A few video essays by the wonderful Kyle Kallgren, of Brows Held High. Every summer his reviews shift their focus from arthouse fare specifically toward all the myriad ways Shakespeare's been adapted over the years, in film and otherwise. And it is glorious. (The Lion King, he argues, isn't based off of Hamlet, but Henry IV, pts 1 and 2!)
The topics covered in the videos embedded here, all happening to do with space opera, run the gamut- we talk about poetic meter, psychology, literary criticism and film theory, and go surprisingly in-depth about linguistics... y'know, Shakespearian stuff!
I thought to host some BHH because Mr Kallgren came out with a new video today on how Buckaroo Banzai is basically a shared-universe superhero film, minus the shared universe, leaving us with only puzzling references to an alleged wider world; the video is fascinating and awesome but a) neither spacey nor Shakespearian, and b) has a couple instances of strong language in the first half, so I'm only linking to it instead of embedding it. I say check it out nonetheless, but you don't have to, 'cause, once again, not really about space, but, man it's a good video, I mean, I did bring it up as unrelated as it is. Anyway.
These ones embedded here though, they're kept PG-rated. A couple mild s-bombs in the Star Wars one, the strongest it gets. Love it when they keep things clean.
No comments:
Post a Comment