![]() ![]() Hamlet was filmed entirely on Panavision Super 70. Quentin Tarantino famously used Panavision’s other 70mm lenses, the Ultra 70, in The Hateful Eight, similar to its predecessor, Ben Hur. It was also featured in Inception, Samsara, and The Dark Knight Rises. Panavision Super 70 is a whole other animal from the literal types of film we see today it was the same type of film used to shoot Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and West Side Story. Standard motion picture format is 35 – 65mm, and the higher the millimeter, of course, the higher the resolution. We will go into why that is important in a moment.īecause the film is so long, I’m splitting up my commentary into two general parts: Composition and Color of Part 1 (~2 hour mark) and then Part 2. The other reason is that it was the last film – apart from Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012) – to be shot in Panavision Super 70mm film. It sounds like a nightmare for anyone other than a theater student or an English major. It is a notable film firstly because it is the first unabridged theatrical version of the play, running at about 4 hours, and with the original dialogue I know, I can hear the groans. The tale of the downfall of the prince of Denmark and his family contains the same classic messages and timeless themes that initially made it famous, and today we take a look at Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996). ![]() ![]() There have been numerous film adaptations and adaptors: Laurence Olivier (1946), Grigori Kozintsev (1964), Tony Richardson (1969), Ethan Hawke (2000). Hamlet can be played as a melodrama, or as a tragedy the two are not entirely immiscible, but the grandiosity and the melancholy of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays leaves it often to interpretation. ![]()
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