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Article: "The Mousetrap" and remembrance in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet.(Shakespeare on Film)(Critical essay)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- December 22, 2005
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In place of a play to catch the conscience of the King, the Hamlet in Michael Almereyda's 2000 film adaptation of Hamlet uses the home video. This substitution is fitting for a film that casts Hamlet as something of an alienated filmmaker within a cultural landscape of hostile corporate takeovers, Blockbuster Videos, and the commercial products of relentless digitization. Much as Shakespeare's Hamlet seeks to go beyond the "words, words, words" (2.2.192) that merely replicate and perpetuate the deceptive surfaces of his world, Almereyda's Hamlet turns to the tools of independent filmmaking to break free from the increasingly wide world-web of images that reproduces and ...
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