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KENNETH BRANAGH HAMLET FULL MOVIE YOUTUBE HOW TO

He says that Shakespeare dramatized how that fissure makes the statue crumble and disappear. His comments about the essential metaphor of Shakespearean tragedy as being (he says 'roughly') about a character being a perfect statue with a tiny fissure in the hand. What it demonstrates is that Olivier was not only a great actor but a phenomenal intellect who had a great understanding of human behaviour. It's in little segments of about 9 minutes each (for some unknown reason). It was all about 'Baz'!! (Isn't everything?!)ĭo try and watch the Tynan interview with Olivier which I provided on my first post. Then there are the egregious treatments, one in particular from Baz Lurhmann. See Ken Branagh, Mel Gibson, Laurence Fishburn, Burton and Taylor, de Caprio, Danes even dear old Dr. If anything, the cult of personality is a feature of comparatively more recent Shakespeare transferred to film.

KENNETH BRANAGH HAMLET FULL MOVIE YOUTUBE HOW TO

They were essentially stage actors, hence their excellent understanding of the play and how to deliver the lines convincingly. And, virtually all of those other actors in 'Hamlet' were almost unknown to general audiences (except, possibly, a young Jean Simmons and aged Felix Aylmer). All Shakespearean plays transferred to film have been edited, but I still regard Olivier's film of 'Hamlet' a masterpiece of acting, editing, production design and cinematography.

But film has the unique ability to visually display lots more information than a play can and much more 'economically'. Undoubtedly the entire play, sans editing, would not have stood a chance at the film box office. It's insightful and rewarding (remember to keep moving to the next section at the end of the one before): here was an extraordinarily intelligent, perceptive and imaginative human being. If anyone ever doubted the legitimacy of film acting here's the first part of a 5 part program made in 1966 with Kenneth Tynan interviewing Laurence Olivier. I don't know how Olivier was able to achieve this, but its a possible subject for a dissertation. It's actually a very brilliant film and, in many ways, quite avant garde. Though the other Shakespearean films made by Olivier are very good, this one in monochrome is visually daring, easily the best and uses the camera to choreograph metonymically the main themes of the play. The photography and mise-en-scene for Olivier's 'Hamlet' is taken straight out of the Orson Welles chiaroscuro model as used in 'Citizen Kane'. I was on my knees with this one, especially the crushing moments from 37'37' to 38'40'!! The final item of the score is 'Funeral March' and I'd advise anyone to listen to it. This is dramatized so that the soldiers' movements are exactly in sync with the music and the moody, long-shot framing of those silhouetted figures providing a stunning and emotional climax to the earlier proceedings. Who will ever forgot those closing minutes of the film when Hamlet's body is taken 'like a soldier' to his tomb high up on those steps. Though there are some parts of the film score which are faux 'Elizabethan era' music - which was fashionable in films at the time, right up to the early 70's - the majority of the score is superb. Trouble is this recording is actually a Shakespearean 'scenario' with the voice of John Gielgud. Martin in the Fields on U-Tube, where Marriner uses the original Walton orchestration. I've searched everywhere in vain for the original soundtrack for years but I've found this version from the Academy of St. Here's one of the most fabulous film scores you'll ever encounter William Walton's 'Hamlet'.

Kenneth branagh hamlet full movie youtube