Resultado da Busca
Laurence Olivier played an athletic and fiery Prince in Tyrone Guthrie's full text production at the Old Vic in 1937. This production was remarkable for its interpretation of Hamlet's delay based on Freud's analysis of the Oedipal complex, in which the son unconsciously desires to kill the father and possess the mother.
Stylistically, Hamlet is quite different from Henry V. Shot in high-contrast black and white, it's not quite as overtly Expressionist as, for instance, Orson Welles' Macbeth (also 1948), but it's certainly a similarly claustrophobic, stifling experience, with none of the opening-out of its predecessor, or any continuation of Olivier's explorations of the contrast between film and theatrical ...
18 de set. de 2000 · Reviewing Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film of Hamlet, James Agee—then a critic at Time—wrote: “The man who brings Hamlet, his friends, and his antagonists to life has tackled one of the most fascinating and most thankless tasks in show business. . . . Very likely there will never be a production good enough to provoke less argument than praise.” This Hamlet, on its release, seemed to be ...
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Film Review. Hamlet was the second and most controversial of three film adaptations of Shakespeare plays to be directed by the distinguished English actor Laurence Olivier - the other two being Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955). The purists condemned Olivier for the drastic cuts he made which reduced the length of the play by about two hours.
6 de jan. de 2013 · As a long, black & white film of a Shakespearean play, Laurence Olivier's Hamlet may seem like a nightmare to many modern viewers, but anyone with the patience to sit through it will discover a brilliantly rewarding movie experience as well as a unique interpretation of the Bard's most celebrated work. Scott : Reviewed on: November 9th, 2015.
Priest - THORNDIKE, Russell. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet was made four years after his rousingly patriotic Henry V (1944), and is a very different proposition. Unsurprisingly, given the tone and content of the play, the overall mood is that of brooding introspection - tellingly, in a phrase not in Shakespeare's original, Olivier opens by telling ...
