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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

💕 Psst! *whispers* #FilmSky fans, put a mark on your calendar for Valentine’s weekend. No details as yet. Something for the romcom in you. Meantime, follow @mrhennessy.com and @filmchat.party for all the latest updates. #FilmChat 💕 #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

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Michael Hennessy 🇨🇦 @mrhennessy.com · 12/01/2025

Thank you, @baddestmamajama.bsky.social & @nomadicwriter.bsky.social, for leading a joyful celebration of one of the best films of the end of the 20th century, #SiL. We'd all be well-served to carve time out this year to revisit the works of art that give us meaning.♥️🙏 #FilmChat #filmsky #scriptsky

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What to even say about this ending. Is it real? Is it a play? Does it all turn out all right? I don’t know, it’s a mystery. Thanks so much for watching with me and to @nomadicwriter.bsky.social and @mrhennessy.com for inviting me. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“Every end is a beginning.” Pretty fitting because this has been the premier of @filmchat.party today. Huge thanks to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social for agreeing to do this with us, thanks to @mrhennessy.com for starting #FilmChat and asking us to do this. Huge fun. Hope folk enjoyed it. #SIL Anon!

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Here it is: ‘Twelth Night.’ We know the main premise of that play is a woman disguising herself as a man, which is precisely what Viola had to do in order to become a ‘player’ herself. And the heroine’s name in TN? Viola! Of course. 😉 Every end is a beginning. #SIL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The tailor’s moment with the prologue always makes me cry. It reaffirms Henslowe’s “no no, it will all work out,” and gives you a little hope to get you through the coming tragedies. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

BTW Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter are married in real life. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#SiL does a fantastic job of interweaving the historical truths we know about William Shakespeare’s life - including Burbage’s patronage, which isn’t all that much, with all the fun, laughter and tears of this magnificent film.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

You desperately want to find a way to stop Viola’s wedding, just as in the play you’re trying to find some way out of the trap for the lovers. But that’s the whole point of the Queen’s frustration with plays - they omit that love often ends, that is is powerful because it can be devastating. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Such a beautiful moment. “We will show them that we are men of parts.” There’s an incredible story where the player companies came together to move one of the theaters, plank by plank, to the other side of the river. They were a wonder. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“It’s a woman!” As we know women weren’t permitted to be actors in Elizabethan times. All female parts were played by young men or pubescent boys. That’s why shoving Viola (note the name for a later scene) - Gwyneth Paltrow works so brilliantly in #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A thing about R+J that #SiL implicitly understands is that the structure of the story is meant to be confusing. Until the letters go wrong in act 4, it is designed to look like a comedy. That’s why the tragedy of the ending is so blindsiding. This film does the same with Marlowe’s death.

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Lush sets, wonderful cinematography, gorgeous costumes, fabulous script and brilliant performances: ‘Shakespeare in Love’ was made with love. It’s there in every frame. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There you go! That’s the reference I mentioned concerning Christopher Marlowe. We’re not done yet. Look how this news throws Will into a massive guilt trip (in the church). Makes one think a little of the ‘Scottish Play, especially when Wessex sees Will (ghost?). #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yes. Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman having enormous fun throwing in as many cultural and literary references as they can into #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Deserved that Oscar and several more! #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The film *almost* never stops making fun of itself. Breaking the tension of Burbage coming after Will with Affleck’s “…are you really going to do it like that?” Kills me. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Shout out to Jim Carter who plays the ‘nurse.’ Another cracking Brit actor. Likewise Colin Firth who’s equally fabulous as Lord Wessex. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Remember how Viola disguised herself as a man to fool both Will and also the other players? That’s going to have a great pay off towards the end of the film when we learn what play Will writes next. Think about the main plot points of ‘that’ play when it’s referenced. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The blocking of the balcony sequence is truly spectacular. Will and Viola making love interspersed with the power of the words taking over the whole theater. It captures the whole scene in a way that almost no one else has ever managed. It’s staggering. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

None of that anti-sex scene discourse round THESE parts, eh? This is a beautiful, sensual love scene with unexpected hilarity in the cuts to the nurse. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There’s that now immortal line - “A plague on both your houses.” See, we borrow and steal wherever we go. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yes. Loved how they interweaved Will hearing “A plague on all your houses” as he walked the streets of London. We see how writers *cough* are essentially magpies, steeling, I mean, borrow from real life to create their scripts. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

It’s totally unafraid to be sincere and lush, the movie is better for it. Those magical strings! #SiL

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Jason Williamson @acejace.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The London ‘cabbie’ boatman bragging about passengers is just perfect. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

One of the beautiful things going on in this movie is that you’re seeing how a writer shapes personal experience into art - the meeting at the dance, speaking to her on her balcony. It’s a very intimate story to writers. #SiL

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Krys⸆⸉ (she/her) @becomingkrys.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This cast was made up of all my favorites - and several that I didn’t know I’d love, but have come to (the apothecary becoming Mr. Weasley, not least of all)!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“I saw a play once…the one about a king.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Tom Stoppard, the writer, loves mucking about with time in his work. If you ever get a chance to see his play Arcadia, which includes a tortoise alive in multiple time periods, I can’t recommend enough. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

You could write a thesis about Shakespeare’s blue leather jacket in this. Also, pay attention to the colors! The peasant class are in blues and browns and natural whites, merchants like Wilkenson’s character are in blacks and bronzes, nobility like Viola in much more vibrant colors #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Side note: How many playwrights have ‘nearly finished’ their stage play when in reality they haven’t began to put pen (quill) to paper? 😂Stoppard having great fun with this. Ditto “Haven’t I seen you in something?” to Will as he crosses the water after Viola. #SiL

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Worth noting that many of the most memorable films are built up and supported not only singly the main protagonists but on well written and acted supporting cast. #SiL is a testament to this gold standard. Just look at that cast list. It’s to die for! Write great secondary characters.

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Watch out for all the nods to contemporary life; e.g. Will going to see his therapist. This film is littered with them. Some are more slight than others. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There are some people who have faces straight out of the Elizabethan Era, and Martin Clunes as Burbage is top of the list. #SiL

A photo of actor Martin Clunes in Shakespeare in Love

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Likewise, I *adore* the Stratford Upon Avon mug, which I remember critics hating. It’s not just a gag, it’s letting you know we’re in what I call “Ren Faire England,” which is a style of period storytelling that *appreciates* the period, but is going to play with it. #Sil

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Tom Wilkinson is so, so good in this. What wasn’t he great in? Sad loss. Wonderful actor. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Starting out with the playhouse is tremendously meaningful. There’s a distinct difference between the suspension of disbelief in theater vs film, and this opening, reminiscent of Branagh’s Henry V opening, which also starts in an empty theater, tries to merge the two ideas. #SiL

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Shakespeare in Love film club time!! Excited to be here, please post along with us with the hashtag #SiL

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Michael Hennessy 🇨🇦 @mrhennessy.com · 12/01/2025

Coming up at the top of the hour, a live tweeting of Shakespeare In Love, with @baddestmamajama.bsky.social & @nomadicwriter.bsky.social! Join in on the chat by adding #SiL to your comments. And here's the script if you want to read along: thescriptlab.com/wp-content/u... #filmchat #scriptsky

thescriptlab.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This is coming up at 10 am for all you Shakespeare fans! Grab a Sunday matinee with us!

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” He’s getting ready for our first @filmchat.party. See you at 6pm (GMT) for our ‘Shakespeare in Love’ live tweet. Please remember to use #SiL hashtag when you post so @baddestmamajama.bsky.social and I can see you. #FilmSky #ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK

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Film Chat @filmchat.party · 01/01/2025

#HappyNewYear! Our goal is to celebrate the great movies that mean a lot to us. And to kick things off, we invite you to join @baddestmamajama.bsky.social & @nomadicwriter.bsky.social on Jan. 12th for their live tweeting of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE! 🎞️😍 #scriptsky #filmsky #filmchat #shakespeare

Film Chat with Jessica Ellis and Fritha Malcouronne, live tweeting Shakespeare In Love on January 12th at 10 AM PT on Bluesky..

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Join @baddestmamajama.bsky.social and me Sunday 10am ( PT), 1pm (ET) and 6pm (GMT) as we live tweet ‘Shakespeare in Love. We’ll be using #SiL hashtag. This is the premier of @filmchat.party, which will become a regular global event. See you there! #FilmSky #ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We’re kicking off the premier of @filmchat.party season next Sunday. Don’t forget to join @baddestmamajama.bsky.social and me 10am (PT), 1pm (ET) and 6pm (GMT) as we live tweet ‘Shakespeare in Love.’ Join in! The more the merrier. #FilmSky #ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK

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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We’re kicking off @filmchat.party with an absolute cracker! Movie buffs & screenwriters: please join screenwriter/filmmaker Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama.bsky.social) and me 10am (PT), 1pm (ET) and 6pm GMT Sunday 12th January as we live tweet #ShakespeareInLove. #FilmSky #ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK

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