Titus

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:49 am

I just finished watching this and I'm just blown away. I wasn't familiar with this play, but it just trumps any of Shakespeare's other tragedies in terms of brutality and agony. Not only is the source material obviously incredible, but the direction is so bizarre and stylistic, but somehow manages to craft something really original and somehow meaningful in spite of threatening to be a hodgepodge of time periods and genre influences. There's even a scene where for some reason in roman times, a travelling squad of soldiers are wiedling modern-day combat shotguns. There are people driving cars straight from the 50s. Giant jazzy orgies, etc. But I bought it all for some reason. Oh, and Anthony Hopkins is (duh) amazing.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:39 am

hmm, brutality is right. i saw this one in the theater with a friend of mine, and it was good - but i totally don't want to see it again. i get the feeling it's more to your taste than mine

anthony hopkins was really great in this - he had the right blend of emotion for this character, i think.
you can see why, i think, it's not a popular play of shakespeare's, though.
-bill

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:27 am

Absolutely, I mean it's really deeply disturbing in a way Shakespeare rarely ever touched upon.

Ikari · Post by **Ikari** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:25 pm

I haven't seen this movie in a long time but it may be one of my favorite Shakespeare movies. A lot of them are pretty bad, haha.

Was that Allan Cummings in it? (Can't remember.) If it was I think that's the role that got me interested in his acting.

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:45 pm

titus is deffinately my favorite