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SCI-Fi Drama.
I suppose I have a hard time seriously considering it a drama. I see Wuthering Heights as a drama. I know it is a gothic novel but the movie was a little different.
SCI-Fi Drama.
It's like Richard the Third as a drama set in the 1930's.
lol lol lol lol Ok, I think I can see some of that in there.
Richard III
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Shakespeare
The bard travels well through time; wheather Richard III
set in the 1930s; or Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach. :eusa_clap
Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach? :love:
Richard III set in the 1930s... :eusa_clap
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Shakespeare
The bard travels well through time; whether Richard III
set in the 1930s; or Romeo & Juliet along Venice Beach. :eusa_clap
It may be true that Shakespeare can work in any setting, but gah! The acting in that Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is atrocious.
It may be true that Shakespeare can work in any setting, but gah! The acting in that Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet is atrocious.
Long time since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot. It sticks out as the ONLY recorded production of that play I've seen where they clearly understood that is was about teenage infatuation, not love. I hate hearing Romeo and Juliet referred to as a love story.
Romeo was, in the last instance, a silly wee boy that didn't know what he wanted.
I mentioned I hate Beatles movies (except Yellow Submarine, which mostly wasn't really them; I like it): not camp fun but unwatchable. On that note there was Across the Universe. Not only does it glorify the destruction of the culture I and the rest of this board celebrate but someone managed to take a top-quality songbook (love them or not, their music is good), set it in its period and still make an awful musical.
Long time since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot. It sticks out as the ONLY recorded production of that play I've seen where they clearly understood that is was about teenage infatuation, not love. I hate hearing Romeo and Juliet referred to as a love story.
You hate all the Beatles movies? That's too bad. I really think A Hard Day's Night is superb.
Never saw Across the Universe, since it looked lamentably bad to me. I think Julie Taymor started off rather well, but she seems to be getting worse and worse with each movie she makes (not to mention her Spider-man Broadway musical). Her film version of The Tempest was recently released, and it, too, looks terrible.
Young fogey;1155773 Good point others have made about [I said:Romeo and Juliet[/I]. Never thought of it that way. You may be right. But... I remember picking up in school that Shakespeare contrasted teenage infatuation – Romeo's pining for Rosaline – with 'the real thing' for Juliet.
I suppose that comes down to personal interpretation - for me, the references to Rosaline put Juliet entirely in context as simply the latest fixation for Romeo...