You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I wonder if part of the King James Bible's continuing popularity is that it's written in Elizabethan era English, and because of Shakespeare the average person thinks that sounds more poetic.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
there's no way Disney isn't doing this on purpose now
but i think it is genuinely written in more poetic language than some subsequent translations that prioritize accessibility or fidelity to the Hebrew/Greek
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Even though I'm not sure the UK, being a place on Earth, even exists in the same universe as Centralia
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The comedies aren't generally grim or depressing, no (Measure for Measure is pretty dark though), but in my experience in school they always make you suffer through the tragedies, because literature class is only about depressing books! :p
(This isn't entirely true, we did read The Winter's Tale which has a happy ending, but that was only after Macbeth, Othello and R&J)
Anyway, i'm not saying Shakespeare never wrote happy stuff, just that it's weird to me that anyone would get the impression his plays are all light and fluffy when they presumably had to read Shakespearean tragedy for school.
And Titus Andronicus is kind of a campy gore-fest. Fun on those terms but definitely not one of his stronger plays imo.
I thought the DiCaprio R+J was bad but knowing that it's actually a very accurate adaptation makes it all the more interesting now.
It's not really? The dialogue is edited, whole chunks of it are taken out of context and repurposed (most glaringly, making the Queen Mab speech about drugs), and also some of the delivery is really bad.
FWIW i liked that movie, but it's definitely not a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's script.
I thought the DiCaprio R+J was bad but knowing that it's actually a very accurate adaptation makes it all the more interesting now.
It's not really? The dialogue is edited, whole chunks of it are taken out of context and repurposed (most glaringly, making the Queen Mab speech about drugs), and also some of the delivery is really bad.
FWIW i liked that movie, but it's definitely not a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's script.
Brows Held High had a bit on it saying that it was actually pretty good at adapting the play, but since Blip is shutting down I can't really get the link.
Roland Emmerich made a Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare movie.
I wonder if people will do this with artists today.
For instance, the movie Independence Day is all about America, and other cultures are shown only as broad stereotypes looking on in the distance. The author must have been an American by birth.
Two central characters either are, or were, fighter pilots, so the author must have been in the air force at some point.
The highest levels of government are shown, therefore the author must have had personal knowledge of such things, even being part of the Executive branch himself.
Therefore, the true creator of Independence Day could only have been one man
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I finally got Ruby working enough to update @avenue_ebook's database to make her sound even more like me
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but i think it is genuinely written in more poetic language than some subsequent translations that prioritize accessibility or fidelity to the Hebrew/Greek
Except they're not.
i mean we all read them in schools, if you studied Macbeth or Hamlet or Romeo & Juliet you know they end in tears
Because a three day courtship between a 13 year old and a 17 year old that ends in six deaths is sooo perfect~
yes & yes
The comedies aren't generally grim or depressing, no (Measure for Measure is pretty dark though), but in my experience in school they always make you suffer through the tragedies, because literature class is only about depressing books! :p
(This isn't entirely true, we did read The Winter's Tale which has a happy ending, but that was only after Macbeth, Othello and R&J)
Anyway, i'm not saying Shakespeare never wrote happy stuff, just that it's weird to me that anyone would get the impression his plays are all light and fluffy when they presumably had to read Shakespearean tragedy for school.
And Titus Andronicus is kind of a campy gore-fest. Fun on those terms but definitely not one of his stronger plays imo.
Hell of a weird movie, but really good as a result.
FWIW i liked that movie, but it's definitely not a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's script.