Three Shakespeare enthusiasts go through and comment on Shakespeare’s plays in the order he wrote them. And we often take detours into other great writers of Shakespeare’s time.
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Three Shakespeare enthusiasts go through and comment on Shakespeare’s plays in the order he wrote them. And we often take detours into other great writers of Shakespeare’s time.
032 Keanu Reeves is Trust Fund Prince Hal: Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard
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032 Keanu Reeves is Trust Fund Prince Hal: Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Gay Henry IV! Except not really... Except very much yes!
Gus Van Sant's classic of queer cinema recontextualises Henry IV into the world of gay hustlers. Prince Hal is a trust fund kid slumming it, and Poins is our narcoleptic viewpoint character. With lines directly adapted from Henry IV, and sequences remixed from Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, Gus Van Sant rams Henry IV into modern day.
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Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard
Three Shakespeare enthusiasts go through and comment on Shakespeare’s plays in the order he wrote them. And we often take detours into other great writers of Shakespeare’s time.
