Who was the best Hamlet?
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Mel GibsonSeethe and cope heebs
>>24120415This, at least when it comes to film adaptations
>>24120415yep
>>24120234Innokenty Smoktunovsky
>>24120234Certainly not Burton, absolutely awful as Hamlet. In truth we probably won't ever be able to see the absolute best, it will be lost on the stage in the past.>>24120415Unironically one of the best in terms of the quality of his performance, wish I could see him do the full text, it's unreal how much better he was than Branagh in the same period, who is dreadful. Branagh's performance is nearly the worst in his own movie, especially how good that version's horatio is.Iain Glen as hamlet in R&G are dead is good but we get to see so little of him
>>24120234BranaghStay mad
>>24120455Branagh screaming his lines is terrible, he's an embarassing ham 90% of the time. Which is why he's alright as Iago
>>24120234I think I like Tennant best of the one's I've seen and Olivier second.
>>24120450>Certainly not Burton, absolutely awful as Hamlet.Burton's is probably the best Hamlet performance we have complete on film. I agree he wasn't well suited to the part, but every other actor of his stature, like Barrymore, Gielgud and Scofield, we only have clips or recordings from. None of the later performers measure up to the sheer skill and charisma of these actors.
I'll take Ben Whishaw. Whishaw's performance is, I suspect, the one old hams will be reminiscing over in 2050. >>24120483Jacobi and Rylance are much better Shakespeareans than Burton, at least at the time they recorded their Hamlets
>>24120234https://youtu.be/rC2mPaOfJmI
>>24120522>Jacobi and RylanceLiterally some of the most atrocious Hamlets that I've ever seen. Even worse than Branagh. Jacobi foppishly prances around like he's satirising the part, and Rylance plays Hamlet like he's a liberal arts student rebelling against the system. I just watched Wishaw, and he is somehow worse than all of them. You clearly know nothing about the speaking of verse or what great theatre acting entails. The reason theatre culture is dead is because it gradually ceased to produce talent or be entertaining by any measure at all. Now the only people left who watch theatre are those who, by way of their brains being so absurdly ill-constituted, actually enjoy modern theatre acting as a 'style' in its own right opposed to traditional theatre acting. What they do not realise that modern theatre acting is not a style, but a lack of a style, a putrefaction of traditional theatre acting. No one is going to be reminiscing over Ben Whishaw in decades to come, because he's garbage.
