An American musical written, directed and produced by Spike Lee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito.
A racist activist's brother is pledging to a college fraternity that he disapproves of. The activist and fraternity leader have a long-standing grudge.
Pointless. The plot went nowhere and the characters were stereotypical. The video style was good, but I don't like musicals and the soundtrack was annoying. Overall, a well-filmed and edited piece of crap. I rate this bad. Racist cowboy says it's a pickaninny picture.
A drama directed by Orson Welles and Oliver Parker, starring Lawrence Fishburne (1995).One man plays other people off against each other until they act like the villain that he is.The plot and characters are very good (multi-hundreds of years old Shakespeare plays tend to have this in common). The 2 versions were very similar, despite the difference between color and non-colorized film. The 1952 film had a little less entertainment value because of lack of color. In the 1995 version, Iago's monologues to the audience were extremely effective. These films use a little less of the "poetry language" than Hamlet, but still retain the same type of style. The production value was also very similar to Hamlet in the 1995 version, with short camera shots strung together like in an action film. I'm rating them both (as they weren't very different, hence why remake?) the same as Hamlet, adequate.
