A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.
Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão - O Filme, 한여름 밤의 꿈, 仲夏夜之梦
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Odd choice to frame it as a child’s dream, yet make it so playfully sexual. Performances are solid all around.
Bootleg Macaulay Culkin looking kid.
Choices were made
One of my favorite movies ever made. Just a perfect sense of magic that had me smiling the whole time.
I would say this is a pretty good adaptation, even if it didn't age well. Bottom, Peter Quince, and co. were still insufferable as hell (and I suppose they're meant to be), but they were always so in the original text, so I can't blame the movie.
Def interesting
Why was puck—✨
This whole movie is literally just a fever dream. I had to watch this for a class and even after reading the play, I I hardly knew what was happening the entire time. It gets one star for cool costumes.
ass fucker (literally)
All these productions keep edging me with Bottom and Hippolyta( Theseus at NTL) recognising each other at the end. One of these days someone is going to direct a production where they find each other and stay together and when that happens, i’ll be in the front row cheering.
Apparently went to the The Producers (2005) School which specialises in it’s “adapting a successful stage play for the screen but changes nothing so it just looks and is acted really awkwardly and just makes you just wish you were watching a proshot of the actual production that jt was based on” degree. I laughed once or twice. When i say that, i’m not saying it in a pitiful way. I’m…
A weird one! Styled and acted as if it’s meant for kids. It is not meant for kids! Colorful and imaginative. Well acted. Very sexual and not at all sexy.
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List: Shakespeare Adaptations
Also see: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Who is this kid
Very 90s stuff, camp and gayish but in the sophisticated way that doesn't go that well with shakespearean theatre.
Tbh I couldn't care less for the kid, I mean, I guess it is less problematic than casting an Indian child to play a supposed changeling... and I know reminds the watcher that everything might be a dream, but he ruined it for me: each time he was on screen, I got reminded that it was a dream, so quite the opposite of the intended "oh, maybe it was all a fantasy, maybe it was real, maybe it was both at the same time" thought at the end of the movie.
Sadly, the mise en abyme part (before the theatre of…
