OH JULIAN FELLOWES NO
About his version of Romeo and Juliet, in which he inserted new dialogue and entirely new scenes:
"When people say we should have filmed the original, I don't attack them for that point of view, but to see the original in its absolutely unchanged form, you require a kind of Shakespearean scholarship, and you need to understand the language and analyse it and so on.
"I can do that because I had a very expensive education; I went to Cambridge. Not everyone did that, and there are plenty of perfectly intelligent people out there who have not been trained in Shakespeare's language choices."
Oh, you few. You happy few of Cambridge who alone amidst the heaving sea of humanity are able to decipher the Bard. 'Doff thy caps, dogs! Dost not know greatness when it blazes before thee?!
::laughing fits::
Mr. Fellowes, for those of you who may not be aware of such things, is the person responsible for a period soap opera called Downton Abbey, where his attitude toward the unwashed masses is set free to romp every week. Perhaps Mr. Fellowes believes I couldn't find a dozen like him on every street corner; he would be mistaken. Could afford them, too. Snobs have always been a dime a dozen.
Idjit.
"When people say we should have filmed the original, I don't attack them for that point of view, but to see the original in its absolutely unchanged form, you require a kind of Shakespearean scholarship, and you need to understand the language and analyse it and so on.
"I can do that because I had a very expensive education; I went to Cambridge. Not everyone did that, and there are plenty of perfectly intelligent people out there who have not been trained in Shakespeare's language choices."
Oh, you few. You happy few of Cambridge who alone amidst the heaving sea of humanity are able to decipher the Bard. 'Doff thy caps, dogs! Dost not know greatness when it blazes before thee?!
::laughing fits::
Mr. Fellowes, for those of you who may not be aware of such things, is the person responsible for a period soap opera called Downton Abbey, where his attitude toward the unwashed masses is set free to romp every week. Perhaps Mr. Fellowes believes I couldn't find a dozen like him on every street corner; he would be mistaken. Could afford them, too. Snobs have always been a dime a dozen.
Idjit.