![]() "I also like to shake off the English classical thing to some degree. He's not the sole province of the English. I wanted to cast people like Robin and Billy because, in my mind, Shakespeare belongs to everybody. Usually, during the rehearsals, they're quite nervous and eager to do well. "I like to cast people who are from different backgrounds. Of the central players, only Derek Jacobi (as Claudius) could be considered type-casting. Rather than relying on Royal Shakespeare Company All-Stars, he enlisted the likes of Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Gerard Depardieu, Charlton Heston and Jack Lemmon. All of the characters are much more complex in the full-text version."īranagh extended his unconventional approach to the movie's casting. The cumulative effect (of all the restorations) is to make the play more emotional. And poor Polonius is usually reduced either to a Machiavellian politician or a doddering buffoon. "I wanted to give every syllable possible to Gertrude and Ophelia so their presences could be more strongly felt. Other characters who seem richer and more faceted in Branagh's four-hour edition: Polonius, Gertrude and Ophelia. ![]() It's like the great slap in the face you get when you're watching TV news and you see some awful catastrophe and you realize all your belly-aching during the day is not so important." "It's very important for Hamlet to see Fortinbras out there on the plains so that he realizes that his own self-absorption and problems are not as important as all that.
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