I love you, Will, beyond poetry.
This movie winning Best Picture over "Saving Private Ryan" at the 1998 Academy Awards is seen by most as one of the greatest travesties in Oscar history. I am here to say that they are wrong. This movie could have taken the easy route and gave an account of historical romance that gave the viewer a fictionalized look at William Shakespeare's personal life. Instead it molds itself as a romantic comedy as if Shakespeare had written the dialogue of his own story. Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow (along with an outstanding supporting class) deserve an enormous amount of credit for pulling off this feat. In my opinion, it still wasn't the best film nominated (that would be "Life is Beautiful"), but it is better than Spielberg's wartime opus.
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