What the best Shakespeare movie adaptation?
>>64639322
the lion king
think about it. it is hamlet without the sex stuff.
>>64639322
Branagh's Much Ado is also really good. The Brando Julius Caesar is pretty great.
If anyone saw it in theatres a few months back, Cumberbatch was in a Hamlet production that was pretty clever.
Tromeo and Juliet
I really like the Richard III with Ian McKellen
>>64639322
Throne of Blood and Corionalus are good
i like O (othello) a lot
>>64639874
Fuck yes.
Richard III is by far the best "Shakespeare in a modern setting" movie.
>>64639948
The way a tyrannical king just wills a complete social revolution into being over a weekend is kind of silly though tbqh senpai.
>>64639322
Roman Polanski's Macbeth
>>64639978
A lot of Shakespeare's works suffer from an odd "time compression" problem when made into movies.
In the original stage versions, the story would be broken down into a number of acts and scenes, the events of which were often separated by an unspecified amount of time. In a movie, you don't have those breaks and everything seems to happen very quickly.
I'm not sure there's a way to avoid this while still doing a line-for-line faithful adaptation of the play. Having the movie cut to a title screen saying "6 months later" or "3 weeks later" every 20 minutes or so isn't really practical from a directorial standpoint.
>>64639322
Why is he so good at shakespeare?
I'd say the old macbeth, don't know which one and can't be arsed to look it up
>>64640368
My nigger. Phenomenal adaption.
>>64639322
Forbidden Planet
>>64640494
>>64640368
My absolute negroes
I love that movie
Honorable mention: Kozintsev's Lear and Hamlet
>>64639948
Patrick Stewart's Macbeth by the BBC is by far the fucking best. 10/10 casting for Macbeth, Banquo, and Lady Macbeth. Kate Fleetwood was GOAT (despite those fucking cheekbones I mean holy shit)
Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino as Shylock, he made him seem really sympathetic
>>64639880
>Corionalus
Ralph Fiennes is god-tier in that movie, both his directing and his acting, but I think he pushed it a little too far into the present. Ancient Roman politics and social issues just don't translate very well to a realistic 21st century setting.
Richard III was pushing it with medieval politics in the 1930s, but still managed to pull it off by being a little more aesthetically different from the real-world 1930s.
Henry V
Hollow Crown (specifically Richard II)
Al Pacino's Looking for Richard is goat.
Hollow Crown maybe
Hamlet would have been perfect if Kenneth Branagh hadn't cast himself in the title role, the fucking dickhead. He ruins his own movie.
>>64640625
https://youtu.be/fj5gAo4iuwg
I'm going to mention Titus Andronicus.
The movie follows almost to a T.its underrated as fuck
>>64640368
I agree with this.
Somewhat related, does anyone else pick up some Macbethish vibes from House of Cards?
This deserves an honorable mention
Ralph was pretty good in this
>mfw seen countless of operas at the theater but no Shakespeare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9Ismh1elM
>>64640777
Not really. Claire seems close to Lady Macbeth, and Underwood himself going for the 'throne' is a rather obvious parallel too.
>>64639874
*BARF*
>>64640758
this
>>64640758
*DOUBLE BARF*
>>64640928
I didn't say it was an adaptation of Macbeth, Anon.
>>64639472
>without
>>64639892
really?
>>64641009
That's exactly what I was saying, though.
>>64639322
10 things I hate about you desu senpai
>>64641113
He does.
>>64639322
is that steven avery holding teresa halbach's skull?
>>64639840
That movie was surprisingly fun.
>>64639516
THIS
>>64641149
First act, scene three, towards the end of his conversation with Banquo after encountering the witches, he has a few asides. If I recall correctly, he also has a few more asides during the rest of the play as well.
>>64640646
>Henry V
This you plebs.
>>64641113
>what is [Aside]
Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits.
>>64640646
I liked Richard II
>>64641325
There's a clear difference between an Aside directions and a soliloquy.
>>64639322
romeo+juliet starring leonardo dicaprio
>>64641325
>Do not muse at me my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity.
>WHICH IS NOTHING! TO THOSE WHO KNOW ME!
https://youtu.be/AaIfPfZ7C5s?t=3m
>>64640594
Actually lold at this opinion. Orson Welles' Macbeth is the best adapation of that particular play
>>64639322
McKellens King Lear by a long shot
But thats only because I have a boner for King Lear
Its the only Shakespeare Play that I consistently enjoy
>>64641465
If you had any reading comprehension whatsoever, you'd notice we were talking about "modern" adaptations.
The BBC modern-dress adaptation of Hamlet was surprisingly good. It's nice seeing actors like Patrick Stewart and David Tennant return to their theatre roots.
justin kurzel's macbeth was insanely well made and gives me some semblance of hope that the assassin's creed movie might not be awful.
>>64641662
Did the cast and crew call it "Macbeth" during production?
>>64641662
Have you seen snowtown?
Festen
>>64639322
Ghostbusters
>>64641520
the true patrician choice
>>64639785
This
I'm seeing this at film forum tomorrow, I'll let you guys know
>>64642885
It's great, I'm jelly you get to see a big version of it.
>>64643017
New restoration too. But I assume that will be on a criterion disc soon.
>>64642885
Enjoy it on the big screen. I sure did.
Throne of Blood is objectively the best one.
>ctrl+f
>no RAN
What
The
FUCK?!
>>64643386
>>64641520
read the thread
>>64640594
s/o to Fleetwood being in Star Wars.
she was also Medea in a terrible production at the Almeida last year.
>>64639322
that one
dubs confirm
close second and not shakespeare himself but rosencrantz and gildenstern are dead
>>64640863
fucking excellent film
>>64640758
Yeah, it's a weird as fuck movie, but perfect for a weird as fuck play.
>>64640863
I felt bad for Coriolanus, though. Dude was cucked so hard.
>spend your whole life fighting for your country
>get elected consul
>immediately betrayed by the politicians and banished
>forced to join forces with your mortal enemy
>lead his armies to the gates of your homeland
>finally make peace
>get murdered for it
