Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
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."
Branagh's Hamlet
I love Hamlet and I love Kate Winslet, but I couldn't make it more than about half an hour into this. It was just. so. self. righteous. and. plodding.
Dude, putting all the folios together into one massive ego trip? NOT A GOOD IDEA. ALSO, YOU ARE TOO OLD TO PLAY HAMLET. ALSO, ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING MIRRORS.
Ebert had a great review of it where he basically said Titus Andronicus was Shakespeare doing a grindhouse movie, and it really does work on that level (the play I mean).
Oh, so very true.
R&J and Midsummer Night's Dream because they're The Plays You Teach To Children So They'll Like Shakespeare, and to this day I can't stand either one.
See, I still like Midsummer Night's Dream, but that's because I have a week spot for things concerning the Faerie Court. I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
It was '30s, because Mickey Rooney was only around 10 or so when it was filmed. (My first Cagney film was Yankee Doodle Dandy, so his gangster films were a big surprise to me!)
ALSO, YOU ARE TOO OLD TO PLAY HAMLET. ALSO, ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING MIRRORS.
Hee! ITA, Jessica. I saw that Hamlet at the Music Box Theatre and boy, did it draaaaag. I was so ready for Fortinbras to invade by the end.
he he ... I saw Ian McKellan doing that production of Richard III live at the Kennedy Center.
I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
Why am I imagining a prominent place for Mr. Gaiman in creating this?
I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
I've seen footage of a stage production that took this tack. I think it was done by someone in the UK during the 80s (but possibly the 70s).
Why am I imagining a prominent place for Mr. Gaiman in creating this?
Because Tim Burton didn't occur to you first?
I'm trying to imagine a goth version of Midsummer Night's Dream ....
I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
Yes. The fairies are treated far too lightly in the productions I have seen. Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite Shakespeare play.