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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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April 11, 2005 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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| $16.45 | $6.00 |
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen, Subtitled |
Contributor | Kris Marshall, Al Pacino, Julian Nest, Mackenzie Crook, Norbert Konne, Heather Goldenhersh, Jeremy Irons, Jean-François Wolff, Lynn Collins, Charlie Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Antonio Gil (VI), Gregor Fisher, Anton Rodgers, John Sessions, David Harewood, Allan Corduner, Marc Maes, Ron Cook, Al Weaver, Michael Radford, Zuleikha Robinson See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 11 minutes |
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Product Description
From Michael Radford, the Academy Award(r)-nominated director of Il Postino, comes the critically-acclaimed screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's controversial classic, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Antonio (Jeremy Irons), a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock (Al Pacino), a wealthymoneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love) woothe fair Portia (Lynn Collins, 13 Going on 30). Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants therequest, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed to him but soon learns that those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.55 x 5.4 x 7.47 inches; 2.88 ounces
- Director : Michael Radford
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 2 hours and 11 minutes
- Release date : May 10, 2005
- Actors : Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson
- Subtitles: : French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B0007WRT4Q
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #27,768 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4,535 in Drama DVDs
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It is difficult to imagine a more complex and dark story arc than the one about the clash between these two. Is Antonio the hero? Or is it Shylock? Or is this a contest between villains? One, Shylock, a much despised and downtrodden man, the victim of a lifetime of anti-Semitism, essentially loses his soul and relishes what he sees as his one chance for revenge upon his oppressors in Christian theocratic Venice too much. The other, Antonio, seems like the perfect example of clean and virtuous Christian nobility - a status he has used to routinely degrade and humiliate Shylock while freely making use of his services as a moneylender when it served his interests to do so.
Most productions are unable to capture the depth of these characters, but Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons are superb. Pacino is tormented and angry and is probably not someone you would want to socialize with, but still you can feel the essential craving for justice that underlies it - a justice he deserves. Irons' Antonio would probably make a wonderful dinner companion - handsome, witty, and cultured - and yet there is superciliousness and a hypocritical streak in him that cannot be ignored.
By the time the trial is over, and Portia's legal arguments have spared Antonio and denied Shylock his pound of flesh, the audience is so deeply involved with both characters that no outcome would be completely happy. Perhaps that is why Shakespeare let the romantic storyline play on, to lighten the gloom with some comic relief and a more pleasing finale.
This may not be a version of the play that will appeal youngsters, but it should keep an adult at the edge of his/her seat, and leave them with a much greater appreciation of how REALLY GOOD Shakespeare was as a writer.