Coriolanus - Rome, Shakespeare and M16's

[some_hobo]

I'm really surprised that there hasn't been a thread on this yet.
Set in pre-imperial Rome.
'Coriolanus' is about Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes). Later to be known as Caius Martius Coriolanus - a title awarded to him for sacking the city of Corlioli - the capital of another Italian state.
He's propelled into the politics side of Rome due to him being generally kick ass on the battlefield, much to the delight of his Mother.

Sicinius and Brutus, two ass hole tribunes, set out to sever Martius' link to the common man by causing controversy over whether or not the people can choose the base price of corn, thus being able to rule their own food markets.

Martius is declared an enemy of the people and is expelled from Rome. He travels back to his old enemy, the Volcians, led by the warlord Aufidius (Gerard Butler) and joins them to attack his own people - making war on Rome.

Without further delay, here is the trailer (Its really hard not to imagine Voldemort with an M16)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYrGIQnmxo[/media]

[Arachnidus]

Pre-Imperial Rome using modern day assets? That's probably the best original idea I've heard all year.

[some_hobo]

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;32019846]Pre-Imperial Rome using modern day assets? That's probably the best original idea I've heard all year.[/QUOTE]

This has been done for ages;
10 things I hate about you - Taming of the Shrew
'O' - Othello
'Scotland, PA - Macbeth'
(and I will NOT mention that pigshit that DiCaprifuck did with Romeo and Juliet)

The beauty of Shakespeare is that most if not all of the plays can be set in any time period that you wish as the concepts of revenge, jealousy, backstabbing, love, war and all the other good shit can be applied to any time period.
Most of which has, to date, been done fucking horribly as people want to steal the story and make a few pesos quickly.

Difference being that Ralph Fiennes is a talented actor who used to do stage performances of Coriolanus to great affect. I'm hoping and praying that his modern adaptation retains the idea that the [i]dialogue[/i] is powerful enough not only big booms.

I'm almost certain you'd rather M16's than men in tight tights flashing you their ball bags with every stride? (What am I saying? Why would you not want to see Butlers muscular ball bags?)

[GodKing]

Why does the last part of the title have to be "anus"? I can't take it seriously.

[Joyful Mystery]

[QUOTE=GodKing;32020462]Why does the last part of the title have to be "anus"? I can't take it seriously.[/QUOTE]

Reminds me of this. Skip to 0:33 for Coriolanus specifically.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR8DBdZZTt0[/media]

[JaegerMonster]

This actually looks fucking great.

[MachiniOs]

Hopefully it doesn't tank.

[DualReaverV2]

This looks awesome.

[GodKing]

All joking about the title aside, this movie does look interesting.

[markfu]

As long as its better than Romeo + Juliet.

[JaegerMonster]

Yo ralph fiennes is a scary looking motherfucker

[Publius]

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;32019846]Pre-Imperial Rome using modern day assets? That's probably the best original idea I've heard all year.[/QUOTE]

This has been done many, many times. Particularly with Shakespeare. You do know Lion King is just Hamlet, right?

Also, people who like the look of this might want to know two things:

1. It tanked at previews
2. Check out Richard Loncraine's Richard III (1995) - the story of Richard of Gloucester, but moved to a sort of hyperreal 1930s fascist version of Britain, with Ian McKellen, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Maggie Smith and more...

[img]http://artsandfetters.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/richardiii.jpeg[/img]

Best protrayal of Richard. Good luck finding a DVD though, it's been out of print for years...