Re-posting link--Shakespeare's Julius Caesar--I suggest you watch till 49 minutes in--then watch the 2nd part post-assassination.

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Shakespeare is Shakespeare and can never be matched.

You will come across many words and phrases, that have worked their way into our everyday speech--such as "The most unkindest cut of all," (even worked its way subconsciously into one of my poems)

and

the last three words of this truly magnificent play--uttered by Mark Anthony "This was a man," of Brutus, here played by Jason Robards.

On another note, I was thinking of going to see Verdi's opera Aida--tickets in front at about $123-125--going fast--but decided not to as I could not hear very well--and have to factor in taxi fare

whereas I can watch this wonderful play as many times as I wish, and I can hear well and on my own time--

It's worth going slowly and studying how Shakespeare did it,based I am sure, on Plutarch.

He was very good with psychology, before psychology was even invented, as were the Greek plays,like Oedipus.

In King Lear (I saw a stage production of it at Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, where I lived 13 years), the most chilling part is when Iago comes up to the footlights and tells his schemes straight off to the audience.

He doesn't have a precise motive; he just did it for his own amusement. What we call today,"A power trip"

Hannah Arendt coined the term "the banality of evil."

I think bad people do bad things because they get some kind of thrill from it.

To go back to this movie, apart from the automatically-generated subtitles, everything else is perfect--the actors' diction,the weapons, the action sequences, The Battle of Philippi, the costumes and armor, even at one point the props--Mark Anthony played by Charlton Heston drinking water out of a piglet skin water "bottle"--and the scenery-- and the color palette to suit the Philippi landscape.

I think we should all watch more serious stuff sometimes,pacing it out with all the useless stuff.

That said, I often watch stereotypical "brain dead" pirated clips when I am tired. Can't tell one clip from the other.

But the greats are like your good and best friends who tell you important things, even if you only saw them a few times, or only once.

Try to make others remember you that way, instead of dishing out drivel and pulling the wool over people's eyes.

I particularly hate whiny, sugary females and puffed up males.

I once amused my mentor Josef Silverstein by telling him about the nature movie about a real bird called Cock of the Rock.

Well, good night.

See you tomorrow, I hope.

KMK

10-11-2025