If you are a Liegeman to the Dane, as am I, feel free to use the adapted code.

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<br><small><font color=#981200>{</font> <a href=”http://celticcherokee.tumblr.com/”><font color=#ffc581>Shakespearian for Life</font></a> <font color=#981200>}</font></small></b></center>

Original code by http://celticcherokee.tumblr.com/

The colours are based upon the 1996 Kenneth Branagh rendition of Hamlet. You’ll find they are the main colours in the palace uniform.

(submitted by thatartybro)

(Oh, this is really cool. Cheers! -fyhamlet)

myhumaninteractions:

Hamlet (1948) feeds on the murder/revenge/consequences aspect to create a beautifully shot, noir inspired version.

Gamlet (1964) is a Russian interpretation that is very desolate and contemplative compared to the others. The film opens with long shots of desolate countryside and seaside images, and during his key monologues on mortality, Hamlet goes into these empty expanses to speak his thoughts to the air. This version is nicely atmospheric and emphasizes the mortality aspect more than the others.

Hamlet (1969) is not overly interesting to look at —it is little more than a filmed stage play— however, it contains my favorite performance in the part of Hamlet. Nicol Williamson gives a playfully manic Hamlet, who never seems to cross the line from pretending to actually going mad. This playfulness makes him seem more intelligent than anyone else, so much so that he knows he is in a film and addresses the viewer through the fourth wall often.

Hamlet (1990) (according to Gibson and the director) was intended to make Shakespeare  more accessible by emphasizing the emotional aspects of the story to get a visceral response from the viewer. Many parts were cut, the most notable being the humor.  Often a joke is set up and the punch line is never delivered so that the scene can be mired in the same single emotion (someone missed the point).

Hamlet (1996) combines all available sources to give the most complete Hamlet on screen. The sets and cast are as lavish and sprawling as the word count and it is a wonderful epic if you have the time. This is the most cinematic and visually exciting version.

Hamlet (2000) updates the tale and places it in high rise business buildings of the common era. There are many refreshing updates of Hamlet staples (such as The Mousetrap play being turned into a movie collage), but again it suffers from omission of famous scenes and knocks itself out of the running for a serious adaptation.

Hamlet (2009) is a BBC production that again places Hamlet in the common era, but the setting is not so disparate as to be off-putting. Tennant’s mania creates my second favorite performance of the title role.

vintagewinnie:

Jean Simmons in Hamlet

likeadoll:

Laurence Olivier directing Hamlet.

Although literary myths do not normally enter into the scope of this work, we have decided to make an exception in the case of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. — I owe these ideas to seeing the cinematographic Hamlet, directed and interpreted by Sir Laurence Olivier, whose intensity suggested to me all that I express here in the form of a hypothesis.

- A Dictionary of Symbols (by J.E. Cirlot)

Perhaps the only Educational video which has the words “Best.  Bromance.  Ever.”  in bright, red text next to Hamlet and Horatio.

ifyouletmego:

Laertes, from Olivier’s Hamlet