{"id":1718,"date":"2019-10-30T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:32:49","slug":"book-the-force-doth-awaken-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/book-the-force-doth-awaken-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Force Doth Awaken (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1522784277l\/39712184._SX318_.jpg\" alt=\"The Force Doth Awaken\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">William Shakespeare\u2019s the Force Doth Awaken<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 2017<br \/>\nAuthor: Ian Doescher<br \/>\nLength: 123 minutes \/ 2.05 hours<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve been working my way through Ian Doescher\u2019s Shakespearean adaptations of pop culture movies, I think I\u2019ve hit the point where the novelty has worn off. For whatever reason, I didn\u2019t feel like&nbsp;<em>The Force Doth Awaken<\/em>&nbsp;had the same charm as other entries in this quirky mash-up series. I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be due to one of two factors: 1. The newer movies have more \u201cmodern\u201d dialogue that seemed as if it was directly plopped into the Shakespearean format, or 2. The original trilogy had more time to be ingrained in my psyche, and the translation to Shakespearean felt appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to downplay the novelty of this adaptation, though. The voice acting is still superb, and the sound effects add a little something extra that immersed me as I listened to this audiobook. Plus, it\u2019s not like these books are that lengthy anyway. If anything, I\u2019m out a little over an hour of my time to listen to it (since I listen at 2x speed). I did appreciate that Chewie finally received the internal monologue that R2-D2 originally had since these un-translatable individuals still have something to add. I was, however, disappointed that BB-8 didn\u2019t have the same treatment.<\/p>\n<p>One of the other factors with this \u201ctranslation\u201d that I wasn\u2019t too keen on was the meta aspect that kept winking at the reader and saying, \u201cSee? Do you get that reference?\u201d I understand that everything exists in the Star Wars universe, but I think most people who will pick up this book will already know those references anyway and don\u2019t need the coy allusions to other parts of the series. Of course, I\u2019ll still end up listening to the rest of these when I can get them from my library, but&nbsp;<em>The Force Doth Awaken<\/em>&nbsp;felt like a low point (at least until I get into the prequels).<\/p>\n<p>An almost too modern and meta Shakespearean adaptation, I give&nbsp;<em>The Force Doth Awaken<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare\u2019s the Force Doth Awaken Year: 2017 Author: Ian Doescher Length: 123 minutes \/ 2.05 hours As I\u2019ve been working my way through Ian Doescher\u2019s Shakespearean adaptations of pop culture movies, I think I\u2019ve hit the point where the novelty has worn off. For whatever reason, I didn\u2019t feel like&nbsp;The Force Doth Awaken&nbsp;had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[349,64,55,1799,8,284,285,2053,1802,2054],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-349","tag-audiobook","tag-book","tag-ian-doescher","tag-review","tag-star-wars","tag-the-force-awakens","tag-the-force-doth-awaken","tag-william-shakespeare","tag-william-shakespeares-the-force-doth-awaken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}