Month: October 2016
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Christian Tiberi: Film Review
Julie Taymor’s Titus (1999) is an interesting take on one of Shakespeare’s lesser filmed plays. Blending modern and ancient, Taymor creates a visual masterpiece that is complemented by the outstanding performance of Anthony Hopkins as Titus. Taymor chooses to mostly stay true to Shakespeare’s text, but instead plays with it by changing the aesthetics…
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Shoshanna Paperny- Film Review (Romeo + Juliet)
In Baz Luhrmann’s rendition of the famous Shakespearean play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the director takes a modern and edgy spin on the famous love story. Although most people are familiar with the general premise of the play, Shakespearean dialect is often hard to follow. In order to break the barrier between those familiar with the…
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Daniel Leong: Scene Comparison
While the “To be or not to be” soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1 was undoubtedly of paramount importance to the immortalizing of Hamlet as a play, I would argue that in film, Act 2 Scene 2 warrants just as much, if not more, scrutiny and discussion. In particular, there is much to be said…
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Tekla McIlhargey: Film Review
I was immediately intrigued by the opening scene of Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night or What You Will when we were shown a clip in class and so it was an easy decision to write my film review on this specific film. I found that with the breathtaking location choices to the purposeful use of light…
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Cai Samphire: Film Review
Twelfth Night by Trevor Nunn is a highly enjoyable adaption of the play. Throughout the entire film, the idea of gender role reversals and the hi-jinx that comes with it is never forgotten, along with the small hints of dramatic irony in the entire film. A lot of the strengths in Nunn’s adaption come from the use…
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Mirabelle Harris-Eze: Scene Comparison | Zeffirelli’s Hamlet (1990) and Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)
Introduction Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably one of the most famous plays in English literature. This blog post will compare and contrast Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet (1990) and Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)—in particular the last half of Act III Scene I, encompassing Hamlet’s soliloquy up until Claudius exits with Polonius. I…
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Adetola Adedipe: Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) Scene Comparison
This scene comparison is from Shakespeare’s: Romeo and Juliet. Personally, don’t like this play at all. The romanticized tragic end of the youngsters, foolishness and irrationality of Romeo and Juliet in the name of true love, the fickleness of Romeo, Juliet’s naiveté and…
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Caitlyn Molstad: Film Review
Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is a great example of the ways in which film techniques can accentuate and enhance Shakespeare’s plays. Luhrmann’s use of film language is successful in creating a more intensified version of Romeo and Juliet. There is a looming sense of a higher power and strong themes of…
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Anthony Hawboldt: Film Review
Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V is good Shakespeare, while still being good film. Branagh makes an effortless transition of the play into the screen, and his expertise with the play truly shows on screen, a true accomplishment, especially for a first time director like Branagh. Branagh’s cinematography is simple and to the point. He keeps his…
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Lawrence Demmert-Scene Comparison
Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Olivier’s respective versions of Henry V take very stylistically different approaches to Act 4 Scene 3. The scenery’s atmosphere is immensely different between the two films, Branagh shot with the sky overcast, the land is soil, the trees surrounding them are barren of leaves, in front of the few soldiers lie barricades.…