DUDE YOU MUST. it is available in many library systems! i made a vhs copy of it for cesario years ago, but no longer have access to such technology, otherwise i would make you one right now and mail it to you tomorrow.
i also super recommend the 1969 film with nicol williamson as hamlet. the film is really uneven, but when he is good, williamson is probably the most fascinating hamlet i've ever seen. plus, a quite young anthony hopkins plays claudius, which makes the dynamic between them very weird and interesting -- since claudius is hamlet's uncle, he really could be about the same age as hamlet* which makes the issue of the succession of the crown much more complex. not to mention the stuff with gertrude.
*in actuality i think he was probably younger than williamson at the time, but fair is fair, so was patrick stewart when he played claudius to jacobi's hamlet.
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Date: 2008-08-15 03:38 am (UTC)i also super recommend the 1969 film with nicol williamson as hamlet. the film is really uneven, but when he is good, williamson is probably the most fascinating hamlet i've ever seen. plus, a quite young anthony hopkins plays claudius, which makes the dynamic between them very weird and interesting -- since claudius is hamlet's uncle, he really could be about the same age as hamlet* which makes the issue of the succession of the crown much more complex. not to mention the stuff with gertrude.
*in actuality i think he was probably younger than williamson at the time, but fair is fair, so was patrick stewart when he played claudius to jacobi's hamlet.