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It may be that Branagh felt “I’m doing the WHOLE play” was a USP which alone justified doing this six years after Zeffirelli.īrian’s “O list!” is just FUNNY. I favour cutting the line, it’s too amusing post-Wodehouse, and for those of us who know the text somewhat, correcting it is a distraction. “He clearly MEANT to write porcupine,” says Branagh, rapping his knuckles against the playscript, whap! It could easily be a mistranscription. Actually, BB says “like quills upon the fretful porcupine,” instead of “porpentine,” which is what we have in Shakespeare’s text. This serves to distract attention away from the Ghost quoting Bertie Wooster, possibly a good thing. More bubbling and seething ground, feels like the same footage we had before, now step-printed for some mysterious reason. Here we’re in a shot / reverse shot dialogue scene and the abrupt profile at 1.39 is jarring a.f. In fact, there were lots as Hamlet was haring through the woods, but they came as a cluster and you could call that a consistent stylistic approach. Random angle change! About time we had one of those. Basically, all these restrictions turn the Ghost into a bore. Giving Brian contact lenses and ordering him not to blink makes his ghost rather… blank. I understand how, with a four hour text, they felt the need to rush everything - one more reason not to do the whole text.

Though I think that kind of thing works better if the scene is taking its time. I don’t hate the Japanese ghost story trick of the light fading up on BB’s silhouetted face. (The Zeffirelli pretty much nails this requirement.) When Branagh does this with pictures of Blessed and Jacobi, it’s hilarious. Hamlet shows his mother miniature paintings of both men, trying to show to her what a bad choice she’s made. is noble-looking but stern and not so sexy. It’s probably quite helpful if Claudius is a good-looking guy, sexy, and maybe Hamlet Sr. These relationships raise a lot of questions the movie/play can’t answer. We are being asked to believe that Julie Christie was married to Brian Blessed and then was won away by Derek Jacobi. (In the Olivier, the ghost is erect, straight up and down, but Hamlet’s father, in flashback, is a bit rolly-polly).īrian Blessed for Player King. And I don’t know, but on a basic level a fat ghost feels wrong.

And one-note.Īll the theatrics have nothing to do with psychology, or any credible notion of the supernatural and its rules within this story world.

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Plus the fact that it’s a very enunciated, very loud STAGE whisper, and electronically treated, makes it rather silly. Unfortunately (1) Gielgud had beaten them to it and (b) Gielgud gains power by his whisper, he becomes more dominating, and Blessed loses power. I have a vague theory that either Branagh or Blessed saw this and thought it would be great to cast BB in something where he only whispers, to show his versatility. “No, no, he’s very soft-spoken!” “Then why is he always SHOUTING?” “Who SHOUTS all the time? I love it!” roars the puppet Blessed. They had writer John Mortimer, in puppet form, pitching a show where BB would play a very quiet man. The show also spoofed Brian Blessed as an actor who likes shouting. Robert Altman was apparently pretty shitty about her refusal.

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The TV sketch show Spitting Image had a strange influence on the world - it may have actually influenced the UK public’s view of its politicians (sadly, not always in the way intended - and it also caused Greta Scacchi to refuse to go nude in THE PLAYER after they did a sketch pointing out how she was always naked, and suggesting (satirically - and quite untruthfully) that she insisted on this. Acceptable, except for the voice - given the setting, a more or less NORMAL voice that cannot be PLACED would be more authentically scary.Īnd then Branagh attempts a jump scare by having the ghost appear out of nowhere, grab Hamlet, and fling him into a tree. Then there’s a spooky moment with Brian Blessed’s disembodied voice, heavily electronically treated, as Hamlet looks around an empty glade. is following Hamlet Sr., or that he has any good reason to think he’s trotting in the right direction.

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