Re: Shakespeare in Love

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:04:40 -0500 (EST) 

Yeah, a lot of this is personal taste here.  What I liked about Gibson's
Hamlet had more to do with production than Gibson's actual portrayal of
Hamlet, tho, that's the thing.  I didn't sit there with the text of the
play in my hands to double check, I may do that next time :)

But speaking of Gibson's portrayal of Hamlet, I liked that he was
somewhat chubby and dark, like the Hamlet of Shakespeare, as opposed to
Branagh's who was thin and relatively pretty.  

The set of Gibson's Hamlet seemed more in line with what I pictured (and
certainly the feel of the original play) than Branagh's.  The setting for
Gibson's Hamlet was dank and musty, dark, etc., while Branagh's was more
Hollywood, clean, almost closer to Baroque than Medieval.  And what
REALLY annoyed me about Branagh's Hamlet (the movie, not his portrayal of
the character), was its resort to film techniques (specfically certain
special effects) apparently to "help" the story.  I'm thinking in
particular of a certain scene in the woods near the beginning...

Jim 

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:31:06 -0800 (PST) Friedman
<bananafish_9@yahoo.com> writes:
>I saw Mel Gibson's version of Hamlet, and I hated it. Branagh's
>version was directly from the text while Gibson's version jumbled it
>all up. I did not think that Gibson's acting was dramatic enough, I
>was completely drawn into Branagh's performance. He is so wonderful.
>To each his own, I suppose.
>-Liz Friedman
>
>---blah b b blah <jrovira@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>> I HATED Branagh's take on Hamlet as much as I LOVED his version of
>Much
>> Ado About Nothing.  Mel Gibson's Hamlet was much better, in my
>opinion.  
>> 
>> I think Hamlet is about as close to being recognized as one of
>> Shakespeare's best (or Western Lit's best, for that matter) as any
>other
>> play, but it's not my personal favorite.  
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>
>
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