What are the BEST and WORST film adaptations of a Shakespeare play?

Question

You can include some of the more recent teen movies based upon a play, like "She's the Man", or older movies like "West Side Story".

Answer 1

I like the recent ones from the series called Shakespeare Retold.

Answer 2

I tend to love most versions of "Taming of the Shrew"  modern 'Ten Things I Hate About You', 80's a 'Moonlighting' episode, and there's a 1967 version with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.  Although the play has always been considered 'mysoginistic' it is incredibly liberating to see a female character so outspoken and cursedly wicked with her tongue and bravado.

     As You Like it is another of my favorite plays because it has so much comedy and the female characters get to act like men for a change.  I haven't seen a film adaptation that I was in love with.

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Answer 3

Best - Ian McKellen's Richard III, Polanski's Macbeth, Greenaway's Prospero's Books (an interesting angle on the Tempest, but none of the text is changed), Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Olivier's Henry V, Brando's Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew (1968), Titus Andronicus (with Anthony Hopkins)

Worst - Branagh's Othello & his Love's Labours Lost, Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Midsummernight's Dream (1997 - God it was awful)

Answer 4

i think that she's the man is pretty good although its not that much like the play i think west side story is a good adaption same with romeo and juliet with leonardo decaprio

Answer 5

The only one I can think of at the moment is the Romeo and Juliet movie with Leo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Didn't think it was so great.