What's the best Shakespeare film?
What's the best Shakespeare film?
Blake Ortiz
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Austin Cox
Kurzel's Macbeth is my favorite, but any of Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations (Throne of Blood, Ran, The Bad Sleep Well) would work too
Jordan Evans
Films weren't around yet in the time of Shakespeare.
Bentley Miller
Chimes at Midnight, nigga.
Ryan Walker
this
Robert Cooper
and what said.
Leo Gomez
Prospero's Books
Charles Howard
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Owen Williams
A lovely retelling of MacBeth. One of the few films based on a Shakespearean work that doesn't feel like shit.
Asher Cooper
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William Brooks
Is that the guy from the matrix? The one on the train with the daughter?
Aaron Long
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Joseph Russell
I would honestly say that Ran and Throne of Blood are probably the best cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's work ever made.
Ayden Miller
They are filmed plays, nothing purely cinematic about them.
Justin Scott
>McBeth
Benjamin Torres
but they are adaptations and good ones at that, which goes to show how versatile the original plays are
Luke Foster
I'm not saying anything bad about the plays themselves just that the adaptations haven't introduced anything new using the film medium.
Joshua Evans
othello
Nathan Rogers
The new Macbeth was trash. It was like a music video, not Shakespeare.
Jaxon White
Macbeth
Orson Wells
Republic Pictures
1948
(original cut with accents, not the 1950 edit)
Aiden Myers
That actually looks interesting.
Is there any true Indian kino?
Robert Nguyen
BLACKED's Othello when?
Hudson Nelson
it's a dynamic, stylish, and (above all else) cinematic adaptation of the play. it's not filmed theater, like most Shakespeare adaptations, and that's what sets it apart.
Luis Myers
Throne of Blood
Logan Parker
...
Ryan Bell
The director has adapted Macbeth (Maqbool) and Hamlet (Haider) as well.
Easton Moore
>anything new
what do you mean? new to the medium itself, or the interpretation of the plays?
David Cooper
The lion king
Andrew Hall
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Luis Mitchell
>Maqbool
Mason Baker
Andrew Cruz
Just a heads up, most of the acclaim the film received was because of the language and setting, set in the rural and tribalistic north. Not sure how a non-native would appreciate that.
Isaiah Turner
>Sup Forums Shakespeare thread
>ctrl + f "Laurence Olivier"
>no results
>mfw
Asher Hill
Coriolanus was better
Nolan Peterson
Branagh > Olivier
Carter Cox
see
Blake Fisher
This board, Jesus Christ. Laurence Oliver is the best actor of all time with little competition
Luis Lopez
this
his Othello is GOAT
Asher Hernandez
did you enjoy making me throw up in my mouth a little bit? because that's what this post did
Cameron Perry
Theater acting is different from film acting.
Ryder Butler
yes, and Oliver is better than Branagh in both fields
Lucas Thompson
If he's better why is he dead?
And why did Branagh play him in a movie?
Ethan Williams
This
Everyone should watch this film, just for the experience
Parker Hughes
I've been around India, so that might help. I find it a fascinating place but their movies are almost all trash
Adam Smith
This is my choice as well.
Nathaniel Miller
It's not a musical if that helps.
Austin Morris
>ctrl + F
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Why am I not surprised?
Angel Gutierrez
bollywood tier
Hudson Wright
Chimes at Midnight
Robert Walker
This and The Lion King.
Jace Smith
...
Josiah Morris
King Lear was superior
Justin Green
This
Luke Williams
The Indefensible Position:
Mel Gibson's Hamlet (Zefferelli's Hamlet) is the best adaptation of Shakespeare to the big screen. Ever.
Hudson Carter
Is it though, Satan?
Easton Barnes
It is the only film adaptation that takes advantage of the capabilities of film without stepping on the source material. It is the only film that stages Hamlet's text in the ways that the scenes intend.
Example: Branagh's overwrought lump in the throat Hamlet fucks up the Hamlet-Ophelia-while-being-spied-in scene by placing Hamlet's awareness of Polonius' presence far too late.
Annother: The recent BBC Hamlet let's Hamlet get to within breath-in-his-ear distance of Claudius during the confession, while wearing hard black boots on marble in an echo chamber. And Claudius never hears him.
Zeff got these, and every other one, every single one, right.
Ayden Rodriguez
>Oliver
Alexander Barnes
>names of the swords on the guns
That was cool and the movie was entertaining
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Ian Mitchell
>It is the only film adaptation that takes advantage of the capabilities of film without stepping on the source material.
But it's not a faithful adaptation since it only runs for 2 hours.
Joseph Richardson
Correct. It's a different medium. If you want the perfect Shakespeare "on screen" it's the Richard Burton Hamlet stage play that someone pointed a camera at.
Aiden Rodriguez
>It's a different medium.
That's not what I meant. It edited the dialogue and scenes so it steps more on the source material than Branagh's Hamlet.
Gavin Cruz
Young Fishburne looks like today's Will Smith
Luke Allen
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