Thursday, December 6, 2007

Shakespeare in the Movies

There was a comment left on this blog recently that says this. Did anyone see the announcement that the BBC will be filming all of Shakespeare's plays (again)? So I went looking and found two interesting articles about Shakepeare in the Movies.

One is that the above comment is correct. The BBC is indeed planning to film new versions of all 37 plays - again.

The other item of news I found is that The Merchant of Venice has been available as a movie (since 2002) filmed by Maoris, starring Maoris and spoken in the Maori language. Maori is the second official language of New Zealand - my country of origin. Although I dont speak it at all.
Tahi Rua Toru Wha. (1-2-3-4)

But there's no need to worry that you wont understand it. It has been subtitled for English, Spanish and Italian audiences. (How interesting that it has not been subtitled in French).

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