The version I watched was 210 minutes so I cannot tell you what they cut out. With Fodor's Hamlet (2007) it probably does not matter anyway.
Call it contemporary (everyone is airing out their dirty underwear), verging on minimalist. Evidently, it is a shot in the arm to the old Hamlet. But they cannot hold a candle to the original. They throw in everything but the kitchen sink including a few gender changes, and everyone is related to a chess piece. The story is not consistent and wonders around periodically we get some iambi pentameter but maybe not Shakespeare in the most inappropriate moments. Hamlet (Wilson Belchambers) sniffs Polonia (Lydia Piechowiak) and tells her she smells like fish. Will this ever end?
One final kiss and Horatio (Katie Reddin-Clancy) goodbye.
Some versions cut out every other sentence. One cut out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern leaving out a major part of the plot against Hamlet. Here we cut out the whole political purpose of the play by removing Fortinbras and Norway from the play and turning it into a cheap revenge plot.
Call it contemporary (everyone is airing out their dirty underwear), verging on minimalist. Evidently, it is a shot in the arm to the old Hamlet. But they cannot hold a candle to the original. They throw in everything but the kitchen sink including a few gender changes, and everyone is related to a chess piece. The story is not consistent and wonders around periodically we get some iambi pentameter but maybe not Shakespeare in the most inappropriate moments. Hamlet (Wilson Belchambers) sniffs Polonia (Lydia Piechowiak) and tells her she smells like fish. Will this ever end?
One final kiss and Horatio (Katie Reddin-Clancy) goodbye.
Some versions cut out every other sentence. One cut out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern leaving out a major part of the plot against Hamlet. Here we cut out the whole political purpose of the play by removing Fortinbras and Norway from the play and turning it into a cheap revenge plot.
