My 10 favourite Shakespeare films
Submitted by kenji on Fri, 02/04/2005 - 04:04
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- 1.Othello (Welles)
- 2.Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)- adaptation of Macbeth
- 3.Titus (Taymor)
- 4.King Lear (Kozintsev)
- 5.Ran (Kurosawa)- adapation of King Lear
- 6.Hamlet (Olivier)
- 7.Henry V (Olivier)
- 8.Prospero's Books (Greenaway)- taken from The Tempest
- 9.Henry V (Branagh)
- 10.Hamlet (Zeffirelli)
I haven't seen all of those but I'd like to propose...
Kiss Me Kate (Sidney)
West Side Story (Robbins & Wise)
The Lion King (Allers & Minkoff)
Hamlet (Branagh)
I must be really stupid but i'd never realised The Lion King was based on a Shakespeare play. Seems to me like a mix of several, or one i've not read.
I don't think that you're being (really) stupid (really.) Maybe it's just me but... I think that The Lion King is the tale (tail?) of an African Hamlet , only it has a happy musical ending and Elton John.
That would be part of a time-honoured tradition: taking a Shakespeare tragedy and pasting an upbeat ending on it.
Juliet: But, I'm not dead, after all!
Romeo:Then neither am I!
both: We're such happy, well-adjusted teenagers!
Curtain
Of course, I could be getting fooled by the high Jeremy Irons content.
Well when you mentioned Shakespeare i must admit Hamlet was one of a few, including Macbeth, that came to mind as having some elements present.
Yeah there probably is more of Hamlet than anything else; i just didn't remember the wart hog and hyenas in the Denmark tale.
You've never heard of a warthog named Guildenstern?
No but i once saw a hyena who drank too much Bovril and made a laughing stock of himself.
My favourite is Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.