Damn, this was actually really well done.
How is it that Shakespeare seems shitty when you do it in school but when you watch it properly it's really fucking good?
Decent, but for whatever reason I can't stand Shakespeare in a modern setting.
Not anywhere near as bad as 90's Romeo and Juliet. Pic related.
>>63597077
they talk to fast to understand tbqh, most people only pretend to like it. at least when you read it you can follow it on your own pace
>>63597476
Some modern adaptations can work.
>>63597534
That's not even vaguely true, at least not for Coriolanus since it's very abridged and easily understood.
Branagh's four hour unabridged Hamlet they do batter through at a fair rate, but that's because if you did it slowly it'd go on forever. Besides, Shakespeare's stories are easy to follow, and the language isn't that complex, just old fashioned.
Shakespeare with guns never ever works
>>63598419
>mfw i will never draw my Sword 9mm
I am fortune's fool...
>>63598593
I'll never understand some of the shitty adaptations you get.
I mean look at this godawful travesty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxET3KpvSM
>>63598700
Meh. I actually enjoyed this one...until the rooftop sword fight. They modernized the setting but couldn't think of a way to show the duel at the end?
>>63598781
It's the acting, they're doing it completely fucking wrong.
>Find out there was a recent Tempest adaptation
>Download it
>They've fucking gender swapped Prospero
Why do they do this fucking shit
>>63597077
Totally wrong. Coriolanus was a good play, but this garbage was almost unwatchable.
The most pretentious piece of garbage ive tried watching
>>63599972
It's a film with Russell Brand in it, and your problem is that they had Helen Mirren play Prospero (Prospera :^))?
>>63600579
>Shakespeare
>Pretentious
>>63600881
Honestly I abandoned it before I even realised that he was in it.
>>63600955
I'm not the same guy, but maybe he said is pretentious to make something like this into a movie, is hard to watch to be honest
It was ridiculous t b h man. And it was strangely full of militarism bait, which I doubt was Shakespeare's intention.
No matter how you look at it, saying things like "he shall feel mine edge!" while people are shooting with M4s and AKs just ends up being funny.
>>63600579
reddit, is that you?
>>63601025
I don't see how you could say it's hard to watch. If anything it's one of the more exciting Shakespeare adaptations.
>>63597077
Becuase in school you
1. Are forced to do it
2. Read it out in class which is a terrible way to experience it
>>63597476
I don't know why they went with that, just because it's Shakespear doesn't mean you can't swap out a single word. I mean shit, they updated the whole setting to modern-day, just use the word gun for fuck's sake.
Outta the way plebeians
Best Shakespearean adaptation coming through
Approved by Lord Gielgud himself
Author surrogate interpretation is best interpretation
>>63599972
Dude, it's a good movie. Just fucking watch it.
>>63601291
>No matter how you look at it, saying things like "he shall feel mine edge!" while people are shooting with M4s and AKs just ends up being funny.
I didn't feel like that at all, personally. It might have felt a little incongruous but certainly not funny.
>>63601370
Which adaptation is that?
>>63601414
>Which adaptation is that?
>>63601371
Not a chance.
It's alright, I found a recorded version of it done at the Globe which I'll watch instead.
obligatory
>he thought reading Shakespeare in school was shitty
>hes one of the drooling mouth breathers who had trouble with every line and needed the teacher to spoonfeed him and break it down for the entire class
just fucking kill yourself, Shakespeare time was one of the best parts of school, especially MacBeth
>>63597077
because its written as a play not a novel
>>63597077
Coriolanus is an example how good directing can have audience supplant the obvious with their imagination, resulting in sort of a shared playground where each has their own interpretation that still doesn't stray far from the director's vision. It's about conviction emanating from cast and crew that produces this effect and I wish more movies were done in the same vein, rather than haphazard 'period pieces' Carey Mulligan and Keira act in.
>>63602246
my daughter text me from her phone "hidadmyphone'sspacebuttonisbrokecanyoupleasebringanalternative"
I rushed home excited, the entire way pondering what the fuck a Ternative was.
>>63597077
No, sorry. It's a meme for memeing edge lord faggots.
>muh Shakespeare
>muh flicks
Seriously grow the fuck up faggot memers.
>>63602405
This desu senpai
Fiennes was great in it and Gerald Butler actually managed to not suck as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArNqebm_Gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJL6nmdSLmk
>>63601354
Reminds me of that Othello adaptation in modern day, I think it was called O, where Othello literally shoots himself in the heart like he had a knife.
Also, Foggy from Netflix's Daredevil was in that.
>>63602603
Fuckin' kek
>>63602401
We did shitty old Merchant of Venice and The Tempest.I was a dramafag and loved to put some effort into reading lines though. Prospero was based.
>>63602927
I wonder if there's actually a good actor hiding inside Gerard Butler.
Agreed, it's very good. Modern setting and socio political themes worked, Fiennes was awesome.
>>63604126
I'm not sure the political themes worked entirely. That side felt a little bit clumsy and confused. They were revolutionary for nothing in particular.
>>63603984
There's not
>>63604126
Coriolanus modernizes especially badly. Mass hunger as a major social problem doesn't translate well into a quasi-modern industrialized setting. Moreover, the plot depends on the idea that going into the Senate and making a speech can actually change the course of national politics. In the modern world you have bureaucratized government, party organization, mess news media, etc., and things like that are obviously incongruous.
>>63597077
>How is it that Shakespeare seems shitty when you do it in school
Because you are a turbopleb
t. /lit/
>>63606629
>making a speech can actually change the course of national politics
Have you been watching the news at all in the last six months? Does the name "Donald Trump" mean anything to you?
Top five plays:
The Tempest
Timothy of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Hamlet
Richard III
>>63606987
>Timothy of Athens
Oh dear. Check again.
>>63606629
>Mass hunger as a major social problem doesn't translate well into a quasi-modern industrialized setting
Bro... you ever even glean news headlines, much less read them? Syrian drought and famine and the war and terror it led to created the greatest refugee crisis of our time, to which ISIS' rise is inextricably linked.
anus hehe
>>63597077
Because you have zero imagination and charisma.
>>63597077
i really enjoyed it at first but towards the third act i lost interest. i guess i'm a pleb
>>63597476
It's not a modern setting, it's just modern dress.
>>63597077
Yes, Coriolanus was fucking fantastic, but you're still a pleb.
>>63607081
>Syria
I'm talking about real countries.
Why are actors who learned from Shakespeare so much better?
>>63603984
He was good in Machine Gun Preacher.
>>63610749
shakespeare's dead m8
>>63610749
there is a thing here. It answers the question why UK actors are the best in the world.
the thing is: performing shakespeare and the theatrical culture around it, specifically in the UK, provides a literally 500 year acting tradition that is still very much alive.
I'm no bong, but you'd have to be a fool to not see this contribution to civilization and film.
>>63597077
>How is it that Shakespeare seems shitty when you do it in school
because they force it on you and you are young so you can't appreciate it as much when you are an adult.
Also why the fuck do they make young children do Shakespeare plays when they have no idea what anything means it it. I was in multiple Shakespeare plays as a pre teen and that is bullshit.
>>63612122
The problem isn't the age, it's the quality of earlier education. Everything is geared toward the lowest common denominator, so by the time you hit highschool you don't have the basis needed to read Shakes. But there's no reason why it has to be this way, a higher intensity elementary education could do the trick (as it did 100 years ago).
>>63597077
>How is it that Shakespeare seems shitty when you do it in school but when you watch it properly it's really fucking good?
>tfw other kids in my year were lumped with Romeo and Juliet
>tfw my class did Othello
was fucking mint
>>63613146
What's so much better about Othello?
>>63613264
It's "How to be a salty cunt and ruin everything 101"
Either way, adaptation of it with Laurence Fishburne, worth a watch certainly.
>>63613500
Added to my list, thanks. I'm on a complete binge of Shakespeare at the moment, watching the RSC's 2007 recorded version of King Lear with based McKellen at the moment. It's really good.
>>63597476
I still remember that shot from when I was 14. It was dire then, and it's dire 12 years later.
>>63597476
>>63598593
That fucking movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRsSr4Fd_2U
>>63597476
Shit I always thought this movie was pretty cool. I'm not a native english speaker though, so I can understand why it might seem utterly bad if I was.
>>63601291
>"He shall feel mine edge!" while they use guns
>Marcius and Aufidius have a 1v1 knife fight
>>63606969
He won't get in. He's changed nothing.
>>63597077
>How is it that Shakespeare seems shitty when you do it in school but when you watch it properly it's really fucking good?
Because it takes talent, passion, and understanding of the material to bring out the brilliance of the Bard's work. None of these are things common to schoolkids, or to the teachers directing them.
>>63615322
>the Bard's work
>>63615322
Shakespeare is a fucking god and you made me hate him for a second with that retarded post, congrats.
Is the moral of the story in King Lear that women are bitches and whores?
Seems like a lot of Shakespeare revolves around women being awful.
>>63610749
because you bought into the british = smart and tasteful meme. you're getting taken in by a really entry-level trick.
>>63617123
I'm not saying British, I'm saying Shakespearian.
Posting the best Shakespeare adaptation.
>>63617123
Not really. Brits are just better at acting. It's part of the culture. It's like saying Italian food is smart and tasteful when they're just really fucking good at it.
Who excited for Hollow Crown season 2 here?
>>63613146
Literally KEK
>>63619898
>le black man willy meme xD
okay
>>63597630
I fucking love that movie.
>tfw Richard III will never overthrow the UK's pathetic liberal government
>>63615271
Not who you responded to but I think the main election is definitely his to lose.
