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Loves Labor Lost (film)

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Duration
  

6/10
IMDb

Director
  
Vernon Stallings

Language
  
English


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Release date
  
January 30, 1920

Tagline
  
A new spin on the old song and dance

Loves Labor Lost is a short animated film by Bray Productions and is one of the silent Krazy Kat cartoons. The film is based on a play by William Shakespeare.

An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

Plot

A rat is sitting on a rock at a park, wondering how he should spend his day. He then sees a charming girl hippo in his surrounding, and therefore develops affection for her despite the size difference. Although a boy elephant was first to come and court her, the rat finds this a minor problem and thinks of a way to break them.

Just then, Krazy Kat comes to the area. Krazy begins playing a song in his banjo, hoping to win the rats friendship. The rat, however, appears to be uninterested, and grabs Krazys instrument before knocking down the cat with it. The rat then approaches the girl hippo and tries to serenade her with the banjo. Because the boy elephant has a phobia of rodents, the rat easily drives out the pachyderm who runs away in panic.

After fleeing the park, the boy elephant finds himself just outside a tavern. He then notices a barrel of beevo right next to him. The elephant then drinks the contents of the barrel and somehow gets the courage to get back at the rat.

Back at the park, the rat and the girl hippo are still around dating each other. In no time, the encouraged boy elephant returns to settle the score. After jumping on and smashing the rat to death, the boy elephant regains the girl hippo. Before the two hefty lovers happily walked away, the boy elephant covers the rats corpse in dirt and lays a flower pot just beside.

Krazy shows up again to see what become of his would-be-friend. Saddened by this, he plays a solemn tune in his banjo, and his tears shower upon the flower pot. Seconds later, a flower grows from the pot and the rats ghost appears on it. Annoyed by Krazys gesture, the ghostly rat strikes the feline off his feet with a cinderblock before ascending to the great beyond.

References

Loves Labor Lost (film) Wikipedia
Loves Labor Lost (film) IMDb Loves Labor Lost (film) themoviedb.org