Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "While Waiting for Godot is a web series adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play 'En Attendant Godot'. It is the winner of Best Cinematography at the 2014 Rome Web Awards, and an Official Selection of the 2014 Miami Web Fest. The first two seasons are available on Youtube and the official website, whilewaitingforgodot.com , and Season 3 will premiere in the fall.The screenplay is based on a 2013 translation (by director Rudi Azank), \"in order to restore the language of Beckett’s more risqué original French script (the English script of the play has always been heavily censored). Also more present in the original manuscript are strong Vaudevillian and Jewish aspects of Didi and Gogo, the two lead characters, and a more 'gutter-talk' based banter between Beckett's homeless protagonists. Luckily, the web allows us to be completely uncensored.\" \"As part of his final film project for NYU, Azank adapted his own translation to the short film genre, creating vignettes shot in black and white. He admittedly does so with a nod to the cinematographic styling of the Italian neorealist filmmakers from post-war Italy, choosing, however, to set his 'Godot' as a modern-day New York City story.\" \"Azank's updating does in fact work; it's neither heavy-handed nor ill-conceived as so many updates of scripts often are, and as a filmed work with the actual backdrop of the city behind the cast, the changes agree with the setting. It's unusual to see GODOT with actual background and physical context that's not sparse, and the grounding in a very real, though altered-by-the-camera, New York changes the viewer's perspective entirely if familiar with the stage version - the absurdism is suddenly anchored in reality, making it seem perhaps less unreal than it normally does.\""@en }
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- While_Waiting_for_Godot abstract "While Waiting for Godot is a web series adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play 'En Attendant Godot'. It is the winner of Best Cinematography at the 2014 Rome Web Awards, and an Official Selection of the 2014 Miami Web Fest. The first two seasons are available on Youtube and the official website, whilewaitingforgodot.com , and Season 3 will premiere in the fall.The screenplay is based on a 2013 translation (by director Rudi Azank), \"in order to restore the language of Beckett’s more risqué original French script (the English script of the play has always been heavily censored). Also more present in the original manuscript are strong Vaudevillian and Jewish aspects of Didi and Gogo, the two lead characters, and a more 'gutter-talk' based banter between Beckett's homeless protagonists. Luckily, the web allows us to be completely uncensored.\" \"As part of his final film project for NYU, Azank adapted his own translation to the short film genre, creating vignettes shot in black and white. He admittedly does so with a nod to the cinematographic styling of the Italian neorealist filmmakers from post-war Italy, choosing, however, to set his 'Godot' as a modern-day New York City story.\" \"Azank's updating does in fact work; it's neither heavy-handed nor ill-conceived as so many updates of scripts often are, and as a filmed work with the actual backdrop of the city behind the cast, the changes agree with the setting. It's unusual to see GODOT with actual background and physical context that's not sparse, and the grounding in a very real, though altered-by-the-camera, New York changes the viewer's perspective entirely if familiar with the stage version - the absurdism is suddenly anchored in reality, making it seem perhaps less unreal than it normally does.\"".