Shakespeare films
I've never read Shakespeare, except for The Merchant of Venice for GCSE. I've never seen any of the film adaptations either, but having recently seen the ballet of A Midsummer Night's Dream I got...
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As I once said, I don´t care one bit that Ian McKellen is gay (or way too old for me), I still fancy him like hell, he is such a sexy man, and as I also once said, he´s even sexy as Gandalf.At the...
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crazee cat ladie wrote:I love Shakespeare, but only in live plays, don't watch the movies.Use to frequent Shakespeare in the Park, all the time, when I live in Louisville.Taming of the Shrew, Romeo...
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ophelia28 wrote:As I once said, I don´t care one bit that Ian McKellen is gay (or way too old for me), I still fancy him like hell, he is such a sexy man, and as I also once said, he´s even sexy as...
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Kalvan wrote:I thought of that one while writing the earlier post but then spaced it. I do like that one a lot, probably because of the whole parallel world feel to it. I think Leguizamo steals the...
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ophelia28 wrote:Oh, there´s also a film version of The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino as Shylock that I´ve read is good but haven´t seen yet, Pacino is a great Shakespeare fan. Joseph Fiennes is in...
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Kalvan wrote: At the performance where we spoke to him there was a young married woman with us and it was apparently all she could do to keep from throwing one of her undergarments onto the stage....
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Alvida wrote: I've not actually seen Romeo & Juliet. I'm not sure whether I want to or not, don't know enough about it, will have to youtube it. Oh cool, so you haven´t seen that one yet!! The...
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Alvida wrote: I did see the last 10 minutes or so of it a few weeks ago, felt very sorry for Shylock with them demanding he convert to christianity, even though he'd been out of line I didn't agree...
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Alvida wrote: Cassia, I meant to ask about what you said here, "the hints are only about Hamlet´s disgust with sex", is Hamlet asexual then or homosexual, is either suggested at all?That´s only my own...
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I forgot one you might really like, Heather - Prospero´s Books, based on The Tempest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero%27s_Books
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Thanks. I watched a couple of clips, it's too surreal for me, interesting though, I'd never heard of it. A recent film of The Tempest with Helen Mirren but I think it's not rated that highly.
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Outing:I´m a big fan of 10 Things I Hate About You, a high-school film version of The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger. It´s a really good version actually, cleverly done.
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Just researching a bit, I´d love to see this one, Twelfth Night, one of my favourite plays actually, and it has Toby Stephens as Count Orsino!! And Helena Bonham Carter is in it too, the whole cast is...
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I did see the trailer for that, Toby Stephens would usually be a draw for me, his voice is gorgeous too, but I saw it was one of Shakespeare's that has women pretending to be men, which has never...
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I´m the opposite, it only works for me in Shakespeare because female roles were played by men in his time, so we had a male actor playing a woman who disguises as a man, it´s mindboggling and very...
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Forgot to say, Orsino is this brooding, melancholy, bitter type, but also aesthete (he loves music, he says the famous "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it ..."), Toby Stephens...
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I do think it's a clever way of showing more intimate contact between men and women that would not usually occur unless they were already lovers/married.
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Spot on!! There are homoerotic relationships in his work too, for example in The Merchant of Venice we mentioned before. One male friend loves the other (who is about to get married) so much that he...
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