Okay, so I didn't want to go through any of the message boards because I didn't want to spoil anything about the movie for myself...However, I'm wondering what the genre of this movie is like. Is it more Romance than comedy? Someone help! This will help me decide if I want to watch it right at this moment...
shareIt's kind of hard to separate the two. Much of the comedy is driven by the romance of the two leads. To me it has more humor than some of Shakespeare's other romantic comedies like As You Like It or Taming Of The Shrew. Of course, being Shakespeare, there's also quite a bit of drama.
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I find it interesting that you find Ado has more comedy in it than Shrew. I suppose its all in how it is presented. Look up ACT's production of Shrew with Marc Singer (yes, Beastmaster) on YouTube. It was done in the Commedia style and is almost perfect. I have seen it many many times and I am still in awe of it.
shareSo glad to find another fan of that production of TAMING OF THE SHREW. I knew nothing of BEASTMASTER or Marc Singer (though he looked vaguely familiar to me), but happened on a clip from it, which led me to check out the DVD from the library. What a delight! Especially delectable was that bravura section of knock-down, drag-out craziness between Katherine and Petruchio, on meeting--wonderful!
Multiplex: 100+ shows a day, NONE worth watching. John Sayles' latest: NO distribution. SAD.
FWIW, Whedon calls his "Much Ado" a "noir deconstruction of a romantic comedy." I think he's realized that perfectly with the source material, and I think it works like gangbusters.
Also - I was raised on Shakespeare, both read by my father and on the BBC as a tiny child, have studied the acting of the language and acted it. This, for me, is the best film of a Shakespeare comedy I've ever seen - and the chemistry between Acker and Denishof is astonishing.
It has also won over real novices to the Bard - one with no more than high-school reading and a children's theatre staging.
Finally, I came to this film a non-Whedon fan (though I respected his brains). Now I am exploring his other work.
Oh, right. So, she secretly trained a flock of sandflies.