It shall go hard...
Sep. 22nd, 2008 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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tharain is playing Antonio in the Merchant of Venice this week, i rented the Irons/Fiennes/Pacino version.
Thoughts!
* Don't miss it. It's unutterably slashy. Antonio is very obviously from their first brief scene together, madly in love with Bassiano.
* The "choose a box scenes" reminded me delightfully of "Deal or No Deal" "I'm ready for the question, Portia" - or even further back "Double your Money" with Hughie Green. God I'm Old.
* Bassiano deserves the death of a 1000 cuts. Nasty venal using little TWINK who makes a fool of a doting older man - and (imho) courts Portia without truly loving her any more than the other suitors did - just to regain the dilapidation of his estates.
* With that said - Fiennes plays it dead right. When Portia says how much she loves him, he looks decidedly uncomfortable.
* The whole box thing seems really silly actually, as all it would take would be for a failed gold and a failed silver suitor to tell the story abroad and the next man would be lucky. Which might explain why Bassiano was lucky, of course. I don't believe any of his twaddle. *hate hate hate*
* A VERY rude joke about inseminating that I'd never noticed before. I love Shakespeare because good actors can make it so understandable.
tharain is playing Antonio in the Merchant of Venice this week, i rented the Irons/Fiennes/Pacino version.Thoughts!
* Don't miss it. It's unutterably slashy. Antonio is very obviously from their first brief scene together, madly in love with Bassiano.
* The "choose a box scenes" reminded me delightfully of "Deal or No Deal" "I'm ready for the question, Portia" - or even further back "Double your Money" with Hughie Green. God I'm Old.
* Bassiano deserves the death of a 1000 cuts. Nasty venal using little TWINK who makes a fool of a doting older man - and (imho) courts Portia without truly loving her any more than the other suitors did - just to regain the dilapidation of his estates.
* With that said - Fiennes plays it dead right. When Portia says how much she loves him, he looks decidedly uncomfortable.
* The whole box thing seems really silly actually, as all it would take would be for a failed gold and a failed silver suitor to tell the story abroad and the next man would be lucky. Which might explain why Bassiano was lucky, of course. I don't believe any of his twaddle. *hate hate hate*
* A VERY rude joke about inseminating that I'd never noticed before. I love Shakespeare because good actors can make it so understandable.
