The Taming of the shrew is a Shakespeare retold, which came out in 2005. This film presents a lot of Elizabethan aspecsts, which intrigued me into writing this post. It shows how important certain colours, objects or even fabrics were in that specific time in the English history. For example, Bianca's room was red which was a colour that represented royalty. In the film it was used to show her status, she had a high paid job and was classed as a part of the higher classes. The painted room gave an impression of Bianca being surrounded by royalty, which I thought was a very interesting way of representing her character. Also, another thing that I noticed was (more physical) - her hairline. It was very uneat and almost "wonky". This I think told us something about her personality, it suggested that she is not a neat, organised person. The fact that her mother & sister were both wearing expensive fabrics such as velvet, also reminded me of the Elizabethan times. Fabrics such as that one and silk were only for the upper classes and nobalists.
Catheryn's character reminds me very much of Elizabeth herself. She is very self centred, knows what she wants and has her mind set on specific things.
Her manager, has also been represented in a way that says a lot about his character. He wears a black suit, which in the Elizabethan times symbolised power. This was very relevant and effective I think, because of the fact how much we already "knew" about him as a person, from the first time we saw him on the screen.
Overall, I think this film includes a lot of Elizabethan influences which help to build the characters and represent them in the correct way. There was one influence that I remembered the most from the film, and it was also the one that very much reminded me of the film- Elizabeth. It was the scene were Catheryn is about to marry her fiancé and then she finds him cross dressed, pretending to me a woman. The same situation happened in the Elizabethan film, which I think was very interesting.
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