For Sundog: Compare Shakespeare to modern plots of movies

[Az]

It is said that the compiled works of Shakespeare cover all the basic plots one can concieve of within story writing. Compare modern stories (movies) to the plots of Shakespeare and see if they have come up with anything new.

[sundog]

1. no

I'm too busy reading the complete works of Marlowe... now begone!

:evilgrin:

:P

[MrScorpio]

2. Forbidden Planet is The Tempest

And O is Othello

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. 10 Things I Hate About You = Taming of the Shrew.

x(

[NewHampshireDem]

4. Fight Club = Hamlet

How's that for your noodle? :)

[Az]

6. Deep

Had to think about that one. But good call.

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. I often see Shelley's 'Frankenstein' in movies. Did Bill cover that too?

<ope>

[Az]

7. The Tempest

Man's hubris vs nature.

[sundog]

8. Throne of Blood

A Japanese flick form the 60's was a cover of Macbeth - new ground? Not really... setting was merely changed, not plot.

[Az]

9. Another from Kurosawa: Rân, his adaption of Lear

One of the most beautiful movies ever made.

[sundog]

10. Rashomon is my fave

I luuurve that flick :bounce:

everything about it... from the opening scene in the rain on... I love the whole vibe :7

[Az]

11. That was my gateway into Akira's work

Hooked on that by coincidence the Detroit Art Film Theater just happened to be running a Kurosawa retrospective that did the rest of the damage.

[sundog]

13. and of course the creme de la creme of Japanese film:

In the Realm of the Senses :P

classic or trash? you decide ;)

[Az]

14. Missed that one

The Japanese work that straddles trash or classic for us is Pistol Opera. Cinematically wow... plot ... um ... er .... ah.... eesh

[sundog]

15. my rule of thumb:

if it's trash, it's probably a classic :P

[Parrcrow]

12. The Lion King = Hamlet

West Side Story = Romeo and Juliet.

[Zuni]

16. Glitter--Richard III

just think about it

[sundog]

17. bwhahaha

:rofl:

[JohnKleeb]

18. Gigli reminds me of Julius Ceasar

:D

[bridgit]

19. shakespeare was an extension of 'the greeks'...

thus there can be no doubt. these things are well ancient & old.

'the bards' greatest of happenstance; the issuance of his mother's womb so as to say, is that he were born whilst with both: brain & britain; wherein it is found a language strung with so fine a utilitarian lexicon to have expressed all, each & every other nuance specific to the human experience other than that what were being put forward by j.s. bach in music imo

"the world must be people'd!"

the names, faces & indentites may, or may not have been changed to protect the innocent (or, for that matter: the guilty); but shakespeare is fully transferable into whatever time-line within which humans may then endeavor again imo

do not ask me to explain 'bad santa' or why that dweeb left: angelina

:shrug: