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Grapefruit
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
#14019514 - 02/24/11 11:43 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cool, you have tempted me to throw in my chips to the royal shakespeare society one weekend and give him another go.
What's your favourite? Macbeth?
From what I understand it's not just that it's old english, the plays were quite difficult for most at the time they were being shown and only had a relatively small following for a long while.
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Grapefruit]
#14019545 - 02/24/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I like Macbeth but actually my favorite is A Midsummer's Night Dream. Hamlet is good too and Tempest.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
Edited by Icelander (02/24/11 11:49 AM)
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
#14020741 - 02/24/11 03:59 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Midsummer's Night Dream... used to be obsessed with that movie in high school.
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: deranger]
#14021420 - 02/24/11 06:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Great quote; I love some of Shakespeare's work.
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: deCypher]
#14021704 - 02/24/11 06:35 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Those are both my favorite quotes.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The Sunset Limited [Re: Icelander]
#14022368 - 02/24/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Has to be old or suicidal to really hear it?
Downloading now!  
Really, though, I like stuff that makes me think.
I'll check this out
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I thought it was good.
Strangely, I am both men.
Lately Jones is loud, and they fight. 
But definitely a good deal to think about.
Thanks!
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And regarding plays:
Shakespeare seems more poetry than what we think of as "modern" theater. (veiled occult poetry, I've even heard one theory saying.) Though it is, of course, prototypical theater.
This type of film, the "single scene" where it is primarily composed of dialogue (as we see more often in theater than film) seems ridiculously hard to pull off.
Case in point-- the recently released film "Buried" with Ryan Renolds is an absolute, valueless, sad piece of shit, and by the time I was done I wanted that part of my life back.
This film made me feel nothing like that.
Also, I watched using headphones, so perhaps it was easier to notice, but the sound effects/score to this was done pretty well also. I think it really helped to drive the mood in certain points.
As a film, overall, I think they did a fair job-- but primarily it's the engaging dialogue that makes you want to stick around.
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Edited by CidneyIndole (02/25/11 03:21 AM)
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