Ms. Holmes decided to save the best Hamlet movie for last. "Heroine Hamlet" as I like to call it was very entertaining. It was very interesting how making some of the male characters to females changed the story. By changing Horatio to a female Hamlet and Horatio's relationship just felt different and then in the last scene the end up kissing as Hamlet is dying as the whole class started cracking up. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time to watch the movie from start to finish but in the hour we had to watch it we got the general sense of what Fodor was trying to communicate to his audience. The movie as a whole seemed somewhat ridiculous which is what made it very enjoyable, but hopefully we will discuss it during class and investigate the significance of all the characters being heroine addicts.
We have also just started reading Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. We haven't talked about it in much detail yet so I don't have a whole lot to say about it. It is going to be very nice to be reading in modern english again, but just reading in the first part of this play I can tell that it is filled with deeper meaning that is going to be somewhat difficult to understand. It is also shorter than Hamlet so the annotations will be a little more manageable.
Well, your comment about "Heroine Hamlet" works on two different levels, I don't know if you realized that. Heroine works because Horatio was made a woman, and thus a "heroine", and it worked because they did drugs in the movie, funny stuff. I too was glad about the terms test being changed to an acting scene. I think it was really helpful for me because you can see all the possible emotions that Shakespeare layered in his language, and how by acting it out, one thing can be made into multiple things with several meanings. Nice post, with a lot of relatable things.
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