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LIGHTNING EPISODES
Olivier's Hamlet
is brutal, savage -and
new
bu LEONARD MOSLEY
JUST can't help beginning at the end, for that last scene keeps nagging at my mind and demanding that I describe it to you— describe it in all its poignant tragedy, all its pulsing excitement, all its dash and speed" and throat-catching pathos.
When the porfect film comes to be made, it will be like that last phase of Hamlet, and it will be almost too much to bear. For thia was one of the moments for which all good cinema-goers wait" and hope."
For 30 minutes the genius of a great playwright and the art of great film-men blended, and it was shattering to see which unfolded.
We were in the great hall of the castle at Elsinore, perched high on the misty Danish cliffs, and we knew that blood and murder were coming. Hamlet had been
tricked. His uncle-layer of his father-had brought,
him down to night ព "friendly
duel with 4
member of the Court, but everything had been arranged beforehand to have him killed.
The tip of his opponent's rapler was dipped In venom. The goblet of wine with which he would quench his thirst
the between rounds was laced with polson. There was no way out for Homlet, and as
the first gentle sound of steel on steel came as the rapiers clashed he seemed to smell the doom that recked in the air.
Smelled it, and yet kept on fight- ing. Back and forth' across the fumy hall the duelists swayed, and Hamlet fought like mad to keep his opponent's rapler away. All around him enemies and friends tensely watched.
who so
i gasp...
There was his uncle, the King, badly wanted him dead, goowing nervously at his beard as Hamlet parried the strokes, urging him to drink the poisoned wine each time there was a pause. There was also his own mother, sensing doom and death and yet unable to bring herself to stop the fight.
And building up, all the time a crescendo of eerie feeling ns all the watchers realised there was little of friendship here.
I have seen "Hamlet" a score of times but I shall not soon forget the duel as it was fought in this flim. Each inexorable stage mounted new excitement in mc. Hamlet parried away his enemy agul, und I breathed with relief." The Queen's hand reached out in her anxiety and, by accident or design, grasped the polsoned cup- and I felt like shouting for her to stop.
And then the crash come.
The Queen drank. The envenomed rapier ripped open Hamlet's arin as he turned away. The battle went on again, but this time with murder in the open, and Hamlet himself fighting now to kill.
LAURENCE
OLIVIER says;
"The only real way to solve. the problem of adaptation for the scream was to be ruth- lossly bold... In doing this, wo have simplified the story, but inevitably we have lost a good deal."
with it, for having cut out this speech or that, for having eliminated ⚫ certain characters, for hoving of what was changed the senso going on in some of the characters' minds.
loudspeaker announcer at Wembley. heard from the distance, than vislior from the shades.
H
Over all his fim the influence of Olivier brooda majestically. Tho superb camera-work sweeps you along the battlements, on the lip of beetling cliffs, down great corridors, eye on the damp, scraping your dripping walls.
that this is how And you know Olivier
saw Elsinore, as he saw every one of the troubled humans insido that gloomy castle. Over for that. He played that principal of his inluence-and how gripping- every foot of the film is the patina role of Humlet, and played it in a
Laurence Olivier is responsible
new way. He excised the speeches. ly he makes you feel it! He envisioned the effects.
And I certainly forgive him for what he cut and applaud him for most of what he did
His own Hamlet is a maelstrom of conflicting emotions, and vet there runs through his characterisa tion, thick as a chord. the constant sense of his own inevitable doom and the doom of all associated with him.
I criticise...
AS in Henry V., his face is in re
pose as the thoughts from his brain come to you, but this time he adds an effective trick. Suddenly, his mouth will open and a snatch of a phrase will come from his lips, and then he will swing away and you his thoughts will be listening to again.
Under Olivier's direction. Hamlet's mother becomes the women I have milddia- -And-so-to-the-savage climax,-with always pletured. She is Hamlet pinning his opponent to a pillar, then turning on the King. the slayer of his father, and vicious- ly running the sword through hina again and again until he moved no
more. And then those last words from Ioratio as Hamlet himself dled: "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to
thy rest,"
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HERE'S A NEW FILM GAME...
by DAVID LEWIN Pull up here for mental exercise without too much physical effort. It a film game called Hunt-the- is Cliche you know, the trite piece of dialogue or stock situation you re cognise the moment it begins.
Think back over the films of the past few mo
months and see bow many cliches you can remember. This is a list of my favourites:
WAR FILM: The patrol is tramp- aged and yet still avid for life. Sheing through the jungles: the new recruit says: "It is quiet." The old has married again because she
sergeant grunts: "Yes-too cannot bear to be alone, and
a hand
qulet." Eileen Herlie portrays
herd
Then you know it all-the enemy brilliant performance for a woman
will oblige promptly with everything NEWSPAPER FILM: Editor: they have got. "If this is another of your gogs, another job on a paper in this town." never get Jackson-1'll see you
14 This always coupled with the reporter who comes through with on exclusive story hours after the paper has gone to press and gasps over the
Ophella, the girl who loved Hamlet and died when she lost him. is played by Jean Slumons Sho acts her tragle part like a simple, lost girl, and it is poignant to watch her. Norman Wooland is a finely
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I applaud. CHAKESPEARE wrote those last drawn Horatio, and thero are phone: "Clear the front page-walt scenes to his play for good, superb performances from Basil till you see what I have got." Tree simple Elizabethan citizens to watch Sydney as the evil King, and Felix minutes later his story makes front at the Globe Theatre more than 300 Aylmer as fussy Polonius, who les page headlines. years ago-but only in 1948, through from paking his
into other cinema, did they quicken to people's business. brutal life for me, and I shall not If I have one criticism, it is a
Then there is the Alm about- soon forget them.
criticism of ghost. The spirit And of what went before? Let of Hamlet's father comes
CLASSICAL MUSIC (Katharine to him Hepburn is in this one): The great me say now, and clearly, that this and urges him to exact vengeance pianist
has just Anished his im production of "Hamlet" is one for his murder. Ho 19 a
A short, tubby man's conception, and it is a great cerle gure lurking In the mists gentleman then says: "That Was There will be those who argue but he speaks much more like a great music, Mr. Schumaan."
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MYSTERY FILM with a strong teminine load-Better Davis is usually the speaker. After she has done something particularly nasty she
shouts: "F am glad I dici it, glad I tell you, glad, GLAD."
glad,
"THE MUSICAL; The Boy and the Girl sit in a pight club, the lights are low the boy winks at the orchestra leader, the band begins to play. The girl turns her head and Intones: "Darling, you remembered
is our lune." That is just before they quarrel In the second reel.
LOVE TRAGEDY: In this the woman cannot forget her first bay friend who died years before. Sho agrees to marry his best pal and says softly: "I am sure Philip would have wanted it this way....
:
The rest of These out-worn phrases can bo Iumped togelhor. You may remember: "I'm kinda mixed
up inside;" the stiff-necked British clubman in a Hollywood movie who says: "I would not have belloved that of old Carruthers-- after all, he played in the first eloven"; and of course, the hospital nurse: There is nothing more we can do to save him-he's lost the will to live."
You know what I mean? Sea how mony more of these stock phrasĈO and altuations you can think of this week-end.
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