Contest: ENTER TV&Media AV contest: The Bard

[Starkers]

Thanks again to everyone who voted for Joey in the last contest! I've had a think and I can't remember a specifically themed Shakespeare contest (so hopefully at worst it's been a while).

The theme is simple. Any film or TV adaptation of a Shakespeare play, or any film/TV show based in whole or in part upon a Shakespeare play. It can be a parody within a film/TV episode but it must obviously relate to a specific play(or plays) by Stratford Upon Avon's finest.

What isn't allowed: things relating to Shakespeare himself.

So, a version of Romeo and Juliet or a certain film starring Lesley Nielson (not The Naked Gun) that was based on a specific play are acceptable. Shakespeare in Love, or Dr Who's The Shakespeare Code are not!

Hope that makes sense. I'll be aiming to get a poll up around Saturday. Usual rules (200x200 etc) apply.

Oh and please specify the play(s) in question.

 

[auntiehill]

Branagh's Hamlet 1996

 

[Kai "the spy"]

"Forbidden Planet", based on "The Tempest"

 

[Orac]

Another movie of Hamlet released in 1990

 

[Miss Lemon]

Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrman (1996)

 

[Starkers]

Still haven't had the version of Hamlet I expected ;-)

 

[Starkers]

Here's my own entry. Maddie and David do The Taming of the Shrew in Moonlighting!

 

[Avro Arrow]

I learned about Shakespeare the same way I learned about all other classical literature... through The Simpsons!

- Simpsons version of, er, Hamlet. Again.

Still haven't had the version of Hamlet I expected ;-)

Is this the one you were expecting? I was torn between this and the performance in Star Trek's "The Conscience of the King"...

 

[Starkers]

Great entry but that wasn't the one I was expecting

Last call for entries, I'm off to see FF8 this afternoon and when I come home I'll put the poll up

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I think I know which Hamlet you mean, and I'm surprised that one wasn't entered yet, too. And there are some relatively recent Shakespeare adaptations that I'm still waiting to see entered.

 

[Starkers]

Ok that's it, still surprised we didn't get this... Poll up shortly!

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[Avro Arrow]

Great entry but that wasn't the one I was expecting

Ok that's it, still surprised we didn't get this... Poll up shortly!

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OK, well I didn't know that was a thing that existed...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Last Action Hero. I recommend it whole-heartedly.

 

[Starkers]

Is this the one you were expecting? I was torn between this and the performance in Star Trek's "The Conscience of the King"...[/QUOTE]

Last Action Hero. I recommend it whole-heartedly.

An unfairly derided film I feel