Laurence Olivier

Three people that stand out as leaders include Laurence Olivier, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and Edith Nourse Rogers. Laurence Olivier was born into a strict religious family in southern England around the beginning of the 20th century. Olivier’s schooling included acting and drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama, which led to him joining the Birmingham Repertory company. After taking multiple lead roles in many of Shakespeare’s plays, he became a success, helping him become the founding director

brilliant plays that were reinterpreted by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branaugh. The battle at Agin-court between the two producers was based on the same play but, staged so different. Kenneth Branaugh gets five stars for making the battle at Agin-court seem medieval, ferocious and forceful. As opposed to Laurence Olivier's battle that was not detailed. Laurence Olivier’s movie was very theatrical and supposedly comical. The movie wouldn’t be original if Olivier took out the Chorus and the narrator

and King Lear, two well-known actors in the 1960’s; Chips Rafferty and Laurance Olivier and The Vietnam War. When introducing the issues around the outsiders, Gow uses a juxtaposed allusion to highlight the differences between the two families. Harry to Tom “Congratulations, son. A real Laurence Olivier, you are.” This is a juxtaposed allusion, Harry is comparing Tom’s acting ability to the one of Laurence Olivier, an English actor in the 1960’s. This is foreign to the modern Australian audience

Comparing the Presentation of War in the Oliver and Branagh Film Versions of Henry the Fifth Many films have been made of Shakespeare’s play, “Henry V”. The two I am analysing are by Laurence Olivier (1944) and Kenneth Branagh (1988). They are made for very different audiences with different aims. Although they seem very different, in some ways, Branagh’s version used many techniques of Olivier’s. Both productions were performed to communicate the director’s feelings on

“Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband; show me a great actress and you’ve seen the devil.” -W.C. Fields, famous comedian There are quite a few Hollywood lives that support this quote. Cary Grant was married five times, having scandalous affairs between marriages. The iconic Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland, developed a severe addiction to alcohol and relied on medications to keep herself emotionally stable, eventually dying from an accidental overdose. These

Berardinelli has written a piece that includes only his opinion with no critical reasoning or specific evidence. Berardinelli gives background information on Hamlet itself when talking about how “legendary actors John Gielgud, Richard Burton, and Laurence Olivier have taken the lead role” (Berardinelli). He also gives background to Branagh’s connection with Hamlet and how it “has been something of a private obsession for Kenneth Branagh since the age of eleven” (Berardinelli). He then goes into a lengthy

The subtleties of such ambiguities make any direction a complex task as one tries to reconcile conflicting viewpoints. In doing so, there are two widely respected cinematic versions of Henry V that may be considered: Laurence Olivier's 1944 production and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 version. Olivier's version is pure patriotism, while Branagh's is grittier and much darker. Olivier's is more stylized and innocent, giving it a more chivalric and fairy-tale atmosphere. Branagh's

Hamlet Vs. Hamlet: A Comparison Between Films Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996) both created films about the Shakespearean play Hamlet, yet they are both very different. The two films were created fifty years apart and present their film using their own perspectives and interpretations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet while using the same themes Shakespeare had. Two important themes are the use of technology and treatment of women. In Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film, women are objectified; this

Actors interpret Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy with a mark of their own artistry. In films and on stage, actors who play Hamlet exhibit various degrees of emotion and pacing speed. It is difficult to evaluate the soliloquy on its own because the way the play is performed in its entirety gives meaning to the soliloquy while the soliloquy also illuminates a special interpretation in the play. However, I argue that the soliloquy has a musical structure – a sonata form, specifically –

Sir Laurence Olivier's Richard III versus Ian McKellan's Richard III INTRODUCTION It seems that modern Hollywood filmmakers are as much in love with Shakespeare's plays as were the 16th century audiences who first enjoyed them. Recent updates of Hamlet (1996) and Romeo and Juliet (1996), both highly successful movies, bear this out, as well as the two best film versions of Richard III; Sir Laurence Olivier's 1954 "period piece", and Ian McKellan's more modern interpretation (1995). In McKellan's