My favorite film

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2011)

"Shakespeare in Love" demonstrates writing, acting and production of the highest quality. We see my favorite criteria for judging a film - creativity, humor, love, mystery, romance and adventure - rise time and time again to their high-water marks. I was particularly impressed with the fact that Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman understood that Shakespeare was truly in the entertainment business, and show us a conflicted Shakespeare whose writing is being constrained by his producers. In "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare breaks from the popular stage-play themes making their rounds in the city, and is successful in doing so because he shows the audience aspects of human nature, which up to that time had been unexplored in this medium. I wish Hollywood would be willing to take the same chance and produce entertaining, thoughtful and socially redeeming films (such as Tom Hooper's recent success). Hollywood take note, there is a population cohort for whom you've been writing for the past thirty years that has grown up.