***** Well, the play-within-a-play and resulting commentary is also straight out of "Hamlet." (Borges was fascinated by the idea and wrote about it several times.) Lang Thompson http://members.aol.com/wlt4/index.htm In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970327171529.5087E-100000@nova> "D. R. Smith" <[log in to unmask]> writes: > >I rented the movie "A Midwinter's Tale" (written and directed by Kenneth >Branagh) over the weekend and found it very entertaining. It is about an >out-of-work actor who decides to direct an avant-garde production of >"Hamlet" (in a small English village called Hope, at Christmas) while he >is waiting to hear about "the job of a lifetime". I understand that >Branagh did this movie while he was waiting to do HIS version of "Hamlet". > >What I found most interesting was the "play within a play" aspect of the >movie, and that the characters of the movie are all actors in the play >so they provide us with an examination of the PLAY's characters as well >as their own. It reminded me a little of the characters in Pirandello's >"Six Characters in Search of an Author". I was wondering if you guys know >of any other movies/plays/etc. that do this sort of thing. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite