per anonâs request, i present to you THE best version of beatriceâs monologue in much ado about nothing. i thought about cropping this but decided this scene must be watched in its full glory
Whatâs really cool about this is this is the first version of this scene that Iâve seen where the tone doesnt whiplash wildly which is so hard to do!!! Bc itâs a scene that comes directly after some rough public shaming and it is both a love confession scene and a scene where a woman asks someone to kill someone and the love confession IS funny but Beatriceâs monologue is not. A lot of the other versions- even well beloved ones like the 2011 version with David Tennant and Catherine Tate- do this scene and there is emotional whiplash, audiences often laughing when Beatrice begs Benedict to kill Claudio. To see it done this way??? Oh my god the line read on âif a were a man, I would eat his heart in the marketplaceâ DESERVED that cheet
