Doctor Faustus

I really did not enjoy this movie. It did help me to understand the play a little better, and it certainly illustrated the action better than reading the play, however I found it to be way too intense to the point of being awkward. The scenery was really the only redeeming quality of the play for me. The costumes were amazing, and all of the props and backgrounds were extravagant. The director's interpretation, however, I did not like. I felt like I spent half of the movie waiting for the awkward pauses to be over. Several times, I had to hold myself back from rolling my eyes while wishing for it to just move on already. While Elizabeth Taylor is an amazing actress and was absolutely stunning, as Professor Parent mentioned, the music that played when she came on stage was really horrible. Richard Burton was also a great actor in this film, but I just had trouble connecting to him. I wasn't symapthetic nor against him, I honestly did not care what happened to him as a character. I thought that the message of the play is still relevant, but I did not like this interpretation of it. If I were a movie-goer and I was watching the movie by choice, I think I would have a hard time sitting through the whole film.