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  • #61
    Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    Try that book and I'll bet you'll be. Harold leaves it all on the field. That book is smart, but it captures the balls and the fury in the Bard. It is not for the faint of heart; he isn't f-cking around.
    I may check it out. I do love me some non-fiction books, and I suppose Shakespeare would fall under "pop culture" for that time period. The general mood, so to speak, of society.
    Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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    • #62
      Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

      Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
      I may check it out. I do love me some non-fiction books, and I suppose Shakespeare would fall under "pop culture" for that time period. The general mood, so to speak, of society.
      Very much so. Like Moliere in his day, or like Marriage of Figaro back in the days when the opening of a play or an opera could cause a riot that burned down half of town.

      I really applaud any popularizer who drags Bill down from the academic altars and back to the groundlings, with the dirty jokes and the type of raw satire that leaves everybody in the audience with a few deep cuts. It's the greatest popular entertainment ever created, because it works beautifully on every level at once, and there's absolutely not a whiff of snobbery and not one moment of distancing. It's red blood cells and bone marrow.

      IMO there are two undeniable geniuses in history: Bill and Leonardo. Euler and Goethe round out my Rushmore, but I'll accept arguments concerning them.
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      • #63
        Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Very much so. Like Moliere in his day, or like Marriage of Figaro back in the days when the opening of a play or an opera could cause a riot that burned down half of town.

        I really applaud any popularizer who drags Bill down from the academic altars and back to the groundlings, with the dirty jokes and the type of raw satire that leaves everybody in the audience with a few deep cuts. It's the greatest popular entertainment ever created, because it works beautifully on every level at once, and there's absolutely not a whiff of snobbery and not one moment of distancing. It's red blood cells and bone marrow.

        IMO there are two undeniable geniuses in history: Bill and Leonardo. Euler and Goethe round out my Rushmore, but I'll accept arguments concerning them.
        Part of the reason I loved "Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead." The absurdity of it all, with intelligence.
        Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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        • #64
          Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

          Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
          Part of the reason I loved "Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead." The absurdity of it all, with intelligence.
          R&G is awesome. Live it's magic.
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          • #65
            Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            R&G is awesome. Live it's magic.
            Well, everyone is killing everyone, but what are the odds on the next coin flip?
            Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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            • #66
              Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

              Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
              Well, everyone is killing everyone, but what are the odds on the next coin flip?
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              • #67
                Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Very much so. Like Moliere in his day, or like Marriage of Figaro back in the days when the opening of a play or an opera could cause a riot that burned down half of town.

                I really applaud any popularizer who drags Bill down from the academic altars and back to the groundlings, with the dirty jokes and the type of raw satire that leaves everybody in the audience with a few deep cuts. It's the greatest popular entertainment ever created, because it works beautifully on every level at once, and there's absolutely not a whiff of snobbery and not one moment of distancing. It's red blood cells and bone marrow.

                IMO there are two undeniable geniuses in history: Bill and Leonardo. Euler and Goethe round out my Rushmore, but I'll accept arguments concerning them.
                In more rural areas, where county judges are less specialized and hear all types of cases, I think they come as close as anybody to witnessing first hand and on a regular basis the glut and suck of human life that Shakespeare understood so well. The greed, lust, foolishness, brilliance, envy, bravery, cowardice, treachery, triviality and nobility that is all part of our nature. Not on a nation-state level, of course, but it's all there in our personal lives, and local judges see it all in a very personal and passionate setting.

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                • #68
                  Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                  Good lord...go take a Classics of Literature class online or something and leave this thread for movies.
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                  • #69
                    Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                    Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                    Good lord...go teach a Classics of Literature class online or something and leave this thread for movies.
                    Fixed your post.
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                    • #70
                      Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                      Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                      Good lord...go take a Classics of Literature class online or something and leave this thread for movies.
                      Shakespeare wrote plays for the masses - the movies of his time.
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                      • #71
                        Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                        Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                        Shakespeare wrote plays for the masses - the movies of his time.
                        So did the Greeks...still not relevant
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                        • #72
                          Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                          Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                          So did the Greeks...
                          Not really. The Dionysia was for the tie, tails, and toga set. You could go if you were a citizen, but to be a citizen you needed to be a free-born male property owner. It was actually pretty elite entertainment. (Which is not to say polite. The Greeks made Tyler Perry audiences look dignified. If they didn't like the show they might threaten to kill the actors. As in, for real.)

                          I'm sure there were all sorts of plays put on for the gen pop, similar to the Passion Plays in the Middle Ages in Europe. But they haven't come down to us. We were actually d-mn lucky to save anything of the Big Three (Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles). Some of the surviving tragedies trace a lineage through one surviving copy. Imagine losing the Orestia. For that matter, imagine all we did lose. Aeschylus wrote from 70-90 plays. We have 7. And a lot of the other ones won at the festivals. The year it was given, Euripides' Medea finished third! In another year, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex finished second. Not only do we not have the plays that won those years -- we don't have a single surviving play from either author (Euphorion and Philocles).
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                          • #73
                            Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                            Anyways...back to movies!

                            Now that I am apparently on a Steve Martin kick the question is what to watch next. I am thinking Bowfinger but may go Roxanne cause I love it so much!
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                            • #74
                              Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                              Good lord...go take a Classics of Literature class online or something and leave this thread for movies.
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                              • #75
                                Re: Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

                                Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                                Anyways...back to movies!

                                Now that I am apparently on a Steve Martin kick the question is what to watch next. I am thinking Bowfinger but may go Roxanne cause I love it so much!
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