8:30 pm - Thinking about live tweeting the four hour Kenneth Branagh Hamlet...
8:33 pm - Jumpy beginning. Interesting varied cast. Typical Branagh. Ooo here comes the ghost.
8:37 pm - What time period is this supposed to be? 18th century? 19th century? Out of time?
8:41 pm - Claudius, your oxymorons won't convince me that your marriage to Gertrude... sometimes sister, now our queen... is alright.
8:43 pm - Everything is so bright, white, and colorful. Somehow doesn't fit the poisoned court of Denmark.
8:47 pm - Looks like we have a very charming Claudius...
8:49 pm - Woah... all those petals
8:50 pm - Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt #Hamlet #favoritequotes
8:53 pm - Horatio and Hamlet. BFFs.
8:58 pm - Hamlet they say your father's ghost. You need to be a bit more upset I think.
8:59 pm - Kate Winselt as Ophelia... hmm
9:04 pm - The facial hair in this film...
9:05 pm - Oo... Hamlet and Ophelia. In bed.
9:09 pm - Horatio's concern was well founded. Should have kept Hamlet from following the ghost.
9:09 pm - Explosions?
9:11 pm - Okay. Scariest Hamlet ghost scene yet.
9:11 pm - Fog machine haha
9:12 pm - Why were you sleeping in a snowy orchard??
9:16 pm - Blue eyes
9:18 pm - Is it too early to say that I like Branagh in romcoms better than tragedy? Perhaps he'll change my mind. 3 hours and 15 minutes left.
9:20 pm - Eee more explosions. Tis an angry ghost. Now lightning... earthquake? Fire hell and brimstones.
9:23 pm - GERARD DEPARDIEU? Time to IMDB...
9:26 pm - Yep. It's Gerard Depardieu, playing Reynaldo. All he says is, "Well my lord," "Good, my lord" #can'teven
9:27 pm - CALM DOWN OPHELIA
9:30 pm - It's Peter Pettigrew!
9:30 pm - Oh I know let's point out how mess the sheets are. Get off the bed Claudius. They're trying to make it.
9:36 pm - Stop blubbering Ophelia.
9:38 pm - Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. #Hamlet #favoritequotes
9:40 pm - No Polonius. You are wrong.
9:41 pm - So far I find the role of Polonius one of the best acted.
9:42 pm - There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so #Hamlet #favoritequotes
9:48 pm - There has been much throwing about of brains #Hamlet #ifyoutakethatliterally #lol
9:55 pm - One of my favorite aspects of Hamlet is the meta-theatre.
9:56 pm - JUDI DENCH!?
9:56 pm - The cast and cameos in this adaptation never cease to amaze me.
10:01 pm - Everybody in Denmark needs to take a chill pill.
10:08 pm - Hm. I'm liking this portrayal of the "To be or not to be speech." Interesting.
10:11 pm - What is this background music?
10:13 pm - Yes. This is a perfect "Get thee to a nunnery scene." The balance of tenderness, anger, betrayal, madness, etc is wonderful.
10:15 pm - Love all the secret doors and two way mirrors. Most effective.
10:22 pm - Yes! Coming to my fav part. The play.
10:27 pm - Getting sleepy. Only halfway through.
10:33 pm - Hamlet, perfecting insanity since around 1600.
10:42 pm - Like the use of the confessional.
10:45 pm - Oh goodness. How many times do you need to stab him?
10:49 pm - Oh! ...the ghost is back. Scared the bajeebers out of me.
10:50 pm - I'm dead so I can only speak in a whisper.
10:50 pm - Dear Branagh, thank you for not following the Oedipal trend.
10:51 pm - At first I didn't like this teary-eyed Hamlet, but it's growing on me.
10:56 pm - Polonius is bleeding all over the floor.
10:57 pm - Oh don't drag the bloody body all over the floor.
11:00 pm - You almost feel bad for Claudius and Gertrude. Until you remember that he killed his brother and then they got married.
11:05 pm - Ophelia is screaming her bloody head off. Too much.
11:09 pm - This is weird.
11:11 pm - Just got to the intermission. Time for disk two.
11:16 pm - Don't let her out of the straight jacket.
11:17 pm - They say the owl was a baker's daughter #Hamlet #favoritequotes
11:27 pm - Ophelia's mad scene... quite moving.
11:29 pm - So many mustaches.
11:32 pm - Claudius you liar. Shut up.
11:44 pm - Bummer. I wanted to see more of Ophelia's death.
11:45 pm - Oo yes. The grave diggers!
11:45 pm - Hamlet come back to Denmark. I miss you.
11:47 pm - Welcome back. I see your mustache is still in place.
11:53 pm - Alas poor Yorick #Hamlet #favoritescenes
11:54 pm - Both Hamlet and Sherlock talk to skulls. I want a skull to talk to.
11:57 pm - I get so distracted by his facial hair
12:00 am - The clean and sparkly beginning makes the ending even more black and dark. Good contrast. How the poison seeps.
12:02 am - I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum #Hamlet #favoritequotes
12:06 am - Thirty minutes left.
12:07 am - Horatio is the only character who even gets a glimpse of Hamlet's interiority.
12:08 am - Oh goodness. Robin Williams.
12:14 am - There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. #Hamlet #favoritequotes
12:14 am - Seriously. The background music in this movie.
12:14 am - Awwwwwwwwwwww.
12:15 am - Here we go here we go.
12:16 am - Loved the scene between Hamlet and Horatio before the duel. Let be.
12:19 am - Because putting a "pearl" in the cup isn't obvious at all.
12:20 am - Here comes Fortinbras. Been skirting around the edges throughout the whole play.
12:20 am - Fencing/sword-fighting = attractive.
12:20 am - Slow-mo... really?
12:21 am - DON'T DRINK IT!
12:22 am - The poisoned cup interchange is so fascinating.
12:22 am - Oh I know. Let's just take off our outer shirts for the last match. Show off our muscles.
12:23 am - Chaos.
12:25 am - Wow. Good aim.
12:26 am - Everybody is dying...
12:28 am - I die, Horatio. #Hamlet #favoritequotes
12:29 am - Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince. #Hamlet #favoritequotes
12:36 am - Tis finished.
12:27 am - Might rewatch the ending tomorrow when I am more alive. Want to figure out what Branagh was trying to do with the ending.
12:39 am - Loved that it was uncut, felt a bit contrived in some parts, the soliloquies weren't my fav, but there were moments of sheer brilliance
12:40 am - Now have watched Mel Gibson and Branagh Hamlet. Next: Olivier, DT and perhaps Ethan Hawke
12:40 am - Don't think I'll live tweet the David Tennant version. It would probably just be a lot of comments on DT's attractiveness.
12:41 am - I love Shakespeare. Goodnight.
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