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Re: Hamlet

2010-03-27T12:50:58-06:00

I saw it Romeo and Juliet made into a modern movie, it was worse than the play, they had guns called Longswords and they barely followed the storyline at all, it something similar to Romeo and Juliet in Runescape only with more explosions.

Statistics: Posted by Godders — March 27th, 2010, 12:50 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-27T12:34:06-06:00

Lol! Troilus is many things but I wouldn't call it accessible, particularly compared to R+J. I read Troilus a while back, but I remember being not quite sure what to make of it: sparkling dialogue to be sure and an interesting deflating of the mythological bubble, but some of the character machinations and the shifts in tone left me feeling a bit askance.

But for Romeo and Juliet: if by overdone you mean melodramatic with characters doing silly things, I'd agree. I just don't see that as a negative. It's a tragedy about two teenage lovers who were doomed from the opening lines, so of course their actions are rash and foolish.

The plot by itself is nothing very original - I'm sure it was appeared hackneyed to the original audience. But the poesy reaches a level of sublimity rarely matched in literature, Mercutio's Queen Mab is a wonder and sometimes it can be the simple things which touch us the deepest (which is not to say that there are depths to be charted if you so wish) . A theatre-goer walking out of a performance of Hamlet was asked what she thought of it. "It's just a bunch of cliches strung together." Its literary influence has been so pervasive (to say nothing of the hordes of teenage girls obsessed with it) that it can be difficult to appreciate its merits, but it has many.

Statistics: Posted by Tweedy — March 27th, 2010, 12:34 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-27T11:58:51-06:00

I just think it's a bad play. It's very overdone and it's just annoying by this point. We didn't even bother going over it in the Shakespeare course I took last semester because our professor basically agreed with us by saying it's a very over-rated performance. If you want a funny play with some interesting innuendos, try Troilus and Cressida. It's not Shakespeare's best by far, but the humor is a little more accessible.

Statistics: Posted by Blackmage172 — March 27th, 2010, 11:58 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-27T09:37:19-06:00

Blackmage172 wrote:

n00b 4 m1nin wrote:

Im doing the same thing, only with Romeo and Juliet

I like Shakespeare. I really do. Except that play sucks.

The play does suck until you understand what your saying, the Wet Maid it always using Innuendo.

Statistics: Posted by Godders — March 27th, 2010, 9:37 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-27T07:11:31-06:00

Blackmage172 wrote:

Kenneth Branagh's version is the best. His is frequently used in Shakespeare classrooms since it provides such an accurate portrayal that it's almost word-for-word from the play. Very well done and accurate, seeing as how Branagh is widely known in theatre as a pretty high-up Shakespearean scholar.

I really liked that version too.

Anyway, if you need the analysis of Hamlet (themes, symbolism, motifs, etc.) sparknotes is your best friend!:
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet

Statistics: Posted by A5chow — March 27th, 2010, 7:11 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-26T10:47:15-06:00

n00b 4 m1nin wrote:

Im doing the same thing, only with Romeo and Juliet

I like Shakespeare. I really do. Except that play sucks.

Statistics: Posted by Blackmage172 — March 26th, 2010, 10:47 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-26T03:06:25-06:00

Im doing the same thing, only with Romeo and Juliet

Statistics: Posted by Godders — March 26th, 2010, 3:06 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-26T00:35:00-06:00

n00b 4 m1nin wrote:

Why do you need to know if there is a movie closely linked to Hamlet?

I got a Midterm on Hamlet this Monday. And I just wanted to see the story line played out... :O

Thank you for all the feedback!

Statistics: Posted by Zone Ant — March 26th, 2010, 12:35 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-25T12:06:47-06:00

Statistics: Posted by Blackmage172 — March 25th, 2010, 12:06 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-25T01:58:32-06:00

Tweedy wrote:

Tanksandguns wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_%281948_film%29

That's probably as close as you could get.

Just be aware that Olivier's version cuts out a lot of the play (inevitable since it's only 2 and a half hours) and really plays up the Oedipus angle. Branagh's version of Hamlet is supposed to be uncut, but I haven't seen it.

I don't think Uncut couild do much harm, it's not as if it's gonna take out the important parts.

Statistics: Posted by Godders — March 25th, 2010, 1:58 am

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-24T23:46:25-06:00

Tanksandguns wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_%281948_film%29

That's probably as close as you could get.

Statistics: Posted by Tweedy — March 24th, 2010, 11:46 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-24T13:42:50-06:00

Why do you need to know if there is a movie closely linked to Hamlet?

Statistics: Posted by Godders — March 24th, 2010, 1:42 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-24T13:29:50-06:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_%281948_film%29

That's probably as close as you could get.

Statistics: Posted by Tanksandguns — March 24th, 2010, 1:29 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-24T13:01:46-06:00

Yep

Statistics: Posted by Zone Ant — March 24th, 2010, 1:01 pm

Re: Hamlet

2010-03-24T12:48:58-06:00

You mean Shakespeare's play, Hamlet?

Statistics: Posted by A5chow — March 24th, 2010, 12:48 pm

Hamlet

2010-03-24T12:43:41-06:00

Does anyone any movies that is closely related to the text Hamlet?

Statistics: Posted by Zone Ant — March 24th, 2010, 12:43 pm