Here it’s … interesting, but I’m not fully sure what the point was.
It was interesting there, increasing the general paranoia of a man who thought everybody was his enemy, even if they had to come back from the dead to get him. I saw this done once before in a Macbeth production, done up as if they were all drug dealers. Much of the movie is shot as if through the eyes of security cameras. Later, Stewart’s ghost physically interacts with Hamlet. He looks, as I wrote on Twitter at the time, like he’s just walked out of a first-person shooter video game. But then … here’s the ghost, standing among everybody. We’re not even going to see the ghost? That’s a neat way to do it. Parts were cool, like how the opening scene is shot from the ghost’s point of view. I think I’ll call this the WTF? Hamlet, because it had more WTF moments per scene than any production I can remember. Great time, and I look forward to what PBS has in store for us next time.įirst, the direction. I wanted to share the experience with my geeks. But it was important to me to watch it as live as I could, as if we were watching the Academy Awards or something. Could I have DVR’d it? Sure, and I did, kind of - I was running maybe 45 minutes behind everybody else. It was this wonderful combination of nostalgia (remember the days before DVR where if you got up to go to the bathroom you missed stuff?) with modern technology – I sat on Twitter and did play-by-play throughout most of the show.
Let me just first say that watching Shakespeare on “live” TV as if it were some sort of major event was just awesome. Otherwise it’s just too hard to separate what David Tennant did with what he was given to work with. Ok, here we go! The easiest way to review Hamlet, I’ve found, is to break it into three distinct reviews : the direction, the rest of the cast, and Hamlet himself.
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