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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (116565)	12/15/2000 4:30:04 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Well. You haven’t missed much having never seen this “Titus.” The play itself is interesting, dark and tragic, with menacing horror throughout. But in my opinion it is certainly not amongst Shakespeare’s best. Taymor made a visually stimulating film, not too subtly likening ancient Rome to Mussolini’s fascist Italy, to create a dark experience vaguely reminiscent of “Brazil.” She mixes ancient and modern images, and when she does it successfully, the effect is surreal and pleasurably disorienting. The opening scene gave me one such experience. Unfortunately she generally goes too far for my taste. The film seems overdone, pretentious, and many of the actors are too aware they are acting. Tony Hopkins as Titus turns in a stock Hopkins performance, but even he did quite a bit of acting. Shakespeare is very difficult to do with power. It seems modern performers think one must yell uncontrollably to generate power in Shakespeare. You see a lot of silly yelling in this rendering when, considering the visual context presented, a quiet madness would have been much better.

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