BTW there is a 2009 Macbeth with Anthony Stewart Head as Duncan, but I can't figure out how to get it.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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."
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:33:04 am PST #11054 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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!"
Hil R. - Mar 05, 2010 9:19:14 am PST #11060 of 28348
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Brave New World. Also, Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2010 9:19:56 am PST #11061 of 28348
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Cowboy Wally Show
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 9:20:18 am PST #11062 of 28348
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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!"
Now I'm flashing on the villian from the animated Tick that was a hand puppet: "READ A FRICKIN' BOOK, WHY DON'T YA!!!"
Hil R. - Mar 05, 2010 9:28:00 am PST #11063 of 28348
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
There's Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last by Avi, which is a fun kids book. Also Hamlet 2, while we're on the silly side of things.