They will give the impression that Shakespeare is slow, boring, and written in some language that merely resembles modern English. Some, perhaps most, of these productions were not or will not be good. Assuming it never missed a day somewhere in some country, we have a potential 149,650 days in release! 'Avatar' may be the current financial box office champ, 'Gone with the Wind' may have sold the most tickets in its many releases since 1939, but Hamlet… Hamlet has literally been on stages and screens around the world for the last 410 years. William Shakespeare was the Jerry Bruckhiemer or perhaps the James Cameron. Think of London in 1600 as that era's Hollywood. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018."The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King." He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012. Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won three BAFTAs, and an Emmy. He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs (starred in 1999) (as well as The Ballad of Big Al), Walking with Beasts (2001) and Walking with Monsters (2005). He has directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991), in which he also starred, Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) in which he also starred, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the blockbuster superhero film Thor (2011), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) in which he also co-stars, the live-action remake of Disney's Cinderella (2015), and the mystery drama adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017), in which he also starred as Hercule Poirot.
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He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006).īranagh has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Wallander (2008–2016), My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), and as Royal Navy Commander Bolton in the action-thriller Dunkirk (2017). Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( born 10 December 1960) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.
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in which the majesty of buried Denmarkīefore my God, I might not this believe. that are so fortified against our story, With us to watch the minutes of this night.Īnd let us once again assail your ears. The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.Īnd will not let belief take hold of him.