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Jun 1, 2018 · Now, it’s getting another update, this one from first-time filmmaker Casey Wilder Mott, who has translated the tale into a delirious-looking Hollywood farce.
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world [Mott] had established” (Folger 2019). Taking its cue from A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s play-within-a play structure, the film offers a highly intertextual reflection of its medium. Mott describes his desire to “lean into the filmic medium. Film is inherently a more A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Casey Wilder Mott, USA, 2017) 3
Jun 17, 2017 · Casey Wilder Mott certainly knew that updating a Shakespeare play to present-day L.A. would call down instant comparisons to Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. He doesn’t shy away from that If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.
Sep 4, 2018 · Director Casey Wilder Mott's debut is admirable in its widely-gyrating invention, its sheer audacity. Click To Tweet. If it feels a bit like a bedroom farce by way of Athens, well, yes, there is some confusion at first about who’s with who. Shakespeare stirs the pot naughtily to make the plot contortions more confusing as the play progresses.
Aug 13, 2018 · The feature debut of Casey Wilder Mott, a version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that transplants this comedy of mismatched lovers from ancient Athens to contemporary La La Land is not one ...
Casey Wilder Mott's delightful modern day version of Shakespeare's work is perhaps the punniest, most meta adaptation of the bard's output to date. Set in an alternate Hollywood, where the famous sign now spells out 'Athens,' Nick Bottom (Fran Kranz) awakens in its hills determined that his dream be incorporated into the film being made at the AFI (Athens Film Institute) where '2B' is one of ...
