Tag: Shakespeare
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To be or not to be? (Scene Comparison)
Kenneth Branagh (1996) vs. Franco Zeffirelli (1990) Here are two massive Hollywood productions, competing for Oscar nominations in their respective years. Branagh in all his Shakespeare enthusiasm made one of the longest movies ever (3hr58min). Zeffirelli was completing his Shakespeare works with a more accepted film length. (Which also ended up being better received, at…
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A Film Review of Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. That is no new news, and yet the statement gains a fresh connotation when it is made in light of (or indeed, when it is making light of) the 1996 Hollywood retelling: Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet. Taken out of its original Renaissance setting, modernization has not been kind…