Quote Originally Posted by doc_bean
Also, not familiar with the play, I was rooting for Pacino's character and found the ending somewhat unsatisfying.
The jew the jew the jew, kind of hard to swallow nowadays isn't it, I was also more like cut him up curly. Funny detail, in the version I read Shylock was morish, recently bought the complete work of the Grimm brothers, and there it was explained that in many old works jewish villains had been replaced by morish villains because the jews had some breathing issues somewhere in the last century, funny how pc backfires sometimes