Shakespeare In Love Review
In a decade in which Shakespearean subjects had become increasingly popular, John_Madden's Shakespeare In Love ripped the envelope and then some. Madden's treatment of Marc_Norman's and Tom_Stoppard's screenplay reminded audiences that Shakespeare's plays were works of flesh and blood, and their playwright a living, breathing human being who faced practical problems and used his best creative impulses, sometimes on the spur of the moment, to solve them. Joseph_Fiennes's Shakespeare is a realistically human portrayal, the jumping-off point for one of the more robustly believable movie depictions of Elizabethan life, true to history in large measure, yet not afraid to allow some laughter and incorporate a historical conceit or two in telling its story. The movie won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Gwyneth_Paltrow as Best Actress, and Judi_Dench in a brief but memorable turn as Queen Elizabeth, revealed to be as quirkily and dimensionally human as Shakespeare himself. Bruce Eder, Rovi
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