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belpheg0r-luna · 3 months
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If this video essay has no fans, then write me down as dead.
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lincolnkw · 3 months
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My Year of Movies #7: Great Performances version of Much Ado About Nothing (2019 - season 47 episode 9). So much fun.
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CHANGE MY WAYS: RONNIE MATHIS X BLACK PLUS SIZE READER
SUMMARY: Unique takes ronnie to his old friend's house to keep him hidden, after a few weeks they get closer.
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"Unique?!" You crushed him in a hug.
"Hey y/n it's good to see you." He cheesed showing off his grills.
"It's good to see you too, what brings you on this side of town?" You opened the door wider letting him and an unfamiliar face inside.
"Oh hey its nice to meet you." You smiled sweetly at the stranger.
He just looked at you and took a seat on the couch.
You frowned slightly but took a seat as well.
"I came to ask you for a favor, you know i hate asking you for things but you're the only one i could think of." Unique sighed.
"Hey after everything you've done for me nothing is too big, you saved my fucking life i got you, anything you need." You grabbed his hand.
"Can Ronnie lay low here, just for a little while until things die down on the streets?" He asked nervously.
"Wait Ronnie? this is your brother?" You looked at him in surprise.
"Yeah this him." He nodded.
"He in some kind of trouble?" You looked at the man who had his eyes focused on the tv.
"Honestly yeah, but he won't bring no shit your way and he won't cause you any problems i swear." Unique rambled.
"It's cool nique, i understand. He'll be safer over here anyways and he looks pretty strong so i'm sure if some shit pop off he can handle it. You know i've had my fair share of trouble myself so i won't turn away somebody who needs help especially somebody related to you." You smiled reassuringly patting his knee.
"Yo i really appreciate you." He stood kissing your cheek.
"Of course" You hugged him.
"Have you eaten anything?" You looked at Ronnie.
"Nah." He glanced up at you before quickly focusing back on the tv.
"I got some leftover steak and gravy with rice if you want some." You suggested.
He nodded his head rapidly and you just laughed going to the kitchen to heat up a plate.
"Careful that nigga will eat you out a house and home." Unique said swinging his keys by the front door. 
"That's ok i always make too much anyways, at least now i'll have somebody to eat it." You smiled.
You brought the plate over to him along with a soda to drink and he wasted no time digging in.
You watched happily as he ate the food, you loved to cook and feed people it made you smile to see someone enjoying something you made.
"There's more if you want." You giggled as he scraped the plate clean.
The next day
"I'm going to get groceries, anything specific you might want?" You grabbed your pen and pad making corrections to your list.
"Cheerios." Ronnie spoke from the couch.
"Got it, i'll be back in a little while. Didn't nique say he was coming by to drop your stuff off?" You grabbed your coat throwing it on before bending down to lace up your sneakers.
"Yeah.." He responded eyes trailing your back side.
"I think i'll make fried chicken, mac and cheese, cornbread, and greens for dinner tonight. I'm in the mood for a old school sunday dinner. That sound good to you?" You asked grabbing your purse.
"Mhm." He nodded his head stomach growling at the thought.
"See you later." You laughed.
Time skip
"This should be the last of your shit." Unique dropped a bag on the floor.
"Don't be throwing my stuff around nigga." Ronnie mugged him.
"Yeah yeah whatever. Look man lemme talk to you for a minute." Unique led them both to the couch.
"What?" Ronnie asked irritation lacing his features.
"I really love y/n like she my little sister real shit so please don't hurt her, she been through a lot and she sensitive." He spoke softly.
"She ain't never did shit to me so i got no reason to, you ain't gotta worry bout me nigga." He rolled his eyes at the younger male.
"Alright then, listen i got some shit to take care of i'll see you later." Unique stood making his way toward the door.
Ronnie watched him as he walked away, he had never been so protective over someone besides jerome, hell he didn't care that much about Penessa so y/n must've really meant a lot to him.
He decided to respect his brother's wishes and not do anything to hurt y/n not that he was going to anyways.
A few days later
You and Ronnie were laying around in the living room watching tv when the front door opened.
"Yo yo, anybody home? it's dark as hell in here." Unique flicked the lights on.
"Oh hey what you doing here?" You stood greeting him.
"I brought a lil friend you haven't seen in a minute." He smirked.
You looked around in confusion until little footsteps approached you.
"Tee tee." Jerome grabbed at your legs.
"He remembers me?" You looked at Unique tears filling your eyes.
"Of course how could i let him forget his auntie." Unique smiled.
"Hey little man, you wanna play with some toys? We got blocks, a train set, some play dough..." You spoke picking him up and taking him to your bedroom.
"Hey man we got a problem." Unique turned toward Ronnie once you were out of earshot.
"What problem?" Ronnie raised a brow.
"Julianna making a fucking mess, interrupting our shipments, taking out our men. I don't know what the fuck got her so bitter but the bitch taking all this shit too far." He spat.
"So take her ass out then." Ronnie spoke annoyed.
"It ain't that fucking easy, we can't just make a enemy outta her people. Look you made this mess so you gotta fix it." Unique stood again.
"Fuck you mean i made it?!" Ronnie got in his face.
"You fucked her a few times and left her high and dry. The bitch hurt and she ain't gone stop till we all dead, so fix it!" Unique shoved him backwards.
"Is everything ok y'all?" You furrowed your brows little Jerome on your hip playing with the blocks you gave him.
"Yeah." Unique fixed his jacket.
"You mind keeping him for the night? I got some things to take care of." He shot Ronnie a glare.
"Oh yeah no problem, we're gonna have so much fun." You squeezed the boy's cheeks.
"I'm going too." Ronnie put his shoes and jacket on.
"Oh… ok." You frowned not wanting him to leave.
"I'll be back later on tonight i promise." He melted slightly at the look on your face quickly recovering seeing Unique smirk looking between the two of you.
You nodded leading them to the door.
"You got something you wanna tell me?" Unique looked over at Ronnie as they got in the car.
"Fuck you mean?" He mugged him.
"I'll be back i promise." Unique mocked.
"You like her, you going soft nigga." Unique laughed.
"Just shut the fuck up and drive." He slapped him upside his head.
Let me know if y’all want part 2
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cherrygeek · 4 months
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves Review
Fans of Westerns and American History will love this mini-series The Legend of Bass Reeves is the story of a Black man forced to fight for the confederacy, who escapes his cruel owner (FYI all slave owners were cruel), is a crack shot, and has a strong will to survive. Bass Reeves (David Oyelowo) is a natural marksman and the series takes us on the journey as he becomes the first U.S. Marshal…
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spryfilm · 7 months
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Full Trailer: “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” (2023)
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milliondollarbaby87 · 3 months
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Rustin (2023) Review
Bayard Rustin is an activist who faces racism and homophobia during the Civil Rights movement and he helps with the 1963 March on Washington. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Rustin (2023) Review
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somosorigen · 1 year
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whales-are-gay · 1 year
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pick one: hamlet or much ado about nothing
OUAGHH. i mean. probably much ado about nothing, but only because ive seen it live and also multiple adaptations of it. i mean, waiting for the massachusetts cultural fund to sponsor hamlet in the park
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mariathechosen1 · 9 months
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Beatrice & Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, 1993
David Tennant and Catherine Tate, 2011
Charles Edwards and Eve Best, 2012
Grantham Coleman and Danielle Brooks, 2019
[Image description: A collage with eight photos of four different productions of Much Ado About Nothing comparing the same scene between Beatrice and Benedick. There are two row of photos: The first row depicts the four productions’ version of Benedick either smiling and/or posing in a flirtatious and suggestive manner, while looking at Beatrice. The second row depicts each productions’ version of Beatrice looking back at him, unimpressed and with a deadpan face. /end ID]
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thealogie · 3 months
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It's funny because I used to love the Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson MAAN as it was my first exposure to the play. But I've since seen a couple of live versions plus recordings of David Tennant/Catherine Tate, The Globe version with Eve Best, the RSC one with the Christmas tree gulling, and the Shakespeare in the Park one with Danielle Brooks and Grantham Coleman (this is probably my favorite though I debate with DT/CT)... we have simply moved beyond the need for Kenneth Branagh Benedick. Wouldn't even crack the top five now.
“We have simply moved beyond the need for Kenneth Branagh Benedick” is exactly right. I also enjoyed it fine when I first watched it (it was the first MAAN I watched) but it didn’t make me obsessed with the play at all. Watching subsequent adaptations you’re really like “wow this is so fun and one of the best character dynamics of all time”
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akajustmerry · 9 months
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hello merry!! love your work and i cannot wait to finally catch up on the pod when i have some time!! i always love reading (and hearing) your opinions on media and i would love to hear you talk abt much ado abt nothing and your favourite adaption of it!
thank youuu 🥰 my favourite is a big tie honestly because I obviously LOVEEEEE David and Catherine as benedick and beatrice in the 2013 one and the staging/prop work/costuming is ingenius and extra points to josie rourke for letting david be Scottish for that adaptation. my Scottish genes are always delighted to hear his natural accent BUT I NEEEEED MORE PEOPLE TO SEE THE 2019 VERSION.
the 2019 Shakespeare In The Park version of much ado with an all Black cast starring Danielle Brooks and Grantham Coleman as Benedick and Beatrice is so fucking funny. Their verbal jousting is DELICIOUSLY smooth. Especially their delivery of "against my will I am sent to invite you to dinner" sequence. When Beatrice overhears the girls talking about Benedick's feelings for her, Danielle hides in the audience and it's BRILLIANT!
Also, Danielle's Beatrice is my favourite I've ever seen anywhere, even miles more than Catherine's. I just adore the sincere loving rage Danielle gives Beatrice like when she asks Benedick to kill Claudio it's not even funny because you can feel how much she loves Hiro. the way Danielle plays that scene is so gut wrenching and it makes Benedick's "live well, love me and mend" just that much more beautiful because her pain is so real and the conflict of her feeling so happily in love with Benedick but so much rage for Hiro is sincerely portrayed I just adore her!!! Danielle is so fucking good I wish more people hyped up her 2019 performance 💕
Also huge shout out to the local production I saw in Sydney in 2020 which was not the most amazingly acted or staged BUT they did slightly rewrite the ending so that Hiro doesn't marry Claudio and tells him he's an ass, AND kinda hinted she and Don Pedro have a little somethin somethin and instead of a wedding they just all had a party to be like "finally benedick and beatrice stopped being idiots!" it was so great!
tbh I find something to love about all versions of much ado because i just love it so fucking much. like I even love the joss whedon film because that's the power of benedick and beatrice and that's the power of the fact that Shakespeare basically perfected the rom com with them.
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tryingtograspctrl · 1 month
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Before i write this oneshot… how y’all feel about ronnie’s character?
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Grantham is so fine and he did an excellent job, I think Ronnie is a very interesting character, a little crazy but he got potential.. well he HAD potential. Anyways i wrote this “i can fix him” sort of oneshot and i really like it. Would y’all be interested? 🫣
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shakespearenews · 10 months
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Edelstein has also transformed how the Globe presents Shakespeare’s works on its own stages.
First he oversaw the installation of a $250,000 sound system at the festival theater that made the actors’ words crystal-clear for audiences.
He replaced the repertory company approach of two plays alternating each night from June through September to presenting two independent productions in shorter, 10-week runs. This made it easier for him to attract big-name actors — like Blair Underwood to play Othello and Grantham Coleman to play Hamlet — who are too busy to commit to a five-month rep season.
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Claraʻs Triannual Much Ado About Nothing Obsession
So some of you may know that much ado is one of if not my favorite shakespeare play. From a young age it shook me to my core and every few years I revisit it in its various forms (maybe Iʻll make a post just talking about the various adaptations at some point but not tonight).
I recently watched both the david tennant/catherine tate 2011 production as well as the danielle brooks/grantham coleman 2019 shakespeare in the park production and I have some thoughts.
I fucking hate Claudio.
For whatever reason he really bothered me this time through. Like I get that blah blah blah he was manipulated but damn that wet piece of sponge doesnʻt deserve to still marry Hero. Like wtf.
One of my core memories of this show was when I saw it done by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015 (sidenote that set was gorgeous yall should look up pics omg dreamy). At the end of the show they had a moment where Hero walked away after the wedding and just looked at Claudio before exiting and you could feel the tension, the disappointment. In that moment you knew that though they were married there was still anger there. It was frankly cathartic. It really bothers me that in most adaptations you donʻt see that and theyʻre just happily wedded at the end (some adaptations spend time on Heroʻs funeral to make that connection but idk I still want more).
2. David Tennant is so amazing.
Like is this a shock, no, but some of his line performances were just a revelation. You can really tell he understood exactly what he was saying and he did some things I have never seen another Benedick do.
3. Shakespeare makes so much sense combined with AAVE.
The 2019 production was done with a completely black cast was at its core a love letter to black culture. It was truly beautiful and the line readings were done in a completely unique way which infused so much color and personality into the text. I watched this version third after the 2012 film and then the 2011 play so the text was getting a bit tired but the readings brought energy and joy back into so much of it. Plus Danielle Brooks is just so talented I just canʻt. My favorite adaptations of the bards work are the ones which take the text and use context though set, choreography, and costumes to create a new understanding, not the stuffy traditional direction but something inventive and new. This production did that and Kenny Leon did an amazing job.
4. If I were a man hits different.
Maybe itʻs just that now Iʻm older, but how actresses present the if I were a man speech really effects how I like them. I need to feel that rage, that desperation, that distraught nature. I love the 2011 version but tbh I donʻt love how Catherine Tate did it. The switch from the joyous profession of love into the rage just doesnʻt feel natural. The 2012 version doesnʻt do it for me either, she just doesnʻt feel angry enough. Even if they arenʻt screaming I want to feel the simmering rage under the surface. Danielle Brooks was the most enjoyable for me, perhaps because her energy had the most reasonable flow.
5. I fucking miss performing.
I desperately want to do a production. I really miss it. My town does have shakespeare in the park but unfortunately I missed the auditions because of graduation. I just love seeing actors master the words. I think I just need to go to OSF and see something this year. Who knows maybe thatʻll give me my fix. If anybody wants to do a zoom readthrough with me let me know.
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MACBETH
Starring Ruth Negga, Daniel Craig, Maria Dizzia, Amber Gray, Danny Wolohan, Michael Patrick Thornton, Asia Kate Dillon, Che Ayende, Danny Wolohan, Amber Gray, Emeka Guindo, Paul Lazar, Maria Dizzia, Grantham Coleman, Bobbi MacKenzie and Phillip James Brannon. 
Written by William Shakespeare.
Directed by Sam Gold.
Playing at Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th St., New York, NY, 212-541-8457. Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes. Closing Date: July 10, 2022 
With Stars Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, Macbeth Makes A Return to The Broadway Stage For Better or Worse 
Not being any kind of Shakespearean expert — or even your basic Bard-ite — I wasn't sure what to expect of director Sam Gold's version of Macbeth. Certainly, he had his share of accolades and supporters for earlier interpretations of the legendary scribe's other plays.
A Tony winner for Fun Home, Gold has directed some of the most high-profile recent William Shakespeare productions in New York. On Broadway his King Lear, won accolades for Glenda Jackson. There was also his earlier Hamlet, starring Oscar Isaac, and an Othello which featured former 007 Daniel Craig in the role of Iago. Craig must have had fun since he came back to work for Gold again.
So as I anticipated seeing this production, I saw an opportunity to reevaluate the legendary playwright once again. In particular – Macbeth being one of his seminal, serious tragedies — I'd seek to understand Shakespeare's view of passion, power, and its corruptions. Drawing on Greek tragic dramas, the story looks at the dynamics of aristocratic minds and how its upper-class members often view their worlds differently than those who operate according to more traditional moralities.
Believed to have been first performed in 1606, Macbeth (full title: The Tragedie of Macbeth) dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all his plays written during James I's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflected Shakespeare's relationship with King James, the playwright's acting company patron.
This tragedy in five acts was written sometime in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a playbook or a transcript of one. Some portions of the original text are corrupted or missing from the published edition. It's the shortest tragedy in the canon and its relative brevity among Shakespeare's tragedies comes without diversions or subplots.
As the tale goes, Scottish general Macbeth comes across a trio of witches who predict that he will be King. Consumed by ambition and spurred by his ambitiously scheming wife to act, Macbeth murders King Duncan, ascending to the throne. Wracked with guilt and paranoia he then murders others to protect himself. But because of enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes tyrannical. A bloodbath and civil war ensue, driving Macbeth and his Lady into the realms of madness and death. 
Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland along with Macduff and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Although the events in the play differ from the real Macbeth's history, the tragedy is further associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Over the years, this famous play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The so-called "Scottish Play" has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comics, and other media. 
It chronicles Macbeth seizing of power and subsequent destruction, his rise and his fall the result of blind ambition. Did I get it? Not quite. All the usual visual cues in the costumes and staging weren't there since Gold subverted the normal expectations of how this Macbeth should be experienced. Instead, he puts the cast in plain, simple, modern outfits and uses austere, minimal staging to underscore his take on Macbeth. This approach made the play harder to understand and made me care little for this production. Maybe I should have read the original before seeing this production, but I got lost in the jumble.
Nor did this version make me appreciate the language. Instead, at times I found myself wondering if everyone in the cast was in the same play that I was seeing and hearing.
Both Craig and Ruth Negga did their best to capture the seesaw relationship between Lord and Lady Macbeth, one of the more logical marriages in Shakespeare's catalog. The two feed off each other, both feeling at home in their marital cocoon. Of all the dynamics in Gold's production, the actors get their interplay better than anyone else does.
While there's electricity in Negga's and Craig's performances together, individually they fumble. Negga's mad scene seems sketchy at best. Craig's solo speeches feel like an emotional roller coaster where the brakes work only intermittently.
Like his earlier effort, Gold's Macbeth is both over thought and under designed, full of half-executed ideas and uneven performances. Actors try to play their characters as if they were all in the same version of Macbeth, but the director can't seem to have them inhabit the same world with all his shifting imagery.
How do I ascertain whether a retelling of a classic Shakespearean drama can inform me about this modern world? That's hard enough for any piece of art even more so when a production veers so far from the usual expectations.
The event starts out with Michael Patrick Thornton delivering a routine about the play's parallel to our time, with its genesis during a pandemic. In turn, that observation leads into exposition that jumps between King Duncan (Paul Lazar) receiving news of the battle and the witches (Bobbi MacKenzie, Maria Dizzia, and Phillip James Brannon) who are nothing like what we expect of the witches. They make a brew for Macbeth, Duncan's loyal associate. They predict that he will become Thane of Cawdor and then King. And that his companion, Banquo (Amber Gray), will begat Kings — and in Gold's production that includes shifting gender expectations. Soon after, Lord and Lady Macbeth begin their plotting ways to speed the prophecy along with expectations of power and glory.
Actors watch the proceedings from the exposed wings. Performers create the "fog and filthy air" with handheld fog machines, employed as though they're in a Catholic mass. The costumes the actors wear could have come from their own closets, or maybe even worse than what they have at home. Craig is the exception, donning special garments scene by scene: a smoking jacket, a paisley housecoat, and a full-length fur but to what purpose? That was unclear.
The final confrontation between Macbeth and Macduff (Grantham Coleman) is meant to be a blowout bash but it comes off looking like a street brawl outside a sleazy bar. Despite an effort put in by the two, one can easily imagine them slugging it out more convincingly in a better production. As for the rest of the cast — half the time, I don't think they knew what to give to their performances since they often didn't seem to be in the same play as everyone else.
I left this Macbeth in a fog of confusion. From beginning to end, it featured actors doing things that in an ordinary play, set in modern times, would make sense within a clear, discernible narrative.
Macbeth is meant to be bigger than that. And yet, this version not only obscured "The Scottish Play," it seemed as though it were set in some other world altogether. Certainly not mine.
Brad Balfour
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Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (Serie 2023) #DavidOyelowo #DennisQuaid #ForrestGoodluck #LaurenEBanks #BarryPepper #GranthamColeman Mehr auf:
Serie / 1883: The Bass Reeves Story Jahr: 2023 (November) Genre: Drama / Western Hauptrollen: David Oyelowo, Dennis Quaid, Forrest Goodluck, Lauren E. Banks, Barry Pepper, Grantham Coleman, Demi Singleton, Garrett Hedlund, Donald Sutherland … Serienbeschreibung: Der Mittlere Westen im 19. Jahrhundert: Bass Reeves (David Oyelowo) ist schwarz und hat sein Leben lang am eigenen Leib zu spüren…
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