Most of the words are Shakespeare and the names are the same. This is Derek Jarman's rewrite. Then we go downhill from there. Most of the people have gratuitous birthday suit scenes; Toyah Willcox gets to show off what her 21-year-old accouterments looked like at the time.
There is an immediately recognizable actor; Peter Bull who played the Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Elisabeth Welch sings "Stormy Weather" - I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of that?
Even though this is supposed to be a primitive island that Prospero was just dumped on, the house even if old is too Gothic. The environment just does not fit the play in any age or place or fantasy.
I do not believe there is a version of this movie floating around out there that has "Closed Caption."
Still this needs to be added to your collection.
You may find a few of your favorite lines missing in this version.
There is an immediately recognizable actor; Peter Bull who played the Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Elisabeth Welch sings "Stormy Weather" - I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of that?
Even though this is supposed to be a primitive island that Prospero was just dumped on, the house even if old is too Gothic. The environment just does not fit the play in any age or place or fantasy.
I do not believe there is a version of this movie floating around out there that has "Closed Caption."
Still this needs to be added to your collection.
You may find a few of your favorite lines missing in this version.