Hamlet Hum

[bunn]

Certainly can't complain at Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, but not entirely convinced by David Tennant's Hamlet, particularly during the scenes with Ophelia. Ophelia was good though.

Laertes was a tit, but then I guess Laertes is a bit of a tit so maybe that was just well acted...  But I think I prefer him more angry and less... prattish. 

On the whole, thinking that Hamlet probably works better on the stage than as a film, though the references to CCTV were quite clever and would have been a bit more difficult to do on stage probably. 

Comments

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I think I'd agree - Patrick Stewart was inspired (he makes it sounds as though he is speaking modern English and David Tennant doesn't). And I thought the setting didn't add anything - if different costumes/settings/scenery make you look at the play in a different way, it's a bonus (the recent Macbeth in the vaguely Stalinist totalitarian state underlined the ruthlessness of the Macbeths in a way I'd never quite seen before). But the Hamlet setting didn't seem to have a reason.