Nor do I think it was necessary to give Yorick buck teeth that would match his unearthed skull (but poorly). I like John Gielgud and Judy Dench, but having them appear as Priam and Hecuba, as the Player King recites his emotional soliloquy about the death of Priam during the fall of Troy, felt shoehorned-in and distracting.Д«ad make-up choices: Hamlet Sr.вЂ™s contact lenses made sense as a вЂњperturbed spirit,вЂќ but in the flashbacks, too? WTF? But Brian Blessed was a force of nature as the ghost. I liked Billy Crystal as the first gravedigger I thought Robin Williams was a poor choice for Osric (or to be in a Shakespeare film, period). Charlton Heston was pitch-perfect as the Player King.

I like Jack Lemmon, but he just didnвЂ™t fit as one of the guards. This scene almost always gets cut, as far as I know, but itвЂ™s important to make the audience understand how disgusting ClaudiusвЂ™ favorite retainer is (which is a poor reflection on the king), and why we shouldnвЂ™t put too much stock in the often-quoted homilies that come out of his mouth: вЂњNeither a borrower, nor a lender, be вЂќ and вЂњTo thine own self be true.вЂќ Without this scene, people donвЂ™t understand how ironic these homilies are coming from this mealymouth, and donвЂ™t understand nearly as well just how damn funny it is when Hamlet later calls Polonius, to his face, a вЂњfishmongerвЂќ (pimp)-particularly as Polonius and Claudius just tried to throw Ophelia in HamletвЂ™s path. I love how we get to see the scene where Polonius instructs Reynaldo (played by GГ©rard Depardieu) to follow Laertes to Paris to spy on him- his own son! To spy on him, and to slander him to ferret out any confidences of LaertesвЂ™ presumed perfidies and infidelities. Kate Winslet was serviceable as Ophelia, but I have a friend who argues Helena Bonham CarterвЂ™s Ophelia was more believable, more pitiable, when the death of her father drives her mad in the Franco Zeffirelli version (the one that starred Mel Gibson). I love it because IвЂ™m a fan of BranaghвЂ™s work and itвЂ™s the whole play, which is almost never done. There are a number of other subs that discuss the various theories that someone other than the man from Stratford wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare may have been a master at murdering people with words, but as the late, great Chadwick Boseman said, 'We don't do that here.' Keep it civil, please.

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