Official top three Shakespeare film adaptions 1. Polanksi's

Romeo + Juliet

The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino is also quite good.

>>8526677
Throne of Blood is the best Macbeth. This is objective.

>>8526677
I only watched Hamlet (1996). The cinematography was great but the story and dialogue was full of cliches.

>>8526727
Not really, it doesn't carry much of the comedy of the play.

>>8526763
Throne of Blood is not an adaption of the dialogue, though (even in translation). It's a great film, but it's also just an adaption of the story.

>>8526774
Mel Gibson's (1990) is pretty good, aside from the Oedipal stuff being stressed too much.

>>8526812
>Throne of Blood is not an adaption of the dialogue, though (even in translation). It's a great film, but it's also just an adaption of the story.
That's an adaptation.

Kozintsev - Hamlet
Peter Brook - King Lear
Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight

>>8526812
>comedy of the play

The play itself is not really that funny compared to other Shakespearean comedies. Bloom and Goddard, among others, have pointed out its status as a forerunner of the problem plays. It also loses comic power and gains tragic potential because of modern history. Shylock was meant to be a comic villain, and surely Elizabethean audiences laughed at him, but I think we can no longer do so, not only because of thw Holocaust, but also because our sensibilities and sociohistorical context is not the same at all.

That said, the film is actually very well made and well acted. You could argue that Shylock is portrayed as a tragic figure whereas Morocco and Arragon are comic, but that's because of characterization in the play and not so much because revisionism or philo-Semitism.

i thought Henry V with Branagh was decent

only Shakespeare film I really REALLY like is Ran adapted from Lear