Much Ado About Nothing is released on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow

Featured on the extras, Joss Whedon covers a number of points in his commentary of the film. Here are some highlights…

1. How Much Ado came about: Joss talks about how it all started for him 10 years ago when he and his friends would get together to do Shakespeare readings and get a real feel for the language. He goes on to mention how it was imperative that Amy and Alexis were involved

2. Why the credits are at the start: a way of allowing the audience to ease in to the language, as people know that when the credits are rolling, nothing important is really happening

3. Behind the language: Joss talks about making a film that has the energy of a play, in the language of a film

4. Amy and Alexis: Joss credits them on a particular scene, where Amy gives one of the most important speeches in Shakespeare

5. Character perceptions: He discusses regular use of photograph motifs throughout the film, how character perceptions of each other are warped and comments on a particular scene with Amy and Alexis where what they say to each other has a completely different meaning/mixed message

6. Actor Improvisations: Joss comments on a particular scene where Alexis improvises and didn’t tell anyone what he was going to do, they witnessed it for the first time when the scene began shooting. Joss confesses that as a director he was unsure at that moment whether the character was becoming too ridiculous, but then credits him for this

Hope to get some clips for you soon.

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