Bamaman wrote:...A lot of stand and stares in DJ, that ate up a lot of time. I wish they had finished the Shakespeare movie, the first three were pretty simple....
I wouldn't really consider knowing what Forbidden Planet and Throne of Blood were based on "simple." Throne of Blood isn't exactly one of Kurosawa's bigger titles. I precalled 'Ran' for it, and I still would've put that at the $1600 slot and it, well, IS King Lear. Throne of Blood is more liberally interpreted. And Forbidden Planet for The Tempest... that's just impressive. (For the record, I swept those three...and I own those mentioned in this paragraph on DVD )alamble wrote:I wish we'd gotten to the last two clues in Movies Based on Shakespeare. Forbidden Planet and Throne of Blood seemed rather obscure (especially considering Forbidden Planet's relationship to the actual story of The Tempest is pretty tenuous if memory serves) I wonder what else was on the list.
Got Manhattan in about 10 seconds. Kinda surprised it was a TS, though I suppose if you've not visited New York, maybe it's easy to forget that Manhattan's a big ol' island?
Kiss Me, Kate should've been an $800 in there...I don't know what else...
Actually, this is how I'd probably have written that one:
"O" ; "West Side Story" ; "Kiss Me, Kate" ; "Ran"* ; "Forbidden Planet" (*"Throne of Blood" acceptable if you want to try giving people a TOM, but where Shakespeare's concerned, bloody royalty doesn't exactly narrow things down. It could easily be Richard III just going on that. )
As far as Final, My brain went NYC -> Long Island...and locked on hard. Totally forgot Manhattan was separate (and...well...Long Island is HUGE, but I misvisualized it. In fact, I was *visualizing* Manhattan the whole time apparently).
Incidentally, a quick adaptation list for Shakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_on_screen
Boys from Syracuse, based on the difficulty they were showing, could easily have been a $1600 or $2000 clue...