Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're getting a little Shakespearean, because we're going to be discussing multiple different adaptations of the Scottish play.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

That's what I say.

I don't know if the emphasis was on the right syllables there.

I will be the non-expert on this podcast because while I, like many students, were forced to do Shakespeare in high school, and I think I took a university

class on his work, nothing or their work.

Nothing has been absorbed at all in me when it comes to Shakespeare.

How about you, Will?

That's right, because we all know, of course, that all the plays were really written by

Francis Bacon or someone else, right?

Of course. If Roland

Emmerich says so, then I believe it. Yeah, Shakespeare, I like him. I think he's a good guy.

When I was growing up, my late parents would always take me to Stratford or at a high park to see

like whatever the comedy they were playing in the summer was. My parents, God love them. God rest their souls,

always felt that it was somehow frivolous or something to go see like the musicals at Stratford.

You had to go see the Shakespeare play's video at Stratford. So there's another Rosetta Key moment

to unlocking why I'm the awful person that I am is because I grew up like that. You just made me

realize that I had seen a Shakespeare play in Toronto outdoors and was a big production that I had

completely forgotten about, that I saw like a midsummer's night dream, but I'm sure I sat there,

smiling, watching, and then left going, man, I don't get much of out of that. I mean, look, the language is hard. The language is hard for me. It's hard for you. It's hard for everyone. Shakespeare on film can be easier. Like, I like putting on the subtitles and reading the language as it goes along. The language really comes alive for me that way, because oftentimes the lines are spoken in that kind of Yoda way, where things are said out of normal order. Listen, they got to get to those 10 syllables to make this work, so he's going to add a bunch in. Yeah, and when you see them on the screen, you can realize, oh, okay, that's what it means. Gee, that's quite beautiful. That's very, that's very poetic language. Good job, Shakespeare. You know how many sayings Shakespeare himself invented?

Click on this top 20 list of find out. I got to say, every time I see a Shakespeare play,

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