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  • Third Category Of Shakespeare Film
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    Categories of Shakespeare When dealing with text of Jacobean writers such as Shakespeare, one has a great deal of freedom in interpreting it. His words are full of not only meaning, but entendre's, alliterations, and metaphors that allows a great deal of artistic freedom when actualizing it into performance. Perhaps that is why his plays have been a longtime favorite standard performance material, and more recently (the past 100 years), have become very popular to produce and present in the film...
  • Romeo And Juliet Director
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    Don't Hang Up Philosophy -Philosophy Can Make A Movie Film: Romeo and Juliet Director: Baz LuhrmannStars: Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes Plot: Two lovers of rival, disputing families take their lives. Rating: Reviewer: Claire Ginn Welcome to Verona Beach, a sexy, violent other-world, neither future nor past, ruled by two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets... So begins Baz Luhrmann's production of Shakespeare's beloved play, 'Romeo and Juliet,' from the famous opening line of 'Two H...
  • Shakespeare's A Midsummer
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    Michael Hoffman directed William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and it is an enchanting new version of Shakespeare's most magical comedy. It has dangerous potions, fairies and strange romances. It is a tale of a wondrous single night in which wicked spirits turn the world of love on its head. First I have to make it clear that I have never really thought much of A Midsummer Night's Dream. I have always considered it fairly frivolous and not too important in William Shakespeare's career....
  • Tempest And Prosperos Books
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    Review of Prosperos Books When adapting a play for the screen, a directors primary responsibility is to visualize an enactment that remains true to the original works perception. In addition to this task, the director must also build upon the foundations laid by the script; without this goal, (s) he would have no reason to have undertaken the project in the first place. Providing an innovative reading of a well-known play is undoubtedly a challenging task, but few directors have met the challeng...
  • Luhrmann's Film
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    William Shakespeare's 15th century play "Romeo & Juliet" has been recreated and turned into a film that has gained international prominence because of the wonderful direction by Baz Luhrmann. Unlike Shakespeare's play, Luhrmann's film has been tied into the modern era using a visual feast of fast cars, gunfights and passionate young love all set to a hip soundtrack. All these are great for high school students as it is set to a modern era that helps them relate to the film and to keep them focus...
  • Ariel In Bender's Tempest
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    Shakespeare's and Bender's Ariel In both William Shakespeare's Tempest and Jack Bender's Tempest, many of the same characters were used in similar ways. For example, the protagonist in both films was Prospero or also known as Prosper, and the antagonist in both films was Caliban or better known as Gator Man in Jack Bender's Tempest. Another character that had similar characteristics in the two films was Ariel. The two characters both played the role of a servant, however, there are some distingu...
  • Shakespeare's Text
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    I read Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet' in class and then watched Baz Luhrmann's film version in the cinema. There was no comparison! When I first read the text I found it quite difficult and turgid. I thought Shakespeare's opening was good with the jokes and the fighting and I really liked Mercutio's spell-binding 'Queen Mab's peach. I also felt truly sorry for Juliet who was alone and isolated for much of the play. However nothing prepared me for the movie! I was enthralled. Luhrmann's op...
  • Hoffman's Film The Play
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    A Mid Summer Night's Dream Film Analysis Mid Summer Night's Dream Film Analysis A Mid Summer Night's Dream Film Analysis "A Mid summer Night's Dream' is another entry into Shakespeare's recent rebirth on film. Michael Hoffman's film dose not stay true to the text, but he must take liberties to allow for this classic story to be entertaining to today's audience. In this essay I will discuss the differences between the text vision and the film vision of this story from the historical setting, the ...

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