February Movie Night: Coriolanus [2011]
Added 2020-03-14 21:57:44 +0000 UTC
The words of William Shakespeare... what more can be said about them? They're good, that's for sure. Can they be made better by adding guns and army guys? We find out in the latest Movie Night episode, tackling Ralph Fiennes' 2011 adaptation of the goddamned Bard's Coriolanus. It re-contextualizes the work from Ancient Rome to a modern day world of cable news, endless war, and popular uprising, foreign concepts indeed to those of us in 2020. We discuss the value of "The Canon," Slavoj Žižek's interpretation of the film, and much much more.
The film can be watched for free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/465485/coriolanus
And Žižek's take can be found here: https://www.newstatesman.com/film/2011/12/coriolanus-freedom-play
