... audience expects to see the star, is used to the instant gratification of meeting the lead character first and Almereyda provides them with it. Following the precedent set by Olivier with his prologue - "This is the story of a man who could not make up his mind" - Almereyda provides us with a type of immediacy the theatre rarely does. Beginning with a tracking shot from within Hamlet ... a project, unless one wishes for the conservative completism of Branagh) or the reorganisation, it is the interest provided by the synergy of Shakespearean verse (regardless of the quality of the speaki...

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