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Anybody seen the new Hamlet. I just saw it and recommend it highly. It is set in Manhattan in the year 2000. Denmark is not a company but Denmark Corporation and Hamlet's father was CEO of Denmark Corp instead of king of Denmark. Aside from those minor changes Shakespeare's original lines and characters were left mostly intact. It was an effective interpretation of the play. The acting, photography were excellent. The only actors I recognized were Bill Murray as Polonius, Sam Shepherd as Hamlet's father's ghost and the little guy who specializes in playing redneck criminals as Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. All three were good as were the actors who played Hamlet, his mother, his uncle, et al. All in all, quite a good show. (But not as spectacular as Kurasawa's version of King Lear--"Ran".
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