Those who read Shakespeare and see a movie do you prefer the movie made in the

You cannot update event successfully. I do not like Shakespeares's plays being put in modern times. The only way they do it is to make it into a gang setting and that is not right.

I find that the situations have changed. LIke Romeo and Juliet was about two houses feuding, not about two social groups.

Exactly. They need to make it more realsitic in the time era it happened in. I don't like alot of the modern movies or plays either. It sways away from the actual comtent to a more modern setting.

That is what I believe. The play was written for a certain period of time, and Shaekespeare knew that.

Yea, some time back - ok in the 70s it was all the big talk when they re-made Romeo & Juliet most young people, my era at that time, loved the new version but not me - it just did not seem like the same story.

I think that Romeo and Juliet were teenagers, well they acted that way, the angst and everything, but I doubt teenagers can really play the part unless they were brought up in the theater.

I heard that Shakespeare when he wrote a play it was about an actual historical event and it was intended for that period.

I saw the modern version not the old one, and I thought is was good movie. But I do have to check out the original. Must have been really good.

The "Yours, Mine, and Ours' original was much better. It was based on a true story about an admiral with a large family who married a Navy Nurse with a large family and they were their own birth children. It showed how two families became one. There was no message 'OH how nice it was that these couples were so nice to give the poor orphans or mixed race children homes" bit. Also Lucille Ball insisted in the original that there be no profanity and it was to be family oriented. That was rare in those days the late 1960s.

That is for sure. Even the old 1940 movies are changed when you put it in modern settings. And even the later 1960 ones. In the latest version of "Yours, Mine, and Ours" they adopted most of the kids which was different from the original where a widower with his own children married a widow with her own as if the recent version is the only way to make a large family acceptable to our modern society is for most of them to be adopted children, preferably of different ethnic backgrounds.

That is how Shakespeare wrote his plays, about situations imagined or otherwise that happened in the past. True there are some modern movies that can be based on Shakespeare's plays and they work, but that is because they take the idea and do not make Julius Caser as a type of Bill Gates, for example. They take the idea of selfish ambition, love and hate, jealousy, etc. But when you update a play keep the characters's names but change the scene to New York City and make them business people instead of lords and ladies, it looses the impact.

That is what I feel.

It spoils it if they adapt it to modern times. You lose the whole reason for the play.

I like the play to be in its own historical period, I found that adaption, although good, are not as good as the original.

I want it to be historical correct, even if I rent it from Blockbusters.

I like to see a movie, I am not that good on reading. I really loved Julius Caesar, they brought the movie into our school because it was in our literary class and I believe it was also on CBC.