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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - The Philadelphia story
Score : 8/10
Year : 1940
Director: George Cukor
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Music : Franz Waxman
Country : USA 
Language : English

 Duration : 1h52

 Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart (screenplay) ; Philip Barry (play) ; 
Waldo Salt (uncredited contributing)

   
I enjoyed it quite a bit, actually. I had seen it some years ago already and enjoyed it. 

 I rate it 8 stars, a lot of laughs, social commentaries, the trio seems quite in awe of one another ''omg i'm playing in a movie with.... ''

 I also loved the little girl Dinah Lord, played by Virginia Weidler : she had a lot of funny, spunky moments. 



 In the social context of the times, this movie had the shocking katharine wearing trousers, and a leading role outside of the basic damsel in distress. I liked that while everyone thinks she's a goddess and therefore misunderstands and doesn't know who she truly is, they all learn at the same time as herself her nature : she's a human being, in the flesh and can be loved for who she is and not what she projects. 

 I liked the interaction between her, Cary & Jimmy, all movies should have the 3 of them! lol

 Kudos also to Ruth Hussey who played the Spy magazine photographer (Liz Imbie) cheeky and funny. 

 Also was glad not to see any fur nor food and the only negative parts were 2 short scenes with taxidermy that was not the main focus at all (i'd prefer none of it but back on those days a lot of movies would show and show and show....).

 This movie was nicely paced, not too slow not too fast. 
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