In one of them, he contemplates suicide while silently holding a gun to his head. In his own cold rooms at the Elsinore Hotel, Hamlet broods as he watches TV and some goofy videos he has made. The rest of the movie also takes place in sterile settings. The affection between them lacks any warmth it’s mostly for the benefit of the press. The first time viewers see Claudius and Hamlet’s mother is at a press conference. He sleepwalks through Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, for example, and looks extremely nerdy and silly in a strange winter hat he sometimes wears.Īnother problem is the movie’s rather cold, sterile atmosphere. Such tricks cannot compensate, however, for Ethan Hawke’s lackluster performance as Hamlet. Also, instead of using a play about his father’s murder to prick his uncle’s conscience, Hamlet uses a video. For instance, Ophelia’s father Polonius attaches a listening wire to her so he and Claudius can spy on Hamlet. HAMLET uses some clever devices to update Shakespeare’s story to a modern setting. When a ghostly apparition looking like his father tells Hamlet that Claudius did in fact murder him, Hamlet tries to uncover the truth and to seek revenge and justice. The dead man’s son, Hamlet, is upset that his widowed mother Gertrude has married Claudius soon after his father’s death. Instead of the country of Denmark, the setting is the Denmark Corporation, where the head of the company may have been murdered by his brother, Claudius.
Finally, although there are no fornication scenes between Ophelia and Hamlet like in other recent versions, the movie dilutes the story’s Christian worldview and increases the occult appearances of the father’s ghost Content:Įthan Hawke is miscast as the melancholy prince in a new version of Shakespeare’s HAMLET.ĭirector Michael Almereyda places the story in modern-day New York. Hawke sleepwalks through Hamlet’s famous soliloquy and looks extremely silly in a strange winter hat. Such tricks cannot compensate, however, for Ethan Hawke’s lackluster performance as Hamlet and the movie’s cold atmosphere. Also, instead of using a play about his father’s murder to prick the uncle’s conscience, Hamlet uses a video. Ophelia’s father Polonius attaches a listening wire to her so he and Claudius can spy on Hamlet.
HAMLET uses some clever devices to update Shakespeare’s story.
The dead man’s son, Hamlet, is upset that his widowed mother has married Claudius soon after his father’s death. A new version of Shakespeare’s HAMLET takes place in modern-day New York City.
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