I saw The Tempest (2010 ) at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was a terrible film.
Julie Taymor is not a very proficient film director, of course she has talent to make a few segments stunningly beautiful, as if in a play or a theatrical performance, but the severity of William Shakespeare's play is lost in a muddled and fabricated palette of inconsistently stupid and vapid CGI. William Shakespeare does not need elaborate and idiotic fake graphics to tell his stories. His words are as powerful as when they were written.
Stick with the superb Ran (1985) by Akira Kurosawa. It sill holds up after all these years.
Julie Taymor is not a very proficient film director, of course she has talent to make a few segments stunningly beautiful, as if in a play or a theatrical performance, but the severity of William Shakespeare's play is lost in a muddled and fabricated palette of inconsistently stupid and vapid CGI. William Shakespeare does not need elaborate and idiotic fake graphics to tell his stories. His words are as powerful as when they were written.
Stick with the superb Ran (1985) by Akira Kurosawa. It sill holds up after all these years.