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What's your favorite Shakespeare adaptation?

whys he smiling like that?

10 Things I Hate About You

This is the greatest adaptation of all time. The Roman Polanski production of Macbeth is close too.

Ran or Throne of Blood

Titus

>>213523852 (OP)
Much Ado About Nothing or Twelfth Night

Orson Welles' Othello

>>213523852 (OP)
Steins Gate

>>213523852 (OP)
For the lead performance, Paul Scofield's King Lear surpasses anything else on film. He puts to shame mediocrities like Branagh. But as an adaptation on the whole, you can't beat Kurosawa. Zeffirelli was also a very good director, but after The Taming of the Shrew he stopped casting experienced Shakespearians for the lead roles and that definitely holds his movies back. As nice as it is to see two young people play Romeo and Juliet, the parts require more than just looking young.

>>213524841
>This is the greatest adaptation of all time.
It's one of the most poorly shot and acted movies I've ever seen. Unbelievable that Branagh was able to trick an entire generation into believing that he was a good actor.

>>213523852 (OP)
I tried to read Shakespeare. Bought a giant hard cover Complete Works. It's like reading a fucking foreign language.

>>213523852 (OP)
Isn't that the movie with India Eisley's dead mother who exposed her then-underaged breasts onscreen?

>>213523852 (OP)
twilight

>>213525831
>15yrs old
Yes.

>>213525831
My favorite is the television interview of her (at 16) and her costar (at 17), drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes during the interview.

>>213525829
It takes about a week of learning Shakespeare's vocabulary/syntax and you're good to go forever. It is not that hard, learning a foreign language is much harder, so stop complaining. Force yourself to read him and check dictionaries so you will be able to appreciate the invaluable genius of William Shakespeare. Read old essays by people like Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt on Shakespeare to better understand him. You're doing the intellectual equivalent of complaining about weights being too heavy to lift, it's never easy at first, but no pain no gain.

>>213525898
>drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes during the interview
kek
No wonder she got breast cancer.

Kurzel's Macbeth

>>213525401
It's actually pretty terrible. It would have been interesting if Orson had played Iago, but he's completely wrong for the character of Othello.

>>213525927
I lift weights every day. I read Hazlitt, not Johnson though. Read Wordsworth, Coleridge, Milton, Huxley, DeQuincey, Shelley, Byron, Keats. All that shit. Mainly to just get a better grasp of my own language. I decided Shakespeare just wasn't worth my time. It's barely fucking English. Have other things to do with my time now.
Inb4 like post here.
Yes.

>>213523852 (OP)
Forbidden Planet (The Tempest)

>>213525975
It's fucking great.

Kino

>>213525794
Hey, grandpa, it's okay to like new things. Scofield is amazing, but Tom Hiddleston as Henry V is pretty great. The new Corialonus is really good too. Just enjoy stuff and be happy.

>>213525854
WHAT? 15 year olds look like that? fuggg

throne of blood

>>213523852 (OP)
>married and got impregnated by a yellow person
disgusting, dropped

>>213525980
Underated.

>>213523852 (OP)
hamlet

>>213525829
You're doing it wrong, anon. They're plays. They're meant to be watched. Watch movies with the subtitles on.

>>213523852 (OP)
Probably the Lion King or DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet
Yes the Lion King is Shakespeare

>>213526486
Dude people under 30 for some reason cannot read Shakespeare
It's a generation thing
You know what the words mean
It's the order and the complexity
"Fish mongerer" insult was 4 levels deep

>>213525927
Shakespeare was the Spielberg of his day, i.e., overrated shit.

>>213525980
>>213526461
>Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane as ashes after Malcolm burns the forest

>>213525831
Olivia Hussey

>>213525898
In Italy?

>>213526535
Fish monger
>man sell fish
>fish smell
>women's vaginas smell like fish
>man sells vaginas, pimp
That about right?

>>213526988
The guy interviewing her has an American accent, so I doubt it. In the interview she says she started smoking at 14.

>>213526535
Sheakepeare is boring and antiquated as fuck. We have better stories to tell in this day and age.

>>213526282
What was the legal limit of drinking/smoking for minors in the '60s?

>>213527121
Yeah, if Shakespeare wanted me to care about Shakespeare then Shakespeare should have written Shakespop Demon Hunters.

>>213527139
I know drinking age was moved to 18 during the Vietnam war. I don't think there was an age limit on smoking back then.

>>213523859
He's got ptp

>>213527180
Small children could buy packs of cigs "FOR THEIR PARENTS" at any store.

>>213526379
>Tom Hiddleston as Henry V is pretty great
>The new Corialonus is really good too
>Just enjoy stuff and be happy

>>213523852 (OP)
The Taylor/Burton version of "The Taming of the Shrew" is excellent

>>213527054
>In the interview she says she started smoking at 14.
No wonder she peaked in her twenties. Years of tar in the lungs ended up killing her over the long term.

>>213527245
Perfect casting all around. I just wish Zeffirelli hadn't fucking cut and added so much to the script. The original text as it is is always way funnier.

>>213527345
> changing the script
Speaking of that, are you familiar with the 1929 version of Shrew starring the (then) power couple of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford?

https://youtu.be/uK6vKByhnCk?si=vYLE78xUHq0qUmNM

They completely changed the story. In that version, she overheard her husband's plan, so the whole film turned into her playing him

>>213527264
>peaked in her twenties
That's pretty late for a girl

>>213527230
>you're liking things wrong!
How can you compare an auto masturbator machine to someone enjoying a different rendition of Shakespeare's works? Enjoy what you like, anon. But don't let others' tastes steal your joy. And if you truly are superior in your tastes, have the humility to understand that your reasons for liking the things you do will be beyond the ability for people like me to understand. It will be lonely at that mountain top, though.

>>213526108
>It's barely fucking English.
Do you really mean to tell me that this is barely English?

>>213527401
I find it very odd that even going back to Shakespeare's time people have felt that the story went too far, that it was offensively chauvinistic even to men. But the entire comedy revolves around the exaggerated and ridiculous nature of the pairing, it's not like Shakespeare is actually saying that this is what all relationships should be like.

Throne of Blood

>>213526372
I loved the customized guns. The movie was honestly good, I should rewatch just for Pete Postlethwaite..

>>213523852 (OP)
>>213525829
>>213526282
REMINDER : At the height of Olivia Hussey's career, she fucked & married an east Asian / Japanese guy. It is amazing how ahead of the time she was because fast forward in 2025, almost every zoomer White female celeb prefers Asian boys

>>213528464
AMWF

>>213528464
>almost every zoomer White female celeb prefers Asian boys

>>213528464
>>213528488
>>213528754
You can have the leftovers, Asian guys ;-)

>>213528464
India Eisley has a half-Japanese sibling?

>>213529114
Seems so.

>>213523852 (OP)
Lion King

>>213530727
What b is this expression meant to convey?

>>213531268
Nani!

>>213531268
>Love from Kazakhstan

There's a pretty kino Russian adaptation of Hamlet from the 60s that I like
https://youtu.be/OzN1isLYc_A?si=lT4HHAjx_zxiiBjL&t=1362

>>213523852 (OP)
undisuputed best adapation of shakespeare to date.

>>213531397
>niggers
Dropped.

>>213531397
kino

>>213531504
i make an exception for denzel.

>>213525401
>Orson Welles' Othello
orson welles chimes at midnight