Note To TV Producers

[poliphilo]

Nothing shouts "limited resources" as much as a battlefield which is all strenuous foreground action with nothing going on behind. Note to TV producers: if you want to fool the public into believing you've got a movie-sized budget, think in depth. Always have something happening in the background. Fill that empty field. And if you really don't have the extras- or the wrecked waggons or burning hayricks-  to pull this off, shoot at close quarters, from above. 

Comments

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Tried commenting earlier. I saw a Shakespeare with a black guy as the Duke of Norfolk (or somewhere). Now, I am all for black actors getting parts but it seems silly (just as Julius Caesar in ww2 uniforms or Titus Andronicus in 1930s costume). Duke of Thingy was not black. White Othello?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then neither did the Duke of Thingy speak in Elizabethan blank verse. Shakespeare isn't a realist. His plays are full of inaccuracies and anachronisms. I don't see why we shouldn't add a few of our own. Modern dress productions don't bother me. Shakespeare's own actors would have worn contemporary dress.

There have been white Othellos. Patrick Stewart appeared quite recently in a production where Othello was white and everybody else was black. And why not?