Word: hamlet
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...consequence, the work remains one of confusion punctuated with moments of humor-the latter derived mainly from product placement. The ghost of Old Hamlet disappears into a "Pepsi One" sign, and the infamous brooding and melancholic speech "To be or not to be" is delivered in a Blockbuster video store in the "Action" section, next to the sign "Go Home Happy." Whether intentionally comic or not, they detract from the play's tension, sucking out any emotional involvement that might otherwise have existed...
...play is one of the greatest literary works written, but you wouldn't know it from Hamlet in the year 2000. Despite some fleeting high points, you might as well add "out of control" to Almereyda's acknowledgment the film was done "fast and cheap." The subject matter requires more time, more money and certainly more thought than this treatment has afforded...
...HAMLET...
While in Boston last week, Ethan Hawke gave a whirlwind media tour to promote his latest vehicle-an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet-with director Michael Almereyda. The Crimson sat down with the two of them in a college cattle call (er. . . round table) interview to share twenty minutes of their time...
...There have been a plethora of Shakespeare remakes in the past years, and Shakespeare is the trend you could say. What made you decide to do Hamlet...