Quite peculiar indeed!!! I can't judge. I occasionally get teary-eyed from television commercials.

Must be because I read the play during the days before as well as studied it some time ago that it really struck me, or the actor was that good!
Heh, you can! But now I don't think I'll be able to make fun of a friend who cried to a show called "24". =P

teary eyed from commercials huh? must be all that coffee you are guzzling down. It really messes with the mind lol.

It's those Maxwell House commercials. The "Good till the last drop" gets me every time. How can there possibly be a last drop of coffee D: So sad.

Shakespeare is not dated. Had a safe flight? Well, it seems you survived at least!

Well, if this play took place in California and the war between Britain and France was actually between California and... Umm, some other place, and the battlefield was in a certain place, you'd cry too!
The flight was safe, and as you can see I'm alive and typing.

A war between Southern California and Northern California! Those SoCal jerks are so smug!!

Ha! Inner conflict? I guess that Regan (of the north) could go against Gonerill (of the south) in a slightly edited version of the play (instead of fighting France... or Canada in this case).

Of course I'd cry, it barely takes anything to make me cry - who says I wouldn't without the change. But Califurnia makes it easier when included, yes. :D

Then you must watch this version of the play, it's great!

Really? Is it really that good? Hmmm!

Well, if you don't like Shakespeare that much it's not going to change your mind, but if you do then it's wonderful!

It is just that when people make a Shakespeare play they only really approach one side - perhaps the're a few exceptions, but I haven't seen them and King Lear unfortunatly gets frequently assaulted. Poor King. So it is very hard for me to find them worth my time even if they're done pretty well.

Well, you can't go wrong with the Royal Shakespeare Company!
I once saw Macbeth, a version sponsored by playboy, which actually was insanely serious and well done, some of the best acting I saw in Shakespeare! I can assure you it's good because I saw it when I was seven and loved it.

I don't have to worry about going to the cinema with you then!
I don't think that they have Shakespeare plays in the repertoire that they usually show.

I thought you liked sensitive men! D:
Or maybe I like them, I really don't know any-more!
They do! Surely, and we must go watch a screening when we can... or perhaps an actual play! In a theatre!!! :D :D

No, that's you! =P
Yay! Now we can cry together while watching something no-one cries to... and people will look at us rather than the actors. ^^

Don't worry--trying to decipher and understand Shakespeare makes me want to cry, too.

But I cried because I could understand and felt sympathy for Lear! D:
That's the scary part, if it had been the other then I wouldn't worry at all! =P

God that's a flash back. It's amazing how well he was in this, considering the bulk of his star power was decades earlier.

Well, I always believe that artists (and actors are artists too!) can only get better with time!
Perhaps he wasn't as famous, but he certainly still dominated the stage (or screen in this case) here! He's absolutely amazing.

that's the wonderful thing about Shakespeare - he is never out dated. A cry over such things is a good thing.

*hugs...

V.

Aye, very true!
Thanks, heh, I think that now I'll have to watch as much as I can! Perhaps Hamlet will have the same effect. =P

I would suggest Mel Gibson's 'Hamlet', and then a movie called 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead' which is very good and gives a view of Hamlet from a different prospective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SVVKuOr0c

V.

Ooh! Nice, I think I'd rather try and get the DVD than watch it on youtube. I'll tell you what I think about it when I manage!
Argh... in five minutes I'll be going to play in a concert... It's going to be fun, though I'm always a bit nervous. Today it's going to be Gershwin! With 'An American in Paris' and 'Rhapsody in Blue' as the main pieces (solo piano reductions, of course!).
Thanks for the reccomendations, and hey, what do you think of Polanski's Macbeth?

how I wish I could watch... good luck - break a leg or whatever you musicians say...

actually the youtube movie is not so bad...

V.

Thanks! I usually say nothing, but I guess that break a leg is what most say, and what I say to others!

Oh, I'm sure it isn't, it's just a matter of principle! Plus I'm going in some fairly big cities, so I'm sure the video stores will have something. =D

Outdated? I don't know about that.

Shakespeare is relevant because even if we're not hapless kings or star-crossed lovers or Roman senators, the emotions and actions are all very real.

Shakespeare was probably the first playwright to put so much passion into his work; if the parts are played by competent actors, you can really feel the loss, love, desire, betrayal, helplessness, and anything else the characters go through.

I saw a video of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth (from 1977, I think, starring the amazing Ian McKellan and Judy Dench). From the start, it gives you an uneasy feeling and by the end of it, you really feel Macbeth's helplessness at having gotten in too deep and having no choice but to push on into certain doom. If that doesn't leave a pit in someone's stomach, they should have their pulse checked.

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Here here!
I don't think it's outdated at all, in fact I rather enjoy reading or watching Shakespeare quite a bit!
I mean, I'm not too serious about it because when Cornwall says "A saucy roughness" in Act two, scene two... well, I giggled quite a bit there!

Oh! I have not seen that one, I think I ought to!
Yes, I know! I mean the language is a bit formal, but it's extremely powerful! I guess it's partly because it's one of the plays I studied, so I got it more, but still, you're absolutely right!

I'm with Vixyy here, and likely yourself as well.

Stories, poems, and songs are immortal. They live forever. So long as there is someone to read and someone to hear, there will always be someone to cry at the sad parts, and laugh at the funny parts ^^. The emotion never goes away (Unless there's a particularly bad actor, of course -.-)

Exactly!
Or a bad musician! =P
With all this early stuff the emotions were very silver-lined, not obvious like they are now! A bit more real, to say (in music anyway, you didn't have pure despair or pure happiness, you only had a touch!), that's in music more than plays but anyway!

Yes, quite true!
I was fishing for insults, but I guess that my plan didn't work out... D:
Ah, that wonderful composition, I've once heard a performance where (I think) the lowest two voices were being played by sackbuts, it was absolutely beautiful!

Hey don't feel bad/embarrassed about that. Back when I used to watch Pokemon a lot I was overly emotional due to some weird meds I was taking at the time and there was this Larvitar episode that made me cry because it was "so beautiful". One of the Bleeding Gums Murphy Simpsons episodes had the same effect on me only that one was sad.

I don't feel embarrassed; I just found it funny! =P
Ah, yes, now I would be embarrassed if I cried to Pokemon! Maybe not the Simpson, because that episode did leave a pit in my stomach as well. At least here I can say, "I'm so posh that I can cry to Shakespeare" *sniffs his finger and adjusts his monocle in a very posh way*.

Yes! For All Hallows' eve!

'The Last Samurai', you say? I cannot shed tears to such high budget films! I need very fake emotions that affect the mind rather than soul to make me cry! I am a synthetic man, with synthetic feelings, not human, but an unnatural abomination of all that is good!

No they don't, they give you candy and ask you about your father.

now if they would only translate it back into the original klingon.

Or perhaps find the original Klingon (I mean, if it existed why create a new one?)... and oh my! The dictionary thing that checks my spelling actually knew the word 'Klingon' and told me I should capitalize it! What is the world coming to!? D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRMGYQfXrs

Pure genius! But wait... Klingons have a word for love?

yes

But aren't they a war-loving nation... A people of hate, terror, fear and disdain?

no, honor is the core of their values.

Oh, I'm not too apt with 'Star Trek'! Sorry... =P
But that video was great! =D

theres soo much that gets lost in the english translation. for instance in Hamlet, when he says something like "I cannot kill ophelia while she is in prayer" is not quite as signifigamt as the klingon version "I cannot kill her while she practices martial arts." therein being yet another tragic joke against honor in the play.

Ha! This made my day~

In Northfield Minnesota, theres a greek family that runs a number of pizza shops. A father and his 3 sons I think, with the father owning all of the shops and his sons running the businesses while competing with eachother professionaly.

Boy, that father must be a greedy fellow! But I bet that's actually excellent for business as long as no-one know of this scheme~ Clever sod!