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What are the best Shakespeare film adaptations?
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What are the best Shakespeare film adaptations?
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>>63505468
The Lion King
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>>63506821
Wot?
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>>63506821
that's a flick tho
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>>63506830
it's based on hamlet
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>>63506830
Read about Hamlet.
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>>63506860
"""""""""""Based""""""""""""" on Hamlet
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>>63505468
There aren't that many good ones, really.
Polanski's Macbeth
Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet
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>>63506878
If we compare with the adaptations of others movies TLK still the best..
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>>63505468
Throne of Blood.
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>>63505468
I fucking love Titus.
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>>63505468
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
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Coriolanus (except for the random nigger general)
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>>63508267
They do that in all Shakespeare adaptations, I've no idea why.
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>>63507373
Isn't that a comedy?
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Falstaff
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Romeo and Juliet 1968
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>>63507373
That's not Shakespeare.

inb4 a faggot autist trying to say it is
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Romeo + Juliet is my favorite
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>>63509792
that is the version i always think of, since i was a teen when that came out.

i love that whole movie. i always get sad knowing i will never live in that weird NOTmiami it takes place in.
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Polanski and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
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>>63505468
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Hamlet (Celestino Coronado)
Hamlet (Grigori Kozinsev)
Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli)
Richard III (Richard Loncraine)
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10 Things I Hate about You

Not even joking. It's good, doesn't take itself too seriously, and tells the story well.
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>>63509792
Tybalt IS MY SHIIIIIIT
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not even kidding.
it's beautiful.
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>>63509991
It was shit.
>muh slow mo action
>beautiful
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>>63510016
yeah, because whole movie was in fucking slow mo. only flaw was fassbender's silly accent.
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>Watch Hamlet because why not, I've never seen it before

Holy fuck this guy is a banterlord. I had no idea.
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Chimes at Midnight, it's incredible. Blows Kane out of the water.
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much ado about nothing
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Throne of Blood

The Bad Sleep Well

Chimes at Midnight

Peter Brook's King Lear with Paul Scofield is worth a look
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>>63505468
Chimes at Midnight
Throne of Blood
Polanski's Macbeth
Welles' Othello
The 'Animated Tales' series is quite well done as well
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>>63510198
That's a pretty awesome battle scene imo
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>>63505468
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Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and Henry V
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNA_BoCFPs
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The Hollow Crown

Henry IV, Part 2 wasn't as good as the others in the series, but it was still the best adaptation of the Henriad
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>>63510400
sorry, meant Henry V, not Henry IV Pt. II - Branagh's Henry V is the best version of that
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>>63510400
Hiddleston was absolutely garbage.
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>mfw fedoras name a Kurosawa flick instead of a Welles film
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>>63510471
Weeaboos, you mean.
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I like Tromeo and Juliet, and the Merchant of Venice with Pacino.
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