... art film - "The Mousetrap". The film achieves the same effect whilst reducing the required cast and running time and creating a pleasing translation of the "play within a play" device (often used in Shakespeare) to the "film within a film". However whilst cutting is both important and not without major effects, the reorganisation of scenes is perhaps of more importance. When staged, ... "Elsinore Hotel", a vast hotel, the model realisation of Hamlet/Claudius" domain is given context. Once this pacy and effective exposition has occurred, the introduction of Hamlet (as I have previously men...

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