... Claudius, "But two months dead - nay, not so much, not two". The Michael Almereyda production (starring Ethan Hawke) has this scene as a press conference rather than the original king's court. Almereyda emphasises Hamlet's resentment and humiliation by making him feel excluded by choice as he is seen standing up slouching, wearing sunglasses compared to the other smart representatives of the Denmark Corporation (notably instead of ... country) who are well composed and assertive in their appearance. The director used this to make Hamlet look disrespectful which gives a further inclinati...

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... even stronger parallel, Hamlet observing an earlier generation's conception of Hamlet and being inspired by it. With the absence of the Player King, whose speeches inspire Hamlet to set the "mousetrap", Olivier (as Hamlet), in a supreme example of the meta-textual serves that purpose. "The Mousetrap - A short film by Hamlet. Prince of Denmark", as the film-within-a-film's onscreen captioning has it ... , is the (outer) film's greatest example of multimedia deployment. The art film ... created by Hamlet, which is essentially a collage of file footage of families and poison (both realisti...

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