Wednesday, 7 May 2014

4 Shakespeare plays on screen (by Andrea Sánchez and Ma.Laura Straface)

The rationale behind our digital poster is to prove that Shakespeare is still contemporary. He is alive in popular culture even nowadays. So as to show this idea, we’ve decided to work with different films.
We’ve chosen 4 plays and we’ve concentrated on different movie scenes related to each play. We’ve also added some modern movie scenes that have been inspired by Shakespeare. Overall, it seems to us that Shakespeare’s themes will never be outdated that’s why we can still find so many modern movies that include  Shakespeare’s themes, plots, dialogues, etc. 
It’s also worth mentioning that in the case of Hamlet, we have chosen different relevant scenes from each film version and we’ve joined them together into one single video in order to show a clear comparison among them. 


If you want to watch the videos just click on the link below the image. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the poster and change to HTML5 view (videos load faster in this way)

5 comments:

  1. Very interesting girls! It's amazing to see there are plenty of options for modern viewers when it comes to Shakespeare. :)

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  2. Girls your presentation was really interesting, but also entertaining. Sometimes we tend to associate Shakespeare only to pen and paper, and it was great to see him on screen. Besides we could appreciate different versions; even alternative endings as the one with Schwarzenegger (which for me was really funny). I loved the fact that the presentation contained a great variety of film genres since it allowed me to see Shakespeare from a different perspective. It caters for all tastes!

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  3. Thank you so very much girls!! :)

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  4. Very professional work in the design of the poster and the oral presentation. We all learned a great deal about adaptations and new film versions

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  5. I really loved your presentation! It's was very entertaining. It was great to see Shakespeare everywhere, from films to tv programmes. I got so much fun watching some of the scenes you included here. I'm sure he will never be outdated.

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