2012-05-28

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2012-05-28 06:30 pm
Entry tags:

TNA, interesting link, Shakespeare Meme

TNA - the best description seems to be one step forward, one step back )

Link Britain's Hidden Homeless written by Speech Debelle - Many people equate homelessness with sleeping rough, but life is also a struggle for those who have to live on friends' sofas or in hostels

Meme
After some delay Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play

The Branagh "Hamlet" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/

Mostly because it gives the whole play with a minimum of alterations to the script as she is written. And it's full of actors who I can hear and don't mumble. This is how little I ask of things.

And it does it with style and brio and good fight choreography and nice sets and clothes. And good actors. I find that helps too :)

Also, Branagh's Hamlet is wonderful. As I've said before, the difficulty of the play is that Hamlet is often a jerk, and Branagh's portrayal shows you the Princeling growing up before your eyes, so you're actually sad by the end.

I love it so very much.

The other option is 'Shakespeare: The Animated Tales' - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147788/ Which I have on DVD at home home and was one of the best £50 I ever spent. The animation is wonderful, so is the voice acting, and the adaptations are done well, keeping the spirit of the stories while condensing them.

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