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Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet In Film
The title of the piece was Hamlet in movie form. The movie was Kenneth Branagh and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The movie is about a prince whose father is murdered by his uncle. Starts with Hamlet attending his father’s funeral. Hamlet is upset because, his mother remarried his uncle. Hamlet is beyond mad and see his father’s ghost that tells him uncle murdered him. Hamlet thinks he going crazy and struggles with dealing with losing his mind and with murder uncle and betraying mother. In novel form the book would be really long and hard to read with it being in old English.
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