qos: (Homemade Queen)
qos ([personal profile] qos) wrote2020-01-02 02:06 pm
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"Much Ado About Nothing" Head Canon

Emma Thompson as Beatrice

I saw Kenneth Branagh’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in the theater (1993) and it’s taken me this long to suddenly develop the head canon* that “Sigh No More,” -- which Branagh placed at the very beginning of the movie, read by Beatrice to the household -- was *written* by Beatrice, about Benedict. But no one knows it’s about him. The book she’s holding is her very own “slim book of verse,” and it’s full of witty poems, many of them about the pitfalls and fallacies of love.


* For the non-fandom folks: head canon is a term which refers to a belief a person develops about a book/movie/comic/etc that can't be proven or disproven by the official material.

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