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Re: Shakespeare on YouTube
Thanks ButMad! Another movie I can't wait to see! You gals are educating me about some wonderful things. I have "O" on DVD, haven't watched it yet. Have you seen it?
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1/19/2007, 7:03 pm
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ButMadNNW
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Re: Shakespeare on YouTube
I have indeed seen "O" - it's about the only "Shakespeare updated, adapted, modernized, and stuck on a bunch of teenagers in high school" movie that I can stand. So hope that helps. 
Did you know it almost never got released? Right near its release date, Columbine happened. The whole movie almost got scrapped. Instead, the release was delayed like a year or something.
Then V4V's release got delayed because of the Tube bombings in London.
This is a phenomenon I don't understand. I can understand delaying a movie because the filmmakers started making it AFTER the Real Life event and purposely used that event as inspiration, but delaying a movie because of a bad coincidence in timing that couldn't have been predicted? Dumb.
But it might just be me.
*gets back on topic*
Do check out the Branagh-Thompson Much Ado About Nothing. It's an excellent romp of a movie. And you get to see Keanu Reeves attempt to act  and Michael Keaton....well, I don't know what his problem is, but his "acting" in the movie is bad enough to be comical.
Oh, and speaking of "O", have you seen the version of Othello with Branagh as Iago? Another one worth checking out! 
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1/19/2007, 10:38 pm
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