Bang Bang vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for Bang Bang). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 43m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bang Bang
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Bang Bang | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Vincent Grashaw | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Nina Arianda, Daniella Pineda, Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Plummer, Rajiim A. Gross | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Bang Bang
Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations, including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago, who was privy to Bang Bang’s meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s as well as the rivalry with his former opponent, her cousin and Detroit's Mayoral candidate…
National Theatre Live: Antigone
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…
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