From: Tom Broderick/Jana L. Weldon (TMB-JLW@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Jan 28 1997 - 16:38:14 EST
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> From: Michael Bennett <mbennet@tenet.edu>
> To: classics@u.washington.edu
> Cc: Classics List <Classics@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Heston's Player
> Date: Monday, January 27, 1997 4:25 PM
>
> IMHO Branagh's Hamlet is the best film of the .... (decade). Jack Lemmon
> was an embarrassment, but the rest held their own. May I suggest that
> the point of all the cameos and stars had to do with the film paying
> tribute to all films up to this point. The ending of the fight, for
> example, pays tribute to Fairbanks as a swashbuckler and to Star Wars.
>
> MJB
If your point is correct, then the results are a poor tribute. I suspect
that "the fight" was an attempt to one better the Mel Gibson version a few
years back. Much can be maligned about the Gibson version, but not that
action sequance.
Jana Lee
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Tom Broderick/Jana L. Weldon wrote:
>
> > I viewed Kenneth Branaugh's Hamlet last night. Although many of the
cameo
> > appearances of American stars were distracting, embarrassing, or served
> > little point (Jack Lemmon and Robin Williams as cases in point),
Charlton
> > Heston as the Player was memorable. His reading of the fall of Ilium
is
> > very memorable. Was anyone else so moved?
> >
> > Jana Lee
> >
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