This paper discusses that Kenneth Branagh"s Hamlet achieves a skillful combination of both artistry and popularity. On the one hand, the movie gives the whole aspect of the play by using its full text. This enables the movie not only to reveal the complexity of its major characters, but also to inte...
This paper discusses that Kenneth Branagh"s Hamlet achieves a skillful combination of both artistry and popularity. On the one hand, the movie gives the whole aspect of the play by using its full text. This enables the movie not only to reveal the complexity of its major characters, but also to intensify its political meaning by including the Fortinbras subplot. The movie, however, makes the long uncut dialogues sound rather exciting than boring by using various methods such as making them concurrent with dynamic actions or visually appealing scenes. On the other hand, Branagh"s Hamlet shows a strong tendency to make itself popular among the masses aiming at a box-office success. The movie casts a number of world-famous actors and actresses such as Hollywood stars. It also attempts a multiracial (and multinational) casting to make inroads into the world market. It then partially modernizes the setting as well as the speaking and acting styles in order to facilitate the accessibility of the classic tragedy to the general public. Moreover, it constantly attracts the viewer"s eyes by ceaselessly providing spectacular scenes. In addition, it borrows various techniques from Hollywood movies, each popular genre of which focuses respectively on espionage, horror, action, war, science fiction (supernatural occurrences), comedy, eroticism, etc. Nevertheless, these strategies and devices for boosting popularity invariably turn out to preserve or heighten the artistic values of the play. The world stars make possible so excellent an ensemble acting as to enhance the total quality of the movie, and the multinational casting reconfirms the play"s universal values transcending national or ethnic differences. The modernization increases the modem relevance and significance of the old play, and the visual effects reinforce the rhetorical potence of Shakespeare"s language in the play. Even using the various techniques of popular Hollywood movies serves to generate the diverse effects or atmospheres Shakespeare tries to produce here and there in the play. Branagh"s Hamlet achieves such an exquisite harmony between artistry and popularity as to produce a synergy effect between the two, thus setting a good example to Shakespearean movies in future.
This paper discusses that Kenneth Branagh"s Hamlet achieves a skillful combination of both artistry and popularity. On the one hand, the movie gives the whole aspect of the play by using its full text. This enables the movie not only to reveal the complexity of its major characters, but also to intensify its political meaning by including the Fortinbras subplot. The movie, however, makes the long uncut dialogues sound rather exciting than boring by using various methods such as making them concurrent with dynamic actions or visually appealing scenes. On the other hand, Branagh"s Hamlet shows a strong tendency to make itself popular among the masses aiming at a box-office success. The movie casts a number of world-famous actors and actresses such as Hollywood stars. It also attempts a multiracial (and multinational) casting to make inroads into the world market. It then partially modernizes the setting as well as the speaking and acting styles in order to facilitate the accessibility of the classic tragedy to the general public. Moreover, it constantly attracts the viewer"s eyes by ceaselessly providing spectacular scenes. In addition, it borrows various techniques from Hollywood movies, each popular genre of which focuses respectively on espionage, horror, action, war, science fiction (supernatural occurrences), comedy, eroticism, etc. Nevertheless, these strategies and devices for boosting popularity invariably turn out to preserve or heighten the artistic values of the play. The world stars make possible so excellent an ensemble acting as to enhance the total quality of the movie, and the multinational casting reconfirms the play"s universal values transcending national or ethnic differences. The modernization increases the modem relevance and significance of the old play, and the visual effects reinforce the rhetorical potence of Shakespeare"s language in the play. Even using the various techniques of popular Hollywood movies serves to generate the diverse effects or atmospheres Shakespeare tries to produce here and there in the play. Branagh"s Hamlet achieves such an exquisite harmony between artistry and popularity as to produce a synergy effect between the two, thus setting a good example to Shakespearean movies in future.
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