CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | These films aren't direct Adaptations, but they take major influence from them.
Ran, Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa
Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles
10 Things I Hate About You, Gil Junger
The King, David Michôd |
bludngorevidal
06.09.26 | What do you think of the Gregory Doran Hamlet? |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | It was... weird. My main problem with the film is it feels more like a stage play being filmed, than a film based from a stage play. |
bludngorevidal
06.09.26 | yeah, i think it was a film adaptation of a theater show. would have popped well on stage imo |
LouBreed
06.09.26 | Of the Soviet adaptations I really like King Lear also by Kozintsev. Especially the jester is fire in that one |
unclereich
06.09.26 | Wild Wild West |
budgie
06.09.26 | shakespear is garbage and people who watch or read shakespear should be put to the sword |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | "Of the Soviet adaptations I really like King Lear also by Kozintsev. Especially the jester is fire in that one"
He's an incredible director. I normally dont like non-english Shakespeare adaptations, but he is one of the few exceptions. |
Piglet
06.09.26 | i tried watching that coen brothers macbeth one. absolute clown show, although beautiful cinematography or woteva da fak, as all coen brothers films are. |
unclereich
06.09.26 | Piglet comment in 2026 is just what I needed ty |
Donchivo
06.09.26 | Damn Budge, Not sure I am on board with killing the guys in Iron Maiden, Dismember, Dark Tranquillity, Ophtalamia, Jag Panzer et al.... |
Josh D.
06.09.26 | The Punisher (2004)
Jonathan Hensleigh |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | Budgie is a Marlowe fan mhm |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | @josh d I actually coulda sworn Hensleigh said Shakespeare was an influence on the film... I could ve wrong though. The movie has major Shakespeare vibes, little bit of Hamlet mixed with Macbeth. |
Josh D.
06.09.26 | He mixed in Othello. I don't think the movie is anything special, but I always found it funny to do that. |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | "I don't think the movie is anything special"
On that we disagree. One of my favorite comic book movies ever. |
Deviant.
06.09.26 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eont_yEGZs |
Sevengill
06.09.26 | does, uhh, The Lion King count? |
CaliggyJack
06.09.26 | It's not a direct adaptation so it wouldn't make the main list. I wanted to put it in the honorable Mentions but I wanted to keep the number at 5 and it got beat out by the others listed. |
Sevengill
06.09.26 | welp, I've got nothing then. saw the Olivia Hussey R&J back in middle school, otherwise I've somehow managed to not see a single Shakespeare adaptation despite reading at least my fair share of plays. weird. |
Middle18
06.10.26 | How about Hamnet?
Not an adaptation as such but a beautiful film |
Dreamflight
06.10.26 | Oh man that Titus adaption is wicked. The rape / mutilation scene left me sleepless for like 2 days back in the day.
Of all the adaptations I've watched the Merchant of Venice is probably my fav. |
CaliggyJack
06.10.26 | Titus absolutely is a silent killer cause at no point does the film give you the impression it will be THAT explicit.
Hamnet was... fine. I liked the acting but the narrative wasn't great. Some of it felt like purposeful Oscar bait. The scene with Shakespeare reciting the Hamlet line was absolutely forced and cringe inducing. Their characterization of Agnes was deliberately anachronistic, which is fine, but her grief seems to bulldoze over everything else in the narrative towards the last 3rd of the film. Zhao's direction is good though.
Kenneth Branagh's All Is True is a far better portrayal of their marriage and grief imho. Though Branagh went for a much more historically accurate portrayal of Agnes, whereas Hamnet was more utilizing history as a tool to portray feminist theory, so perhaps they shouldn't be compared. |
