I'd love to see a version that managed to give Antonio a happy ending, can't he have a poly relationship with Olivia and Sebastian?
+1, wish to subscribe to your production. The 1996 film perhaps accidentally gestures in this direction with its opening scene of Sebastian and Viola doing their role-swapping double drag act and Antonio watching them both so closely that we can't tell which one taken his fancy (not a spoiler: Sebastian), but then it doesn't follow through except that his denial by the disguised Olivia is devastating, because we think of the three characters as linked; his unrequited love is the hardest emotional punch in that movie after Malvolio which is not the same thing.
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+1, wish to subscribe to your production. The 1996 film perhaps accidentally gestures in this direction with its opening scene of Sebastian and Viola doing their role-swapping double drag act and Antonio watching them both so closely that we can't tell which one taken his fancy (not a spoiler: Sebastian), but then it doesn't follow through except that his denial by the disguised Olivia is devastating, because we think of the three characters as linked; his unrequited love is the hardest emotional punch in that movie after Malvolio which is not the same thing.