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Originally Posted by taustin
Yes. Not only did they use the Shakespearian language, it was virtually unedited. I recall catching maybe one or two words that had been changed. It was literally "screenplay by William Shakespeare." (Of course, if you tuend the sound down, it looked like a Spike Lee movie.)
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It was edited. Nearly every movie version is. If it was less than 4 hours, it was edited somehow.
Mel Gibson's Hamlet really switched around the order of the scenes and stuff--it drove me crazy, because I had those parts of the play memorized and I was like hey! THAT didn't happen next!