For any of those who read Hamlet, then a good portion of LA Story should ring a bell (the gravedigger, the quotes specifically). I'll admit it though, I'm not really familiar with all of Shakespeare's works...so are there any more referances besides Hamlet?
Thanks for the help. =D
I know in naration Steve Marten quotes or paraphrases the line from Macbeth: "it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
There were others but it has been years since I have seen it...
JB
Oh, this is the one that I couldnt quite remember, again I think SM paraphrases it:
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
--From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)
I would love to see other posts on this thread by more who know more shakespeare than I. I can recognize the famous lines, but Im sure there must be more subtle references...
JB
This was used in paraphrase but it was changed around. I think it was this other eden, this Los Angeles...
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise...
Richard II (II.i
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Actually this whole movie is Shakespeare if you did any research you will find this a modern adaptation of Middsummers Night Dream. Just clue in to the fact that the Sign is Puck.
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In numerous interviews, Martin is quoted as saying it is a loose inspiration and adaptation of A Midsummer Nights Dream. The references are uncanny and yes, the sign is Puck.
Another Shakespeare play worth mentioning along the vein of A Midsummer Nights Dream that I initially gleaned off from this film, was The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Couple Switching, Journeys out of the city for trysts etc...)
Several movies have been loosely adopted from Shakespeare, such as The Lion King (Hamlet) and more famously, West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet). He's good, widely recognized as such, not common enough reading/viewing that most people will already be too familiar with all the stories, and fell into the public domain long before the first movie camera was invented.
shareIt's a winning formula for Steve Martin, Roxanne was an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, and that's a great movie, too. Not Shakespeare, obviously, but still adapted from an old story.
Many Shakesperean plays and Greek tragedies feature a sooth sayer prediciting the future, and I could see that in the sign.