The BBC will work with Amazon to produce a new TV movie "King Lear", adapted from Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, the cast is extremely powerful, Anthony Hopkins plays King Lear, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson, Florence Poe, Jim Browder Bent, Andrew Scott and other stars, it is simply a big party of powerful actors.
The BBC has always liked to remake classical literary masterpieces, ensuring the quality of masterpieces with its rigorous style, and completely restoring the style of that elegant era, full of classical British style.
This time, the BBC did not set the story in the eighth century, but moved to the modern era, as can be seen from the trailer, Hopkins played by King Lear, behind the guards are armed with modern weapons, and Emma Thompson's eldest daughter is a dignified and elegant modern dress.
The rigorous production team, super-first-class cast, and re-adapted storyline make fans look forward to this TV movie.
Shakespeare's "King Lear" has actually been adapted countless times by directors from various countries, among which the editor's favorite is "Chaos" adapted by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
Akira Kurosawa borrowed the framework of "King Lear" to tell the story of Motonori, a generation of Japanese overlords in the Sengoku period, replacing the three daughters in "King Lear" with three sons, removing the tragedy of Count Gloucester, adding characters such as Lady Kaede and Lady Sue, Tsurumaru, etc., adding the theme of revenge, telling the cruel and ugly side of human nature.
Abandoning the Western-style Shakespearean gorgeous lines, and using actions to express the complex feelings of the characters, in line with the introverted and stoic character characteristics of orientals.
"Chaos" is the "King Lear" of the East, with a magnificent and atmospheric war scene, rendering a sense of oriental tragedy.
Therefore, the reason why Shakespeare's plays are charming and have been repeatedly remade is because of its unspeakable complexity, which will produce new values under the interpretation of different cultures and backgrounds, causing viewers to think more deeply.
The United States also used this story to make a story of a father and three daughters, called "Strangers", which tells the story of the farmer's father turning the farm into a company and dividing it among the three daughters, who were lawyers, thinking that this method was not feasible, so the father drove away the three daughters and deprived her of her inheritance rights.
In the end, the father was driven away, and the third daughter returned to represent her father in a lawsuit with her two sisters, and finally recaptured her father's farm.
But this story looks at this story from the perspective of a daughter, telling the oppression and persecution of women in patriarchal society.
The eldest daughter spent most of her life working for the farm, taking care of her grumpy father and frail sister, but the father never considered his daughter's ideas, he was self-conscious, had supreme rights on the farm, and finally in order to seize the ownership of the farm, peeling away the deepest scars hidden in the hearts of the two daughters.
This time, the BBC remake has spent a lot of resources and is even more compelling, and I don't know what kind of story it will tell through Shakespeare's "King Lear".
It's about fathers and daughters, it's about power and affection, these emotions that are common in human culture, to interpret betrayal, warmth, coldness, selfishness, these intertwined complex emotions. Text/cold water agarwood