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Hamlet
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was first performed around the year 1600. Since then, it has proven to be one of the most enduring stories ever created by Shakespeare. This epic tragedy has been adapted to film dozens of times and has seen legendary actors such as Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier take the lead role. In 1996, another version of Hamlet made its film debut under the direction of Kenneth Branagh who also plays the lead role Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. This film utilizes many dramatic attributes that set this film apart from any other depiction of Hamlet, making it the most accurate cinematic expression of any of Shankepeare’s plays depicted in film.
One of the first things the audience will recognize is the amazing visual sense of the film. From start to finish, this film is filled with vibrant displays of color. Branagh made the decision to change the time frame of the film to a more colonial period of Eighteenth Century England to permit the......

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