Monday, June 04, 2007
ROYAL GORE
Today's New York Times Best 1176 Film was Kenneth Branagh's
William Shakespeare again.
But somewhat more palatable this time.
Higher production values than the Olivier version we saw earlier yet parts of that film came to me as the scenes were played out.
I liked it better in some ways. The battle scenes were quite dramatic and realistic. Blood and thunder.
The accents were a bit more comprehensible.
The rhetoric was still deep and heavy and a shovel would have helped to dig out from under some of the talky scenes.
Why do they still have to speak these lines with Elizabethan fervor.
The film had Branagh and the young Christian Bale. Emma Thompson, the wife at the time. I liked Ian Holm as always.
Branagh has a bit of an underbite. Interesting.
It was a lot better than I expected. I am so not a fan of the bard.
But I got through it and only looked at my watch only once. That is pretty good when you have 138 minutes of film to wade through.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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