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Hamlet liikemaailmassa (1987)
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21 August 1987 (Finland)
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A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Pirkka-Pekka Petelius | ... | Hamlet |
| Esko Salminen | ... | Klaus |
| Kati Outinen | ... | Ofelia |
| Elina Salo | ... | Gertrud |
| Esko Nikkari | ... | Polonius |
| Kari Väänänen | ... | Lauri Polonius |
| Puntti Valtonen | ... | Simo (as Hannu Valtonen) |
| Mari Rantasila | ... | Helena |
| Turo Pajala | ... | Rosencranz |
| Aake Kalliala | ... | Gyldenstern |
| Pentti Auer | ... | Isä / Haamu |
| Matti Pellonpää | ... | Vartija |
| Vesa Mäkelä | ... | Lääkäri |
| Maija Leino | ||
| Pertti Sveholm |
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USA:86 min
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Polonius:
How are you, Hamlet?
Hamlet: Alright, thank God.
Polonius: Do you know me?
Hamlet: Sure, You are the butcher.
Polonius: No, I'm not.
Hamlet: I wish you were.
Polonius: Why?
Hamlet: It would make you more respectable. Only one man in 10,000 is respectable and even he's nothing much to boast about.
Polonius: That's true.
Hamlet: For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead bitch it's worth the carrion to kiss it. You got a daughter?
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Hamlet: Alright, thank God.
Polonius: Do you know me?
Hamlet: Sure, You are the butcher.
Polonius: No, I'm not.
Hamlet: I wish you were.
Polonius: Why?
Hamlet: It would make you more respectable. Only one man in 10,000 is respectable and even he's nothing much to boast about.
Polonius: That's true.
Hamlet: For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead bitch it's worth the carrion to kiss it. You got a daughter?
[...]
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Love Me or Leave Me (Rakasta tai hylkää)
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i saw this about a year after it first came out.
It has become notorious for being somewhat flippant about it's source material (Shakespeare's Hamlet).
Actually, I don't remember finding this very humorous at all. In fact, a darker version of the Hamlet narrative could hardly be imagined.
This film represents an important historical turning point; although theatrical directors had been toying with the notion of "updating" Shakespeare, ever since Orson Welles produced a Broadway version of Macbeth with African Americans in the cast back in the late 1930s (When he made his own film version of MacBeth, he chickened out on this, unfortunately). But if the reader has seen the updated version of Romeo and Juliet out of Australia, or the Ethan Hawke Hamlet of 2000, or the recent "O" version of Othello (at last with black actors playing black roles, after all these centuries, for heaven's sake!), it all starts here.
Unfortunately, as I say, this film is so incredibly dark, you'll want to know why Hamlet didn't just cut his throat - "To be, or not to be - oh, the hell with it!" Not for every taste, to say the least.