#claudio

[jungledboy]

claudio castagnoli (c) vs darby allin (0:05)

[courfaeriec]

shakespeare is lowkey more progressive than most writers these days and that is a hill i am willing to die on. he lets women be loud and clever and tricky and stubborn and delighted and fierce. AND he has a million little twinks who are just adorable. looking right at u, claudio

[worldrusher]

sparkle on its wednesday dont forget to be yourself

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[tidalpooles]

Siblings and a Park Ranger, Pinosverdes

Their ranch property borders the national park, so they would interact often. Also maybe where the tomato is from.

[perrylemon]

This one’s for the Robert Sean Leonard Girlies! For the past few months I have consumed every crumb of Robert Sean Leonard content I could get my hands on and I have put it all in this quiz! It’s a pretty long one lads as there are over 20 characters in this quiz but I hope you enjoy!!

Additionally inspired by https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJKoqGw8/

[anghraine]

I've been trying to peer pressure my bff into watching Much Ado About Nothing with me (my fave Shakespeare comedy), and he wanted to have everything in our house set up first etc etc. But he agreed to watch it yesterday and we had a lot of fun absolutely cackling at, well, almost everything.

I do think it's one of the most purely funny Shakespeare plays that are still really good, especially when performed/directed well. We were watching the Joss Whedon version—yes, I know, but I bought it back when it came out and it's still my favorite—and Nathan Fillion's Dogberry is an utter delight, and honestly there are a bunch of script and directorial choices that make it my favorite.

I particularly like Amy Acker's Beatrice: she can be charmingly witty, vulnerable and hurt, sweet and supportive, an adorable dweeb, and ferocious and hard as nails. The way her face changes in the grand romantic scene with Benedick is fantastic—there's this moment where you just see her features harden before she says "Kill Claudio" that I love. I also really loved how often she's visually framed with Hero in the later part of the story: sometimes literally holding her but often visually paired with her in a way that highlights her priorities.

Benedick is pretty good in this version, as well—not as impressive as Acker or Fillion, I'd say, but I like how Benedick initially seems to be a rather callous asshole only for him to be gradually revealed as the most profoundly decent man in the play—not that the competition is steep, but still—especially with regard to women, and how he's, well, also an adorable dweeb until it really matters, at which point he turns deadly serious. And I really like their dynamic once the story gets rolling.

I also love that it doesn't back away from how shitty Claudio is while keeping to the text of the play. He and Don Pedro seem the gentler, sweeter, more romantic characters early on, but the text itself becomes an indictment of them (and Leonato!). My best friend, who hasn't read this/seen another version of it in years, was just like "She's not wrong!" when Beatrice told Benedick to kill Claudio, and shouted "STAB HIM!!!" when Benedick confronts him :D

I really like the performance of Leonato, as well—the way this thus-far affectionate, mild seeming patriarch becomes the most proximate threat to Hero (it really feels like he might snap her neck at any moment) and only seems able to conceive of Hero as a potential victim when told so by other men is terrifying. And Hero herself has a sweetness and dignity but also charm that I enjoy in a character who can be a bit limp in performance.

I do prefer Keanu's Don John though, for peak unpopular opinions.

Of course, I was also reminded of my Pride and Prejudice is to Much Ado as Clueless is to Emma theory, haha. The Much Ado elements are thoroughly overhauled, rearranged, and modernized in plenty of ways, but I think P&P still draws a lot of raw material from it. And I think it's interesting to look at not just Elizabeth and Darcy as Beatrice and Benedick(/Don Pedro, since Darcy combines elements of both), but things like how Austen works to recuperate Claudio in Bingley (not altogether successfully IMO honestly, but a valiant effort that works well enough) and displaces the worst elements of his character onto Wickham. It's not the only influence but it's very striking.

(This is not an original observation, lol; the first time the comparison was made in print afaik was in a March 1813 review of P&P, which had only been published a few weeks earlier at the end of January.)

[janeeyreofmanderley]

(This required the use of the so called scumbag hat)

[bethanydelleman]

As I search the Much Ado About Nothing tag, I'm seeing a lot of She's everything (Beatrice) and he's just Ken (Benedick).

But you know what, Benedick steps up. He believes Hero, he challenges Claudio, he delivers one of the sexiest lines of a Shakespearean hero...

They're everything (Beatrice & Benedick) and he's just an ass (Claudio).

[viejospellejos]

Este vídeo me tiene llorando:

“¿Cómo a fondo, Claudioooo?”

[ventaverv]

Like Spirit, Like Alchemist.

[insearchofblueroses]

i love how in much ado about nothing don pedro and claudio decide to make benedick fall in love with beatrice because they are bored and think it will be hilarious to see benedick being romantic BUT THEN this benedick in love decides to freaking duel claudio out of his love for beatrice and the entire plan backfires

[cowboylexapro]

thing taken from @pineapple-coffee

[merchantphoto]

our upscaled and enhanced photo of Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) in Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

[shots-of-whiskey-and-wilson]

RSL in much ado about nothing

i can't tell if i want him or if i want to be him

[niidsch]

☽ Claudio || Tekken 7

[bethanydelleman]

Shakespeare 🤝 Jane Austen

Believing genuine love and happiness produce silence, not eloquence.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

- Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:” he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.—“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

- Mr. Knightley, Emma

Had she ever given way to bursts of delight, it must have been then, for she was delighted, but her happiness was of a quiet, deep, heart-swelling sort; and though never a great talker, she was always more inclined to silence when feeling most strongly... but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.

-Fanny Price, Mansfield Park