Much Ado About Nothing And Things We Now Know
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Much Ado About Nothing (the 1993 Kenneth Branagh movie) and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this movie based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, you might wish to skip this post.
I’ve been rewatching favorite movies as a way to deal with this often stressful world.
When I first watched Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing, I enjoyed it.
Stars. How could I not? It is a classic story and it stars some of the best actors and actresses of our times – Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton, Kate Beckinsale.
Much Ado About Nothing is fun and light and should have been a great rewatch.
I couldn’t finish it.
Because we now know that Kenneth Branagh, the male lead, didn’t respect Emma Thompson, the female lead, AT ALL. His jabs at her as his character were too dang close to real life.
I didn’t find them amusing.
And since their real life relationship was destroyed, hurting Emma Thompson, I no longer believe the love between their characters will last.
All I see when I look at them together is…sadness and pain.
Combine that with the disbelief I hold that Keanu Reeves could ever be a truly evil character and the movie now falls apart for me.
And that’s okay. Some movies and stories don’t last.
They give us happiness when we first experience them and that’s enough.
Stars. That’s more than enough. That is AMAZING and a gift.
It is privilege to make people smile once with our art.
Making them smile years later with the same art is a rarity.
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