Shakespeare a fraud?" I don't like that one bit. That's not an accurate portrayal of the movie AT ALL. It wasn't about Shakespeare being fake, it was about Shakespeare being REAL! It basically took a bunch of facts and made a story underneath all those facts. Make sense? Well...I hope so. It was a cool way to just look at Shakespeare in a new light. For example, it portrayed an intimate relationship between "Shakespeare" and Queen Elizabeth. Which isn't that big of a deal, right? WRONG! It makes so much sense: if the queen was a supporter, encourager, and lover of the theatre, it makes sense that her time period was so obsessed with these revolutionary plays and ideas that came from the Renaissance Era. Definitely doing more research on this one.
There was a mystery about the play that made you take in everything....and yet.....left you wondering if anything was true. It was a truly unique feeling that I think gives validity to any "good" movie. If the writers can make you believe that somehow, somewhere, this might be true...they did a pretty dang good job at making their movie credible. (#harrypotter)
I found a cool blog about this girl who was left similarly interested: http://shakespearebyanothername.blogspot.com/
Left you pondering
My favorite favorite favorite thing about this movie was the feeling of pride I was left with. It is my personal, bias, and un-researched opinion that "humanities" is dying in today's world. No respect: When I go to the symphony, I'm surprised at the amount of people in jeans-and-a-t-shirt. Art museums are not exactly what you'd call a "hot spot." Our generation knows way too little about classical music. Plays are dying. Why does no one care about the fine arts anymore?
So this movie reminded me...well...basically it reminded me why I love the fine arts. Because they are beautiful. Because they leave people feeling whole. Because they have something to say.
Ben Jonson: Politics? My play has nothing to do with politics. I-i-i-it's just a simple comedy.
Earl of Oxford: It showed your betters as fools who'd go through life barely managing to get food from plate to mouth were it not for the cleverness of their servants. All art is political, Jonson, otherwise it would just be decoration. And all artists have something to say, otherwise they'd make shoes. And you are not a cobbler, are you Jonson.
Prologue: Though our story is at an end, our poet's is not; for his monument is everliving. Not of stone but of verse. And it shall be remembered. As long as words are made of breath. And breath of life.
I thought this was a super nice/fitting tribute to Shakespeare's name. :)
Shakespeare does it again. 400+ years later.
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