Shakespeare Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Movie review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

After having been shot in 1998, the British romantic tragicomedy Shakespeare in Love won not only popular affections but also seven Oscars. Being a fiction, the film showed the true love between William Shakespeare and Viola de Lesseps. The lines, characters and plot perfectly depict the times of Queen Elizabeth.

It is London, 1593. William Shakespeare is a young and talented writer who, unfortunately, undergoes a protracted crisis because of losing his inspiration. So, he is in need of a muse. He is like a lone wolf looking for new feelings and impressions.
He was asked to ...

Richard III written by William Shakespeare was a play based on the historical English king named Richard, the Third. Although the film was given with a modern twist by setting the plot in the 1930 post-war Britain. Richard Loncraine’s film was a daring attempt and inventive; instead of creating a story wherein all the characters moves in a medieval setting, the film was placed in a modernized era. Fancy cars, beautiful costumes depicting the 1930’s fashion, historical places and excellent acting made by the actors are the few reasons for the films excellent remark. Set in an era when England became a Fascist state, ...

Film Studies

1.Yojimbo (1961) and Jidaigeki (Period Drama)
Yojimbo is one of my absolute favorite Kurosawa films; I’m just so impressed by its incredible energy and pep. Toshiro Mifune seems to have a tremendous amount of fun as the ronin who marches into town and quickly ends up solving its problems. He is literally the archetype for Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name, and Yojimbo lends itself well to the Western format. In the space of a few minutes, we are told the stakes of the town, the different factions in it, and Sanjuro chooses to take down both sides ...

Rome and Juliet (1968)

Introduction

This is a British- Italian romance play that is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet tragic play. It was directed and also co-written by Franco Zeffirelli. The movie is starred by Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting who act as Juliet and Romeo respectively. After carefully watching the movie, it is undoubtedly that it is a friendly, sensitive, and lovely play. Generally, the performance is classic since all the characters act as if they were the original characters in the original play.
In its classic speeches, any viewer will in fact start to worry about ...

- The 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love” directed by John Madden uses elements from the scenery to enhance the viewer’s understanding of the plot. One scene in particularly is the opening scene within the theater. The theater setting indicates that the viewer is looking within the inner workings of the theater to understand Shakespeare’s life. The bustling environment, stage props, and beauty of the theater itself give a glimpse into his life and inspirations.
- The costumes within this film indicate the time period which is Elizabethan England. One instance in where the costumes are particularly of ...

Movie Review-Hamlet, with Mel Gibson

Juliet, Othello, Taming of the Shrew), the authenticity of the setting is most crucial for

capturing and engaging the audience’s attention for the entirety of the play. Zeffirelli has

chosen a twelfth-century Welsh castle to be the setting of the Royal Castle of Elsinor in

Denmark. Its ramparts, round towers, dark hallways and twisting stairs are the imagery

needed to uncover King Hamlet’s murder and to weave Hamlet’s elaborate plan to exact

his full revenge upon those responsible.

Shakespeare plays are not meant to be read silently but to be performed, with the

flow of the language, ...

The tragic story of Hamlet

Hamlet is one of the most popular yet defining plays written by Shakespeare. This masterpiece is a tragedy that makes the human mind contemplate about the problems life throws at us .Hamlet makes one question the nature of man and the good versus evil. (Willbern 8)The play focuses of how the characters deal with different dilemmas that they are faced with; it reveals the various character traits of the human nature. These traits bring out different emotions such love hatred, anger grief and despair.

Characters in the play

Hamlet

Hamlet, who is the main character in the play, is the prince of Denmark. ...

Both Hamlet and King Arthur represents strong and determined personalities of their era. These personalities are well defined as heroes as they led their people towards greatest achievements. King Arthur marked the victory in sixth century of Britain against Saxons and has been looked upon as best leaders in history. Arthur has been a visionary and the changes introduced by him during his rule set the theme for the novel. As a child also, Arthur was honest, determined, modest and good at heart. Arthur has displayed a fair sense of judgment in his decisions and is contrary to the impulsiveness of character exhibited ...

Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989)
Leadership Qualities In Henry V (1989)
Film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays have been made ever since the filmmakers, Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the Autochrome color photography process. However, Henry V (1989) is perhaps the finest film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, and Kenneth Branagh, who directed the film, wrote the screenplay and starred in it as King Henry V himself, was critically acclaimed around the world because of the film. Since the film after all is adapted from Shakespeare’s play, so like the play it shows Henry ...

Prospero undergoes a metamorphosis in a change of character and how he uses magic. Prospero employs magical enchantments to influence the lives of his enemies. Prospero has a change in character as he seeks vengeance but later renounces his ways in the use of magic. Prospero casts spells on his captors and this is highlighted when he sends a tempest into the sea to seize his enemies. However, Prospero feels pity for his fellow individuals after casting spells upon them to change their emotional states. The spells were meant to inflict punishments on the individuals as they are sent ...

Film Analysis Paper # 1 (Before Sunset)

The meeting of Celine and Jesse has taken place after 9 years, since their romantic walks through Vienna, and they seem to be complete strangers. Each has his own life, he possesses favorite books and the family, where the laughter is not heard; she has a friend, in which she is not sure. They met, complained to each other, remembered last meeting and talked a lot. Both became older, both are passionate about some particular things in life. They do not live in misery and are alive and well. While watching the movie, it is easy to see the ...

[Professor]

Shakespeare’s Richard III, is a play that has betrayal, murder, power struggles, a little wickedness and, finally, evil; not triumphing at the end.
Although there is a movie based upon the play, the play will be best suited performed in a theater. First of all, the movie was not true to the original text of the play, something that has always been preserved in theater when the play was performed in 1930’s.
Another thing that sets RICHARD III in theater apart from the movie version of the play is the fast pace accumulated throughout the play. However, in ...