Merchant of Venice, the movie

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Originally Posted by Winetalk.com

Excellent cast, excellent music, decorations, locale shoots,
but Shakespeare.....
this is one of the biggest anti-semitic plays I ever seen.

Jews, who were forced into banking by Christian laws, made much better case in the movie than their Christian oppressors. The banker and merchant signed the legal contract, and how was Sheylock denied his rightful claim of the pound of flesh?
By faked judge, total mockery of the existing law and trickery red neck Christians adhese to the Jews!

I find great satisfaction that this si only a play and only a movie, and in real life,
Jews DID start the world banking system, thanks to the laws Christians bounded them with and basically have won.

Turn in your grave, Shakespeare, the 21st Century movie, something no American movie director has tried since 1914, due to its antisemitic playwright,
portrayed main charecters as shallow bigots, and the only character who is worth sympathy is...Sheylock.

Which is how Shakespere wrote him , he wrote him sympathetically.

Antomnio and Bosanio are writtenas buffoons and upperclass twits , and Portia is portrayed as clever for a woman.

All very very shocking for the time and why Shakespere is the greaterst playwright.

Hath a Jew not...

etc etc is incredibly sympathetic , and frankly this is how the play was written.His genius was writing a play on levels that may make the educated , but nonethe less antisemitic educated class think and possibly change from dogma , whilst ensuring a hit with the belly laughs from the plebs.