advantage:
+ They are all British actors of academic background. They should have played more Hamlet than they have eaten.
+The plot is complete, fully showing the appearance of the original, and there are many details that are overlooked in the stage play.
+ The actor's lines are very strong, the lines are tuned and frustrated, very rhythmic, and full of beauty.
shortcoming:
-Four-hour bladder natural enemy.
-The casting is very poor, no one is like his character. Lord Ken, this Hamlet looks older than his father, and can be called the least juvenile Hamlet in history (the most juvenile is the female version in 2015), the character looks and acts like a shrewd and capable careerist ( Especially like the appearance of Littlefinger years later), not a melancholy and delayed prince. Probably because it is a role played by all British actors, Lord Ken, as the little prince of Shakespeare's drama, especially wanted to perform, so he seemed to use too much force, which also wiped out Hamlet's own temperament. Not to mention the Winslet version of Ophelia... The sunny and sturdy Winslet should be the least like Ophelia actress in the world. Maybe she was asked to act only because she was so hot at the time. And Xiao Li also acted in a modern adaptation of Shakespeare. And that scorching sex scene, probably just because Sir Ken wants to dive her. In short, Winslet is very suitable to play a modern happy American fitness coach, but he is far behind the classical beauty Ophelia. Even the last madness scene felt like Hannibal with a broken brain had escaped from prison, not a mad young girl. The other roles are really not mentioned.
-Generally speaking, it is still a stage play. The film format has not played its due role at all. On the contrary, it has weakened the intimacy of the theater performance and magnified many subtle shortcomings. The backgrounds of some scenes appear to be very false, and the content of some cross-editing accounts is very little and chaotic, as if the movie shows the pitiful setting inside the stage, which is not spread out at all.
-The last scene completely collapsed, and the bloody ending of duel and revenge is almost like a monkey joke. It's not the last scene, the whole movie feels unsettled, very impetuous, I just want to make a dazzling modern Hamlet, and even the tragic temperament of the original drama is gone.
General comment: The advantages and disadvantages are all distinct, but the overall image does not conceal the flaws. It is purely the work of Lord Ken to satisfy his own desires.
Rating: 5/10
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