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Stoppard's name, familiar to anyone who cares about modern theater or who took AP English in high school, signifies a deft blend of high culture and high wit, deep thinking and schoolboy cleverness.
Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.
I keep hearing and reading the words "smart fun" in connection with Shakespeare in Love , and (leaving aside that the movie is neither) smart fun is Stoppard's stock in trade.
In the years since, Stoppard has readily indulged himself with hack work ( The Russia House ), middlebrow entertainments ( Empire of the Sun ), and pre- Shakespeare in Love house calls as a script doctor ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ). Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steven Spielberg recently commissioned a Cats screenplay from Stoppard.
(Stoppard, born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia in 1937, has also shown some affinities with the playful philosophical playwrights of his native country, from Carel Capek in the 1920s to Pavel Kohout and Václav Havel in the '60s and '70s.)
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