Hamlet (1996 Branagh) NTSC Complete ISO DVD 5

Hamlet (1996 Branagh) NTSC Complete ISO Disk 1.iso

Video Codec..........: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate........: 4131kbps
Duration.............: 2:25:47
Resolution...........: 720*480
Framerate............: 29.970
Filesize.............: 4,510,154,752

Hamlet (1996 Branagh) NTSC Complete ISO Disk 2.iso


Video Codec..........: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate........: 3677kbps
Duration.............: 2:43:46
Resolution...........: 720*480
Framerate............: 29.970


***NOTE*** - There are already multiple various rips of this film about, but I could not find one of DVD5 NTSC DVD-R, which is the basic American standard. If you prefer PAL or Blu-Ray, there are other torrents available. Each ISO is complete, minus FBI warnings and such. Ripped and tested with DVDFab.



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The film features a large number of celebrity cameos. The servant Reynaldo, who appears only briefly in a single scene and is often left out of abridged versions of the play, is played by French star Gerard Depardieu, and other appearances by well-known actors include Charlton Heston as the First Player, Robin Williams as the courtier Osric, Richard Attenborough as the English Ambassador, Brian Blessed as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Jack Lemmon as Marcellus, the palace guard, Billy Crystal as the gravedigger, and Rufus Sewell plays Fortinbras. The flashbacks and dream sequences even allow for celebrities appearing in non-speaking roles as characters who are only mentioned in the play: Sir John Gielgud and Dame Judi Dench play Priam and Hecuba (mentioned in the monologue performed by the First Player on his arrival at Elsinore), John Mills plays "Old Norway", uncle of Fortinbras (mentioned by Claudius and Voltemand), and British comedian Ken Dodd plays Yorick.

In addition to the film stars, the motion picture also features British theatre stars in tiny roles: for example; Simon Russell Beale plays the second gravedigger, Ray Fearon plays the guard Francisco, Ian McElhinney is Barnardo, and Jeffrey Kissoon plays Fortinbras's captain.

Interpretation

Aspects of the film's staging are based on Adrian Noble's recent Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play, in which Branagh had played the title role.[3]

In a radical departure from previous Hamlet films, Branagh set the internal scenes in a vibrantly colourful setting, featuring a throne room dominated by mirrored doors; film scholar Samuel Crowl calls the setting "film noir with all the lights on."[4] Branagh chose Victorian era costuming and furnishings, using Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, as Elsinore Castle for the external scenes. Harry Keyishan has suggested that the film is structured as an epic, courting comparison with Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments and Doctor Zhivago.[5] As J. Lawrence Guntner points out, comparisons with the latter film are heightened by the presence of Julie Christie (Zhivago's Lara) as Gertrude.[6]

Despite using a full text, Branagh's film is also very visual; it makes frequent use of flashbacks to depict scenes that are either only described but not performed in Shakespeare's text, such as Hamlet's childhood friendship with Yorick, or scenes only implied by the play's text, such as Hamlet's sexual relationship with Kate Winslet's Ophelia.[7] The film also uses very long single takes for numerous scenes.

Branagh's own interpretation of the title role, by his own admission, was considerably less "neurotic" than others; gone completely was the Oedipal fixation so prominently featured in Olivier's 1948 film. However, some critics, such as Leonard Maltin, felt that Branagh's performance was at times too "over-the top" (in the scenes in which Hamlet pretends to be insane, Branagh portrayed the Prince as manic; other members of the court are visibly exasperated by his behavior).

Cast (in credits order) verified as complete

Riz Abbasi ... Attendant to Claudius
Richard Attenborough ... English Ambassador
David Blair ... Attendant to Claudius
Brian Blessed ... Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Kenneth Branagh ... Hamlet
Richard Briers ... Polonius
Michael Bryant ... Priest
Peter Bygott ... Attendant to Claudius
Julie Christie ... Gertrude
Billy Crystal ... First Gravedigger
Charles Daish ... Stage Manager
Judi Dench ... Hecuba
Gérard Depardieu ... Reynaldo
Reece Dinsdale ... Guildenstern
Ken Dodd ... Yorick
Angela Douglas ... Attendant to Gertrude
Rob Edwards ... Lucianus
Nicholas Farrell ... Horatio
Ray Fearon ... Francisco
Yvonne Gidden ... Doctor
John Gielgud ... Priam
Rosemary Harris ... Player Queen
Charlton Heston ... Player King
Ravil Isyanov ... Cornelius
Derek Jacobi ... Claudius
Rowena King ... Attendant to Gertrude
Jeffery Kissoon ... Fortinbras's Captain
Sarah Lam ... Attendant to Gertrude
Jack Lemmon ... Marcellus
Ian McElhinney ... Barnardo
Michael Maloney ... Laertes
John Spencer-Churchill ... Fortinbras's Captain (as Duke of Marlborough)
John Mills ... Old Norway
Jimi Mistry ... Sailor Two
Sian Radinger ... Prologue
Melanie Ramsey ... Prostitute
Simon Russell Beale ... Second Gravedigger
Andrew Schofield ... Young Lord
Rufus Sewell ... Fortinbras
Timothy Spall ... Rosencrantz
Thomas Szekeres ... Young Hamlet (as Tom Szekeres)
Ben Thom ... First Player
Don Warrington ... Voltimand
Perdita Weeks ... Second Player
Robin Williams ... Osric
Kate Winslet ... Ophelia
David Yip ... Sailor One


Plot Overview

On a dark winter night, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discovered first by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost resembles the recently deceased King Hamlet, whose brother Claudius has inherited the throne and married the king