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“I believe in communism… Rom-communism.”

YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) PRETTY WOMAN (1990) JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) NOTTING HILL (1999) THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) THE PARENT TRAP (1998) LOVE, ACTUALLY (2003) SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)

if i recall correctly, hamlet spoke the ghost’s lines aloud to the audience (you can see his mouth moving in the 3rd gif there). the other time the ghost appears, the closet scene, hamlet didn’t translate but the ghost’s message was conveyed through emotion just as well. there was also a nice moment in the same scene where hamlet tried to speak to his mother through signing — the private language of their family unit — and she refused to recognize it.

the actor playing hamlet’s father is deaf, and has been working with the oregon shakespeare festival for several years now, signing in all his roles. obviously i haven’t seen everything he’s been in, but from what i have seen i can tell you that through a combination of body language and actors translating, the meaning is clear even without spoken language.