Macbeth (Updated film of Shakespeare play with Patrick Stewart on PBS Great Performances, October 6)

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[PA Engineer]

Cool, however Shakespeare is much better in the original KLINGON!

[EveningStar]

LOL! :)

[mom3boys]

‎"I am in blood.. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. ....where no one as gone befo'er" (Macbeth, Act III, scene IV)

[mom3boys]

“as” = “has” GAH!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The idea that Forbidden Planet was loosely based on The Tempest is a real stretch, no matter what they say.

Compare it with Sir John Gielgud’s “Prospero’s Books”, which turned The Tempest into a beautiful work of art, the screen filled with actors playing invisible spirits, doing their enigmatic spirit things, that only Prospero could see. Each scene was like a magnificent, and dynamic, oil painting of a festival of people.

[EveningStar]

The 1995 version of Richard III, updated to a stylishly fascist England of about World War I, worked rather well.

I agree. Ian McKellen and the rest of the cast were fine and the sets were imaginative.

[EveningStar]

The idea that Forbidden Planet was loosely based on The Tempest is a real stretch, no matter what they say.

Having read a synopsis of The Tempest, I agree.