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I really loved this film version of "Hamlet." Yes, Mel Gibson was on the old side to play Hamlet, but as one poster said, Hamlet's age is a little difficult to figure out in the best of times. It was a challenge for Gibson to take on this film, and he was up to the challenge. Glenn Close made an excellent Gertrude. The entire cast was wonderful.
The scene that will always stay with me is the one between Hamlet and his father's ghost. I'm not sure what there was about it, but I saw it on the big screen, and it was so breathtaking to me, I thought my heart would stop. It was just one of those moments, what can I say - but it was a beautiful scene. The other scene I loved was the mother-son business between Hamlet and his mother - as the years go on, that scene goes a little further with the affection each time. I found it, in the hands of such fine actors, fascinating.
One thing that struck me big time was that, when Gertrude went to drink the poison toward the end, a lot of the audience was screaming at her not to drink it. I commented to my friend later, what a bunch of plebeians, they don't know the story of HAMLET? (On the TV show "Odd Couple," after Felix's sinus surgery, he couldn't see, and Oscar read him Hamlet. Tired of it, Oscar ends with, "And they live happily ever after." Felix says, "Nobody lives happily in Hamlet. Nobody lives.") But I realized what a great compliment that was to the film, that people who perhaps ordinarily wouldn't go to see a movie version of a Shakespearian play went to see this, perhaps because of Gibson, and got into it.
score 8/10
blanche-2 23 April 2005
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