Gorgeous and seductive in every way, from teenage stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, to the spectacular medieval town of Gubbio standing in for Verona. He slouched. All … I then throw a curve-ball at the kids: I give a quiz where I play the same soliloquy from the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (he's in a Blockbuster looking at movie choices--Hamlet's a film student/director) and make students compare choices made. I hate everything about this except the Battleship joke. I show the ending sequence. I think that's what I adore the most about Gibson's hamlet, ... the insertion of humor where I'm not sure if humor was actually meant, ... but could have been intended by Shakespeare. Have a listen to our mystery/thriller podcast, Read or Dead. Hamlet, 1969Director: Tony RichardsonNotable cast: Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins. You bet they do. This was a Hamlet who continually played with the idea that wit can look like witlessness. Schell definitely ranks of the best looking Hamlets—but this production, originally for German television, was roundly scorned and forgotten, until it showed up on MST3K. Mel Gibson as Hamlet, in Sesame Street‘s Monsterpiece Theater (1993) 10 Best Shakespeare Film Adaptations 10 Ran (1985) 9 My Own Private Idaho (1991) 8 Hamlet (1996) 7 Romeo and Juliet (1968) 6 Titus (1999) 5 Chimes at Midnight (1966) 4 Much Ado About Nothing (2012) 3 Macbeth (2015) 2 Throne of Blood (1957) 1 Coriolanus (2011) I think Glenn Close does a great job as  Gertrude, actually, ... especially in her portrayal of death from the pearl. Filmed during the fabled ‘Summer of Love’, this was Shakespeare for the disaffected youth movement, and features the most violent and energetic of all the sword brawls between Romeo, Mercutio and Tybalt (a lip-smackingly sinister Michael York). These are the best film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. Sun 22 Aug 2010 00.06 BST Hamlet, 2000Director: Michael AlmereydaNotable cast: Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray, Kyle MacLachlan. One of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers and two Oscar-winning stars take on the Bard of Avon. That said, I’m not unconvinced by Dana’s take: “If Hamlet had had just a little bit of therapy, he could have turned everything around!” So true. I haven’t read it yet. Maximilian Schell as Hamlet in Hamlet (1961) in Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999) Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes. When the production was performed in Broadmoor, one of his inmate spectators approached him afterwards: "You were really mad – take it from me, I should know. The tale of a young lion named Simba who returns to his kingdom to avenge his father’s death is one we know as well as the story of Hamlet that inspired it. Phillip’s father says that he was murdered by his brother Alan. Those ghosts are some degree of scary. P.S. This list of Hamlet retellings is sponsored by Wednesday Books. Hamlet is a challenging tragedy to adapt to film, so it’s astounding that so many directors have got it right. I'm a loony.". © 2020 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. And vice versa. so bad it starts to turn good again. Me too. 3. A palpable hit, in any language.” Best of all, you can watch Haider on Netflix right now. As for Carter, I love the way she plays upon the sexual in her depiction of madness. You’ve got Ethan Hawke as Hamlet, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, and (my personal favorite) Bill Murray as Polonius. See what happens. The lack of retellings of Hamlet by women is especially troubling because the play has been criticized for its misogynistic undertones (“frailty, thy name is woman,” anyone?). Since its release, critics have argued about whether or not The Bad Sleep Well is a true adaptation of Hamlet. Please try again. . All the Hamlet movies are fine and all of them lose some aspect of the play's power by their choices in how to present it. (“What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland,” says a Nazi, to a disguised Tura no less . The Bad Sleep Well (1960 Film) 7. Only Dracula and Sherlock Holmes have appeared in more movies than Hamlet. Maximilian Schell as Hamlet in Hamlet (1961) in Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999) Schell definitely ranks of the best looking Hamlets—but this production, originally for German television, was roundly scorned and forgotten, until it showed up on MST3K.It’s hard to rank Hamlet alone, considering, but he’s . Our certified Educators are real professors, teachers, and scholars who use their academic expertise to tackle your toughest questions. 36. But I will say that The Lion King‘s story needs no introduction. yikes all around.) How can you really go wrong with that kind of source material? 31. Where have you been? I show the closet scene -- quite a difference in interpretation of the "Oedipal complex" issues -- especially in the Gibson version. Reviews of the 2000 contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Michael Almereyda, are mixed.

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