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Part of the reason Eamonn Walker is so good in the Masterpiece Theater is that he was just coming off a long run as Othello at the Globe. I was lucky enough to see him there (opposite Tim McInnery as Iago) and he was fantastic. His stage performance was frighteningly violent, but he did an excellent job of scaling it down for film. My personal favorite adaptation still had to be Julie Taymor's Titus there are some pretty typical Taymor excesses early on (including some very questionable CGI) but if there's one play that invites a little bit of excess it's this one, and she nails the overall aesthetic by placing the movie in a sort of Fascist Gilded-Age Rome. There's not a minute of the movie that's a bore to watch, and that's largely in part to some of the most perfect casting I've ever seen. Considering how mediocre Taymor's Tempest was, I'm inclined to give them most of the credit. I can't even rave about any one particular actor because everyone blew me away. Ok I lied, Anthony Hopkins is breathtaking as Titus himself. I've seen a lot of bad productions of Titus Andronicus, and it's very easy to just shout your way through the play, but Hopkins finds so many wonderful levels to chart the character's fall from dignity. Seriously just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_97LyhU9cg (Also featured: questionable CGI)
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I really need to re-watch Coriolanus, because I remember going into it with a lot of excitement, but becoming fatigued by the end. It's possible though that I just wanted it to be Titus, and that I could appreciate it for its own merits on a second viewing. On a different note, does anyone know of a decent film version of Measure for Measure?
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