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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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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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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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Jessica Whitmore: Film Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet (1996)
Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is a highly stylized, modern interpretation of the original play. The characters in Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet are set in Verona Beach, a city which is reminiscent of Miami circa the 1990’s. Unlike Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation of the same play, which poses the characters in “fair Verona”…
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Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 (Scene comparison) – Arshpreet Dhariwal
“To be or not to be” (Act 3 Scene 1) is possibly one of the most famous Shakespearean soliloquies of all time, in one of the most critically acclaimed and audience renowned plays written by William Shakespeare. Hamlet has been recreated time after time in different eras of the century and still manages to captivate the…
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Anja Dörfler: Scene Comparison – Hamlet
For my Blog Post I´ve chosen Act 3, Scene 1 from Olivier´s Hamlet (1948) and Zeffirelli´s Hamlet (1990). This scene shows one of the most famous Shakespeare soliloquies. The reason why I chose these two directors is because they each use very distinct approaches. Olivier, as a man of the theater, defines his productions of…
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Film music
As I´ve read through the passage where Crowl talks about music playing a much larger role in film rhetoric (p. xvi/xvii) than we would assume it reminded me of one example our Professor back home showed us in the lecture on Dark Romanticism and I thought I could just share it with you. I´m sure you´ve…
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Notes Reflection
I used to think my note-taking habits were excellent… that is until I took this class. In my other classes, my strategy for studying was merely to rewrite details and memorize. I obviously needed a better note-taking strategy that will allow me to record the literary or film elements that I had observed in an…
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Notes Reflection
I have always loved to take notes by hand. I believe that there is a connection between the hand moving the pen, the ink flowing on the page and the eyes transmitting those words to my brain that works for me personally. There is something beautiful in the hand written word. I also love books,…