... in the wardrobe of the early to mid-nineties grunge music movement ) and influenced by its icons. In J.D.Salinger's classic novel, The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield (the novel's hero/ anti-hero) comments on Olivier's Hamlet: "..terrific voice helluva handsome guy nice to watch when's he's walking or duelling or something but ... he wasn't the way D.B said Hamlet was too much like a goddamn general instead of a sad, screwed-up type guy." Almereyda's Hamlet is Holden Caulfield's conception of Hamlet; in fact it is that quote which prefaces Ethan Hawke's introduction to the screenpl...

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