What are the film adaptations of Shakespearean plays?

Answer 1

'Yellow Sky', 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Prospero's Books' are based on the 'Tempest'.

Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran' is based on 'King Lear' and his 'Throne of Blood' is based on 'MacBeth'.

'Kiss Me Kate' and '10 Things I Hate About You' are based on 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

'She's the Man' is based on "The Twelth Night'.

'Carry on Cleo' is based on 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'Julius Caesar'.

'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' is based on Hamlet.

'A Double Life' is based on 'Othello'.

'West Side Story' is based on 'Romeo and Juliet'.

'My Own Private Idaho' is based on Parts of 'henry IV', 'Henry V' and 'Henry VI'.

Oh! That's so cool! You forgot one thing, though, 'The Lion King' is based on 'Hamlet' as well! How's that for an awesome fun fact?!

'O' with Julia Stiles is based on 'Othello'.

Twilight is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet.

"The King of Texas," a TV movie starring Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, and Lauren Holly, was based on King Lear.

Answer 2

Four modern movies, based on Shakespeare plays are: Romeo+Juliet (Starring Leonardio DiCaprio and Claire Danes,) Hamlet (Starring Ethan Hawke and Julia Stiles,)O (Starring Josh Hartnet,) and Macbeth. There's also "She's the Man" (with Amanda Bynes) based on the cross-dressing antics of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Julia Stiles seems to be attracted to modern adaptations of Shakespearian dramas as she also appears as Kat Stratford in "10 Things I Hate About You" - an adaptation of "Taming of the Shrew".

Answer 3

When something is said to be "based on" a play, it means that some elements of the original plot are kept, with the dialogue, the characters and often the ending completely changed. Some of the characters may have names which evoke the names in the original play.

In other words, "based on" means "sort of like, but not really". Here are some movies which are sort of like Shakespeare plays, but not really.

West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet)

10 Things I Hate about You (Taming of the Shrew) (Very different)

She's the Man (Twelfth Night)

Omkara (Othello) (Very close to original)

O (Othello)

Ran (King Lear) (Fairly close to original)

Throne of Blood (Macbeth) (Quite close to original)

Gnomeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) (Very different)

The Lion King (Hamlet) (Totally different; more like Macbeth)

Answer 4

There are hundreds and hundreds of film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. Some plays have been filmed over and over; others nobody has filmed. Some adaptations which use Shakespeare's dialogue (with the director's name) include:

Hamlet: Lawrence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Franco Zeffirelli, Grigori Kozintsev

Macbeth: Roman Polanski, Orson Welles

Julius Caesar: Joseph Mankiewicz

Romeo and Juliet: Franco Zeffirelli, Baz Luhrmann, Renato Castellani

Titus Andronicus: Julie Taymor

The Taming of the Shrew: Sam Taylor, Franco Zeffirelli

Twelfth Night: Trevor Nunn

King Lear: Grigori Kozintsev

Othello: Orson Welles, Oliver Parker

Much Ado About Nothing: Kenneth Branagh

Henry V: Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier

Richard III: Laurence Olivier, Richard Loncraine

Midsummer Night's Dream: Max Reinhardt, Michael Hoffman

The Tempest: Julie Taymor

Coriolanus: Ralph Fiennes

Answer 5

If you will go to the attached link, you will find that there are almost a thousand movies based in some way on Shakespeare's plays. These include movies which use Shakespeare's words and also movies which have a plot which in some ways resembles the plot to a Shakespeare play.

In the first category, The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren, and Coriolanus, starring Ralph Fiennes, are two recent movies which use Shakespeare's plot, characters and dialogue. Others include a pile of Hamlet movies (David Tennant, 2010; Kenneth Branagh, 1996; Mel Gibson, 1991; Richard Burton, 1964; Christopher Plummer, 1964; Laurence Olivier, 1948), Macbeth (Patrick Stewart, 2011; Jon Finch 1972), Othello (Laurence Fishburne, 1995; Laurence Olivier, 1965; Orson Welles, 1952), Romeo and Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio, 1996; Franco Zeffirelli dir., 1968), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Michelle Pfeiffer, 1999; Judi Dench, Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, 1968; Mickey Rooney and James Cagney, 1935), Much Ado About Nothing (Ken Branagh, 1994), The Taming of the Shrew (Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, 1967; Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 1929), The Merchant of Venice (Robert deNiro, 2005), Julius Caesar (Marlon Brando, 1953), Henry V (Ken Branagh, 1989; Laurence Olivier, 1942) and Richard III (Ian McKellen, 1995; Laurence Olivier, 1955)

Those movies which are loosely based on the plots of Shakespeare's plays include Ten Things I Hate about You, She's the Man, Strange Brew, Gnomeo and Juliet, O, Scotland Pa., King of Texas, Hamlet Gets Business and so on and on and on.

Answer 6

"O" is based on "Othello" "She's the Man" is based on "Twelfth Night" "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on "Taming of the Shrew" "The Lion King" is based on "Hamlet"

Answer 7

Here are three movies inspired by Shakespeare: Romeo and Julie, Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo Must Die. These are all special takes on Shakespeare's art.