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In Reply to: What are your favourit WS films? posted by patrickU on June 3, 2005 at 08:32:07:

Burgundian blur?
Any Shakespeare Olivier did was superb, from Richard to Hamlet and anything in between.
That little English fellow married to Emma Thompson (at one time), Branaugh, was too wimpish.
Olivier looked like a Prince, and the lisp only added to the mystique...(maybe the reason things didn't work out w/Ophelia was that he was gay---Shakespeare was, anyway.).

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Re: Jesus, have you forgotten the names in your - patrickU 02:33:07 06/05/05 (0)
Not at all!
It was more a question for people who knew I was thinkink and talking about.
And guess what?
You also find out....
PS: WS gay? That is not so certain as you would let us believe it. I may be more for " bi-sexual ".
He was way too old - Victor Khomenko 13:48:06 06/03/05 (1)
Fine acting, but the age definitely kills the effect - he was 41 already.
That is the curse of Hamlet - a bunch of good geriatric performances!
Branaugh is whimpy indeed.
- A subject of some considerable controversy, Victor - Auricle 09:06:43 06/09/05 (0)
  If Hamlet was a youth, then much can be readily understood. But some scholars believe Hamlet was much older (though 30 something, not 40 something) and either certifiable or bent on power and revenge. There are textual hints in play they claim supports their hypothesis.
  As for "Larry". Lord Olivier was always far more impressive on stage than on film, at least to me. As was Burton, for that matter. Burton did come to learn "screen" acting, though. And there are moments in Becket and Spy Who Came in from the Cold which are excellent, indeed. Of course, the former was originally a play and the latter a very intllecualised spy thriller.
  But, to me, Olivier never got the subtlties of acting on screen. Even when he aged and depended on film for money to fight his cancer he played overdrawn villians (often Nazis in hiding). He was an actor so thoroughly steeped in the projection required for the theatre that film was very difficult for him. His technique and tricks became obvious (blatantly obvious in Spartacus for example). Nevertheless, even in film, I have seen (and still see) far worse. His stage performances were absolutely electric, even at the Old Vic in his later years.
  In fact, when I think that Richardson, Gielgud, Olivier, Burton, Scolfield, Judith Anderson, Joan Plowright, Helen Hayes, et al and even John Thaw and Jeremy Brett are lost to us on stage and that all we get now are movie actors with microphones; well, I am stunned at what has dissappeared.
He was way too old - Victor Khomenko 13:40:40 06/03/05 (0)
Fine acting, but the age definitely kills the effect - he was 41 already.
That is the curse of Hamlet - a bunch of good geriatric performances!
Branaugh is whimpy indeed.

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