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"It’s not definite yet, but it looks like Oscar-nominated actor/director Kenneth Branagh will be taking the helm of Marvel Studios’ comic book adaptation Thor. Most young moviegoers know Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart (from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), but he’s otherwise better known for primarily directing films of Shakespeare’s works. He also tends to cast mostly trained Shakespearean actors, although he has been known to include an Alicia Silverstone or a Matthew Lillard in his ensembles. Additionally, he’s been known for odd casting choices, such as Robert De Niro for the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Who will he cast this time in the Asgardian ensemble that will make up the film? It might not actually be totally up to him, but if it is, it might look a little like this: Kenneth Branagh as Thor/Donald Blake I know what you’re thinking. He’s old. But he’s only five years older than
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"2 Days in Paris (2007)—Could Judy Delpy (writer and director) learn anything from an old dead white guy, William Shakespeare? Lets compare the opening of 2 Days in Paris with one of William Shakespeare’s lesser plays (it was not even printed in his life time), a love story and comedy called As You Like It. The first day in Paris opens with Jack and Marion, a “couple,” catching a cab. The line up is long. Jack tells a huge group of fellow Americans how to get to the Louvre, so they leave the line, but he has misdirected them so that he can get to the front of the cab line. Marion finds this endearing. Arriving at the house, Jack, a New York interior designer, meets Marion’s flamboyant French mother, and he sort of helps Marion "
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"Shakespeare’s throw-away title, As You Like It, and the play’s classification as a comedy, led me to think that the play would be, well, funny. When I read the play before seeing the movie, I realized that the play has a fair amount of dark material—a brother who overthrows and banishes his older brother, and an elder brother who attempt to burn his little brother to death. I also realized that the play jumps around a great deal—back and forth between the court and the forest of Arden, and among many different couples all of whom eventually wed, of course. Although I admire most of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare work, with As You Like It (2006), he decides as director to emphasize the serious side of the play. This does not work because the play is, when all is said and done, a comedy. One actress, Romola Garai (Vanity Fair, Atonement) stands out by playing her character with broad, comedic strokes—an enth "
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