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I really enjoy reading Shakespeare's plays, but it's hard to imagine actually watching one of his plays, or a movie based on them. I have seen some of course, but not for a while. I guess the biggest problem is that the dialogue feels so unrealistic; it always feels like they're reciting lines from a script instead of actually saying them as characters. Did people really talk like that back then? There's no way...They speak so poetically and beautifully. I love reading his amazing use of language, but it's hard to make an organic feeling performance...what do you think?

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>> No.2590229

Watch the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet. It's the best film adaptation (completely avoid the Hawke version), and Branagh's performance is the best I've seen on film and on stage.

>> No.2590236

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_1AK70db24

>> No.2590259

>>2590229

love that movie. i love to see such ambition