On Saturday 23 September 2006 9:09 pm, Susan Carroll-Clark wrote: > Greetings-- > > Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: > > I'm not familiar with the Mirren film, but you're right about the > > Blanchett movie; for every costume that wasn't too bad, there were a ton > > of gowns that looked like bad Ren Faire escapees. I got particularly > > annoyed because the Robert Dudley character went around with his doublet > > open and his shirt collar untied! No sane man would have gone about in > > public dressed like that in period. (When Hamlet visits Ophelia in a > > similar state of deshabille, she immediately assumes he's run mad.) > > I remember when the movie came out, we got a kick of explaining that > Joseph Fiennes had it left over from "Shakespeare in Love", or vice versa.
It annoyed me just as much in "Shakespeare in Love." ;-) > > (It was also quite the shame that the movie didn't have Dudley doing > much except mooning around and acting all moody.) > Agreed. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
