{"id":16606,"date":"2024-07-10T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16606"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:48:06","slug":"hamlet-2000-michael-almereyda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16606","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet (2000, Michael Almereyda)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almereyda’s followup to The Eternal<\/a><\/em>, and my followup to the Olivier version<\/a>. More voiceover-monologues here, with overall quieter speaking volumes. Opens with Ethan “Hamlet” Hawke watching standard-def video of his parents in happier times, and the play-within-the-play is a screening of Hamlet’s found-footage video project – Almereyda loves his low-res textures.<\/p>\n

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Is it irony that Ham is in the *action* section of Blockbuster while drearily whining about his indecision? Or is it meant to rhyme with the closing line, “and lose the name of action.” Olivier wrote out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for efficiency, while Almereyda makes a meal of their scenes and interjects them wherever he can. This entire movie was better than the Olivier except for the final swordfight, which – even though it features Paul Bartel in the Peter Cushing role – is anticlimactic when they all just shoot each other on a rooftop. My first priority when I get a job will be to buy Cymbeline<\/em> on blu-ray.<\/p>\n

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Ethan Hawke vs. Kyle MacLachlan. I love Esko Nikkari<\/a> but Bill Murray is now the best Polonius. Julia Stiles shrieks at the Guggenheim. They acknowledge the shadow of Romeo + Juliet<\/em> by casting Juliet’s mom Diane Venora as the queen. Chuck Yeager<\/a> as the ghost, Liev Schreiber (then of the Scream<\/em> movies) as Laertes, and some really small cameos that make me think longer\/extra scenes were shot and cut later. They manage to get one extra woman into the movie, by swapping out one of the ghost-spotting guards for Horatio’s girl (Katniss’s mom). Ophelia’s memento box looks suspiciously like the Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High<\/em> box set re-pressed with White Stripes coloring.<\/p>\n

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Rosenbaum was a fan, notes Hawke as “better than you\u2019d expect.” I thought of Lewis Klahr during the film-with-a-film screening, turns out Klahr really made it.<\/p>\n

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Almereyda’s followup to The Eternal, and my followup to the Olivier version. More voiceover-monologues here, with overall quieter speaking volumes. Opens with Ethan “Hamlet” Hawke watching standard-def video of his parents in happier times, and the play-within-the-play is a screening of Hamlet’s found-footage video project – Almereyda loves his low-res textures. Is it irony that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,722,1922,110,2052,2090,361,524],"class_list":["post-16606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-bill-murray","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-ghosts","tag-kyle-mclachlan","tag-michael-almereyda","tag-new-york","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16624,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16606\/revisions\/16624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}