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I've been meaning to watch this one for a whi-OH GOD THAT JUMP SCARE!
...Well, at least that's better than finding out during the film.
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Double posting because he's doing The Tempest next, if this Tumblr post
is any indication.
Which adaptation, I wonder. The Julie Taymor Gender Flip one from a few years back?
The Series/Wishbone adaptation of course!
Looking at wikipedia, there are many interesting picks but none that strike me as obvious candidates in the way the previous too reviews have except for "Prospero's books" perhaps which he has already reviewed. So my guess is...
...Forbidden Planet. Seriously. Well ok, I'm playing it as a wild card because I guess he doesn't want to do "updates" as much as cinematic staging of the actual play but I haven't seen anything that says so (or he said it in iambic pentameter which I always found hard to get the measure of).
If not then that Peter Fonda one set in the civil war sounds interesting but also like a parody of a Shakespearian setting update.
Nah ![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
you're probably right.
I could be wrong but Planet seems likely.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Do any of these candidates show up in his title sequence? Because all the previous films, including 10 Things, have.
Hmm, I'm going to check the introduction video again and I'll look at the opening sequence clips. The clips I did see a lot of different updates and versions and so forth but I figured that this was more for the artistic value of displaying the myriad nature of Shakespeare's many adapatation rather than the "these are clips of things that appear in the show" trope (Do We Have This One?).
Does anyone know if he intends to do an "O" review? It's the only movie adaptation of Othello I've heard of, let alone seen, and I'm curious what his thoughts would be.
On another note,what are other Othello adaptations?
I remember seeing a "straight" Othello adaptation in high school, in addition to O. So I'm pretty sure one exists.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Actually, just about 1:25 into the intro he appears to have a display with a screen shot from each of his intended reviews. It has the films we've seen so far, 10ThingsIHateAboutYou but sadly no Robbie the Robot. The intro uses clips from many different adaptations, many of the same play, many of the same scene of Hamlet with Yorrick.
Yeah, it's the Derek Jarman 1979 version of The Tempest.
Wouldn't be Brows Held High without it.
edited 10th May '14 2:00:56 PM by SomeSortOfTroper
There's six films there. Didn't he say he intended to review seven films? Or does the intro count as one of seven videos?
edited 9th May '14 4:35:13 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
The one I saw in high school was the Laurence Fishburne version. I would like for him to do O if he covers Othello.
He said seven "reviews" maybe the last one is a surprise or he just hadn't picked yet.
I'm really hoping the last one is Forbidden Planet.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
So, for clarity--six direct adaptations, one that's merely relevant to the subject matter.
What the seventh is isn't in that shot, but I'm willing to bet if it's not Forbidden Planet it's Shakespeare In Love.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
About the Tempest video:
I think Shakespeare might have been perfectly aware of European colonial empires when he wrote it (17th century). Unless he was so isolated from trading ports and markets he never heard of the Portuguese and Spanish empires that formed before the British empire (15th-16th centuries).
Kyle probably didn't bother to look that up. Apart from this 'nitpick' of mine, the review's great imo.
edited 9th May '14 7:24:41 PM by Quag15
Pirate AND writer!
Man, I need to find this version. It looks really cool.
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Until further notice
Hmmm, now I'm tempted to look back in the intro to see what else he's going to review. The only work I recognise is Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, a Macbeth adaptation, and only because you never really forget Toshiro Mifune's terrified face as he finds himself on the receiving end of a Rain of Arrows.
...I am a Philistine, of course.
edited 10th May '14 4:48:42 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
TheYeelen review will probably be the work I consider his best (not necessarily funniest, because Häxan is among the ones that always make me laugh), but as a whole Shakespeare Month is a fantastic achievement.
(The steamrolling was my favorite part! Though the mondegreen about penguins is an OT close second.)
Frell. I keep forgetting this isn't BB Code.
edited 10th May '14 2:10:26 PM by Thryn
Hyaa!
@Quag I got the impression that Kyle said he was aware. But there's aware and then there's the ability to see four hundred years the future. There's no way he could predict the full effects that colonization would have had on Britain, Europe, nor the Americas.
EDIT: Nevermind.
edited 4th May '14 8:21:25 PM by Zennistrad