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A quotation from Shakespeare

CASSIUS:           You gods, it doth amaze me
   A man of such a feeble temper should
   So get the start of the majestic world
   And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 135ff (1.2.135–138) (1599)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

CASSIUS:           You gods, it doth amaze me
   A man of such a feeble temper should
   So get the start of the majestic world
   And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 135ff (1.2.135–138) (1599)

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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A quotation from Shakespeare

CASSIUS:           You gods, it doth amaze me
   A man of such a feeble temper should
   So get the start of the majestic world
   And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 135ff (1.2.135–138) (1599)

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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A quotation from Shakespeare

CASSIUS:           You gods, it doth amaze me
   A man of such a feeble temper should
   So get the start of the majestic world
   And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 135ff (1.2.135–138) (1599)

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

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Movie Review: As You Like It (1978)

Title: As You Like It
Release Date: December 17, 1978
Director: Basil Coleman
Production Company: Time-Life Television Productions | BBC
Main Cast:

• • Helen Mirren as Rosalind
  • Brian Stirner as Orlando
  • Richard Pasco as Jaques
  • Angharad Rees as Celia
  • James Bolam as Touchstone
  • Clive Francis as Oliver
  • Richard Easton as Duke Frederick
  • Tony Church as Banished Duke
  • John Quentin as Le Beau
  • Maynard Williams as Silvius
  • Victoria Plucknett as Phebe
  • Marilyn Le Conte as Audrey
  • Tom McDonnell as Amiens
  • David Lloyd Meredith as Corin
  • Arthur Hewlett as Adam
  • Jeffrey Holland as William
  • Timothy Bateson as Sir Oliver Martext
  • David Prowse as Charles
  • John Moulder-Brown as Hymen
  • Paul Bentall as Jacques de Boys
  • Peter Tullo as Palace Lord

• Mike Lewin as Palace Lord
• Carl Forgione as Banished Duke’s Lord
• Max Harvey as Banished Duke’s Lord
• Chris Sullivan as Dennis
• Paul Phoenix as Page
• Barry Holden as Page

Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.

My Thoughts:

I’ve returned to BBC Television Shakespeare which is always a good option for Shakespeare’s plays that don’t get as many movie adaptations.  I was hoping to watch a 1961 Royal Shakespeare Company performance with Vanessa Redgrave as Rosalind, but couldn’t find the film anywhere (although the audio is on YouTube).  Of course, Helen Mirren is no slouch and she shines in her performance of Rosalind.  Unlike most of the BBC productions which are filmed on sound stages, As You Like It is filmed entirely on location with the better part of the movie set in the forest.  With that being said, it is a bit strange that all the characters just hang out in the woods with no tents or other structures.  The cast is talented but the script doesn’t allow anyone to stand out apart from Mirren.  Dave Prowse, famous for playing Darth Vader, makes an appearance as a wrestler.  As one of Shakespeare’s more musical plays, there are some delightful songs as well.  The problem though is that this production is just too much of a straight, by-the-book run-through of a play that really needs a more compelling dramatic approach.

Rating: ***

Movie Review: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1953)

Title: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Release Date: June 4, 1953
Director:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Main Cast:

• Marlon Brando as Mark Antony
• James Mason as Brutus
• John Gielgud as Cassius
• Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar
• Edmond O’Brien as Casca
• Greer Garson as Calpurnia
• Deborah Kerr as Portia
• George Macready as Marullus
• Michael Pate as Flavius
• Richard Hale as a Soothsayer
• Alan Napier as Cicero
• John Hoyt as Decius Brutus
• Tom Powers as Metellus Cimber
• William Cottrell as Cinna
• Jack Raine as Trebonius
• Ian Wolfe as Ligarius
• Morgan Farley as Artemidorus
• Bill Phipps as Servant to Antony
• Douglas Watson as Octavius Caesar
• Douglass Dumbrille as Lepidus
• Rhys Williams as Lucilius
• Michael Ansara as Pindarus
• Dayton Lummis as Messala
• Edmund Purdom as Strato
• Paul Guilfoyle as First Citizen
• John Doucette as Second Citizen
• Lawrence Dobkin as Third Citizen
• Jo Gilbert as Fourth Citizen

Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

My Thoughts:

Julius Caesar receives the full MGM classic era treatment: big sets, big crowds, and big stars!  And it’s mostly effective.  For it’s cast of thousands, the success of this movie is down to the talents of its three lead actors.  Marlo Brando breaks from the mumbler typecast he had at the time to be an inspirational Mark Antony while John Gielgud is imperious as the conspiracy leader Cassius.  I have to admit that I usually find James Mason to be very creepy, but his creepiness is toned down here allowing him to play a sympathetic antihero in Brutus.  Producer John Houseman decided to break the tradition of an all-British cast in Shakespeare productions and it pays off in performances such as Edmond O’Brien’s very Brooklyn approach to Casca.  Joseph L. Mankiewicz is known for being a dialogue director which feels like it should be right for a Shakespeare, but his approach is too faithful in presenting it as a historical drama.  For a movie released just after the end of World War II, I had hoped that the crisis of dictators with ambitions would feel more present. While the monologues are strong, the movie lacks an overall sense of urgency and intrigue.

Rating: ***1/2

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD:      For within the hollow crown
   That rounds the mortal temples of a king
   Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits,
   Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
   Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
   To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
   Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
   As if this flesh which walls about our life
   Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
   Comes at the last and with a little pin
   Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 165ff (3.2.165-175) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
   And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
   How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
   Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
   All murdered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)

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"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"This but begins the woe others must end."
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"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"Give me your hands if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."
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"The noise they make Will cause Demetrius to wake."
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"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace."
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