The Dark Knight (SPOILERS)

[Doctor Who?]

Bingo.

[gbeenie]

Finally saw it on IMAX (at 1 this morning; the 10PM show was sold out). Un-freakin'-believable.

[Raven]

Finally saw it on IMAX (at 1 this morning; the 10PM show was sold out). Un-freakin'-believable.

I don't think that I'll get to see it in an IMAX.  The nearest one to us is almost 2 hours away.

[ninjacat11]

As great as Heath Ledger is, I'd have to say that the script for this is probably the best and most nuanced I've seen in a summer movie for a long time.

I don't go into these types of movies expecting storylines on par with, say, Shakespeare, but the extra level of smarts in this has certainly brought it to a whole other level for me.

[Tripe]

I don't go into these types of movies expecting storylines on par with, say, Shakespeare, but the extra level of smarts in this has certainly brought it to a whole other level for me.

*cracks knuckles*

Oh but this storyline would have been right up Will's street, I love the idea that Shakespeare is all high falutin' and stodgy or somehow elevated above the common matter of other narratives.

Shakespeare loved sex, violence, comedy and gore he uses it all the time and he'd have loved the Joker, to say nothing of the other two principal players in this drama.

I can show you if you like, Renaissances Drama is really my thing. 

[Pak-Man]

Brings up an interesting question. What kind of movies WOULD Shakespeare make if he were here today? :^)

[torgosPizza]

Long, boring ones?

[Tripe]

Historical Epics, Broad Comedies, and Violent Melodramas 


Ben Jonson would mostly make disposable comedies.

Long, boring ones?

Ah,see you've unfortunately been exposed to productions by people operating under the misapprehension I discribed earlier:

Oh but this storyline would have been right up Will's street, I love the idea that Shakespeare is all high falutin' and stodgy or somehow elevated above the common matter of other narratives.

Shakespeare loved sex, violence, comedy and gore he uses it all the time and he'd have loved the Joker, to say nothing of the other two principal players in this drama.

[doggans]

Of course, Shakespeare's plays were also frequently ripoffs re-imaginings of pre-existing stories and plays, so...Shakespeare would be making Tarantino flicks?

[Tripe]

Well no, because Shakespeare actually did imaginative things with those original stories...

Oh this has been a good day (started bad, got better) a chance to talk Shakespeare and again reiterate how much I loath Hackentino 

[Chaos]

Shakespeare used the most beautiful, poetic language imaginable to deliver the most vulgar, low-brow sense of humour possible. You gotta respect that kind of cajones. He was a master of oral manipulation (you in front, stop snickering - nyuk nyuk).

Imagine J.R.R. Tolkein writing a Three Stooges sketch.

Except of course that Shakespeare was simultaneously better with words than Tolkein, and better at slapstick than the stooges.

[torgosPizza]

Ah,see you've unfortunately been exposed to productions by people operating under the misapprehension I discribed earlier:

Does that mean "read and seen faithful adaptations of several of the more famous ones?" If so, then you're correct.

[Chaos]

Ah,see you've unfortunately been exposed to productions by people operating under the misapprehension I discribed earlier:

Does that mean "read and seen faithful adaptations of several of the more famous ones?" If so, then you're correct.

How could they be faithful adaptations? Was the person who directed it alive 410 years ago when Shakespeare's troupe actually performed the original rendition?

[RoninFox]

Ah,see you've unfortunately been exposed to productions by people operating under the misapprehension I discribed earlier:

Does that mean "read and seen faithful adaptations of several of the more famous ones?" If so, then you're correct.

How could they be faithful adaptations? Was the person who directed it alive 410 years ago when Shakespeare's troupe actually performed the original rendition?

Yeah, a true faithful adaptation would have to include the actors improvising to please the loud rude people in the front and avoid having pennies thrown at them.

[Chaos]

Ah,see you've unfortunately been exposed to productions by people operating under the misapprehension I discribed earlier:

Does that mean "read and seen faithful adaptations of several of the more famous ones?" If so, then you're correct.

How could they be faithful adaptations? Was the person who directed it alive 410 years ago when Shakespeare's troupe actually performed the original rendition?

Yeah, a true faithful adaptation would have to include the actors improvising to please the loud rude people in the front and avoid having pennies thrown at them.

And dodging all the witches and spirits that were flying around the stage, trying to use the improvised words to open a portal back to their own planet.