The Mystery Scene Game

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

Yep, Eternal Sunshine is correct.

Originally Posted by Gallifrey
It's the movie Titus, an utterly fantastic adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus by Julie Taymor.
The scene depicted in my screenshot is of Aaron the Moore being interrogated by a fellow named Lucius. Aaron, for his part, offers up a wonderful rundown of his evil deeds.
Good movie, highly recommended. The setting is a real mix of styles, but imagine Fellini doing Mad Max and you'd have a decent impression of what to expect visually.

I thought I recognized this.

Horrible, horrible movie based on Shakespeare's worst play. Not recommended. Its completely tasteless. Will is trying too hard to be clever but it just comes out as banal.

Originally Posted by Lucky Day
Horrible, horrible movie based on Shakespeare's worst play. Not recommended. Its completely tasteless. Will is trying too hard to be clever but it just comes out as banal.

Pffft.

The tired critiques of Titus Andronicus being Shakespeare's worst play and so forth are past their time, just as the stuffy arrogance that many academics once possessed in claiming that Titus was not even a Shakespeare play.
In Titus, we have so many seeds of things to come, there are clear foreshadowings to King Lear and Richard III at the very least, and, you must consider, that Titus was written before Shakespeare was a known commodity. He very much follows the then-popular traditions of Webster and Kidd with the sort of "shock horror" that was popular at the time in the theatres.

As for Julie Taymor's film, I think it was a resounding success. Not only did she utterly capture the madness and paranoia of the story, she captured the excessiveness and the absurd to the finest detail. The play is over the top, and so is the movie, but the play is also emotionally brutal, and as such so is the movie. It's a black comedy, ultimately, by modern standards.

I'd go on but I suspect no one cares

Actually, most scholars seem to consider A Winter's Tale to be the Bards worst!! And Gall, as a Shakespearean afficianado,(sp?) I'd care!!

Originally Posted by Corwin
as a Shakespearean afficianado,(sp?) I'd care!!

Hehe.. good enough for me!

I quite like The Winter's Tale, but it's been often considered a "problem play" though only for the sake of categorization. It moves from a rather dark psychological drama into a rather light pastoral comedy, so it generally defies the popular labels of Tragedy, Comedy or History. It also has some rather strange characterisations, mainly in King Leontes, and much speculation has been made over his mental state. Usually Shakespeare's characters are more realistic than what we see with Leontes, who while fairly intricate, suddenly snaps for no apparent reason other than to further the plot. And that isn't exactly something we usually see in Shakespeare.
The RSC film version with Anthony Sher is quite good.

Originally Posted by Gallifrey
Pffft.

As for Julie Taymor's film, I think it was a resounding success. Not only did she utterly capture the madness and paranoia of the story, she captured the excessiveness and the absurd to the finest detail. The play is over the top, and so is the movie, but the play is also emotionally brutal, and as such so is the movie. It's a black comedy, ultimately, by modern standards.

I'd go on but I suspect no one cares

Not at all. I've only started to read Shakespeare myself, but you have certainly peaked my interest here.

I just started reading Julius Caesar, so I think I'll give Titus a read once I'm finished with this one.

Julius Caesar is one of my absolute favourites. It tells a great story, takes place in a very interesting time, and as far as Shakespeare's historical accuracy goes, it's reasonably on the mark for being filtered through Elizabethan sensibilities.

Titus Andronicus is, while in an ostensibly similar period, pure fiction. Shakespeare borrows bits and pieces from historical tales and whatnot (Ovid in particular), but essentially it's a revenge tragedy, popular at the time.
Titus isn't generally included amongst the Roman plays, those being Julius Caesar, Antony And Cleopatra and Coriolanus. Antony And Cleopatra is, in the timeline, something of a sequel to Julius Caesar. Titus is a far more entertaining read, though!

how about like posting the next shot or something

I just posted one, somebody else can have a turn! The guesser of the last scene does not need to be the next image poster

Originally Posted by Gallifrey
I just posted one, somebody else can have a turn! The guesser of the last scene does not need to be the next image poster

Yep. Just so. Feel free to post a shot if there isn't one already up. It helps keep the thread from stagnating and maintains a nice variety of genres if we have more players.

I expect Mr. Corwin will be all over this one.
Mystery Scene #34

The Green Mile ?

well since Corwin will most likely be asleep for quite some time i'll chime in. the movie is "The Green Mile" though it is in my personal 10 ten least favourite movies of all time. for me the religious undertones and justice/vengeance in the movie didn't sit well with me at the time. but who knows now…i'm still not an eye for an eye type of guy though.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDre…EN_MILE-12.jpg

found the pic on google

I had my class riveted on Youtube with Julius Caesar. We were looking for movie clips of ancient Rome for the NWN mod we were making and I stumbled on it. Most of the Marlon Brando version is there between James Mason's and Brando's speech they sat there enthralled.

Originally Posted by Lucky Day
found the pic on google

That's where I found it, too, what a small world!

Yes, that's The Green Mile. I like the film, I can look past elements that I don't interpret the same way as Paul Edgecomb. Paul was a man of faith and did his best to understand miracles within his own sphere of belief. In fact, most of the message of faith is presented in Paul's narrative rather than established in canon. All we, the viewer, can know is that John is very special and Paul believes those gifts are of divine origin. That Paul assumes the role of Cartophilus in the modern age only serves to strengthen those beliefs.

I tend to like most stories, whether or not they fit neatly into my world view. I tend to just go with it unless the story comes across as an attack on me directly, i.e. "you're not like me therefore you're less", and so forth.

there were just too many cards stacked against the movie for me to like it. i'm anti-disney so the mouse part although cute added to my 'end feeling' after watching the movie. i love movies with different views than mine. this movie had vengeance and suffering/torture in it which regardless of what kind of movie it is horror or not usually leaves me with a hollowed out feeling which in this movies case countered any magical and uplifting feelings it gave me. also while i use to be a fan of stephen king, read 6 or so of his books as a kid and countless movies, i'm kind of turned off by anything he does even though i respect his unquestionable talent. i just don't share his tastes.

Mystery Scene #35

das boot perhaps?

Yes - the best film of Wolfgang Petersen IMO.

i've only seen it once but it was excellent. probably my fave as well, though i never saw perfect storm or the poseidon remake which now interests me a bit more since he directed it.