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Much Ado About Nothing: The Film Directed By Branagh
Kenneth Branagh's decision to set his film at the Villa Vignamaggio in the hills of Tuscany, rather than in a city, sets the tone of his interpretation of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. Rather than the formal society overly concerned with outward appearances, which ....
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.... aesthetic than intellectual. Shakespeare relied almost wholly on his language for effect-- his sensuality was verbal, Branagh's is visual.
Shakespeare's mood is formal. His society is insecure and so concerned with outward appearances that the people are easily deceived and fail to comprehend the truth. Branagh's characters are self-confident, happy, warm-hearted, affectionate-- but their naïveté makes them vulnerable to deception. Branagh makes his actors act and talk 'like natives of a warm country,' they laugh, applaud witty speeches, hug ....
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