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Fred Pete - May 08, 2009 9:16:09 am PDT #1169 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Branagh's Hamlet

I saw it on TV not long ago. Looked beautiful, but how in the name of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern does the story belong in an Edwardian setting?

I mean, in college I helped out a professor who staged a couple of scenes of Richard III for a thesis. He used a 1960s Vietnam setting, but he explained the reasons for his choice to the committee. (Short summary for the curious: The government and society of Vietnam in the 1960s paralleled those of England during the Wars of the Roses.)

Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:27:03 am PDT #1170 of 30000
brillig

People like to play with the settings of Shakespeare. I've got a book of Shakespeare in Performance, and I think there's a punk rock version of one of the Henry V or IV plays.

megan walker - May 08, 2009 9:28:57 am PDT #1171 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Nothing is worse than the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort, although Carmen with a disco ball came close.

Kathy A - May 08, 2009 9:29:31 am PDT #1172 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I liked the ShakespeaRetold movies that were on BBCA a few years back. Much Ado About Nothing set in the morning talk show realm, Macbeth set in the cut-throat restaurant business, Taming of the Shrew with Katherine being an MP and Petruchio being Rufus Sewell.

Connie Neil - May 08, 2009 9:31:37 am PDT #1173 of 30000
brillig

The Tosca I saw that was set in Mussolini's Italy was good.

juliana - May 08, 2009 9:36:29 am PDT #1174 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

the Mikado set at a 20s British seaside resort

Ouch. That... really doesn't work.

I would like to call for at least a 10-year ban on any Shakespeare production referencing Nazis and/or Fascists. Especially if it's an American or British production. Also "Taming of the Shrew" set in the Wild West, and "As You Like It" set in the 60s. Those have all been done to death.

erikaj - May 08, 2009 9:47:24 am PDT #1175 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

No, Hec, I wasn't speaking about freaky "Crash" although I never finished watching it. I meant the one where Matt Dillon's cop gropes Thandie Newton's ass for no discernable reason because he is Such A Racist.(Although she does have a nice one, I must say)

DavidS - May 08, 2009 9:49:45 am PDT #1176 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yeah, I didn't want to see that Crash. It looked too much like Grand Canyon in its white liberal rich Angeleno guilt trip o' doom.

megan walker - May 08, 2009 9:51:51 am PDT #1177 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Ouch. That... really doesn't work.

No, it didn't. Especially since none of the lyrics were changed.

erikaj - May 08, 2009 9:54:24 am PDT #1178 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, I wish I would have talked to you first, then. Though I suppose it helps to have a baseline for self-indulgent movie-making and it did make make me laugh in spots. It didn't mean to, but it did anyway.

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