That idiotic "Shakespeare would be apalled" thing just bothers me. The play was already written, the characters already created, the plot already silly and Chick Flick-y. but really, that's all that was left up to them- the presentation. You said the only good thing they did was the atmosphere. Nevermind Ophelia's previous suicide because Hamlet was pretending to be insane, Polonius getting stabbed by Hamlet because Hamlet thought he was the evil king, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern dying in Hamlet's place when they were sent to get him killed, and of course, the death of Hamlet's own father by having poison poured in his ear) So don't start bashing the filmmakers. I mean, the end of Hamlet involves four dead bodies on the stage, mostly due to mix ups (Hamlet gets stabbed by Laertes' poisoned sword, they keep fighting and manage to switch swords, Laertes gets stabbed with his OWN sword, the queen drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet, then warns him, and he stabs the king AND makes him drink the poisoned wine. And even his great plays like Hamlet and Macbeth, with some serious psychological "WTF?" going on, were pretty contrived. Shakespeare DID put a lot of deeper meanings and metaphore into his plays- but that DID come secondary to entertainment. And don't start on "Oh, you are being shallow". Good guys, bad guys, drunk guys, slutty chicks, virtuous chicks, idiots, smart guys. Most writers of his time used purely stock characters. One of the first, in fact, to really give changeability to his characters. He gave the playgoers what they wanted in his plays, whether comedy, tragedy, or history- and what they wanted was love, mistaken identity, gratuitous violence, a few laughs, and to be entertained.
Remember, in his time, he wasn't an intellectual mastermind.
you know what? All of Shakespeare's comedy plots are silly and frivolous. Does he not realize that Shakespeare WROTE the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, and that that makers of the movie followed the original play TO THE WORD, except for a few dialogue cuts that didn't affect plot? And then he went on to whine about how frivolous and silly the plot is. why? Because most of his whining was about the plot itself. His comment "Shakespeare would have been apalled" is laughable. that person who gave it "zero stars out of ****" is a little confused. The Merry Wives Of Windsor $4.99 Add to cart.Or, instantly download the entire collection of all 37 of Shakespeare Screenplays in PDF format: Instantly download the Shakespeare Screenplay of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in PDF format: You can get Rehearsal in the iTunes App Store directly on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, or by clicking here. Inexpensive – $4.99 each, $149.99 for all 37 scripts (a 20% discount!)Īnd best of all, all of these scripts work perfectly with the industry standard app for learning lines and rehearsing scenes, Rehearsal.
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