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Sudden funny image of Rene as Pepe Le Pew and James as that poor cat. LOL. (Though, growing up i was always sad for that moment when the cat would actually like him back, and then the smell would make her run again).
Also, Movie Rec: The new Merchant of Venice. You know it will be different whenever the director decides to remind you at the beginning that Shakespeare wrote it. Nonetheless, Michael Radford's (B. Monkey director yay!) decisions weren't all bad. In fact, he made the play make more sense by giving Antonio just a bit more motivation for sacrificing so very much for the feckless idiot Brassiano (my spelling is wrong and I refuse to go look it up). His new motive?? Unrequited tragic love! That's right! He fucking openly slashed Shakespeare. With Jeremy Irons! (aiieeeee). It was the most interesting part of the film, I have to say. I did enjoy the casting, Portia was amazing as always, and it had a few moments of awesome. But I couldn't help, at times, calling it Shakespeare for dummies. Which is odd, since Shakespeare wrote for a very broad audience. And there's this attempt to make Shylock sympathetic, as mistreated Jew, but I think they went overboard considering his complete insanity by the end of the play.
But the slash...aaahhh I would watch it again for that. It's not subtle and I don't care, I was just happy to see it there. And the scene at the end with the ring... *purr* Shangy/Shanny.
Also, Movie Rec: The new Merchant of Venice. You know it will be different whenever the director decides to remind you at the beginning that Shakespeare wrote it. Nonetheless, Michael Radford's (B. Monkey director yay!) decisions weren't all bad. In fact, he made the play make more sense by giving Antonio just a bit more motivation for sacrificing so very much for the feckless idiot Brassiano (my spelling is wrong and I refuse to go look it up). His new motive?? Unrequited tragic love! That's right! He fucking openly slashed Shakespeare. With Jeremy Irons! (aiieeeee). It was the most interesting part of the film, I have to say. I did enjoy the casting, Portia was amazing as always, and it had a few moments of awesome. But I couldn't help, at times, calling it Shakespeare for dummies. Which is odd, since Shakespeare wrote for a very broad audience. And there's this attempt to make Shylock sympathetic, as mistreated Jew, but I think they went overboard considering his complete insanity by the end of the play.
But the slash...aaahhh I would watch it again for that. It's not subtle and I don't care, I was just happy to see it there. And the scene at the end with the ring... *purr* Shangy/Shanny.
