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Title: Beginning by Kenneth Branagh ISBN: 0-312-05822-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Branagh is brilliant; wonderful, witty, honest autobiography
Comment: Anyone that wants to know more about Ken Branagh and his theatre work will love this book. I am totally in love with Ken Branagh after seeing his numerous Shakespeare films (Much Ado about Nothing, Henry V, etc). He has an absolutely wonderful sense of humor and great wit.
The writing is incredibly; he is entertaining throughout and he is completely honest and genuine. (I found that very endearing) I especially loved how he reacted to certain aspects of theatre, how he interpreted Shakespeare text, and his reactions to blessings and upsets.
It is a real joy to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Attempt Greatness
Comment: I'm in love with Kenneth Branagh--no! Not that way! I'm in love with the talent and the drive. And the love is mixed with equal parts envy and recrimination. Oh, how I would like to be Branagh, 28 and directing himself in Henry V, or, even before that, just as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, filming a movie of the early life of D.H. Lawrence in Australia. Yes, I would like to be an actor, but for ever much a dream it may be in Britain, even more so in America. Here, there are only two places where one can gain recognition--New York and Los Angeles. Even more so, those are probably the only places one could make a living at it. But it's envy of the man's energy just as much. Sure, it may be the case that becoming an actor is easier in Britain, but then how does one explain Branagh's writing his own one-man shows, or his first play. No, this is truly a man with talent and drive, probably equally strong. And so the recrimination. I am 27, only a year away from the magic age at which this book was written, and what do I have to show for it? I finally have my Bachelor's degree, I've published two stories and written a few more, I've been involved in one magazine of note, and I've lived in several places besides where I grew up. And that's it. Not really a lot. Wasted time? Some of it, and yet, on the other hand, I wouldn't exchange it, either. I just with that I had something more tangible to show for it. Branagh's young to write an autobiography, even a first volume as this undoubtably will turn out to be, and he comments as much. Even for all his accomplishments, he isn't content to rest. There's a moral there, I believe. What Branagh has to show you is that greatness, which I do believe he has already obtained, is not an ephemeral quality, but elusive and rare. It can be had, through hard work. I heard someone recently on NPR--a poet, I think--talk about writing. He said, attempt greatness, because if you fail, well, then, it may simply be good, which isn't bad. But if you only attempt to be good.... I will attempt greatness.
Rating: 5
Summary: BEAUTIFUL BOOK
Comment: GREAT BOOK: 1. THE SKETCHES ARE DRAWN BU EMMA THOMPSON'S MOTHER. 2. DELIGHTFUL SCENE WHEREIN JUDI DENCH TELLS OF HER PAST HENRY V CATHERINE WITH EMMA THOMPSON, THE PRESENT V CATHRINE ON THE DAY OF THE FRENCH TO ENGLISH.
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Title: Much Ado About Nothing: Screenplay, Introduction, and Notes on the Making of the Movie by William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, Clive Coote ISBN: 0393311112 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Midwinter's Tale: The Shooting Script by Kenneth Branagh ISBN: 1557042748 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hamlet: By William Shakespeare by Kenneth Branagh, William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson, Rolf Konow, Peter Mountain ISBN: 0393315053 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title:Hamlet ASIN: 078062999X Publisher: Castle Rock Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.98 |
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Title:Look Back in Anger ASIN: 6302041406 Publisher: Hbo Studios Pub. Date: 14 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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