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Originally Posted by HarryT
But, in fairness, the performed plays are also normally edited. Pretty much nobody (except Kenneth Brannagh, of course) would dream of doing "Hamlet" unedited - it's just too long.
Four hours is a bit of an exaggeration for "Romeo and Juliet". I have the UNedited BBC version of it which is 2h 47m. The Dicaprio film is 1h 55m, so yes, it is heavily edited.
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Not to mention any film version of David Copperfield. Or War and Peace!
Seriously though that is part of the problem of substituting a film or a bowdlerized version for the original. Maybe that's why I like Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V so much.