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- 00:00
Shakespeare's plays the tempest The
- 00:08
love story a'la Shmoop.. what happens Right after the ship
- 00:16
There's been a shit rag gone to the island as
- 00:18
he said fernand has been isolated from the others So [Ferdinand crying]
- 00:21
the first kind of point of order is to get
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- 00:24
all of these all of the older dudes right So
- 00:27
alonso and antonio and sebastian to go and find prince [Alonso Antonio and Sebastien appear]
- 00:32
ferdinand or at least to look for him make sure
- 00:33
he's actually dead What's going on with ferdinand and miranda
- 00:40
So ferdinand has already met miranda miraculously Yeah and because
- 00:46
she's beautiful and charming sparks are flying it's pretty great [Miranda appears and sparks fly]
- 00:52
Prospero is happy marine to his happy president is happy
- 00:57
everyone's happy it's Perfect but yeah it's too early in
- 01:00
the play for everything to be perfect Right Which is
- 01:01
where prospero has to insert the wedge right He also
- 01:05
believes in like the value of hard work so he [Prospero teaching value of hard work]
- 01:08
doesn't want anyone to be too happy to quickly So
- 01:11
he kind of steps in to make sure that that
- 01:14
ferdinand has to work for miranda so that he can [Ferdinand mowing lawn]
- 01:17
actually appreciate her So yeah that's basically what's happening here
- 01:21
Ferdinand has teo do the work but luckily for him
- 01:25
in another sign of his kind of unfailing devotion he's
- 01:29
so head over heels in love with veronica that the [Ferdinand spins upside down]
- 01:31
work basically isn't work He's delighted to do it also
- 01:35
is a little awkward since he thinks his dad is
- 01:36
dead But you know love is love is on the [Ship sinks]
- 01:40
brain Yeah exactly So he's trying to grieve but it's
- 01:43
a little bit forced which well i was going to
- 01:47
say you can imagine it I can't really imagine that
- 01:50
if my dad died i would be pretty sad But
- 01:53
these are kids i mean, Miranda's fifteen years old on
- 01:57
dh So part of what they're playing out here is
- 01:59
like what is it like if you've been separated from [Miranda picked up from big hand]
- 02:02
humanity your whole life and finally you collide with it
- 02:04
how would you behave And it turns out you're behaving
- 02:07
some pretty weird ways What happens Right after the shipwreck? What's going on with Ferdinand and Miranda?
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