#shakespeare-told

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"ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew" (2005) - David Richards

Films I've watched in 2024 (39/95)

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[harrycosmo]

Shirley Henderson is excellent in 'The Trouble with Jessica' as Sarah, who is determined not to let a dead dinner guest derail the sale of her house.

This movie came out just a few months ago and it seems like nobody's paying much attention to it, which is a shame because it's actually a pretty good satire of upper middle class Islington types. I would also say it has flavours of Inside No. 9, episodes like ‘A Quiet Night In’ and ‘Mulberry Close’.

It's a reunion for Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell who did that rather good modernized 'The Taming of the Shrew' together back in 2005, as well as 'Charles II' in 2003. It's also a reunion for Sewell and Alan Tudyk who know each other from the wonderful 'A Knight's Tale'.

Follow this link to a collection of screenshots that I contributed to IMDB of Shirley Henderson in various roles across her 37 year career.

[throwupgirl-deactivated20240906]

if i had a nickel for every modern retelling of shakespeare involving food at the center i'd have 2 nickels. which isnt weird, but it's interesting and it's probably happened a lot i just don't know enough

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[riepu10]

Peter Macduff ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth (2005)

[martiszcz]

ShakespeaRe-told's "Macbeth" was for me about something very different than Shakespeare's "Macbeth" . I read the play as one about power, and what trying to get it does to someone. Macbeth is getting used to murder because that's what is needed to keep him in power and he gets less and less remorce about it. But in the episode I see it as much more personal story, not about getting power but about crime and how one leads to another, how it destroys the criminal. It's even doubled within the episode - he doesn't hire a murderer he blackmails his employee who he knows was in prison to do it, and the guy, after agreeing to kill Banqo (and that only because Macbeth presents him as a threat) is blackmailed into killing MacDuff's family. The fact that it happens in a restaurant also adds to it - Macbeth might have killed Duncan to get the restaurant but the rest of murders, including his own, are personal.

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[riepu10]

Peter Macduff ShakespeaRe-Told