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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Actors/Actresses:
- Tim Roth
- Gary Oldman
- Tom Stoppard

An extremely innovative and incredible film!

A friend rented this and I happened to walk in scant minutes after it started. We rewound it and watched it, and watched it *again* after it finished! Then I went to my local bookstore and bought the script!BR>BR>This movie operates on so very many different levels, and the fact that it's a play, within a play, within a play.....has an appeal to anyone who's trodden the boards and chewed on the scenery. The Player makes one of the most thought-provoking and intrigueing comments on actors ; acting;BR>BR> Quoting:BR>BR>"We stick to our usual stuff more or less. Only inside-out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to be off. Which is a kind of integrity is you look upon every exit being an entrance somewhere else."BR>BR>The blocking/editing of the scene where Ros ; Guil play at questions and placing them on a tennis court is nothing short of AMAZING GENIUS!BR>BR>Aficionados of The Bard's works will appreciate this twist on what is probably the most famous play in the English language.....but it isn't the Bard, but an entirely different flavour. The liner notes say that Ros ; Guil are the Shakespearian equivalent of Laurel and Hardy....but they're also a bit like Bill ; Ted!BR>Although this film is sort of the equivalent of the Post-It Note on the Complete Works of Shakespeare.....it's worth a watch!BR>I just wish they would re-release this gem on DVD 'cause I've just about worn out my copy I taped off of PBS!

INCREDIBLE!!!!

This has got to be one of the smartest, most brilliantly written, most hillarious movies I've ever seen. Roth and Oldman have an incredible chemistry and create the most realistic friendship I've seen in quite some time. Stoppard's writing is amazingly funny and also steeped deeply in Shakespearian knowledge. If you know Shakespeare well, or Hamlet well, this movie is a special treat becasue it examines two of the seemingly most insignificant characters in an entirely new way. Of course, if you have never seen Hamlet or you don't know a lot about Shakespeare, this film also works on completely different levels, no less funny or entertaining. Rozencrantz ; Guildenstern have their own story here, and it is told with incredible wit and preciseness. The game of questions and the continual destuction of all of Oldman's discoveries/inventions are alone worth seeing the movie for, but there is so much more here that will entertain ALL types of viewers (from the Shakespearians on down to the ShakeWHO?ians). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! I only wish it were out on DVD! or more readily avaliable on VHS :P

They'll never release the Region 1 DVD!

This is a great movie, but after waiting about 18 months for them to release a Region 1 DVD, I just got fed up and ordered the Region 0 one from the UK. It hardly cost much more, and it was well worth it. I should have done that a long time ago -- apparently when it says 'Region 0' it means there is NO REGION PROTECTION. Region 0 discs will play in drives set to ANY REGION.P>It works in my laptop without switching the region of the drive, as if you needed more proof. So buy the UK version, already!
Before I figured out this Region-protection (RCE) stuff, though, I had already ripped the DVD to my hard drive and burned it to a blank DVD R, and put the original in a cool, dark place (usual procedure with media that means a lot to me -- I use the copies). If it had been region-protected, my software (DVD Decrypter, free on the web) would have stripped out the region code anyway. If it was too big to fit on a DVD R, I would have stuck it on my external USB drive and played it from that. So much for RCE.
Morals of the story: (1) If you use your computer to watch movies, buy the imports with impunity and make copies of your originals for your own use. Your copies won't be Region-alized. (2) If you use your TV to watch DVDs, buy an all-region player and help do away with RCE!

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