I'll concur with you that Jack Lemon was a weak participant. But Williams acquitted himself rather nicely of the effete Osric, and Crystal gave a credible interpretation of the grave digger as a glib surveyor of life - and death.
Irrefutably, one of the truly outstanding adaptations of Shakespeare on film and, arguably, the definitive Hamlet as it is the complete text. Not a scene or character omitted. Extraordinary production values and what a cast. Branagh ought to have been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Direction...
Okay, I've listened to a few cues from Born on the Fourth of July and the melody is definitely there, but not the tempo. Does anyone know the exact cue from which Branagh lifted this track? Is it a reorchestration, perhaps? Anyone?
This one has baffled me for a while and I was just wondering if anyone knew where the music cue comes from. The trailer for Branagh's 1996 masterpiece Hamlet was prepared with 2 music cues taken from other movies (not such an outlandish thing to do in the mid-1990's). The trailer to Sense and...