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For as long as there have been films, there have been movies based on Shakespeare.
But it’s hard ranking all the greatest Shakespeare movies.
To think about it o, full of scorpions is my mind!
With so many Shakespeare movies to choose from, it can be daunting to pick just one.
So, here are 33 movies based on the Bard’s famous works.
Forbidden Planet
Year:1956Director:Nicholas Nayfack
The classic sci-fi hit Forbidden Planet may not seem like a Shakespearean movie.
But look past its pulpy surface, and you’ll find William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in disguise.
It’s a movie that almost makes Shakespeare walk hand-in-hand with Jane Austen.
That is until Steve Coogan came along.
But in hindsight, Hamlet 2 is anything but rotten in the state of Denmark.
(Zeffirelli chose Gibson to play the part after watching Lethal Weapon.)
The result isn’t a romantic comedy like Shakespeare wrote it, but a historical drama concerned with injustice.
Despite everyone’s best efforts, the movie doesn’t sidestep all of the play’s rampant antisemitism.
The answer is Romeo Must Die, a star-crossed romance and kung fu action flick rolled into one.
Just days full of leisure and long naps.
But Joss Whedon is not most people.
A timeless comedy with the warmth of a home movie, Much Ado About Nothing is a giddy thing.
But unlike Hamlet, they are unable to actually do anything about it.
It also worked as pro-British propaganda at the tail end of World War 2.
However, Hamlet didn’t have nearly as many karaoke bangers.
A triumph in every sense of the word, West Side Story really rumbles.
All the world’s a stage, after all.
(The “+” is important.)
This be madness, yet there is method in’t.
(Never mind its “new” 19th century setting.)
We could go on about how great Hamlet is.
