The projects that I've been working on really makes me think of how important it is to know the intention that artists put in their works. Of course, it is necessary for an art work to exist its own, but having knowledge of "why" the artist does what he or she does gives me a different perspective of how to see the work.
http://www.eye.net/eye/iss
In this interview, the director talks a little bit about what Shakespeare is meant to him.
"Shakespeare is a very big deal indeed to me -- I've taught him, I've acted in his plays -- and I think we do him a great disservice by keeping him restricted to the rare air of classrooms and 'real' theatres. In his own time he wrote brilliantly and effortlessly for the entire social spectrum, and we need to reclaim that, to let movie audiences, now one of the largest audiences around, experience first-hand the intoxication of his language, the depth and accuracy of his characterization. [...] Contrary to popular opinion, Shakespeare is neither earnest nor boring. And neither -- if I've done my job -- is this film."
I'll end this note with a few quotes from Romen and Juliet. Thanks.
- "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow"
- "My only love sprung from my only hate; too early unknown and known too late."
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