The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name.
A co-production between the United Kingdom, Italy, and Luxembourg, The Merchant of Venice was screened non-competitively at the 61st edition of the Venice Film Festival on 4 September 2004 in what was touted as its world premiere (the film was in fact screened 3 September 2004 at the Telluride Film Festival).
Director Michael Radford believed that Shylock was Shakespeare's first great tragic hero who reaches a catastrophe due to his own flaws,
Cast
Al Pacino as Shylock
Jeremy Irons as Antonio
Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio
Lynn Collins as Portia
Zuleikha Robinson as Jessica
Kris Marshall as Gratiano
Charlie Cox as Lorenzo
Heather Goldenhersh as Nerissa
Mackenzie Crook as Launcelot Gobbo
John Sessions as Salerio
Gregor Fisher as Solanio
Ron Cook as Old Gobbo
Allan Corduner as Tubal
Anton Rodgers as The Duke
David Harewood as Prince of Morocco
Jules Werner as Franciscan Friar
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Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
A co-production between the United Kingdom, Italy, and Luxembourg, The Merchant of Venice was screened non-competitively at the 61st edition of the Venice Film Festival on 4 September 2004 in what was touted as its world premiere (the film was in fact screened 3 September 2004 at the Telluride Film Festival).
Director Michael Radford believed that Shylock was Shakespeare's first great tragic hero who reaches a catastrophe due to his own flaws,
Cast
Al Pacino as Shylock
Jeremy Irons as Antonio
Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio
Lynn Collins as Portia
Zuleikha Robinson as Jessica
Kris Marshall as Gratiano
Charlie Cox as Lorenzo
Heather Goldenhersh as Nerissa
Mackenzie Crook as Launcelot Gobbo
John Sessions as Salerio
Gregor Fisher as Solanio
Ron Cook as Old Gobbo
Allan Corduner as Tubal
Anton Rodgers as The Duke
David Harewood as Prince of Morocco
Jules Werner as Franciscan Friar
This recording is for educational purposes only and is covered under Fair Use doctrine - Copyright - All rights reserved to their respective owners.
Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
_______________________________
Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
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00:00Shylock is my name.
00:08Antonio.
00:12In Belmont is a lady richly left and she is fair.
00:25Her name is Portia.
00:26Had I but the means.
00:31Well, it now appears you need my help.
00:36Three thousand ducats.
00:37And for three months.
00:39Let the forfeit be an equal pound of your fair flesh to be cut off and taken.
00:50Here, choose I.
00:51And if my form lie there, I am yours.
00:56What, all his ventures failed? What, not one hit?
00:58Not one, my lord.
01:00They let me have judgment and make no more offers.
01:04The pound of flesh, tis mine!
01:10You do not look on me, for I am much shamed of my disguise.
01:25But love is blind.
01:36If you prick us, do we not bleed?
01:40If you poison us, do we not die?
01:43Your quality of mercy is not strained.
01:49How shall you hope for mercy, giving none?
01:52What judgment should I fear?
01:59If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.