RE: ADSactly Literature - Discovering Shakespeare
I think it's great, @honeydue, your purpose to bring readers closer to Shakespeare's work, to arouse interest in his theatrical production (there's also poetry, but that's another matter), and to do it through the audiovisual field. I have no doubt that your work is fundamental to the reflection on the great problems (the archetypes, I would say Jung) of human life.
I know some of the films you present to us. The ones I liked the most are Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, a lucid adaptation that mixes original elements (not just the style of the text) with contemporary ones, apart from the incorporation of music; and Trevor Nunn's King Lear version, with McKellen's incomparable performance (by the way, there's a version of Ricardo III, also first-rate with this masterful actor).
I must admit that my audiovisual approach to Shakespeare's play was through the versions made by Orson Welles of Otelo and Macbeth. Then, I remember being very impressed by Akira Kurosawa's version of Rey Lear in a film titled Ran. And I also liked the film adaptations of Shakespearean plays by British director and actor Kenneth Branagh of Hamlet and Lots of noise and few nuts.
I appreciate your attractive post, @honeydue, and @adsactly for publishing it.