February 9, 201214 yr Active Members Went to a screening recently, nothing makes you feel quite as under educated as going unawares into a movie set in modern times but *entirely* in Shakespearean dialect. Still, Coriolanus grew on me, and the portrayals of the public and the politicians who cynically pander to their worst instincts has quite a few parallels. And as always when exposed to Shakespeare, I eventually enjoy it and get the feeling that a little more effort and familiarity will bring it much further into grasp... then I usually set it down for 10+ years... All in all a pretty good movie for a work I don't even remember having heard of before. (Yep, American education!)
February 9, 201214 yr Author Active Members Apparently Christopher Walken has also played the part! That would be interesting!
February 9, 201214 yr Author Active Members (Also, sorry about the title, but I saw it in the Wikipedia link and figured it'd be most likely to draw viewers to this post!)
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