More Shakespeare... please

Well the movie Strange Brew is VERY loosely based on Hamlet.

Ringfingers are like the back of car seats. You don't appreciate it untill it's not there.

I actually know of a lot of these kinds of movies.

Scotland, PA - Macbeth
O - Othello
10 Things I Hate About You - Taming of the Shrew
My Own Private Idaho - Henry V and Henry IV, parts I and II
West Side Story - Romeo and Juliet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Hamlet (not actually in a modern setting, but in very clever modern English)
Lion King - Hamlet (also not exactly a modern setting)
and, most unfortunately...
She's The Man - Twelfth Night

And there are simply loads of films that use Shakespeare's dialogue, but place it in a modern setting. I know that helps a lot of people who otherwise struggle with the plays.

yeah, I wish more movies were like Scotland PA because it takes a tragedy and makes it a comedy, instead of remaking a comedy(ew. teen movies). But I did like "O" a lot. My friend made a good point about it when we watched it in my Shakespeare class; she said that when she watched the story happen with teenagers, it was much more tragic and effective than watching Kenneth Branagh and Lawrence Fishbourne's version, because it was people her age. I think that movies like "O" and "Scotland PA" are a good way to either introduce Shakespeare to teens or maybe even help them be interested in it more.

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I would add Ian McKellen's "Richard III," which is based on the play by Shakespeare, but set in 1930's England, a sort of "alternate history line," as England is presented as having a fascist government.