This 1983 cult film is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Strange Brew (1983), loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet The play Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most successful, having the same comedic storyline of Victor/Victoria, so much so, that as you watch Julia Andrews don her top hat and tails as Count Victor you can almost hear Shakespeare saying, “I told you it will work!”ģ. It gets worse for Viola when another woman falls in love with the disguised Viola, also believing Viola is the man, Cesario, that she is dressed up and pretending to be. While there, she falls in love with Duke Orsino and comedy ensues because Orsino believes her to be a man. In Shakespeare’s play, we see the character Viola disguise herself as a man to work in the house of Duke Orsino.
The film is intended to be comical, and succeeds brilliantly, but is based on the same foundation as Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. They’ll never accept a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman! – “They’ll know he’s a phony!” “Exactly”, says Toddy.
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The titular line in the movie comes from the moment when Toddy, Richard, and Victoria hatch a wild idea to create Count Victor Grazinksy (Victoria Grant in disguise), as Europe’s greatest female impersonator. In this 1982 musical comedy, Julie Andrews steps out of her Mary Poppins’ hat and into the role of Victoria Grant, a woman who pretends to be a man pretending to be a woman. Victor Victoria (1982) not a strict adaptation but consistent parallels with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night While this film is not an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many critics have credited this film as Hitchcock’s take on Hamlet.Ģ. Hitchcock himself was quoted in 1963 describing the film’s title as purposeful because “there is no north by northwest on the compass.” Just like Hamlet, Hitchcock’s Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) heads in a direction that causes the audience to question what’s real. Long considered one of Hitchcock’s canonical films, this film sees Cary Grant chased all over the country, stirred up into harried frenzy of suspense and uncertainty. Has he really gone mad from grief, or is he using everyone’s presumption of his insanity in order to plant a strategic trap? This theme of questioning reality, as well as the main character’s grip upon that reality, is a running theme of Hitchcock’s suspense thriller from 1959. The entire production of Hamlet hinges on the question of Hamlet’s sanity.
Hamlet is casting doubt in the minds of his friends with this line he simultaneously creates a question of reality for the audience. As Hamlet’s college pals show up for the play at Elsinore Castle, Hamlet suggests to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that his madness is only an act while he plots his uncle’s murder. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” The character Hamlet speaks this line in Act II Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play by the same. North by Northwest (1959) Hitchcock’s take on Hamlet In this article, we pull back the curtain on some of Shakespeare’s most iconic works to show you how modern filmmakers used the stories of the past to create films you didn’t know were based on plays by William Shakespeare.ġ.
It turns out that the stories that made people laugh, or cry, from the stage in the 16th century, are still able to stir men’s souls today when presented on film. If you survived English class in high school with a well-established chagrin for the works of William Shakespeare, you may be surprised to learn that modern filmmakers often turn to the works of Shakespeare as reliable inspiration for stories that translate well onto the big screen.
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