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#81

hey there! :slight_smile: you oughta go check out Al Pacino’s take of the “Merchant of Venice”

#82

I already did when it came out.

#83

…did ya see the 15 seconds of Uhnold doing Macbeth on the Last Action Hero?

#84

No, I didn’t. I stopped watching Arnie in comedies after Kindergarten Cop.

#85

Just stumbled across this and thought it might be of interest:

Shakespearean Theater Possibly Found in London

I didn’t see it mentioned previously, but I very much enjoyed this adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s got a Batman and a Catwoman, as well. :slight_smile:

There was also an episode of the new Doctor Who called The Shakespeare Code, which made dozens of references to Shakespeare’s life and works (probably many of which I missed altogether).

#86

I bet you enjoyed it. :smiley:

I loved the artistic er … nudity the most.

#87

oooh! zing.

#88

I hated that one even before I started teaching kindergarten.

I didn’t care for this one. like Branagh’s Much Ado, it suffers from stunt casting and not enough attention to the wonderful text

#89

But the nudity! The sex! All the work they did for the groundlings!

#90

yeah, that’s always what I look for first in an adaptation of Shakespeare :rolleyes:

#91

You too? I thought I was alone on this! :smiley:

#92

Really? I love Branaugh’s Much Ado because it’s like a cinematic love letter to Emma! That bastard…

#93

I liked Ado also. You do have to factor in a bit of “cheese” but I love Branaugh and Thompson. It kills me that they’re no longer together…

#94

… because he’s a blind, stupid, egotistical BASTARD

Seriously, how could any man throw Emma over for a younger model?

#95

I like the Ken & Em Much Ado well enough, but in the same way I like the Star Wars prequels. lots of untapped potential (and miscasting). Henry V was sooooooooooo amazing. I wanted Much Ado to be as good. alas

#96

I just found Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci to be especially amusing. And Rupert Everett as Oberon? Inspired casting. :rolleyes:

I loved the artistic er … nudity the most.

To be completely honest, I’d actually forgotten about that altogether. But yeah, now that you mention it, that was pretty nice too. :stuck_out_tongue:

Shakespeare has always been open to interpretation. Making it more accessible to modern audiences can only be a good thing. If someone who’d never otherwise be interested learns to love and appreciate the story, is cutting a few corners really all that bad?

The play, someone once said, is the thing. :slight_smile:

Bah. That’s all Victorian sanitization. Shakespeare’s plays, in their day, were bawdy and raucous and beloved by the unwashed masses. He was the king of the gutter as well as the bard. A century of stiff and lifeless performances and literary overanalysis are the reason that so many people can’t find Padua or Verona on a map. :rolleyes:

#97

Absolutely, that’s what Shakespeare himself did, after all. He almost never invented a new story, he made all stories work much better.

The play, someone once said, is the thing. :slight_smile:

If the Ranger had written Hamlet, that line would go like "The foreplay is the thing, dude!

A century of stiff and lifeless performances and literary overanalysis are the reason that so many people can’t find Padua or Verona on a map. :rolleyes:

I’d rather find Verona in my bed. (German talk show hostess, but her really hot days are kind of over by now)

#98

I’m with you, sister!

#99

I’m with the hot young model!

#100

Well, to be fair we don’t really know how the two of them interacted, and it’s really easy to assume one was the angel and the other the devil.

Also, have you SEEN Helena?