B for Bushdetta

[MrBenchley]

Here's why tBogg is the greatest blogger around....

http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/03/b-for-bushdetta-bush-...

[Crankie Avalon]

1. I'm so unhip...what's "Vendetta?" I might understand the blog if I knew.

[rkc3]

2. See V for Vendetta - the new comic book movie.

[MrBenchley]

3. Originally a comic book

now a movie....it's soft-core SM about a masked hero fighting a fascist Britian....

[Crankie Avalon]

4. Is that John Hurt in the film still?

I've always dug that guy in anything I've seen him in. Has he gone from playing Winston Smith in 1984 to playing the Big Brother-type character in this? I might have to check it out!

[MrBenchley]

5. Appears to be....

Apropos of fascist Britain movies, did you ever see the Ian McKellan version of Shakespeare's Richard III?

[Crankie Avalon]

6. No, but funny you should mention it...

...I just bought the DVD of Olivier's famous performance of Richard III and the Ian McKellan one was right there in the bin next to it so I almost got it, too, but decided against it. Should I have picked it up?

[MrBenchley]

7. I'm ALWAYS a sucker for "updated" Shakespeare productions

So yeah, I liked it an awful lot. It's set in the 1930s, and the battle scenes are terrific.

The past few years have seen a number of excellent films of Shakespeare's plays: the Leonardo DiCaprio Romeo & Juliet, set in Miami; Ethan Hawke's Hamlet, set in Manhattan (Bill Murray does a great turn as Polonius); and of course, the Kenneth Branagh films.

[mattclearing]

8. I was totally unaware of that Hamlet.

Sounds excellent just from what you've said.

[MrBenchley]

9. I thought it was....

Here's a pretty good review of it....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examine...

One of my all time favorites was "Much Ado" on CBS in the early 1970s; Sam Waterson as Benedick set in 1890s America.