One of my favourites too.The best shakespearian adaptation.All the actors were wonderfull (even Keanu Reeves who usually isn't that good) and Patrick Doyle's score absolutely magic!
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I'm only 13 and got forced to watch it in SATs prep
And I really love it
Orginality is the new black
~Sofia - An underdog but she doesnt care anymore~
Ever since I first saw it in 1994 it's been my favorite film. Hysterically funny, tender, tragic, heroic, full of amazing actors . . . a great, great adaptation.
The funny thing is that at first I didn't want to see it because I had seen the Royal Shakepeare Company perform the play on Broadway in 1985, with the great Derek Jacobi as Benedick and Sinead Cusack as Beatrice. I didn't want some inferior film version to sully my memory of the great experience . . . and then the film version ended up being my favorite film of all time. (The only thing that's come at all close to toppling it since then is the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but even that couldn't do it and in fact has lost ground since then just because this film is so enjoyable to watch.)
You won't catch a monkey that way.
Did you ever catch one?
Did I - lady, you'd be surprised.
I loved this movie.
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"well since lord of the rings is your favourite movie i can see your taste////"
I said twice in my post that Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite film, not Lord of the Rings. LOTR (counting them as one film) is my second favorite.
Comprehend much?
”I don’t like crooks. And if I did like ‘em, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool pigeons. And if I did like crooks that are stool pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you!”
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I have just shown this movie to my high school "Introduction to Drama" class. This is to let you know what my teen-aged students felt without any prompting from me -- one of the boys said that it was hilarious and that he couldn't stop laughing. One of the girls kept repeating that this movie was so good and that she loved it.
And they were not speaking to me, the teacher. They were giving these remarks to class members.
Apparently Shakespeare or Branagh or both did something right to make this play so enjoyable to my students.
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As late as I am, I have to reply to a fellow teacher. I took my AP English class to see this in a theater, when it was new, and they were enthralled. Of course, we'd already studied Hamlet and Macbeth, but they'd read no Shakespearean comedy. I adore the film; the word that has always come to mind is "joyful." The acting, directing, music--all joyful. We have far too little of that quality, ever. The scene around the fountain and the final dance are two of the most memorable pieces of film making I've ever seen.
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