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Speaking of....what's your favorite?

I've always been a little embarrassed that my favorite Hamlet movie is that one with Mel Gibson. It's definitely not the most accurate and being a huge Shakespeare and Hamlet fan I feel that should matter, but it totally doesn't. I love it so.

I adore the Laurence Olivier version of Hamlet. Yes, he should have been younger, and yet it doesn't matter, because Laurence Olivier is awesome forever.

I saw the Mel Gibson one, so long ago - thought it had good production values, but other than a cold kind of windswept look to it (at least, as I remember it), it didn't leave much of an impression on me. I recall Glenn Close was good.

SA. Sorry, I hope that didn't come off as dismissive (re: Mel Gibson version). I like that we can all take away different things from the same film. What did you love about that version? Maybe I will have to re-watch it.

Re: favorite shakespeare versions?

(Anonymous) - 2013-06-15 20:54 (UTC) - Expand

i love branagh's much ado and hamlet

Branagh's Much Ado deserves more love (And yes, it's one of the reasons I really don't want the Whedon version to do good. I know, it's a play, anyone can make their own version but... I just love the Branagh's version way too much)

(Anonymous) - 2013-06-16 08:02 (UTC) - Expand

The 1999 Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck on a bicycle. Lady mudfights. The Pyramus and Thisbe play totally NOT sucking ass in the end. Such whimsy.

visp - 2013-06-16 17:47 (UTC) - Expand

My favorite Hamlet is the Kenneth Branaugh version :D I also like him as Henry V, which is probably my favorite Shakespeare-movie-version of all the ones I've thus far seen.

Ken Branagh's Much Ado. (This may change once I finally can see Joss Whedon's version. We shall see.) Emma Thompson is a goddess in it, and the whole thing is so gorgeous and lush.

If anyone's thinking, "Shakespeare, boring," check out the Shakespeare Retold series from the BBC. It's Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing, retold in modern settings and language. They're fantastic. (Well, 3/4 of them are. The Midsummer Night's Dream isn't quite up to the rest.)

I love that for Emma Thompson as well. I haven't seen the Joss Whedon, it's in the cinemas this week so I might get to it, but the bits I've seen and heard don't impress me that much yet. I've heard some of the actors don't quite get the rhythms that well.

I... ugh. I just wrote about how I hated James McAvoy as Macbeth. Which really upsets me, because I just love him, and I love The Scottish Play somethin' fierce.

I'M SORRY, MY IDEAL MACCERS IS EWAN MCGREGOR OKAY.

misslucyjane - 2013-06-16 23:02 (UTC) - Expand

Richard III with Ian McKellen.
The Australian MacBeth from 2006.
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
Kurosawa's Ran.

I love Julie Taymor's take on Titus Andronicus in Titus. It has one of my favorite opening scenes in any movie. The music. The color. The directions. The transition from toy soldiers to real ones. Fantastic!

And I love Al Pacino's take on Shylock in Merchant of Venice. It's hard to make such a villain so sympathetic. (He did ask for a pound of flesh after all.) But he managed it.

oh hey it looks like we have the same taste ♥

Oh, I completely forgot Titus. That one was great, too.

I love that version of Titus Andronicus. So visually arresting.

Taymor's Titus is, hands down, one of my favorite movies ever. It's just fucking gorgeous.

The Merchant of Venice 2004 film because I thought it had the right atmosphere and I loved the actors. Very visually pleasing, too.

My absolute favourite adaption though, has got to be Titus (made in 1999) starring Anthony Hopkins. I thought the movie was such a mindfuck when I first saw it as a young teenager, and it's still pretty amazing.

Oh and I love Black Adder. (The series parodied a few of Shakespeare's plays.)

The Branagh version of Othello starring Lawrence Fishburne is amazing and everyone should see it. I also really, really love Branagh's versions of Henry V and Hamlet.

And honestly, my favorite interpretation of Romeo and Juliet is West Side Story, although I'm fond of the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions as well.

Maybe this doesn't count but... Slings & Arrows

YES

IT SO COUNTS.

CHEER UP HAMLET, CHEER UP HAMLET! CHEER UP, YA MELANCHOLY DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!

Kenneth Branagh's Henry v. It's not only my favourite Shakespeare version, it's my favourite film.

The Lion King 1 and 2.

My favorite Hamlet, period, is Slings & Arrows. Geoffrey's real-life Hamlet, not the play-within-the-play Hamlet with the terrible actor.

I didn't mind Mel Gibson's Hamlet, but the entire time I watched it I thought, "Wow, he would make a much better Macbeth" (Yes, this was after Braveheart, and yes, I stand by my decision, because Macbeth has a certain "bulk" to him. I literally cannot have a waif as Macbeth like I can for Hamlet.) And don't even get me started on how they treated Ophelia in that movie.

While we're on Macbeth, I kind of disliked James McAvoy as Macbeth in Shakespeare ReTold. Which upsets me, because I like James McAvoy and Macbeth is my favorite play!

I like Romeo + Juliet purely because changing it up and modernizing it blew my 12-year-old brain. Warm Bodies is great if you want to take the story and make it fun.

And of COURSE I like 10 Things I Hate About You. That shit made Shakespeare accessible in a really fun way, and it is hands down, one of the best teen comedies from the late 90s.

To be quite honest? Tromeo and Juliet. The only adaption that managed to keep me tense all throughout the ending sequence AND surprise me! And I dunno, it was kinda... heartwarming, in its own Troma shock-value-sex-and-violence way.

... And I say this as someone who really likes their Shakespeare. I've seen plenty of t.v., movie and stage productions, and nonetheless, Troma comes out on top for me. heh.