Editing Hamlet (1996 film) (section)

==Production==

===Origins===
Aspects of the film's staging were based on [[Adrian Noble]]'s [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] production of the play, in which Branagh played the title role.<ref>{{cite book|first=Samuel|last=Crowl|chapter=Flamboyant Realist: Kenneth Branagh|editor-first=Russell|editor-last=Jackson|title=The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00jack_577|url-access=limited|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge, England|date=2000|isbn=978-0521866002|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00jack_577/page/n240 225]}}</ref>

===Text===
The film uses a conflated text based on the 1623 [[First Folio]], with additions from the [[Second Quarto]] and amendments from other sources. According to a note appended to the published screenplay:

{{blockquote|The screenplay is based on the text of ''Hamlet'' as it appears in the First Folio – the edition of Shakespeare's plays collected by his theatrical associates Heminges and Condell and published in 1623 by a syndicate of booksellers. Nothing has been cut from this text, and some passages absent from it (including the soliloquy "How all occasions do inform against me ...") have been supplied from the Second Quarto (an edition of the play which exists in copies dated 1604 and 1605). We have also incorporated some readings of words and phrases from this source and from other early printed texts, and in a few cases emendations from modern editors of the play. Thus in I, 4, in the passage (from the Second Quarto) about the "dram of eale", we use an emendation from the Oxford edition of the ''Complete Works'' (edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, 1988): "doth all the noble substance ''over-daub''" – rather than the original's "of a doubt".<ref>Branagh, Kenneth (1996), ''"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare: Screenplay and Introduction by Kenneth Branagh; production diary by Russell Jackson'' (New York: W W Norton), p.174.  {{ISBN|0393045196}}</ref>}}

===Style===
Despite using a full text, Branagh's film is also very visual; it makes frequent use of [[Flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]] to depict scenes that are described but not performed in Shakespeare's text, such as Hamlet's childhood friendship with Yorick, or scenes merely implied by the play's text, such as Hamlet's sexual relationship with Ophelia.<ref>Keyishian, p.79</ref> The film also uses very [[long take|long single takes]] for numerous scenes.

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 called the setting "''film noir'' with all the lights on".<ref>Crowl, p.227</ref> Branagh chose [[Victorian era]] costuming and furnishings, using [[Blenheim Palace]], built in the early 18th century as the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, as Elsinore Castle for the external scenes. Harry Keyishan has suggested that the film is structured as an [[Epic film|epic]], courting comparison with ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'', ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' and ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''.<ref>Keyishian, p.78</ref> As J. Lawrence Guntner pointed out, comparisons with the latter are heightened by the presence of [[Julie Christie]] (''Zhivago''{{'s}} Lara) as Gertrude.<ref>Guntner, pp. 122–123.</ref>

===Filming===
''Hamlet'' was shot in [[Super Panavision 70|Panavision Super 70]] by [[Alex Thomson (cinematographer)|Alex Thomson]]. It was the last feature film to be entirely shot in 70&nbsp;mm until production of ''[[Samsara (2011 film)|Samsara]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last=McGavin |first=Patrick |url=http://movieline.com/2012/08/17/the-master-chicago-screening-paul-thomas-anderson-music-box/ |title=The Master Rules in Chicago: 70 mm Screening of Anderson Film Recalls Welles' The Lady From Shanghai |publisher=[[Movieline]] |work=Movieline.com |date=17 August 2012 |access-date=21 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819002100/http://movieline.com/2012/08/17/the-master-chicago-screening-paul-thomas-anderson-music-box/ |archive-date=19 August 2012 }}</ref> Branagh was among the few to use [[65mm film]] cameras after that, on his 2017 film ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/murder-orient-express-review-1053433 |title='Murder on the Orient Express' Review &#124; Hollywood Reporter |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=2 November 2017 |access-date=2017-11-09 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103041759/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/murder-orient-express-review-1053433 |archive-date=3 November 2017 }}</ref> The filming was done from 25 January to 12 April 1996.

===Music===
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| label      = [[Sony Classical Records]]
| producer   = Patrick Doyle<br />Maggie Rodford
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The [[Film score|score]] of ''Hamlet'' was composed and co-produced by frequent-Kenneth-Branagh-collaborator [[Patrick Doyle]], and conducted by Robert Ziegler. Doyle composed three primary themes for the film to accompany the characters of Ophelia, Claudius and Hamlet, which are varied throughout the score. The "simple, childlike" theme for Ophelia is mostly string-dominant, often performed by a [[string quartet]] yet occasionally accompanied by a full string ensemble or mixed chorus. For Claudius, Doyle composed a theme in the form of a demented [[Canon (music)|canon]], using more 20th-century harmonies. The theme for Hamlet was considered by Doyle to be "the most daunting and elusive" to conceive, before settling on a more "simple" motif to accompany the contemplative character.<ref name="Filmtracks">[http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/hamlet.html ''Hamlet'' (1996): (Patrick Doyle)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208204035/http://filmtracks.com/titles/hamlet.html |date=8 February 2012 }}.  ''[[Filmtracks.com]]''. Retrieved 27 January 2012.</ref>

The [[soundtrack album]] was released on 10 December 1996 through [[Sony Classical Records]] and features 26 tracks, with a running time of more than 76 minutes.<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/doylewilliam-shakespeares-hamlet-soundtrack-r244048 Doyle: William Shakespeare's Hamlet (soundtrack)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312080611/http://www.allmusic.com/album/doylewilliam-shakespeares-hamlet-soundtrack-r244048 |date=12 March 2012 }}. ''[[AllMusic]]''. Retrieved 27 January 2012.</ref> For his work on the film, Doyle received an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]].

# In Pace (3:07) – performed by [[Plácido Domingo]] (heard in the film during the closing credits)
# Fanfare (0:48)
# "All that lives must die" (2:40)
# "To thine own self be true" (3:04)
# The Ghost (9:55)
# "Give me up the truth" (1:05)
# "What a piece of work is a man" (1:50)
# "What players are they" (1:33)
# "Out out thou strumpet fortune" (3:11)
# "To be, or not to be" (1:53)
# "I loved you once" (3:27)
# "Oh, what a noble mind" (2:41)
# "If once a widow" (3:36)
# "Now could I drink hot blood" (6:57)
# "A foolish prating nave" (1:05)
# "Oh heavy deed" (0:56)
# "Oh here they come" (4:39)
# "My thoughts be bloody" (2:52)
# "The doors are broke" (1:20)
# "And will 'a not come again?" (1:59)
# "Alas poor Yorick" (2:49)
# "Sweets to the sweet – farewell" (4:39)
# "Give me your pardon sir" (1:24)
# "Part them they are incensed" (1:47)
# "Goodnight, sweet prince" (3:36)
# "Go bid the soldiers shoot" (2:52)