The Merchant of Venice (2004) – Official Trailer

Posted on September 14th, 2009 by admin

The Merchant of Venice (2004) – Official Trailer

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25 Responses

  1. DramaFreak02 Says:

    im reading this …
    im reading this book right now in class…the modern language is kinda hard to understand

  2. sonacs Says:

    venice was one of …
    venice was one of the richest state of the history..now italy is an occupant state in that area..onor to the Most Serene Republic of Venice (600-1797)

  3. poland08 Says:

    crap
    crap

  4. bugramps Says:

    I think the …
    I think the director was pretty accurate with his adaptation of this play. You’d have to be pretty blind in reading the play not to suspect some sexual relationship existed at least at some point between Antonio and Bassanio. But I agree, it was a subplot. It was not the heart of the film or the play.

  5. bes123seb Says:

    I have an english …
    I have an english exam on this

  6. badfucker2jodie Says:

    i love this movie.. …
    i love this movie…its the best shakespeare movie ever…and shakespeare was the best lit. writer ever

  7. neothomist1275 Says:

    Venice was such a …
    Venice was such a wicked place, everyone being without ethics and thinking of his own advantage . Remind you of any other commercial republics you know of?

  8. RaspberryRainbowS Says:

    this was a great …
    this was a great movie … loved it!

  9. Floydfan101 Says:

    i agree! actually, …
    i agree! actually, in the special feature of the film, the person who played bassanio was saying that the relationship between two men was held in such a high esteem back then, and was really different than modern friendships…

    the kiss between the two was merely a friend-love type gesture, as it was acceptable back then.

    and i liked the way shylock was portrayed, definitely evoked sympathy (especially at the end)

  10. RogerZee Says:

    Jeremy Irons… …
    Jeremy Irons…that’s Scar from the Lion King!:)

  11. freethinker17 Says:

    I don’t many people …
    I don’t many people think homosexuality is something noble or praiseworthy.

  12. thatdrattedcat Says:

    Okay, I have to …
    Okay, I have to admit… the movie looks cheeseball but I still really want to see it.

  13. juliashchupak Says:

    the music is …
    the music is perfect… jocelyn pook, the compozer, is something…

  14. 67nunky Says:

    “If you us do …
    “If you us do we not bleed? Hoo hah!”

  15. TannedNostril Says:

    I didn’t get the …
    I didn’t get the impression that the film was trying to use Antonio’s love for Bassanio as a pulpit for talking about homosexuality. One of the great things about this movie is, precisely, that it largely ignores homosexuality. It certainly doesn’t dwell on the issue the way we moderns do, pretending that it is something noble and praiseworthy.

  16. k1wibaby Says:

    It’s a comedy, but …
    It’s a comedy, but a lot of the humour in it is really hard for a 21st century audience to understand, especially the whole “Gobbo” scene. It is a good storyline in that it looks at anti-semitism in a way that other plays and stories hadn’t really before.

  17. silverbeth Says:

    i like the way …
    i like the way modern productions of this play cast the character of shylock as a tragic figure, and the character of Antonio as a villain-like homosexual… it’s an intersting take on a play written at a time when anti-semitism was an accepted and almost expected thing

  18. McLachlan1828 Says:

    I’d love to see …
    I’d love to see this. We’re performing this at my school, and it’s the first of Shakespeare’s comedies I’ve ever read or performed. Though, I have to say, the movie makes it seem MUCH more dramatic and intense than I think the script actually is. But it looks very, very good.

  19. elephantzel Says:

    and he doth nothing …
    and he doth nothing but talk of his horse …

  20. josephgranja Says:

    AL PACINO IT’S …
    AL PACINO IT’S GREAT PEOPLE GREAT OK

  21. Janiqua Says:

    OMG! That looks so …
    OMG! That looks so good! I have to see it! We’re about to read it in school and I had no idea what it was about, but it looks incredible!

  22. lynda12798 Says:

    MERCHANT OF VENICE< …
    MERCHANT OF VENICE<33
    love it.

  23. atia44 Says:

    maan i luv it so …
    maan i luv it so much. we r doin it at skool now and we r watching the production. godddddddd it is so boring but this one is FABILOUS. i luv it so much n i luv the charcter bassanio n shylock !!

  24. atia44 Says:

    omg we doin this at …
    omg we doin this at skool soooooo boring to read. probarbly because of the language. i just dont understand it. the movie looks good. i think it would be waaaay better then the book . its a must see for ppl who hav read and studied the book . !!!!

  25. mistie101 Says:

    I had to learn this …
    I had to learn this 4 my gcse’s ,i was really bad it lol It confuses me 2 much and i wasnt the only 1 to say it!!

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