{"id":10169,"date":"2023-11-24T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:38:21","slug":"plays-to-movies-amadeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10169","title":{"rendered":"Plays to Movies: Amadeus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are thousands of movies that are based on plays – earning its own Wikipedia<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare is the line leader here….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions<\/strong> of William Shakespeare’s plays as having been produced, which makes him the most filmed author ever in any language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,171 films, with 21 films in active production, but not yet released, as of June 2016. The earliest known production is King John<\/strong> from 1899.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Many of these play-to-movie productions fit into the category of Tragicomedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tragicomedy, as its name implies, invokes the intended response of both the tragedy and the comedy in the audience, the former being a genre based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis and the latter being a genre intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

WLBOTT Wonders:<\/strong> Isn’t life essentially a tragicomedy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What may be a moment of tragedy for one individual could be a source of comedy or resilience for another.<\/p>\n[chatGPT]<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

i.e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n