Title:
In Our Stars

Description:
Finally! My first Shakespeare-geared video! Who knows why I haven't made one before... **WARNING** Blood and guts and some nakedness and stuff. PG14-ish. (...and you thought Shakespeare was boring...) This video is a small attempt to just touch the surface of the sorts of issues and questions that Shakespeare's plays are known to raise. I picked 7 tragedies, both some well-known and some not-so-well-known ones, to work with, picking film versions that are either classic renditions, intriguing interpretations, and/or just simply one of my personal fav.s. (eg. You'll note that I featured two different versions of Julius Caesar; while the 50s version remains one of my favourite films ever, and as much as I love Sir Gielgud, I just simply couldn't leave out David Colling's brilliant Cassius! Plus, Caesar's possibly my favourite Shakespeare play anyways, and deserves preferential treatment. hehe. ) Notable exceptions to this compilation include versions of Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear, both of which, sadly, are lacking a memorable film treatment to date (at least, to my knowledge...). In terms of editing, this is the first video of mine that is quite heavy on the use of text. (You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure out the Pan control on the program I use, too...phew! :P ) I've clearly tried a different kind of tone and theme here than what I'm used to doing, so please...be kind! ^_^ Hopefully you'll get something out of it, and may even be compelled to watch one of these movies or pick up a script afterwards. :P Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Videos: Hamlet (1948) - featuring Sir Lawrence Olivier (and Jean Simmons) Julius Caesar (1953) - featuring James Mason (and Sir John Gielgud) Romeo and Juliet (1968) - featuring Olivia Hussey (and Leonard Whiting, John McEnery, Michael York) Macbeth (1971) - featuring Jon Finch (and Francesca Annis) Julius Caesar (1979) - featuring David Collings (and Richard Pasco) Richard III (1983) - featuring Ron Cook (and Michael Byrne) Othello (1995) - featuring Laurence Fishburne (and Kenneth Branagh) Titus (1999) - featuring Alan Cumming (and Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music: Threat (from Ka, by Cirque du Soleil)

Author:
Lothriel

Tags:
Branagh, Cook, Cumming, Fishburne, Hamlet, Hopkins, Hussey, III, Juliet, Macbeth, Olivier, Othello, Richard, Romeo, Shakespeare, Titus,