01-30-2005, 09:51 AM | #81 |
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I'm going to see A Comedy of Errors on Thursday, which I'm really looking forward to, so I need to try and read it before then...
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01-30-2005, 01:10 PM | #82 |
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Has anyone seen the new Merchant of Venice movie?
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01-30-2005, 01:42 PM | #83 |
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Yes! I thought it was very good.
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Can anybody post more details about the movie? director, cast... It's a difficult movie to be made these days. Let's see how they deal with the antisemitic plot. And let's see if they make an homosexual Antonio or not
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apparently they did...a little at least...
Sun-star-- it was rated "R" in the U.S. for "some nudity." How bad/not bad was it? My mom want's to go see it and I think her reaction from that rating would be..."um never mind." the Philadelphia newspaper gave it a 3.5 out of 4 (3.5-4s are rare for them). Quote:
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01-30-2005, 04:01 PM | #86 |
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Thats funny PippenTook becouse I watched HAMLET last night.I have read the unabriged version
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The anti-Semitism was dealt with fairly well - it's there in the play, there's not much you can do about it. Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons were both excellent. Unlike the reviewer above, I thought the actress who played Portia lacked gravitas, and was the most unconvincing boy I've ever seen! The section at the end about the rings dragged on a bit, but apart from that it didn't seem like a long film. The settings (Venice and Belmont) were stunning, and there were lots of interesting details and enjoyable little moments such as Portia's different suitors choosing between the caskets. Definitely recommended.
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Oh, I know! The Elizabethan sense of humour must have been very strange
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It's all just ripoffs of Plautus and Italian theater - so I guess ALL old senses of humour must have been very strange
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02-18-2005, 12:20 AM | #92 |
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Lets see...
I've seen the version of Hamlet that my sisters class put on. I read Julius Ceasar for school last year. I'm reading Macbeth in English now. I've seen the movie of... some play by Shakespeare, I can't remember which right now. I've seen a "Complete Works of Shakespeare [abridged]" play that someone in my youth group's school put on, but it basically skimmed by all the plays without going into detail, so it hardly counts other than giving you an idea of what the VERY basic plot is of each. I feel like I've read at least something else by Shakespeare, but I can't think of anything else. I know I know the plot of Romeo and Juliet (who doesn't?) but I can't remember if I've read it or not. One of my classmates is really obsessed with Shakespeare.
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Complete Works of Shakespeare [abridged] is a great play. Although, as you say, it skims. And is inaccurate. But funny.
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I think I've said this before... if not in this thread then in the other Shakespeare one. Anyway, I like their abridged Hamlet
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02-18-2005, 04:55 PM | #95 |
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Tanoliel (she's on here occasionally) and I were in that once. It was amazingly fun. We're reading/watching versions of Richard III in one of my Shakespeare classes right now. Does anyone have anything insightful to say about Act 4 scene 2 (when Richard orders the Princes in the tower killed)? I have to write an essay on it
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there is a new production of Julius up west at the moment, Ralph Fiennes is in it
bit of a modernisation i think, so that could be interesting my favourite play by old billy boy is the scottish play |
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I saw the Merchant of Venice movie. It was really quite good, although I would have thought that it was rated 'R' because of the intensity of the court room scene. I think they just threw the nudity in there to date the movie, and make it more realistic, but it probably would have been rated 'R' anyway.
I thought the last scene was interesting; the one where Jessica is watching the guys shooting arrows from boats, and she has a ring on her finger. That means that the tale of her being an ungrateful child was false; she kept her mother's ring, as well as most of the money. My parents and I got into a lengthy discussion about that, actually, since it seemed to be mostly Jessica's fault that Shylock insisted on his bond. At first, it was just a threat, a reminder to Antonio that he was a human being. But then, he wanted revenge. So we were wondering; who wanted Shylock to go crazy? Or even, Who wanted Antonio dead? Ah, the Complete Works of Shakespeare [Abriged!]. I love them. Because they are really accurate, if you read deep enough and have enough familiarity with the plays. Oh, yeah, I've read most of Shakespeare's plays, whether on my own or through school, and I've seen quite a few of them, too.
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I saw Taming of the Shrew last summer in Cedar City Utah and the Shakespeare festival. It was incredible. That being said, I am not a huge Shakespeare fan. I think my aversion goes back to a graduate class in university where we were forced to read more than 20 of the plays and a good 60-70 critical texts on the plays just for one credit. I hated that course, but it was my only option.
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The Merchant of Venice the movie is a pile of crap. An agonizing, horrible pile of crap, a slap in Shakespeare's face. Crap.
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We are going to see "Love's Labours Lost" in a couple weeks at the Delaware Shakespeare Festival.
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