Month: June 2016
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Team Pilgrim Blog Post
By Manasi, Jay, Amanda, Sabrina, Jasmine and Ampee Our two films are both set in the modern era, however they differ in their main communication to the audience. Our group decided to choose Act 1 Scene 5 from Romeo and Juliet, lines 91 to 108 with some lines taken from different scenes. The first film…
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Team Danger Zone, Project Blog Post
For the group film project, we decided to focus on the interactions between Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio in scenes Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 4. We found these scenes other than a few lines to be completely transferable in a modern day scenario. It is essentially guys just getting together to talk…
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Team A+ Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Scene1
For our first version of act 1, scene 1, we selected a ‘battle of the bands’ parody sequence which demonstrates in an overdramatized, satirical way, that the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is based on almost nothing. The feud between the two bands: one a stereotypical Taylor Swift pop band; the other a…
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Team C: Hamlet – Act 1 Scene 3
After interpreting Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet, we all decided to do two different interpretations of the scene focusing on the aspect or theme of Polonius’ family dynamic. The first interpretation is set in modern times where we see Polonius’ children a little bit indifferent and emotionally isolated towards their Father. We decided to…
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Team B: Bite My Thumb – Romeo and Juliet: Act 1 Scene 1
After doing a close reading of Act 1 Scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet, we decided that in our portrayal, we wanted to demonstrate the absurdness of the fighting between “two houses alike in dignity” and match the boyish bravado and humour that Shakespeare uses. This witty repartee can clearly be seen between Sampson and…
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The construction of Richard in Laurence Olivier’s Richard III(1955)
Richard The Third is a character of multiple interpretations and theories about his true intentions. In the text, Richard often invites the idea that he is a persecuted man who tries to win over the sympathy of the audience through his monologues, and of the other characters of the play through his interactions. At the same…
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Hamlet: Act 4 Scene 4 (Paolo Juego, 10110489)
For my Engl 311 course, I have watched Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film of Hamlet and read the play in Robert Miola’s Norton edition. This edition includes Branagh’s introduction to the play, where he explains his experience of Hamlet at the New Theatre, Oxford. He not only watched, but experienced ‘something unique.’ Although he did not completely understand…
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Chelsea Santucci – Hamlet: Act 4 Scene 7:158-163
Lines: Hamlet, Miola’s Norton Version 4:7:158-163 And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, Our purpose may hold there. [A noise within] But stay, what noise? Enter QUEEN This line stuck out the most in terms of interpretation…
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Brianna Morton: Hamlet: Act 5 Scene 1
HAMLET, Act 5 Scene 1 “Why, e’en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with ’em? Mine ache to think on’t.” (5.1.110) From just reading this scene, I thought it was rather morbid. They were talking about death…
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Film Notes
In Act 5 Scene 1 I quite enjoyed line “why may not that be the skull of lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of…