I showed this to some of my nigh grade students and heard very few complaints.

But isn't it better to have a populace that knows the story and doesn't have to wade through a 60 line soliloquy, than to have them just ignore the whole thing. I agree that Gibson is much too old to be playing the young prince and it is pretty sparse in language. This film is not currently playing on MUBI, but many other great films are. I believe that for certain individuals, they feel these things need to be protected so they can be the only ones to enjoy these things. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his. This is Shakespeare for a more pedestrian audience (young people included) and what's wrong with that? I love classical music and theatre, but the snobbishness that some approach it with is a real turnoff. Personally, I would much prefer a more sophisticated adaptation, but I have had extensive Shakespeare studies in my education. Hey, I'm not a big fan of Mel Gibson, but this film makes the story and some of the language accessible. There are some in previous reviews that have criticized it and even called Branagh's acting 'pretentious.' I would venture that none of them has ever poured his heart and soul so earnestly and completely as Branagh obviously did with this movie. Once again, I read reviews saying this is the worst portrayal of Hamlet in the history of cinema. In the only unabridged film version of the classic play, here updated to the 19th century, Prince Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) is traumatized by the revelation that. The greatest film adaptation of Hamlet ever made.

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