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Originally Posted by _Ea_
I loved his Hamlet. It really works for me that Branagh moved it out of it's (pseudo)historical setting; it sort of puts greater focus on the play and I'm less distracted by knowing that Kronborg was build (as a castle) in Shakepspeare's own time and that the earlier version of the story behind the play is somewhat different from Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this adaptation, Hamlet is most definitely Shakespeare's and no-one elses (well, perhaps Branagh's, too, a bit).
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I was lucky enough to see Hamlet on a very snowy day and that really set the mood. In fact, I have the DVD and reserve it for snowy days to watch.