Hamlet 2000

Hamlet 2000 was a movie about a young prince of a corporation, which was taken over by his own flesh and blood uncle who murdered his father. The wife of the murdered king marries the uncle to keep power in the Denmark Corporation. Hamlet seemingly drifting towards madness, seeks to take justice into his own hands by devising a plan to get revenge for his father’s death. Although Hamlet 2000 purports to be a re-stylized version …showed first 75 words of 1543 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1543 total…given by Hamlet 2000 disguises itself as a “re-imagining” of the Hamlet we are all so familiar with, yet most of the film falls well short of what Shakespeare intended. The parallels are too few and the contrasts are too many. It would be wise to keep Hamlet true to what Shakespeare had intended, on the stage and in our books, not in some revisionists hands who only has his mind set on filling his wallet.