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The plot of the film talks about these two relationships, which are different in many ways. The movie is set around the heat of the Italian summer, in the Tuscan villa, in an unspecified timeline, though it seems to be vaguely the renaissance past.
Here, time stopped, and life became a pursuit of pleasure. The head characters include Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson, Michael Keaton, and Keanu Reeves, who find the right way to play out the misunderstandings, passionate love affairs, reconciliations, and renunciations (film). When the movie starts, Beatrice and her friends are relaxing, when news of the arrival of Don Pedro, the Prince of Aragon (Denzel Washington), comes. He had come to spend time at Leonato’s (Richard Briers) villa.
This was after squashing an uprising organized by Don John (Keanu Reeves). Benedick and Beatrice, have been acquaintances for some time, and it takes their friends’ prodding to admit their feelings to each other. She is submitted to Benedick, just as he is to her. This couple is engaging, such that their differences are unnoticeable. However, Hero and Claudio, have an immediate attraction, love at first sight, but still, have a lot to know about each other. Claudio’s love then turns into loathing but does not tell this Hero until their wedding day, when he denounces her (film).
The whole production was as though Branargh sought to come up with a bizarre diversion. It could be assumed that he knew the conventional comedy routines would prompt anything, apart from laughter.
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