HamletOften credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. He has now done so - as director and as the prince of Denmark - making an emotionally moving, visually spectacular movie that will become a landmark in film history. The volume includes Kenneth Branagh's elegant introduction of the genesis of his role as Hamlet as well as his full screenplay adaptation. The production diary by Russell Jackson, Shakespearean scholar and script consultant on the movie, goes behind the scenes to show what it was like to film this lavish production and to work with the leading theater and movie actors of our time. |
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Page 63
... start to make a bee - line back to the Palace . HAMLET now his true self , completely intrigued by the news . He ... starts to camp it up . ROSENCRANTZ No , indeed , they are not . At last we see how they might have been friends . At ...
... start to make a bee - line back to the Palace . HAMLET now his true self , completely intrigued by the news . He ... starts to camp it up . ROSENCRANTZ No , indeed , they are not . At last we see how they might have been friends . At ...
Page 127
... starts to run . thing flailin Interior / STATE HALL Day OPHELIA crumbles into tears once more . CLAUDIUS ( to Gertrude ) How long hath she been thus ? She starts to get up . Quietly , sensibly . Sorted out . OPHELIA I hope all will be ...
... starts to run . thing flailin Interior / STATE HALL Day OPHELIA crumbles into tears once more . CLAUDIUS ( to Gertrude ) How long hath she been thus ? She starts to get up . Quietly , sensibly . Sorted out . OPHELIA I hope all will be ...
Page 197
... starts with Hamlet lying in state . Billy Crystal ( First Gravedigger ) has arrived for make - up consultations , and comes on set while Ken is in the coffin : Billy gets up the stepladder beside catafalque and the corpse sits up to ...
... starts with Hamlet lying in state . Billy Crystal ( First Gravedigger ) has arrived for make - up consultations , and comes on set while Ken is in the coffin : Billy gets up the stepladder beside catafalque and the corpse sits up to ...
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actors apartments appears arms BARNARDO begins better blood body camera CLAUDIUS continuing close comes dead death door drink earth Exterior eyes face fall father fear feeling follow Fortinbras friends GERTRUDE GHOST give goes GRAVEDIGGER ground hall HAMLET continuing hand hath head hear heart heaven hold HORATIO Interior keep King LAERTES leave light look lord madness MARCELLUS March matter means mother moves nature never Night once OPHELIA OSRIC PALACE play PLAYER poison POLONIUS pray Queen ROSENCRANTZ ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN Royal runs rushes scene SECOND seems sense shot side sits soul speak speech stage stands starts stops sweet sword tell thee There's thing thou thoughts track turns V/O continuing voice walk wants watch young