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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – Zelig



Movie – Zelig

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1983
Director:  Woody Allen
Country: USA
Language: English. (German in some segments). 
Duration: 1h19 

Writers: Woody Allen

The life of Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen), a human chameleon - a man who transforms himself according tho the people around him - is treated by Dr Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow), a psychiatrist who searches an explanation for his odd disorder.

Woody Allen's fascination sets this mockumentary  in the 1920-30's and is mixes that period's black & white newsreels and archives, alternating with modern-day interviews (1983) in color segments.

Both real and fictional characters appear, and the movie is narrated by Patrick Horgan.

Zelig explores an individual's need for approval and the shifts society can have towards any given person.  

I liked the social comments, and quirky direction and acting, but hated the music : I never liked that periods jazz & swing music, but they were appropriate to the movie setting, evidently. 

I cannot comment image or sound qualities as the dvd I borrowed at the media library were poor.






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