No heroes in this story - I dislike them all
If you read the story as shakespeare intended it, there is not one likeable character in the whole story.
Shylock = Usury eating, vindictive, gentile hating jew. A pitiful figure in the modern rendering of the stories, whilst a deserving ridiculed Jew, who reaped what he sowed, in the old renderings. One word to descibe him, Ugly.
Jessica = A ditzy girl, who betrays her father and steals his money after being swooned by a boy. Ditz.
Antonio = A anti-semitic, arrogant sod. Arrogant.
Portia = A legal, lawyer, loophole, quibble seeking, toyer of emotions. Who stands condescendingly over the Jew. And uses semantics to cheat shylock out of his wealth and his justice and his religion. Condescending.
Bassanio = A money wasting, fool who puts his friends life in danger, and takes oaths like meals. Fool.
Venice Itself = The people of Venice themselves are not much better, slave owning, anti-Semitic, hypocrites, who argue one rule for themselves, and another for everyone else. Hypocrites.
There was not one likeable, honourable, character in the film or the play.
Even the suitors, where a bunch of idiots.
A part of me wishes, Shylock had not broken down, had stood by his honour and his oath, and had taken his pound of flesh, even at the cost of his own life. Or at the very least had not begged for mercy and forced the hypocritical Venetians and condescending Portia to take his life.
No one stood by their word, no one had any honour, no one had any merit.