#nicholas farrell

So, obviously the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet is an amazing adaptation. Four hours of beautiful costumes and scenes, as well as wonderfully spoken Shakespeare.

Of course there's a few issues: I think Hamlet looks too old (personal qualm), a few choices of action grate against the general mood of the adaptation (like the weird-ass skull mask), but all in all it's fairly high up on my list.

The one BIG thing I hate about it though? Hamlet's death. Don't get me wrong, Branagh is a phenomenal actor, but the fact that Horatio juST STANDS THERE AND WATCHES HIM DIE IS SO WEIRD. Like, they're shown to be fairly close throughout the play, and Nicholas Farrell is for sure one of my favourite Horatios, but then there's just no intimacy at ALL in that final scene? It's so strange to me, and properly upset me when I watched it (istg I almost punched a wall).

Anyway rant over

Edmond and Morrel's reunion

Title: Hamlet

Rating: PG-13

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Richard Briers, Nicholas Farrell, Rufus Sewell, Reece Dinsdale, Timothy Spall, Michael Maloney, Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon, Ian McElhinney, Ray Fearon, Billy Crystal

Release year: 1996

Genres: drama

In the Bleak Midwinter (A Midwinter's Tale) (1995) Kenneth Branagh

"February Film Favourites" 8/28 (1/2)

Parsimony, Mr Briggs, is not always economy. And I fear in this case, you are advocating the former and not the latter. Mr Palmer, who we've employed at considerable expense to draw up this plan, is a man of great ability and credit, and I for one, who, by the way, has read his report, all of it, cannot help agreeing with him that whatever we do should be done in the best manner possible, and that only the quantity of our work should be limited by our means, not the quality.

Jonathan Bailey as Duffield