But like someone else said, finding a shorter one or even watching clips of it on youtube first might be an easier glide into it all. Hamlet Starring David Tennant Film Review Maby Peter Galen Massey Based on its reputation, I was expecting to like the 2009 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, directed by Gregory Doran and starring David Tennant, much better than I did.

So, going purely by that it might be a more 'fun' watch, so to speak, for someone who is uninitiated with it. Is it the best? That's all subjective, but it's the one I gravitate towards because it's the one I watched and learned from when just discovering the story.īranagh is a deft populist in terms of Shakespeare and translating it for the masses in a more accepted cinematic form, although this one is obviously way too long for most audiences, but the way it's crafted is to help the viewer along, I think. Stewart gives a memorable performance alongside David Tennant who played the titular part of Hamlet. So for instance, this is the first full interpretation of the play I had ever seen and it's stuck with me ever since. Patrick Stewart played a hostile and insensitive Claudius and the Ghost, with Penny Downie as Gertrude. Patrick Stewart plays Claudius in the film, Hamlet's father, who's murdered and whose ghost then appears to Hamlet, which starts a whole series of unfortunate events. It's difficult to say since there have been so many and I think it's one of those characters/performances that the first production of it you see will kind of become 'your' version of it, you know what I mean?

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