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Article: "Hamlet, Part Eight, The Revenge" or, sampling Shakespeare in a postmodern world.(Critical Essay)
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- September 22, 2004
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In The Great Hamlets, an educational video of interviews with famous actors and directors of Hamlet, made in 1985 and released by Films for the Humanities in 1996, the narrator, Trevor Nunn, has the following exchange with Laurence Olivier:
Nunn: The subtitle Laurence Olivier gave to his film [Hamlet] was
much debated when the film was released. What had led [you] to
calling it "The story of a man who could not make up his mind"?
Olivier: I'd heard it in a film with Gary Cooper, about--I think it
was sort of an 18th-century period film, on a ship, and Gary Cooper
was reading Hamlet, and someone said to him, "What are you reading?"
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