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Hamlet (again)
Apr. 29th, 2009 06:59 pmI got the BBC collection version out the college library. I saw the box set in the shop I usually buy my Doctor Who stuff from and I was all *ooooh, shiny!* cause lookit, Shakespeare! But it costs a ton, and I didn't know if I'd like them, and the library has.
Hamlet played by Derek Jacobi, Claudius by Patrick Stewart, Ophelia was Lalla Ward, Laertes David Robb. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/527101/
There were other people too, but that's The Master, Captain Picard, Romana, and Kalas, to my fan filing system. Which admittedly is a really specialised set of associations. But I figured it would be good.
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So student me liked watching this one for the contrast, but fan me wants wants wants the David Tennant DVD... or better yet the ability to revisit the theatre experience as if memory were recordable. It isn't though. Fades and alters, can't hardly trust it at all.
Now I don't know if I want to buy the rest of them. Will I rewatch them much? Do I like them? I do keep getting moments where I notice they're not doing TV they're doing theatre with cameras, where the stage just looks all wrong and I wonder why they're not using... lots of things. And yet I can't watch it as I would the stage, the camera keeps deciding things for me and I do not always agree. It feels awkward and in betweeny. I'd probably get used to it, but...
There's also the thing where it might be recorded on a DVD but it looks really less good on my nice big TV.
Wants new versions. With all the best people in.
Possibly leaving out some of the words though. I know Shakespeare writ that ending and I can see the point of it, but I really did prefer the finishing it sooner version.
Right. Now some more theory reading. Which I was trying to do but couldn't keep my attention stuck to the page.
Also today there as dishwasher, cleaner person visit, laundry machine, hanging up laundry, and shopping reception. Been a bit busy. Just doesn't feel like much got done.
Hamlet played by Derek Jacobi, Claudius by Patrick Stewart, Ophelia was Lalla Ward, Laertes David Robb. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/527101/
There were other people too, but that's The Master, Captain Picard, Romana, and Kalas, to my fan filing system. Which admittedly is a really specialised set of associations. But I figured it would be good.
( Read more... )
So student me liked watching this one for the contrast, but fan me wants wants wants the David Tennant DVD... or better yet the ability to revisit the theatre experience as if memory were recordable. It isn't though. Fades and alters, can't hardly trust it at all.
Now I don't know if I want to buy the rest of them. Will I rewatch them much? Do I like them? I do keep getting moments where I notice they're not doing TV they're doing theatre with cameras, where the stage just looks all wrong and I wonder why they're not using... lots of things. And yet I can't watch it as I would the stage, the camera keeps deciding things for me and I do not always agree. It feels awkward and in betweeny. I'd probably get used to it, but...
There's also the thing where it might be recorded on a DVD but it looks really less good on my nice big TV.
Wants new versions. With all the best people in.
Possibly leaving out some of the words though. I know Shakespeare writ that ending and I can see the point of it, but I really did prefer the finishing it sooner version.
Right. Now some more theory reading. Which I was trying to do but couldn't keep my attention stuck to the page.
Also today there as dishwasher, cleaner person visit, laundry machine, hanging up laundry, and shopping reception. Been a bit busy. Just doesn't feel like much got done.