'All Creatures Great and Small': Lockdown Writing and Great Dog Performance Create Perfect S2 Ending “I think we’ve all been asking ourselves over the last few months, ‘What reality am I in? Am I in a dream? Am I in my home or my work? Is it the weekend, is a weekday? Who are my family, who are my friends?’ Quite early on, we made a conceptual choice that this would be a film which started in rehearsal clothes, and then let in something more cinematic as it went on.” In a way, you’re loyal by being disloyal,” Godwin said. All type of romeo and juliet movies free#We’ve both really broken free from a kind of reverence into an irreverence, which I think is more Shakespearean than than being loyal. “I find him to be a super empowering writer. Simon Godwin, who worked alongside co-director and writer Emily Burns at the helm of the mid-lockdown film “Romeo & Juliet” starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley in the title roles, has long recognized not just the inherent advantages but the necessity of reshaping Shakespeare. A pair of productions from this past spring that prove not even four centuries’ worth of iterations have exhausted the possibilities. Footnote: Luciano Pavarotti has recorded the main love theme and it's called Ai giochi addio - it is so beautiful it will make you cry as you remember the film.In the last 404 years, “ Romeo and Juliet” hasn’t become the world’s most famous piece of theater by staying static. How Nino Roto's soundtrack also missed out on an Oscar I will never understand. Only Kenneth Brannagh's mammoth production of the uncut version of Hamlet comes anywhere near this wonderful film. It's always very difficult to succeed with Shakespeare on the big screen but this version of Romeo and Juliet had it all. It did collect Best Costume and I think Best Cinematography, but what a travesty, especially when the film that did win that year was not even in the same league and is hardly ever remembered. Come the Oscars I waited with baited breath having convinced myself that it would get best film - I was so disappointed!. Baz Luhrmann's pales in comparison and thats not a bad film. He combined the tragedy with the humour as well as the love story by casting the right actor for each role and even if some of them faded into oblivium later, for this film they were all perfect. Zefferelli balanced the film perfectly, nothing was overdone. But this was Italy in Tudor times when life was cheap and the willingness to reach for the sword was as it should be.Shakespeare understood human nature better than anyone and that's why all his plays show so much insight into the human spirit. In truth he was a fickle young man as all teenage boys can be and also prone to an amount of passionate violence so prevalent in adolescence. To have made the film using the whole text would have been too difficult and perhaps Zefferelli did want to portray Romeo as a little nicer than he actually was. It's pointless complaining that the text is cut, by leaving out Romeo killing Paris and also the apothecary selling Romeo the poison in no way detracts from the overall imagery and beauty of Shakespeare's text. A master stroke was Milo O'Shea as Friar Lawrence, never ever has there been a better role for this talented by rarely seen Irish actor. He was so clever in his casting, not just with the very handsome young Leonard Whiting who at the time when I was only 18 myself I thought was gorgeous but also the innocence of an immature Hussey was perfect. However the key to this film's great success was that it was visually stunning, Zefferelli is the master of using colour, setting and costume to great effect. Now owning it on DVD when I want to just feel good about films I watch it! So much has already been written about the youth of the two young unknown stars and the chemistry that they had on screen that I don't need to repeat it now. I went back three times with different sets of friends just to watch it again and each time I enjoyed it more. I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Odeon Leicester Square, the day after the Royal Premier and from that day I was hooked on this film.
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