traveling the road less taken. Johnny Depp the Gender Bender? : comments.
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I agree with you about Willie Wonka I like the attempt at a darker tone but it didn't work.
Now I have reservations about seeing Alice I am a stickler in some ways about not changing the author's intent. Some things you don't mess with, which is why I have yet to see a single movie version of Little Women because the slightest deviation would make me rage. Some things are best avoided. Oh while I was in Vegas I saw a rare edition of Alice it was $4500. I wish.
Oddly though I am fond of Baz Lurhman's R&J because it sticks to the original language, though one scene is missing. To me Shakesspeare was a showman and I think he would have changed settings, etc to grab his audience. I mean he was adapting himself. So for me I always enjoy seeing what new settings directors can come up with for his work. Now when they start playing with the language I have issues. I do have mixed emotions about things like Scotland, PA because it's not really a Shakespeare adaptation, but I'm still iffy on them. Have you seen that? Sorry to to be off on an a tangent but I love Shakesspeare.
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I saw that version of Little Women with Winona Ryder, but I'm ashamed to admit I never read the book in entirety. I really should. did that movie version stray from the book a lot?
we had a great hard-bound version of Lewis Carroll's works, including Alice's Adventures , and it had color pictures. I think we sold it at a garage sale, though now I realize I should have kept it!
I suppose you're right about Shakespeare - but what do you think of that Hamlet with Ethan Hawke that was set in modern-day NYC? Being the purist, I preferred the version with Mel Gibson:) oh they should never play with the language of Shakespeare - but I guess that's why I had trouble with that 2000 version of Hamlet - seeing people in a modern-day American city (New York) reciting Shakespeare line-for-line is a bit awkward for me.
No I didn't see Scotland, PA - but after reading this synopsis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/plotsummary
I laughed that they list William Shakespeare as a writer! that sounds nothing like MacBeth! I'm with you on being iffy on those kinds of "loose" adaptations. if it's not even close, then why call it an adaptation?