NYTimes.com: It’s easy to imagine that the performers in “Caesar Must Die,” a riff on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” are cut from coarser, more authentic material than that found in most productions. The movie, after all, is set in an Italian prison and cast almost entirely with real inmates. The prisoners’ rough faces and darting eyes, the crooked arc of one man’s nose and the unnervingly sly line of another’s smile, suggest so much (murder most foul, to borrow a line), as do the occasional shivery biographical asides, particularly about the mafia, that jostle alongside the play’s poetry. These men, surely, know about betrayal, vengeance and power,knife in the gut and hands washed in blood.
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This project reminds me much of The Man with the Movie Camera in the way of deconstructing the film. The directors in Caesar Must Die did what I think is very clever and gave us glimpses at their processes which in return gives us a better appreciation for the film. Just as in The Man with the Movie Camera the director brakes down what was used to build it and creates a new product showing the rehearsal of the scenes are extremely as important as the scenes themselves even if they would never have been seen. I would love a chance to see this move because of its interesting nature and to see how Shakespeare can change being cut, reset and even preformed by non-traditional actors.
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