In Our Stars

Finally! My first Shakespeare-geared video! Who knows why I haven't made one before...

**WARNING** Blood and guts and some nakedness and stuff. PG14-ish. (...and you thought Shakespeare was boring...)

This video is a small attempt to just touch the surface of the sorts of issues and questions that Shakespeare's plays are known to raise. I picked 7 tragedies, both some well-known and some not-so-well-known ones, to work with, picking film versions that are either classic renditions, intriguing interpretations, and/or just simply one of my personal fav.s. (eg. You'll note that I featured two different versions of Julius Caesar; while the 50s version remains one of my favourite films ever, and as much as I love Gielgud, I just simply couldn't leave out David Colling's brilliant Cassius! Plus, Caesar's possibly my favourite Shakespeare play anyways, and deserves preferential treatment. hehe. ) Notable exceptions to this compilation include versions of Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear, both of which, sadly, are lacking a memorable film treatment to date (at least, to my knowledge...).

In terms of editing, this is the first video of mine that is quite heavy on the use of text. (You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure out the Pan control on the program I use, too...phew! :P ) I've clearly tried a different kind of tone and theme here than what I'm used to doing, so please...be kind! ^_^ Hopefully you'll get something out of it, and may even be compelled to watch one of these movies or pick up a script afterwards. :P

Enjoy!

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Videos:

Hamlet (1948) - featuring Sir Lawrence Olivier (and Jean Simmons)

Julius Caesar (1953) - featuring James Mason (and Sir John Gielgud)

Romeo and Juliet (1968) - featuring Olivia Hussey (and Leonard Whiting, John McEnery, Michael York)

Macbeth (1971) - featuring Jon Finch (and Francesca Annis)

Julius Caesar (1979) - featuring David Collings (and Richard Pasco)

Richard III (1983) - featuring Ron Cook (and Michael Byrne)

Othello (1995) - featuring Laurence Fishburne (and Kenneth Branagh)

Titus (1999) - featuring Alan Cumming (and Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange)

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Music: Threat (from Ka, by Cirque du Soleil)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Shakespeare
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• Olivier
• Othello
• Fishburne
• Branagh
• Richard
• III
• Cook
• Titus
• Hopkins
• Cumming
• Romeo
• Juliet
• Hussey

[Jitpring]

The music is entirely inappropriate.

[Lothriel]

How so?

[roarmouse]

Hi! Brilliant job. Song artist/title please:)

[Lothriel]

It's indicated at the end of the video and on the right in the description area. :) Thanks for the comment!

[julizz94]

Whoa strong. what are all those movies? ive only seen romeo and juliet, my fave =)

[gfterp]

If I were teaching Eng. Lit., I might use this.Your tex asks 'ol Wills questions about human nature... who each of us is now, and what we could become. Lust, greed, a thirst for power, honor... folks had 'em in ancient Rome, 14th c. & 17th c. Europe, and now. Should we meet, please greet me with "How now, sot?" from 12th Night. Thanks.

[santaevita1945]

Could you please tell me how you cut bits from DVD's? I have no idea at all and would love to start doing some music vids.

[santaevita1945]

Oh, Lothriel, just so you know; it's Sir John, not Sir Gielgud. (Sorry, for being such a pedant...I love him too.)

[kilinka1]

Lovely lovely! I just adore those clips of David Collings! I must be one of the very few who think he's the greatest character actor of our time. Thank you for posting this ;)

[mysticatedwine]

This is a beautiful video. The editing is superb.

[actingchick25]

omg first of all great video! i am an enormous fan of Shakespeare, and most of the film versions have been really wonderful. Kenneth Brannaugh is amazing at making the text really accessible to the lay audience. Shakespeare is definitely not boring, but i think so completely human, it pains me to hear my friends all say that hate it. Wow babbling..great video:)