Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Shakespearean Bootage Part 1

William Shakespeare wrote a handful of plays that featured "woman disguised as a boy." Because this is prime fodder for bootage, I've made it a point to sample Twelfth Night and As You Like It (the two most popular) whenever they're adapted to film or TV. The results tend to be disappointing.
I was happy to see that the Russian version of Twelfth Night featured not only a pair of interesting boots, but had the brilliant idea of casting one actress to play both twins. The play calls for identical twins that happen to be different sexes. However brilliant he was at observing the human condition, it would appear that Shakespeare had a poor grasp of genetics. The upside of having one actress play both Viola AND Sebastian is twice as much bootage.

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http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/quyP5LXL/file.html
From Dvenadtsataya noch 1955
Sorry, no youtube

Before the Internet I never knew how much the Soviets loved both Shakespeare and Jules Verne.


Also, I was shocked at the resemblance between Klara Luchko who played Viola/Sebastian and Milana Vayntrub the "AT&T" girl(and Gilfoyle's satanist girlfriend on Silicon Valley).


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