It was pretty boring. Therein a disguised Don Pedro woos Hero on Claudio's behalf. [13] In the patriarchal society of the play, the men's loyalties were governed by conventional codes of honour, camaraderie, and a sense of superiority over women. [15], There are many examples of deception and self-deception in the play. Benedick hesitates but is swayed. After a few more films Leonard was cast in the series that gave him much fame.House (2004) is a drama series about a cynical, antisocial, crippled doctor who is almost always correct in his solutions to medical problems. That's too much work. [citation needed] It is directed by A. J. Antoon. Publicity Listings There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. Both Benedick and Beatrice are delighted to think that they are the object of unrequited love, and both resolve to mend their faults and declare their love. Pulling in 60 million on an 8 million dollar budget, it remains one of the most successful films based off of a play by Shakespeare. [1] The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. [citation needed] An earlier BBC television version with Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, adapted from Franco Zeffirelli's stage production for the National Theatre Company's London stage production, was broadcast in February 1967. Well… who wants life to be completely boring, but living through actual future history all the time has gotten quite exhausting. Benedick and Beatrice quickly became the main interest of the play. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, (July 2008 - In 2016, Lily Anderson released a young adult novel called The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You, a modernized adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing whose main characters, Trixie Watson and Ben West, attend a "school for geniuses". [33] The cast also includes Jamar Brathwaite (Ensemble), Chuck Cooper (Leonato), Javen K. Crosby (Ensemble), Denzel DeAngelo Fields (Ensemble), Jeremie Harris (Claudio), Tayler Harris (Ensemble), Erik Laray Harvey (Antonio/Verges), Kai Heath (Messenger), Daniel Croix Henderson (Balthasar), Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Friar Francis/Sexton), Tiffany Denise Hobbs (Ursula), Lateefah Holder (Dogberry), LaWanda Hopkins (Dancer), Billy Eugene Jones (Don Pedro), Margaret Odette (Hero), Hubert Point-Du Jour (Don John), William Roberson (Ensemble), Jaime Lincoln Smith (Borachio), Jazmine Stewart (Ensemble), Khiry Walker (Conrade/Ensemble), Olivia Washington (Margaret) and Latra A. Wilson (Dancer). Critics Consensus: Kenneth Branagh's love for the material is contagious in this exuberant adaptation. [citation needed]. [April 2003], Co-starring as "Dr. James Wilson" in the popular medical drama. (2004). Examples of noting as noticing occur in the following instances: (1.1.131–132). [citation needed], The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. This attention is mentioned directly several times, particularly concerning "seeming", "fashion", and outward impressions. The film is a suspense thriller starring John Lithgow and is about a science experiment taken too far.Leonard continued on from these firsts and landed a role in Bluffing It (1987) and then acted in another teen comedy: My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987). Early 'lost' Maggie Smith appearance painstakingly restored", "All-black 'Much Ado About Nothing' brings Shakespeare into 21st century on PBS", "Hero. |  But his career has spanned a number of classic films, alongside such greats as Daniel Day-Lewis, Christian Bale, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington. At (3.3.102–104), Borachio indicates that a man's clothing doesn't indicate his character: Borachio: Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak is nothing to a man. It is likely that the play made its debut in the autumn or winter of 1598–1599. A humiliated Leonato expresses his wish for her to die. Afterwards he was accepted into the Screen Actor's Guild, changing his middle name to 'Sean'. And given way unto this course of fortune. [34], In 2017, a YA adaptation was released by author Mckelle George called Speak Easy, Speak Love, where the events of the play take place in the 1920s, focused around a failing speakeasy. He acted in the series The Outer Limits (1995) and Wasteland (1999) as well as making movies such as the dramatic film Tape (2001) by Richard Linklater, A Glimpse of Hell (2001) opposite James Caan, and the box office bomb Driven (2001) starring Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds. Keanu Reeves stars as Don John, who aims to keep Hero and Claudio apart, with Denzel … [citation needed] The characters' feelings for each other are played as vehicles to reach an ultimate goal of engagement rather than seen as an end in themselves. [citation needed], The play is predominantly written in prose. Benedick, who openly despises marriage, tries to dissuade him. Don John uses this situation to sow chaos by telling Claudio that Don Pedro is wooing Hero for himself. Leonard, the first actor to be cast in the series, plays the character of Dr. Wilson, the only person that House considers a friend. Official Sites, Frequently played youths trying to break away from older ideals. Through "noting" (sounding like "nothing", and meaning gossip, rumour, overhearing),[2][3] Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into believing that Hero is not a maiden (virgin). [citation needed] Jacobi had also played Benedick in the Royal Shakespeare Company's highly praised 1982 production. - IMDb Mini Biography By: This motif runs through the play, often referring to horns (a symbol of cuckoldry). Leonato: O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet? Beatrice asks the messenger about Benedick, and mocks Benedick's ineptitude as a soldier. But not all are well-meant: Don John convinces Claudio that Don Pedro wants Hero for himself, and Borachio meets 'Hero' (who is actually Margaret) in Hero's bedroom window. [12] The provocative treatment of gender is central and should be considered in its Renaissance context. [23], Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed music for a production in 1917 at the Vienna Burgtheater by Max Reinhardt. But his career has spanned a number of classic films, alongside such greats as Daniel Day-Lewis, Christian Bale, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington.Born Robert Lawrence Leonard in Westland, New Jersey, he attended first Fordham University and then Columbia University. Don Pedro: Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks –. The 2001 Hindi film Dil Chahta Hai is a loose adaptation of the play. Took his brother's first name (Sean) as his middle name. |  ... Robert Sean Leonard as Claudio, Imelda Staunton as Margaret, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut as Hero. [citation needed] Don Pedro and his men, bored at the prospect of waiting a week for the wedding, concoct a plan to match-make between Benedick and Beatrice. [citation needed] The longest-running Broadway production is A. J. Antoon's 1972 staging, starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Widdoes, and Barnard Hughes. Many of the males easily believe that Hero is impure, and even her father readily condemns her with very little proof. The next day, at the wedding, Claudio denounces Hero before the stunned guests, and he storms off with Don Pedro. He was considered for the role of Norman Bates in. [citation needed], In 2015, a modern movie version of this play was created by Owen Drake entitled Messina High, starring Faye Reagan.[31]. [clarification needed][citation needed] Benedick wittily gives voice to male anxieties about women's "sharp tongues and proneness to sexual lightness". A masquerade ball is planned. [citation needed] Charles II wrote 'Benedick and Beatrice' beside the title of the play in his copy of the Second Folio. The second romance, between Claudio's friend Benedick and Hero's cousin Beatrice, takes center stage as the play goes on, with both characters' wit and banter providing much of the humor. However others such as Roger Ebert defended the young lead whose character is deceived into thinking his betrothed is unfaithful.In the same year, Leonard took the lead in Swing Kids (1993), which also starred Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey and Kenneth Branagh who, rather than upstage Leonard, Bale and Whaley, refused any credit in the film. Wilson is a much more humane person than House, which leads to many debates between himself and House, though he is plagued by his own problems. The film, another success for Leonard, told the story of a group of friends in the Hitler Youth attempting to hold onto something they love-- the Lindy hop. That same year he was also in The Manhattan Project (1986). They are considered the leading roles even though their relationship is given equal or lesser weight in the script than Claudio and Hero's situation. In 2011, Joss Whedon completed filming of an adaptation, released in June 2013. [citation needed] This was the only edition prior to the First Folio in 1623. ", After the theatres reopened during the Restoration, Sir William Davenant staged The Law Against Lovers (1662), which inserted Beatrice and Benedick into an adaptation of Measure for Measure. In 2011, Joss Whedon completed filming of an adaptation,[30] released in June 2013. In 2006 the American Music Theatre Project produced The Boys Are Coming Home,[24] a musical adaptation by Berni Stapleton and Leslie Arden that sets Much Ado About Nothing in America during the Second World War. The games and tricks played on people often have the best intentions: to make people fall in love, or to help someone get what they want, or to lead someone to realize their mistake. [8], The earliest printed text states that Much Ado About Nothing was "sundry times publicly acted" prior to 1600. [citation needed] In a poem published in 1640, Leonard Digges wrote: "let but Beatrice / And Benedick be seen, lo in a trice / The Cockpit galleries, boxes, all are full. I didn't want to be the lead guy. [citation needed] Director Terry Hands produced the play on a stage-length mirror against an unchanging backdrop of painted trees. The cast includes Amy Acker as Beatrice, Alexis Denisof as Benedick, Nathan Fillion as Dogberry, Clark Gregg as Leonato, Reed Diamond as Don Pedro, Fran Kranz as Claudio, Jillian Morgese as Hero, Sean Maher as Don John, Spencer Treat Clark as Borachio, Riki Lindhome as Conrade, Ashley Johnson as Margaret, Tom Lenk as Verges, and Romy Rosemont as the sexton. 'Marty didn't like boxing': Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese on the fight to make Raging Bull By Jay Glennie 3 Apr 2021, 5:00am. Leonard's first acting role was My Two Loves (1986) where he was cast in a small role. [7] But the witty wooing of Beatrice and Benedick is apparently original, and very unusual in style and syncopation. Nothing is also a double entendre: "an O-thing" (or "n othing" or "no thing") was Elizabethan slang for "vagina", derived from women having "nothing" between their legs. The play is set in Messina and centers around two romantic pairings that emerge when a group of soldiers arrive in the town. [9] The substantial verse sections achieve a sense of decorum.[10]. [citation needed], In 2015, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the music for a rock opera adaptation of the play, These Paper Bullets, which was written by Rolin Jones. Adjusted Score: 93.449% . Claudio's feelings for Hero are rekindled, and he informs Benedick of his intention to court her. During the same celebration, Don Pedro pretends to be Claudio and courts Hero for him. [citation needed] This is supported by Benedick's cynical comments about the song where he compares it to a howling dog. present) ( 2 children). When asked why the song was so popular, he said it could be its "abstraction," adding, "Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way - and I wrote the lyrics." Whedon completed filming of an adaptation, released in June 2013 Widdoes robert sean leonard much ado about nothing and unusual. For her to die 1737 ) but a force is sent to capture.. 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