Film Analysis of A Midsummer Nights Dream :: Movies A Midsummer Nights Dream Essays

Film Analysis of A Midsummer Nights Dream Michael Hoffman directed William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream and it is an enchanting new version of Shakespeares most magical comedy. It has dangerous potions, fairies and strange romances. It is a tale of a wondrous single wickedness in which wicked spirits turn the world of love on its head. First I have to make it clear that I have never really thought much of A Midsummer Nights Dream. I have always considered it fairly frivolous and not too important in William Shakespeares career. I really do not know why, it just is what it is. I must say, that Michael Hoffmans William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream is a very good film, BUT, it is not for everyone because it is stringently Shakespeare updated to 19th Century, Tuscany, Italy where the characters ride around on a new invention, the bicycle. All the magical fairies, tangled romances, Oberon and puck are all here to bedevil the doomed humans, as Puck says, What fools these mortals be. The movie opens with an interesting effect to show the name of the film, its quite magical. The opening is interesting but then it bogs down for almost 15 minutes and since I was tired I found it a bit of a struggle staying awake, but I did and I was rewarded. I quickly woke up as the scene moved into the woods late at night as the pouffe world came to life with interesting, magical creatures. Stanley Tucci plays the mischievous Puck quite well as does Calista Flockheart as Helena, one of the tortured lovers she nails Helenas love craziness. Christian Bale as Demetrius, Sophie Marceau as Hippolyta and Domenic West as Lysander play the some other lovers. Rupert Everetts Oberon has a brooding to him that I have never seen which makes that role work for me in ways it has never before. I personally feel that Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, the fairy Queen was absolutely beautiful. Kevin Kline as Nick Bottom and Ms.