![]() If your legs are sturdy, standing in the Yard, up close to the action, can be thrilling. The closest you'll get to an authentic theatre of the period is Shakespeare's Globe where, for amazingly reasonable price, you can experience the plays in the environment for which they were intended. The site is at Park Street, at the southern end of Southwark Bridge. The property developers eventually agreed to preserve the theatre in the basement of the new building. The real Rose, where Shakespeare's earlier plays were first performed, was actually uncovered during building work in Southwark n London’s South Bank, in the late Eighties, and a massive campaign was launched to preserve it. After filming, it was presented to Dame Judi Dench with an eye to restoring it as a working theatre. The ‘Rose Theatre’ is not, as many people seem to assume, the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside, but a studio set built for the movie. Multi-Oscar winner, including Best Picture, as a hunky, young playwright William Shakespeare ( Joseph Fiennes) struggles to write Romeo and Ethel, The Pirate’s Daughter and aristocrat Viola de Lesseps ( Gwyneth Paltrow) defies the convention of the times by wanting to act. He talks about the special effects, the sets and working with the actors.Shakespeare In Love location: The house of Viola: Broughton Castle, Banbury, Oxfordshire The worlds greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. With Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Steven ODonnell, Tim McMullan. Rounding out the disc is commentary by director Barry Sonnenfeld, who is a bit of a snooze. Shakespeare in Love: Directed by John Madden. The wide-screen edition of the dreadful western comedy, starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, includes Smith’s music video, a short behind-the-scenes documentary that aired on HBO, theatrical trailers, a stills gallery and a look at the special effects, props, gadgets and costumes.įor those with DVD-ROM, there is also a virtual tour of behind-the-scenes clips, a ROM game and two original essays. ![]() Also featured are both sets of hysterical outtakes and an explanation of how they were done.įor the strictly undiscerning, there’s Warner Home Video’s digital version of “Wild Wild West” ($25). ![]() Sound engineer Gary Rydstrom talks about the movie’s unique sound design, including the odd things used to create the sound of the bugs, such as cracking open uncooked crabs and using the sound of various World War II bombers in flight. Lasseter points out that the film’s complex opening, which begins with a panoramic landscape and then narrows down to the bug’s world, is so complicated that they didn’t even know how to do it when they started.Īlso featured on the disc is an isolated music track and an isolated sound effects track.ĭisc 2, hosted by Lasseter and Stanton, includes an early presentation reel done like a ‘50s educational movie, the original storyboards, character design, deleted sequences that didn’t work (including a prologue set in a museum), storyboard-to-final-film split-screen comparisons, a behind-the-scenes documentary on the creation of the film, a look at the voice talent and early production tests. The documentary not only talks about the rocky road “Shakespeare” had getting to the screen-it was originally set to star Julia Roberts, but the script ended up languishing on the shelves at Universal-but also chronicles the history of Shakespearean plays on film.ĭeleted scenes include an extended version of the ending, which is actually quite charming, and a funny scene involving a joke about Miramax kingpin Harvey Weinstein. There is also an enjoyable behind-the-scenes documentary, “Shakespeare in Love and on Film,” which includes interviews with stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench, director John Madden and screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. A short piece on the Oscar-winning costumes features an interview with designer Sandy Powell, who says she was inspired by Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Included on the disc are a beautiful wide-screen print of the film, a plethora of Shakespearean facts and theatrical trailers. Unlike the DVD version of the romantic comedy that was released several months ago, this collection has a lot of bells and whistles. Miramax is offering a classy collector’s edition of its 1998 Oscar-winning best film, “Shakespeare in Love” ($40).
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