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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Forsooth, let us partake in discussion of Shakespearean film adaptations!
 
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AtraMorS
Feb 29, 2004

If at the end of a war story you feel that some tiny bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie

davidspackage posted:

Keanu Reeves was in Shakespeare as well as Dracula? Guess you have to sell your projects somehow...
He played loving Hamlet at one point. And was reportedly not terrible.

Don John's such a sad character that I don't think Reeves' performance hurt the adaptation too much. The guy's completely out of place amidst all the masquerades and matchmaking, and laughing at Reeves' lovely acting just kind of encourages you to laugh at this pathetic guy who can't stomach other people being happy. An actor who brought talented malice to the role might threaten to overcloud an otherwise sunny story, but Reeves' bad acting makes it easy for the audience to see Don John with a dismissive, "Haters gonna hate" attitude.

That's not to say Reeves was any good, just that the adaptation works in spite of him.

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