Twelfth Night: Or what you will - Part 14

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Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. When she lands in a foreign country, Viola dresses as her brother and adopts the name Cesario, becoming a trusted friend and confidante to the Count Orsino. Orsino is madly in love with the lady Olivia, who is in mourning due to her brother's recent death, which she uses as an excuse to avoid seeing the count, whom she does not love. He sends Cesario to do his wooing, and Olivia falls in love with the disguised maiden. Things get more complicated in this bittersweet Shakespeare comedy when a moronic nobleman, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and a self-important servant, Malvolio, get caught up in the schemes of Olivia's cousin, the obese, alcoholic Sir Toby, who leads each to believe Olivia loves him. As well, Sebastian surfaces in the area, and of course there is Feste, the wise fool, around to keep everything in perspective and to marvel, like we the audience, at the amazing things happening all around.

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Film & Animation

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• Twelfth
• Night
• 12th
• crossdressing
• shakespear
• movie
• 1996
• drama
• comedy
• Viola
• Orsino
• Sebastian
• She's
• the
• man

[bluegrl12491]

I think that Feste knew Viola's real identity all along

[maplepapillon1]

i think Imogen Stubbs (Viola) really outshone everyone else playing both man and woman so wonderfully, both serious and funny at the same time...And yeah, holding hands with the brother while kissing my husband...ahaha~

[ILoveSockMonkeys99]

i love this movie! great choice for olivia, I cant help laughing when she gapes after Viola's "OOOLLLIIIVVVIIIAAA!"

[pippacrawford]

I kind of feel bad for Olivia. Sebastian really is just a poor woman's Viola and is not nearly as charming or strong as his sister. Olivia fell for Caesario bc s/he understood her and appealed to her as a woman. Don't know if Sebastian will 'get' her the same way. At least Viola got who she really loved and Orsino ended up with the best friend he was attracted to/falling for. I think Viola/Orsino have a better shot at a happy marriage than Olivia/Sebastian.

[guttersnipechum]

Did anyone else feel so sad for Malvolio and Sir Andrew...poor, rejected, lonely men.....Everyone was so cruel to them.

[damon3011]

Orsino: phew she's a woman I didn't want to become gay

[12188185s]

Great production. Really sweet, and funny! (Ben Kingsley was amazing!)

[MarcelloTheCello]

The only part of the play that I don't like is that when Orsino learns that Cesario was really Viola, he immediatly decides to marry her. Of course, after he learned that Olivia is now off limits. I know it's a comedy, but I just feel bad for Viola, I feel like she was cheated.

[StrawberryPockyStix]

@bluegrl12491 Well, maybe not 'All along', but for a good majority of the time, he certainly did.

[TheMunchfan]

Loved Imogen Stubbs and Ben Kingsley in this.... Really fantastic actors.

[poppars]

Feste's creepy at the end

[cyberlucy]

@maplepapillon1 I actually loved that bit. It meant that despite having new loves in their lives they still were devoted to each other.