I love watching "O" in class! I'd never seen it before but I am really excited i get to finally watch it. I think a few reasons Shakespeare is universal is becasue the topics of his plays are still around today. His plays revolve around love, death, marriage, jealousy, infidelity, and soo many other issues that we still deal with on a day to day basis. I love that "O" uses modern language. I think it is way to hard to use all of Shakespeares verse in movies that supposed to be present tense, because we don't talk the same way and its very hard for audiences to understand whats going on.
In Michael Almereyda's version of Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke, they set the movie in modern times yet they use all of Shakespeares original verse. I think it very hard to follow and super confusing. If I want to hear Shakespeares original verses I would like the play or movie to be set in the same period as the words. One of the worst things is to sit in a movie theatre watching something you don't understand. I really like the way "O" was written (the script) because it takes modern high school problems and relates them to the same problems in Shakespeare. Iam really glad we get the opportunity to watch this film in class.
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