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In Reply to: HAMLET is Great! posted by clarkjohnsen on June 21, 2000 at 08:32:35:
I saw the four hour Kenneth Branagh version and by the two and a half hour mark, 'I' wanted to kill Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Also saw Mel Gibson's "Lethal Hamlet"; wished he said "I'm gettin' too old for this sh*t".
Yeah, the Branagh was a stretch (yawn) but maybe ya gotta blame the bard. And while there's much to criticize in a youth-angst interpretation of Hamlet, for me it plays as well as many. And some of the insights shown by the director compete with any professor's. For instance, from the start Ophelia shows a strange affinity for walking beside fountains and pools...
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