08-07-2016, 05:26 PM | #21 |
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Re: Mix Master Myth Parallels
The ghost acts as a believable, to such cultures, of murder accuser. Without it, it's just a story of a deranged paranoid sliding into deeper murderous insanity. Do we have any written reason to think his uncle did murder his father without that voice on high saying, "yep, he killed me."
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08-07-2016, 05:57 PM | #22 | |
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Coming into a myth can get kind of 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead', seeing a myth from a different viewpoint. The folks behind SCTV did a comedy movie, Strange Brew, that had a version of Hamlet in it. |
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08-07-2016, 06:01 PM | #23 | |
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08-07-2016, 07:28 PM | #24 | |
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, He doesn't know whether it's his father, a demon, a prankster fairy, or an illusion cast by a witch. He needs confirmation. The ghost could be replaced with a medical examiner, a small child who saw something, an informant who dies right after telling Hamlet that something is hinky, or even a message from the victim right before he was murdered. The ghost is a plot device. Pretending to be insane so his enemy will take him lightly and not kill him...that's the plot itself. As to the idea of setting Shakespeare plays in historical Japan...well it was good enough for Kurosawa. |
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08-07-2016, 08:55 PM | #25 | |
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I strongly believe Kurosawa could turn an ad for Old Spice into a compelling adventure story you'd demand your great grandchildren watch as one of this century's classics. ;)
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08-07-2016, 09:29 PM | #26 |
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I consider Hamlet to be one of the most believable, relatable, sane and rational protagonists I can recall reading...
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08-07-2016, 10:50 PM | #27 | |
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While that particular interpretation isn't my favorite (Branagh's is close to perfection; Kevin Kline's would have achieved perfection if the supporting cast had been better; Mel Gibson's was good enough to be a pleasant surprise; Sir Lawrence Olivier's is kind of tedious, and his Ophelia grates on modern sensibilities; Richard Burton's is mostly forgettable; and Derek Jacoby is sublime but, once again, the support cast doesn't carry its weight), it does make for a fascinating Act I and beginning of Act 2. However, Hamlet's keen insight into the reason for the necessity absolute proof of Claudius' treachery, and his ability to hatch the plan needed to secure that proof, requires a keen, self-disciplined mind -- of the sort a delusional schizphrenic simply lacks. I certainly wish I could remember the name of the actor in that particular version, but I've only seen it once and (as noted) it wasn't my favorite, even though it was rather memorable and nicely acted.
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08-08-2016, 04:43 PM | #28 |
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Who wouldn't want to watch a Klingon Macbeth? Or A Merchant in Venice set on Yrth? "Hath not a Goblin eyes?"
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08-08-2016, 05:45 PM | #29 |
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The Klingons go through a different MacBeth actor every night, due to them taking the beheading literally....
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08-08-2016, 09:38 PM | #30 |
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Star Wars in the original Ancient Japanese.
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