As You Like It From:Brian Blessed , Richard Briers , Richard Clifford , Gerard Horan , Kevin Kline , Warner Brothers , Hbo Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359401923
Format: AC-3
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
Emmy award winner Kenneth Branagh, the man who redefined Shakespeare for a whole new generation with Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, brings the Bard's most delightful comedy to sensational life! Rosalind is a young woman living in the court of her uncle when she falls in love with Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom. When Rosalind is banished, she flees into the forest of Arden disguised as a man...only to encounter Orlando who has also been exiled! But can she win his heart, disguised as she is? With a setting inspired by 19th century Japan and a star-studded cast including Kevin Kline (Dave, A Prairie Home Companion), Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3, The Lady In The Water) and Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, The Da Vinci Code), AS YOU LIKE IT once again proves that all the world's a stage. Come enjoy!
Customer Reviews:
 Folks, there's no such thing as a "gimmick" for Shakespeare..., 2008-11-20
A point that might apply to every Shakespearean adaptation or appropriation reviewed here at Amazon.com: there is no such thing as "traditional Shakespeare," or "conceptual Shakespeare," or anything else. Shakespeare's plays never had a chance to develop a "tradition." They had their original performance conditions, and then saw immediate alteration and adaptation by the Restoration. Nahum Tate's "happy ending" King Lear, in which Lear lives and Cordelia marries Edgar, held the stage for 150 years. End of story. Tights and codpiece Shakespeare is a late-nineteenth, early and beyond twentieth-century fetish that is just as much of a "gimmick" or "concept" as, say, The Tempest on Mars. Please stop writing things like "I'm a traditionalist, so...." That invariably means, "I like pretty costumes that are vaguely Renaissance-y and actors speaking in RP in such a way as to invoke a Victorian or Edwardian construct of what Shakespeare might have looked like a long time ago but never really did."
As for As You Like It: for me, it ISN'T (and not because of the Japan "gimmick," which "works" as well as anything KB has done, and worked just as brilliantly for an RSC Coriolanus back in 2002.
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