not sure i like this-- something about the pacing of it. this year in school i watched several "older" productions of willie shakespeare's work like this one, and something about the style of acting always sits funny with me. a deliberately "fake" style, or one that's more suited to stage than to film, and therefore one that we don't like so much in the modern age (for e.g., see Mel Gibson's AWESOME version of Hamlet, or any of Kenneth Brannagh's works, like his version of Othello, Laurence Fishburne, and compare them with 1950's Othellos like Laurence Olivier or Orson Welles in blackface.)
plus i'm stuck on him as gandalf.
still, best soliloquay ever, right up there with "to be or not to be" and some of iago's in othello, like the "he who steals from me my purse takes but a trifle..."
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not sure i like this-- something about the pacing of it. this year in school i watched several "older" productions of willie shakespeare's work like this one, and something about the style of acting always sits funny with me. a deliberately "fake" style, or one that's more suited to stage than to film, and therefore one that we don't like so much in the modern age (for e.g., see Mel Gibson's AWESOME version of Hamlet, or any of Kenneth Brannagh's works, like his version of Othello, Laurence Fishburne, and compare them with 1950's Othellos like Laurence Olivier or Orson Welles in blackface.)
plus i'm stuck on him as gandalf.
still, best soliloquay ever, right up there with "to be or not to be" and some of iago's in othello, like the "he who steals from me my purse takes but a trifle..."
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