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	• Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Miramax, 1999 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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How does he write so well? . . . It's a mystery!

Stoppard and Norman have interwoven a screenplay worthy of it's phenomenal acclaim. It was easily the finest and wittiest montage of iambic pentametre, puns, and one-liners I have ever experienced . . . especially on screen. Bravo once again to one of the finest dramatists of this century! Believe me, like the show, I could . . .GO ON!

Beautiful, lustful poetry...

Such a screenplay I have never heard. Sleek and flowing, peaceful, true. The closest words to heaven I have yet heard.

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How could this movie get best picture!?!?!?

"Saving Private Ryan","Life is Beautiful",and "Thin Red Line" are better and "Saving Private Ryan" should've won best picture. The movie was OK.

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Excellent, of course

The movie was so great, and mostly on the strength of it's terrific script, so could this book be anything but a great read? I loved, absolutely LOVED this movie, went to see it four times and I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the video. This is very much worth the read, because there is just such a volume of literary and historical allusions that's its impossible to catch all of them at the theater, especially if you only see it once, since all you end up doing is trying to keep up with the plot, which moves at such excellent speed. Reading the screenplay allows you to catch many of the subtler jokes you may miss even upon repeated viewings. Thank you Shakespeare In Love! You have renewed my belief in the capability of the language of movies to be as meaningful and sublimely beautiful as any found in literature ("Love knows nothing of rank or riverbank! It will spark between a queen and the poor vagabond who plays the king, and their love should be minded by each, for love denied blights the soul we owe to God!") (Viola as Thomas: ....Tell me how you love her, Will. Will: Like a sickness and its cure together. Viola as Thomas: Yes, like rain and sun, like cold and heat. (collecting herself) Is your lady beautiful? Since I have come from the country I have not seen her close. Tell me, is she beautiful? Will: Oh, if I could write the beauty of her eyes! I was born to look in them and know myself. Viola as Thomas: And her lips? Will: Oh Thomas, her lips! The early morning rose would wither on the branch if it could feel envy!") Etc.

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