I like the play Hamlet as a gory adventure drama, have never actually seen a screen or stage performance of it, though. The stills of Olivier in the role never appealed to me, and I've never seen any other. *This* sounds great.
It is great. I am watching it in small blocks at a time (constrained by my mother's schedule, since she is watching it with me), but every few moments there is a piece of eyes or language that simply makes me smile. "To be or not to be" is set at the sea-wall, where the tide runs in among the boulders. It is not naturalistic, because it is in voice-over, and yet there the stones and the sea and the sunlight are, and Hamlet with his tow hair like a flaw in the film, too much in black, like his own shadow cast over the rocks. I'm waiting now to see how they will handle Ophelia, because he looks far more the one in danger of drowning: like Robinson Jeffers, he would weather back to bones of the unhuman world.
Just saw your response up above. Netflix, here I come!
Just watch with a copy of the actual play to hand! Aforementioned caveat about subtitles, unless you speak Russian.
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It is great. I am watching it in small blocks at a time (constrained by my mother's schedule, since she is watching it with me), but every few moments there is a piece of eyes or language that simply makes me smile. "To be or not to be" is set at the sea-wall, where the tide runs in among the boulders. It is not naturalistic, because it is in voice-over, and yet there the stones and the sea and the sunlight are, and Hamlet with his tow hair like a flaw in the film, too much in black, like his own shadow cast over the rocks. I'm waiting now to see how they will handle Ophelia, because he looks far more the one in danger of drowning: like Robinson Jeffers, he would weather back to bones of the unhuman world.
Just saw your response up above. Netflix, here I come!
Just watch with a copy of the actual play to hand! Aforementioned caveat about subtitles, unless you speak Russian.