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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 8:55:56 pm PDT #3369 of 10002
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P.M. Marc - Jun 16, 2004 8:56:03 pm PDT #3370 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Unfortunately, Deb, Connie was asking about Hamlet. *g*
Though I agree with you that his Henry was the BEST. By Hamlet, he'd gone firmly into his "StediCam + Kenneth = Tru Luv 4 EVAH!!!1!" stage of things.
I don't think there's been a proper film version of Hamlet yet, sadly.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 8:57:38 pm PDT #3371 of 10002
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I initially meant Henry V but mistyped that as Hamlet. I fgured Deb was just being psychic.
Like Branagh's Hamlet. Gorgeous sets, the text finally made sense to me with all the political subplots--I love it.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 8:59:21 pm PDT #3372 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Double post. Weirdness...
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 8:59:35 pm PDT #3373 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(blink)
Hamlet?
suhNERK.
Sorry. Olivier, for that one, I suppose; but honestly, neither film really killed me the way Henry V did. I might have liked Branagh's better if I hadn't felt like, well, exactly what my adored Plei said, about the Steadicam, and the no really proper version on film yet.
P.M. Marc - Jun 16, 2004 9:00:11 pm PDT #3374 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can't see an Hamlet without thinking Stoppard, and the film version of R&G is so much better than any film version of Hamlet I've seen, it makes me sad.
Plus, pointless use of the SC = five MILLION points from Gryffandor.
Polter-Cow - Jun 16, 2004 9:02:24 pm PDT #3375 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
We also watched both Henry V movies in that class. I wasn't really a big fan of the play, so neither movie did much for me.
And I haven't seen a single movie Hamlet. Pieces of the Branagh version, but that's it.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 9:03:44 pm PDT #3376 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I can't see an Hamlet without thinking Stoppard, and the film version of R&G is so much better than any film version of Hamlet I've seen, it makes me sad.
omigawd YES. I love the film version of R&GRDead with a deep, deep love.
Hell, that may be the ultimate film version of Hamlet, to date.
Connie, the sets on Branagh's Hamlet were, indeed, visually stunning. But I started feeling - shit, I can't describe it properly. Rather the way I felt the last time I made it through the first half of a full-cycle performance of Wagner's Ring? Mentally editing the thing for clarity, I mean.
Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2004 9:03:52 pm PDT #3377 of 10002
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Derek Jacobi as Claudius. Growf.
deborah grabien - Jun 16, 2004 9:05:04 pm PDT #3378 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Derek Jacobi as Claudius.
"Lost your stutter, too, I see." - Livia, on her death bed.
Best. PBS. Series. Ever. We own it - the whole thing. It seriously, seriously blisses me.