Ok mini rant
So, obviously the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet is an amazing adaptation. Four hours of beautiful costumes and scenes, as well as wonderfully spoken Shakespeare.
Of course there's a few issues: I think Hamlet looks too old (personal qualm), a few choices of action grate against the general mood of the adaptation (like the weird-ass skull mask), but all in all it's fairly high up on my list.
The one BIG thing I hate about it though? Hamlet's death. Don't get me wrong, Branagh is a phenomenal actor, but the fact that Horatio juST STANDS THERE AND WATCHES HIM DIE IS SO WEIRD. Like, they're shown to be fairly close throughout the play, and Nicholas Farrell is for sure one of my favourite Horatios, but then there's just no intimacy at ALL in that final scene? It's so strange to me, and properly upset me when I watched it (istg I almost punched a wall).
Anyway rant over
It just pisses me off because I like the rest of the movie so much.
