The Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man is about an English teacher teaching Shakespeare to Army recruits. Not a great movie, but it has its moments, and uses the St. Crispin's Day speech in a pivotal scene to show Shakespeare relating directly to modern day life, and demonstrate that he can still speak to us 400 years later.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sean K - Mar 05, 2010 8:17:51 am PST #11050 of 28348
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:21:41 am PST #11051 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kurosawa's Lear is called Ran I actually did a list of these for work a while back. Lemme see if I can dig it up again.
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:23:57 am PST #11052 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Fron the bit o paper I found My Kingdom=Lear, My Own Private Idaho=Henry IV, Scotland, PA=McBeth
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 8:26:18 am PST #11053 of 28348
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
There was an off-Broadway play back in the late sixties called MacBird! that had LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson as Macbeth and Mrs. (and JFK in the Duncan role).
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:33:04 am PST #11054 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
BTW there is a 2009 Macbeth with Anthony Stewart Head as Duncan, but I can't figure out how to get it.
Ginger - Mar 05, 2010 8:35:21 am PST #11055 of 28348
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Star Trek was riddled with Shakespeare, both in quotations and titles, plus plays were used directly in such episodes as "The Conscience of the King" and "Catspaw."
The hero of Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel saves the world with Shakespeare quotations.
Barb - Mar 05, 2010 8:39:14 am PST #11056 of 28348
“Not dead yet!”
The Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man is about an English teacher teaching Shakespeare to Army recruits.
Yay, Sean! I was trying to think of this one and drawing a blank. You're right, not a great movie, but def. had its moments.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 8:51:29 am PST #11057 of 28348
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Men of Respect with Turturo was a gangster version of Macbeth.
Dario Argento's Opera was about murders centered on a production of Verdi's Macbeth (which is also cursed, supposedly).
javachik - Mar 05, 2010 9:10:00 am PST #11058 of 28348
Our wings are not tired.
This is like asking for allusions to the Beatles/Stones/Chuck Berry/Elvis in today's music. Shakespeare's tentacles are in 90% of everything created for stage or screen.
Jessica - Mar 05, 2010 9:12:26 am PST #11059 of 28348
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Shakespeare's tentacles are in 90% of everything created for stage or screen.
At one Hamlet performance I saw, the couple behind me spent the ENTIRE FREAKING PLAY gasping and saying "Oh, that's where that line is from!"