Escaping Shakespeare? No way! - Celebrating Shakespeare! Video - NYT - 4K
The New York Times - Olivier + Skull = Hamlet and Yorick! Chewbacca + C3PO's head = Hamlet and Yorick! And the list goes on and on... Shakespeare died 400 years ago, but his influence on language and culture remains... Let's celebrate!
Video Produced by: Louis Bayard, Robin Stein, and Taige Jensen Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/243OlUf
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
Video Produced by: Louis Bayard, Robin Stein, and Taige Jensen Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/243OlUf
Copyright - All rights reserved to their respective owners.
Read Shakespeare's Complete Works online for free: https://shakespearenetwork.net/works/
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Screen Adaptation - Co-Production : MISANTHROPOS – Official Website - https://www.misanthropos.net
Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6946736/
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00:00It's been 400 years since Shakespeare's death, and all the world is still his stage
00:20and we men and women merely his unwitting fans.
00:24Every single day, whether we know it or not, we use words and phrases that Shakespeare
00:28added to the English dictionary.
00:49Shakespeare turns out isn't just a literary titan, he's a literary termite.
00:56Burrowing into all sorts of places you wouldn't expect, Chewbacca isn't just grieving the
01:02severed head of his buddy, it's actually a nod to Hamlet.
01:10That line, and that skull, have been cropping up ever since.
01:17There are more than 400 movies based on Shakespeare's plays, according to the Guinness Book of World
01:22Records.
01:23More than any other author in history.
01:26Romeo and Juliet alone has been staged for the screen over 50 times.
01:34Even if you don't think you know Shakespeare, you know that balcony.
01:45Of course there's the most famous Shakespearean line of all.
01:51It's actually a speech about suicide.
01:54It's not a topic you typically hear about on Sesame Street.
02:00Or Gilligan's Island.
02:05Or a Muppet Hospital.
02:09Or an alien space station.
02:13Of course, it's not just classic lines and scenes that inject Shakespeare into our daily
02:20lives.
02:21These stories are driving the plots behind some of the biggest series on television.
02:25House of Cards, the tale of a power couple with vaulting ambitions, sounds a lot like
02:30Macbeth, with a dash of in-your-face confessionals from Richard III.
02:41Sons of Anarchy, a saga about the leader of a biker gang haunted by the death of his father
02:46and power-hungry stepfather, has been called Hamlet on Harleys.
02:52In Empire, a record mogul has three children vying to inherit his hip-hop kingdom, a situation
02:58that goes nearly as badly for him as it did for King Lear.
03:04And it's not just culture, it's commerce.
03:10Shakespeare may be 400 years gone, but he's in high demand on Madison Avenue.
03:15William Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and men and women are merely plates.
03:22And one man in his time plays many parts.
03:26Many more parts than Shakespeare himself could have ever guessed.
03:29Hey Shakespeare, would you write a TV sitcom for a Klondike bar?
03:34Methinks not.
03:35What you talking about, Willie?