Why can't cinema get Shakespeare right? Plays manage just fine.
Why can't cinema get Shakespeare right? Plays manage just fine
Oliver Ortiz
Jacob Murphy
idk
Nathan Foster
*AHEM*
Aaron Jones
What's the V mean
Liam Bennett
VNEED
Caleb Murphy
Pic related was great.
Evan Clark
>Beginning of the movie
>Macbeth runs through the entire enemy army singlehandedly slaughtering masses. Gets to the enemy commander who doesn’t even put up a fight before Macbeth kills him too
Aaand dropped
Cooper Clark
he's a lizard man
Logan Thompson
Venom. He is Venom Henry, not the actual King Henry.
Bentley Torres
Nah, fuck you. I liked Titus.
Ryder Roberts
It's latin for 5. Was the 5th movie in the Henry cinematic universe. The 8th was the best though.
Thomas Hernandez
Versus
>Henry V (picture of Henry) = Henry v Henry
Ryan Ross
Titus was Shakespeare's version of shitposting. That flick was a gawdy mess, still fun though.
Justin Morgan
*blocks your path*
Juan Edwards
>8th movie in the HENRY cinematic universe
>It’s about a guy named Richard
Wtf Shakespeare
Caleb Parker
Titus: shitposting
Romeo: mfw nogf posting
Coriolanus: /pol/ posting
Brayden Powell
Henry Vanderdike, he was Dutch
Gabriel Reed
Both of Kurosawa's attempts nail the correct tone.
Jeremiah Wright
Branaugh's and Welle's films are good.
Shakespeare is easily the greatest writer/intellectual of all time though, so a "mere mortal" like Welles or Branaugh aren't capable of doing S 100% justice.
Dominic Baker
Kurosawa sort of does it.
I think Yorgos could do it too but he would never make an adaptation.
Connor Anderson
Anglocentrism at its finest
Shakespeare may arguably be the greatest playwright, but he's neither the greatest writer nor intellectual
Ethan Kelly
>lets read every line in a grim and foreboding way and hopefully the audience will be too distracted by the visuals to realise nobody has any idea what it means
It was very mediocre.
Logan Rivera
It's one of those pretentious art titles. Like Pola X, Umberto D
William Perez
>plays manage just fine
Is it because shakespeare wrote fucking plays, you retard?
Thomas Nguyen
I feel like this adaptation didn't work because KL's whole thing is that it takes place in a world hundreds of years before Shakespeare's time, when a king was more of a tribal leader, could divide his land arbitrarily, and was completely unknown by the populace. Setting it in the (sort of) present day makes no sense, and you're actually further removed/abstracted from the subject matter because it's harder to understand why anyone is doing what they're doing without any kind of historical context.
Sometimes adapting Shakespeare to different settings/time periods works (see: Branagh's Hamlet, Goold's Macbeth) but often it's unnecessary and confusing.
Parker Torres
Aaron Wright
Nobody likes plays either, they just say they do to appear cultured.
Jonathan Howard
Plays were considered low culture
Charles Allen
Vicious
Ayden Reed
Based
>mfw plebs don't realize this is the best adaptation of King Lear