Almereyda's remark about the existence of a Hamlet porno made me want to track down some evidence of it. Turns out there's not just one, but at least two Hamlet skin flicks as well as a whole slew of Shakespearian themed porn videos. Which makes sense, I guess, given the penchant for puns in porn titles. Who could resist Romeo In Juliet? The Taming of the Screw? Much Ado About Nuttin'?
Here's a humorous run-down of some of the titles in this sub-genre, including a synopsis of X Hamlet: "Something is pervy in the state of Denmark..."
A slightly more academic appraisal of the Bardcore genre can be found here.
5 comments:
Wow,
Yea, it all makes sense now...real easy to adapt line from Hamlet into a porn flick...
I was ROTF..."To screw or not to screw"...
I am also interested in the other lines that they said were from the original play...must be a great twist on words!
It probably looks like a blurred the picture on purpose---actually I just couldn't find a big picture of the video box so I decided to enlarge it and let it pixilate as much as possible.
I wish some of these were more clever---the punning titles are about as good as it gets, I suspect.
the titles gave me a good laugh. i wonder if shakespear had any idea one day his lines would be used in such a way. haha.
could you go through all the pictures on the side of the main blog page saying what they're from?
Hmmmm..I'll do that soon Meg. If I have time I'll make a post about it this weekend with links to information about all the films, ok?
But I could forget, so remind me!
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