Not content to just sodomize you, now Hollywood wants to do it without grease!

Speelgoedmannetje said:
Too difficult! Just normal language please! :D
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"Shakespeare, thy meaning is unclear!”

Shakespeare Elizabethan Dictionary

The Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet contained 24 letters, as opposed to the present day alphabet of 26 letters. In the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet the letters "u" and "v" were the same letter as were and "i" and "j". The "j" was usually used as the capital form of the "i"in the alphabet. The "u" was used only in the middle of a word, and the "v" was used at the beginning. The other difference with the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet was that there was another letter which resembled a "y" which was used to represent the "th" sound. So the word "the" was written in a similar way as "ye" would in the present day. Some words were also spelt with and additional "e" at the end. And finally, numbers were frequently given in lower case Roman numerals, with the last "i" in a number written as a "j". For example, viij March.
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Speelgoedmannetje said:
I think Shakespeare definately needs a reboot, needs more guns and explosions.
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We think of Shakespeare as being highbrow, a writer for educated people and intellectuals; but he was actually writing the equivalent of current lowbrow sitcoms and pop-culture movies of the week. He was crude and politically incorrect, and there is a lot of sexual innuendo. He was writing for the masses, trying to get them to buy a ticked to his theater over the bear-baiting show going on down the street. He was a great storyteller, and that's why his stuff has stayed popular as long as it has. So a reboot of Shakespeare would be appropriate for a remake.

However remaking the "Grapes of Wrath" ??? NO!!! watch the Original!
 
metalman said:
We think of Shakespeare as being highbrow, a writer for educated people and intellectuals; but he was actually writing the equivalent of current lowbrow sitcoms and pop-culture movies of the week. He was crude and politically incorrect, and there is a lot of sexual innuendo. He was writing for the masses, trying to get them to buy a ticked to his theater over the bear-baiting show going on down the street. He was a great storyteller, and that's why his stuff has stayed popular as long as it has. So a reboot of Shakespeare would be appropriate for a remake.

However remaking the "Grapes of Wrath" ??? NO!!! watch the Original!
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absolutely awesome....
 
metalman said:
We think of Shakespeare as being highbrow, a writer for educated people and intellectuals;
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I don't know why we would think that. Perhaps we never paid attention in English class. Perhaps we never paid attention to the text. It's also interesting that Shakespeare's English still had some inflection but I find it quite amazing how flummoxed people are over it's thines and thys. For some enlightenment see here.

(The letter for "th" is called thorn. In old english it is typographically distinct but later it came to look like "y" thus leading to the confusion-ye olde shoppe)
 
metalman said:
So a reboot of Shakespeare would be appropriate for a remake.
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Bard on the Beach in Vancouver does some fantastic stagings but always true to the text. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the text.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
It's also interesting that Shakespeare's English still had some inflection but I find it quite amazing how flummoxed people are over it's thines and thys.
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Meier staged a Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” a Shakespeare production performed entirely in the original pronunciation. “American audiences will hear an accent and style surprisingly like their own in its informality and strong r-colored vowels,” Meier said. “The original pronunciation performance strongly contrasts with the notions of precise and polished delivery created by John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and their colleagues from the 20th century British theater.” Meier said audiences will hear word play and rhymes that “haven’t worked for several hundred years (love/prove, eyes/qualities, etc.) magically restored, as Bottom, Puck and company wind the language clock back to 1595.”

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Yes in few hundred years certain accents won out. In Bills time they spoke closer to an Ohioian accent. Very unlike UK today
 
You know what was a pretty good reboot? The Magnificent Seven. Of course, by making it a completely different setting from Seven Samurai and not trying to claim that it was part of some "Seven Samurai" franchise they avoid a lot of the issues we have in this thread.
 
Supposedly the recently released Heat is a better remake than the 1986 Burt Reynolds film. Though I've not seen the new one.
 
faethor said:
Supposedly the recently released Heat is a better remake than the 1986 Burt Reynolds film. Though I've not seen the new one.
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I liked the new one. Good film.
 
I have to admit that one film I did watch recently that surprised me was the remake of "Straw Dogs". (Judge me all you want, we're all going to die, I intend to deserve it!:p)

I'd been told by some friends that it was better than the original, which to my mind had only *that scene* to justify its existence - the rest was really poor acting, worse script and a truly disjointed feel to the story as a whole.

The new one however was very surprising - same basic premise, only this time set in the deep south, with a cast that worked, a script that actually drew you in, characters that were much better fleshed out. But most important was that the whole story worked - the infamous scene seemed like a natural progression for the characters involved rather than a cheap excuse for the director to make the leading lady get her baps out like the first one. The finale too had a much better buildup with both the victim and assailant fitted into the story much more effectively.

Not a film for the faint hearted by any measure, but a long way from the one trick video nasty that preceded it.

About the only remake I haven't seen yet is the new Evil Dead one, though I'm not looking forward to that one as much as the same friends who recommended Straw Dogs have not been kind about it.

I did miss Terrance Stamp chewing through the scenery in Man Of Steel though...

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J. Michael Straczynski will take on Terminator for Dark Horse Comics -- This good author makes the restart of the comic interesting. Especially before the remake coming out in 2015.
 
It has been brought to my attention that Hollywood continues to deliver the wood with a PG-13 Robocop remake.

As Total Film has reported on Twitter, the exact quote from those behind the movie is "we're shooting this movie to be seen by as wide an audience as possible, which means PG-13".
We'll let that sink in for a minute.
Does PG-13 actually mean the widest audience? Does it guarantee box office success? Heck, feel free to recall your fond memories of the PG-13 Total Recall remake right about now.
As we hear more on RoboCop, we'll let you know. Surely, though, the extreme violence of the first film was a crucial part of the point that the film was making? A PG-13 RoboCop simply brings back unwelcome memories of RoboCop 3...
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The madness must end!!! :mad::madashell::mad::madashell::madashell::mad:

Can't we put those antiquated state sodomy laws to good use for once?!??!? :mad:
 
redrumloa said:
It has been brought to my attention that Hollywood continues to deliver the wood with a PG-13 Robocop remake.


The madness must end!!! :mad::madashell::mad::madashell::madashell::mad:

Can't we put those antiquated state sodomy laws to good use for once?!??!? :mad:
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Hah!

I absolutely agree with the main thrust of the article too, they pulled the same with Wolverine - instead of the nigh unstoppable death machine he should have been, he was more or less reduced to the punching bag he was in the 90s cartoon series. This need to be more inclusive simply doesn't work - it just waters down the experience for everyone.

But pg-13 Robocop? Come ON!
 
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