Gaywatch: Merchant of Venice (2004)

[brittanyksduh]

I have to give props to geekgirlt for bringing this one to my attention. Frankly, I'm not sure how a film adaptation of Shakespeare with Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes slipped past my radar. The trailers must have focused on Al Pacino or something, because I probably would have remembered this being on my screen:

Comments

[woremore]

Excellent post I must say.. Simple but yet interesting and engaging.. Keep up the awesome work!

[brittanyksduh]

Thank you!! <3

[miss_ciel]

Just gotta say I love this Gaywatch thing you've got going on. It's genius.

[brittanyksduh]

Why thank you! I enjoy doing them. XD

[juchilove]

LOL. I watched the movie, then I watched a couple scenes with the director's commentary which in this case also has the commentary of the actress who plays Portia, Lynn Collins

[juchilove]

Sorry it's so long xD

[brittanyksduh]

Ohhhhhhh this makes my day. Thank you SO much for sharing. XD

[august_suns]

Okay, so I know this is an old post but I was looking for a fic I saw and I thought it was by you, and I saw this and had to comment.
My English teacher in 11th grade had us read the Merchant of Venice. From the first page, she told us they were gay. She said that Antonio was heartsick over Bassanio, and that the marriage was all about the money and that the real love was between the two men. Some people in our class had an...interesting reaction to her interpretation, but they got over it. It is, after all, ambiguous and she told us we could draw our own conclusions.
It just made me excited and happy to hear her say that, but I didn't know there was a movie!

[missamitimelord]

Lucky! I had a teacher who treated R&J like it was teh most amazing romance evar.
No mention of the crude jokes or Mercutio's obvious infatuation with Romeo.