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Student Essay on Bennett & Branagh - Two movie Hamlets

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Bennett & Branagh - Two movie Hamlets

Summary:   Compares and contrasts two film appropriations of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'


A critical assessment of two appropriations/adaptions of Hamlet.

Many of Shakespeare's works have been transposed from stage to screen, none so more than Hamlet. Two of the most unique film appropriations of the play are to be found in Rodney Bennett's 1980 film and Kenneth Branagh's 1996 blockbuster. The two films share many parallels between them in both interpretation and method, however they also have marked differences in their respective approaches to the text.

Perhaps the most obvious difference between these two versions is that Branagh uses the full unabridged text whereas Bennett cuts the play down by an hour or so; Kenneth Branagh justifies his use of the full text on the BBC's website stating: "When you cut the play ... what often happens is that you compress a lot of very intense set.....

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