by Valerius Claudius Iohanes on Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:12 am
Salve, Paule -
Yes, I would be haunted by the Mason-Gielgud-Brando b&w movie version; and you can see why, if for no other reason, producers/directors might want to re-stage it in a different time-period, just in order to disconnect it from some other wonderful production, to avoid simply aping what's already so well done. If I was charged to make such a elsewhere/elsewhen change of scene, I don't know what I'd do. (It would be fun to set it in Minas Tirith, in Tolkien's Gondor, replacing "Caesar" with "The Steward of Gondor" or an earlier king.)
If nothing else, I WOULD change the name to "the Tragedy of Marcus Iunius Brutus", since that's its real nature.
How about you? What was the new setting for the one you tried out for?
Vale.
Valerius Claudius Iohannes
Curator anno MMDCCLXII
Centurio Honorarius Societatis
Civis ab MMDCCLIV
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