Recently, Shakespeare researchers Professor Stanley Wells and Dr. Paul Edmondson believe that their latest shocking discovery is that although Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway had been married for 34 years, there is evidence that his 1609 edition of sonnets is written for both female lovers and male lovers. It has aroused heated discussion among netizens.
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No matter how refreshing Shakespeare's love history is, it still can't deny that Shakespeare's value is eternal. Although he did not enter the "eyes" of his contemporaries, he had long been mixed up between the three religions and nine streams. Even with the voluminous scrolls of engraved history left behind, a considerable number of people doubted for nearly two hundred years whether the real author was Sir Francis Bacon.
Shakespeare (left); Bacon (right)
Shakespeare's plays are like a set of templates, as long as your material library is rich enough, no matter in the context of any era, interpreted by any nation, placed in any country and territory, you can put it in. It is even possible to cross species and break dimensional walls.
In later generations, there is a person known as the "movie emperor", and thieves will rub hot spots. On the 420th anniversary of Lao Sha's birth and the 340th anniversary of her death, two heavy "bombs" were thrown.
In 1956, Akira Kurosawa and his Digimon (Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, and Shigeru Chiaki) discovered that there was a large forest on the other side of the mountain and the other side of the sea, but there were no Smurfs. So he borrowed "Macbeth" from Shakespeare's "Four Tragedies" and built a spooky Spider's Nest City.
Looking at this painting style, Xiao Hei moved the background of the story to Japan's "Warring States Era", turning people's hearts into misty forests, the sound of the wind and cranes, the grass and trees are soldiers, a bit like the "midnight bell". But it is one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.
Stills from Spider's Nest City
Did you see the frightened little look in Mifune's eyes? That's not a special effect, because it's a real arrow! Akira Kurosawa took off his white gloves, and his hands were really black! Despite the assurance of a professional archer, there must be ten thousand alpacas flying in the heart of Mifune!
In 1984, "Emperor Kurosawa" was thinking about attacking another big boss in Shakespeare's "Four Tragedies", "King Lear". The background is still the "Warring States Era", but the three daughters of King Lear have been replaced by the three sons of Yiwen Xiuhu.
With the oriental allusion that "only the arrow will break, the three arrows are difficult to break", xiuhu taught the three sons to unite. As a result, the loyal young son broke three arrows on his knee on the spot, and the next direction of the story, do not know, see Shakespeare's "King Lear".
The scene of the last text shows the tiger rebelling and being forced into the palace by his son, just like the oil painting. But you know what? "Emperor Kurosawa" said, "The fire should look good," left a psychological shadow on everyone.
The problem is, everyone is inside the castle! Akira Kurosawa did not burn enough, and specially brought precious wood from Canada, which is said to have burned down three castles. The last shot back one, this time even burned with the shooting, Mifune did not participate in the real wit (alpacas seem to be not enough).
Director Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's plays has changed the country and cultural background, and the times are similar. To the two tragic "kings" is only "hands-on". Then the following director "kicked" the protagonist into the modern street -
Adapted from William Shakespeare, to put on Converse All-Star
Can you guess which play this movie is based on? Hint, the male and female protagonists who have a feud with each other are finally martyred. The director of "The Sound of Music" Robert Wise, who is familiar to Chinese audiences, is presented in the form of a song and dance drama in the gangsters of the manhattan slums of New York, USA.
With Shakespeare's blessing, the film won the 1961 Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and other ten awards (Romeo and Juliet are even martyred, the little golden people can't hold it, ahem!). ）
Shakespeare classics, placed in the Warring States era of Japan and the modern streets of New York, have no sense of violation. The next is the high-energy moment, in the animal world of the second dimension, one of the "four tragedies" can still be interpreted. However, it is embarrassing that Shakespeare's "explosive model" has made Japan and the United States collide.
In 1964, Japanese animation master Osamu Tezuka (the one who drew "Astro Boy") adapted Shakespeare's Hamlet, replacing the prince with Leo, the white lion, and other characters in this Shakespeare drama can be found in the animation.
Originally, Osamu Tezuka wanted to rub a hot spot for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and the master was embarrassed by the master. However, in 1994, Disney also wanted to rub the heat of the 430th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth,—— and this time the 30-year-old "comic book driver rear-ended"!
Because of the suspected plagiarism, Osamu Tezuka's descendants fought a protracted lawsuit with Disney, "like glue like paint", which is difficult to solve. In the end, someone still moved the original author Buddha-figure out: "You see what Shakespeare said", so that the two sides stopped talking.
Therefore, Shakespeare responded to that sentence: it has always been imitated, and it has never been surpassed. (Zihua)