SQUUEEEEEE!!!

[timepiececlock]

Watched Acts 4 & 5 of Hamlet over late morning & lunch.

I love this movie.

This will be on my list as soon as the DVD is released.



I loved the scene over Ophelia's grave. I love the pretty eyes of the guy who plays Fortinbras whose name I can never remember. I loved the acting of the man who played Laertes. I loved Robin Williams as the smarmy & overexcited courtier. I loved this whole thing. What a pretty film.

Also, I really like this play. So, so much better than King Lear.


Also, a quix. Gacked from...er.... someone.


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Comments

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Kenneth Branaugh is fantastic, Emma Thompson was an idiot for leaving him. Although I enjoy his Shakespearan commedies better (Much Ado About Nothing etc), he does well with the tragedies (Hamlet, Othello). Though I highly recommend Henry V. I must have seen it well over a dozen times.

Oh, about King Lear, hehe, if you don't mind Japanese films, there is a great take on that story. It's called Ran by the famed and late director Akira Kurosawa. One of my fave top ten films bar none. I definitely enjoyed this rendition of the Shakespearan play so much more than the actual play its self.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

hm... I've heard of the movie "Ran" before. I didn't realize it was taken after Shakespeare though. I'll keep an eye out for it.

As far as japanese films, I really want to see Ringu. I just don't know how though.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Ran is a classic and not only does it have elements of KL but of McBeth as well and I think a hodge podge of other Shakespeare plays, but KL and McBeth are the most prelevant. It totally kicks ass. You should be able to find it at most local video rental places.

Ringu is pretty creepy. Last years The Ring was totally ripped from it. If you can't find it at your local video store's foreign film section, try China Town (loads of boot leg copies) or www.getvcd.com or www.yesasia.com

Ringu

[leslina.livejournal.com]

gomen...Ringu is only available in R2 DVD so I recommend either amazon.uk, play or any of those places if you got a region free player, otherwise... China Town and boot leg copies ^_~

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Last years The Ring was totally ripped from it.

I don't think it was "ripped" so much as a deliberate remake. Everything I read about The Ring said that outright that they were making an american version of the film. Someone probably had to pay for it.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was "ripped" so much as a deliberate remake.

What I meant, only not so diplomatically ^,^''.

The American version wasn't so bad actually. Though most people I know had mixed reactions too it. I enjoyed it for the most part. It was just as creepy as the Japanese original and similar in production in many ways (pace etc).

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen either. Most of what I've read has said that the japanese version was scarier at the end, but that the American version was a welldone remake of if.