Love: As You Like It (2012)
Actors:
Keith Barletta (actor),
Stephen Brookins (actor),
Colin Cotter (actor),
Skip Emerson (actor),
Sullivan Jones (actor),
Alan Kaiser (actor),
Ricky Lacorte (actor),
Jamila Majesty (actor),
Hugo Pierre Martin (actor),
Quintin McFadden (actor),
Michael Navarra (actor),
Michael Navarra (actor),
Gerry Reyes (actor),
Corey J. Roberts (actor),
Amir Abdullah (actor),
Plot: LOVE: As You Like It - adapted from Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It - takes viewers on a wild ride through San Francisco's artistic and culturally diverse Mission District as a group of dynamic characters struggle with what it means to love, and to be loved. Using Shakespeare's original language, the film follows free-spirited Rosalind and her cheeky cousin Celia as they throw off the shackles of childhood, disguise themselves as hipsters and run away to the city in order to experience life and love at its fullest. Along the way, they encounter a motley crew of San Francisco misfits including sensitive Silvius and his unrequited punk love Phebe, lugubrious stand-up comic Jacques and his blue-haired friend Audrey, and more. When the girls stumble on lovesick Orlando, who, blinded by love, is unable to see past Rosalind's masculine disguise, they decide to have a little fun. Rosalind, seizing the opportunity to test her love's love, offers to cure his sickness - all he has to do is call her Rosalind. After some hesitation, he agrees, and with that, she enacts every single womanly cliché she can think of in an attempt to make him hate her - something, she finally realizes, he is simply not capable of doing.
Keywords: based-on-play, love, san-francisco-bay, shakespeare's-as-you-like-it
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Taglines: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. A San Francisco love story - as told by Shakespeare.
As You Like It (2006)
Actors:
Sacha Bennett (actor),
Brian Blessed (actor),
Brian Blessed (actor),
Kenneth Branagh (actor),
Richard Briers (actor),
Jonathan Broadbent (actor),
Justin Hoong-Fai Chan (actor),
Paul Chan (actor),
Richard Clifford (actor),
Patrick Doyle (actor),
Gerard Horan (actor),
Kevin Kline (actor),
Adrian Lester (actor),
Alfred Molina (actor),
Jotham Annan (actor),
Plot: Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick (who is younger brother to Duke Senior and took over his dukedom), with her cousin Celia (daughter to Duke Frederick). She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but before she can even think twice about it, she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia, being Rosalind's best friend, goes with Rosalind (who is disguised as a boy, Ganymede) and Touchstone, the court's fool, to the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing the wrath of Orlando's eldest brother. What follows is an elaborate scheme devised by the cross-dressing Rosalind to find out the verity of Orlando's supposed passion for her, and to further capture his heart, through the witty and mischievous façade of Ganymede.
Keywords: based-on-play, court-jester, cross-dressing, disguise, exile, forest, idyllic-setting, interracial-relationship, melancholy, reference-to-william-shakespeare
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: Romance...or something like it.
Quotes:
Touchstone: The fool doth think he is wise but, the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Jaques: All the world's a stage,/ And all the men and women merely players: /They have their exits and their entrances; /And one man in his time plays many parts,/ His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,/ Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms./ And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel/ And shining morning face, creeping like snail /Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, /Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad /Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, /Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, /Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,/ Seeking the bubble reputation /Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, /In fair round belly with good capon lined, /With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, /Full of wise saws and modern instances; /And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts /Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, /With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, /His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide /For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, /Turning again toward childish treble, pipes /And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, /That ends this strange eventful history, /Is second childishness and mere oblivion, /Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Jaques: And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and from hour to hour, we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale.
Jaques: Good morrow, fool!::Touchstone: O sir, call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.
Orlando De Boys: I do desire we may be better strangers.
Rosalind: I would rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. And to travel for it too!
Duke Senior: Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Rosalind: Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I had as lief be wooed of a snail.::Orlando De Boys: Of a snail?::Rosalind: Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head; a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings his destiny with him.
Jaques: More, more, I prithee, more.::Amiens: It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.::Jaques: I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, prithee, more.::Amiens: My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.::Jaques: I do not desire you to please me, I do desire you to sing. Come, more; another stanza: call you 'em stanzas?::Amiens: What you will, Monsieur Jaques.::Jaques: Nay, I care not for their names. They owe me nothing. Will you sing?::Amiens: More at your request than to please myself.::Jaques: Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you. Come, warble.::Amiens: The duke hath been all this day to look you.::Jaques: I have been all this day to avoid him. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the first-born of Egypt.
Jaques: I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.::Rosalind: They say you are a melancholy fellow.::Jaques: I am so; I do love it better than laughing.::Rosalind: Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards.::Jaques: Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.::Rosalind: Why then, 'tis good to be a post.::Jaques: I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.::Rosalind: A traveler! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then, to have seen much and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.::Jaques: Yes, I have gained my experience.::Rosalind: And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad; and to travel for it too!::Orlando De Boys: Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!::Jaques: Nay, then, God by you, an you talk in blank verse.::Rosalind: Farewell, Monsieur Traveler.
As You Like It (1978)
Actors:
Paul Bentall (actor),
James Bolam (actor),
Tony Church (actor),
Richard Easton (actor),
Carl Forgione (actor),
Clive Francis (actor),
Max Harvey (actor),
Arthur Hewlett (actor),
Barry Holden (actor),
Jeffrey Holland (actor),
Mike Lewin (actor),
Tom McDonnell (actor),
David Lloyd Meredith (actor),
John Moulder-Brown (actor),
Timothy Bateson (actor),
Plot: Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.
Keywords: based-on-play, shakespeare's-as-you-like-it
Genres:
Comedy,
Quotes:
Orlando: Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.
