Favorite Hamlet?
09-26-05, 10:55 PM
#1
Favorite Hamlet?
There wer so many Hamlet movies done, this play has had the most movies made out of it, heck just look it up at imdb there are 59. There are other great versions i enjoy, my favorite is Hamlet (1948) with Lawrence Olivier. So many great things in here, the grave diggers droll performance, great cinemetagrophy by the renown Desmond Dickinson, heck even a young Christopher Lee is the spear carrier in this one.
09-27-05, 01:48 AM
#6
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Originally Posted by Premise
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
09-27-05, 09:45 AM
#7
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Just for wackiness, Strange Brew.
I haven't seen the version with Ethan Hawke but want to, it's one of the few (only?) versions where the actor playing Hamlet is about the right age ... although reading here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../hamletage.htm
Mel Gibson was pretty close. I always thought that Hamlet should be in his early twenties.
I haven't seen the version with Ethan Hawke but want to, it's one of the few (only?) versions where the actor playing Hamlet is about the right age ... although reading here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../hamletage.htm
Mel Gibson was pretty close. I always thought that Hamlet should be in his early twenties.
09-27-05, 10:17 AM
#9
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My favorite is the Olivier version, even though it's the least faithful of the adaptations. I like that Branagh's version doesn't cut anything, but all the cameos are infuriating.
09-27-05, 01:09 PM
#12
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Originally Posted by das Monkey
Sir Derek Jacobi
Last edited by Groucho; 09-27-05 at 01:14 PM.
09-27-05, 01:27 PM
#13
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• Groucho •
I'm sorry, but Patrick's Stewart's afro makes that version impossible to take seriously.
I'm sorry, but Patrick's Stewart's afro makes that version impossible to take seriously.
Originally Posted by Mon Capitaine
Thou mayst not coldly set
Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
By letters congruing to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet. Make it so, England;
For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done,
Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
Our sovereign process, which imports at full,
By letters congruing to that effect,
The present death of Hamlet. Make it so, England;
For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me. Till I know 'tis done,
Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
09-27-05, 05:48 PM
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Branagh's. I want to barf on Gibson's version.
We got to watch both versions in my AP Lit class along with parts of Olivier's version after reading the play.
I love everything about Branagh's - the fact that he uses almost the entire play, the costumes, Jacobi, etc. etc. And desperately want it on DVD.
We got to watch both versions in my AP Lit class along with parts of Olivier's version after reading the play.
I love everything about Branagh's - the fact that he uses almost the entire play, the costumes, Jacobi, etc. etc. And desperately want it on DVD.
09-27-05, 06:10 PM
#16
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Mel Gibson's. Mainly because of Helena Bonham Carter.
09-28-05, 02:12 AM
#20
Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
Pork-filled German Hamlet. 
"Oh man me and Horatio got blasted on aquafine, woke up the next day on the express train to Copenhagen."
"well i'll be going now... i guess.."
09-28-05, 10:58 AM
#22
I also prefer KB's version. I heard it was slated for release soon at thedigitalbits.com ill check for a link.
Mel Gibsons is watchable. I actually saw the set when they were filming it (at Dover Castle)
Mel Gibsons is watchable. I actually saw the set when they were filming it (at Dover Castle)
09-28-05, 11:01 AM
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news on the KB version would be greatly welcomed. i've been waiting years for it.
i'd use my vhs copy, but i don't think there is a vcr in the house anymore.
i'd use my vhs copy, but i don't think there is a vcr in the house anymore.
