Moichant of Venus Review
Posted by:: "fenian d'illudium q-36, Rlari."
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:17:55 -0500
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Just went out and caught the Merchant of Venice movie. It was very good. It
helps to know the story, it was one of the 3 or 4 Shakespeare plays studied
in me skullin years. I actually laughed at some of the humour, which makes
me laugh, because I usually want to punch people who laugh at Shakespearean
jokes. They may have been funny in the 1600's, but they ain't any more. But
they did a really good job of bringing the humourousness of certain
situations out. All the characters were great, full o' flavour, notably
Porchies Saracen suitor. Al Pacino did a very interesting job of
Shylock...really made a character one could sympathize with, and be critical
of, not in an jewhate way, but in a hyooman hate way, but still with a good
dose of Hardcore Jewish Ethics vs. Christian Let's Bend the Law for Jesus'
Love....and the main female characters were utter Sweety McSweetnics.
Especially Porchies maiden. Looks like they cut out the part with the half
dog/half shark monsters, but it was still pretty good. Probably the most
enjoyable Shakespeare movie I've seen so far. It really was actually fun to
watch. And interesting...when I was a teen, there was a lot of controversy
over Merchant of Venice being studied in schools, because of the
anti-semitic potential. This movie treated the subject very fairly in my
view. Nutshell, Shylock wasn't going for his pound of flesh due to being a
krayhayhayzee Jew guy, he was going for it because he was fucking mad about
the fate of his daughter, and his sense of alienation because of his
Jewishness....BUT the film did NOT justify Shylocks malice. Twas good stuff.
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:19:25 GMT
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"fenian d'illudium q-36, Rlari"
>Just went out and caught the Merchant of Venice movie. It was very good. It
>helps to know the story, it was one of the 3 or 4 Shakespeare plays studied
>in me skullin years. I actually laughed at some of the humour, which makes
>me laugh, because I usually want to punch people who laugh at Shakespearean
>jokes. They may have been funny in the 1600's, but they ain't any more. But
>they did a really good job of bringing the humourousness of certain
>situations out. All the characters were great, full o' flavour, notably
>Porchies Saracen suitor. Al Pacino did a very interesting job of
>Shylock...really made a character one could sympathize with, and be critical
>of, not in an jewhate way, but in a hyooman hate way, but still with a good
>dose of Hardcore Jewish Ethics vs. Christian Let's Bend the Law for Jesus'
>Love....and the main female characters were utter Sweety McSweetnics.
>Especially Porchies maiden. Looks like they cut out the part with the half
>dog/half shark monsters, but it was still pretty good. Probably the most
>enjoyable Shakespeare movie I've seen so far. It really was actually fun to
>watch. And interesting...when I was a teen, there was a lot of controversy
>over Merchant of Venice being studied in schools, because of the
>anti-semitic potential. This movie treated the subject very fairly in my
>view. Nutshell, Shylock wasn't going for his pound of flesh due to being a
>krayhayhayzee Jew guy, he was going for it because he was fucking mad about
>the fate of his daughter, and his sense of alienation because of his
>Jewishness....BUT the film did NOT justify Shylocks malice. Twas good stuff.
>
>
Well, see? The moral of the story is that you don't have to get the pound
of flesh all in one place all at the same time; a little foreskin here, a little
foreskin there. Hey! It adds up! Then, when the guys are grown-up men,
you go up to them with the foreskin sticking out between your fingers, and
say, "Neener, neener! Got your weiner!"