Synopsis
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Directed by Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
GTA哈姆雷特, 그랜드 테프트 오토의 햄릿, 侠盗猎车哈姆雷特, 俠盜獵車手哈姆雷特
really funny but also felt too staged. was at its best when you could tell what was happening was authentic — ParTeb reciting the quran to them is an all-timer
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
i wish so much of this wasn’t clearly scripted but the moments that appeared genuine were so funny and brilliant. hamlet dying while an alien is hip thrusting in the background.
"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” or "Give o'er the play!"
Achingly modern, entirely silly, a very pure work of ingenuity and intuition. The movie MEGALOPOLIS wanted to be. Should have been like 30 hours long.
PS: if anyone has a link to watch the full performance please let me know.
Strangely earnest and moving – captures the joys of spending Covid nights gaming with your mates and the singular GTA Online moments that would have you howling with laughter to the point of forgetting everything happening in the outside world. Structurally astute in portraying moments of existential contemplation, even while resourcefully constrained. Incredibly innovative and brings to light the many many creative possibilities within the digital universe. Obviously much artifice to it all in terms of it being marketed as a doc, but I quite enjoyed this!
To be or not to be. That was the question facing so many artists at the height of the COVID pandemic (let’s call it January 2021), when the crisis seemed as if it might continue forever, and the absence of an audience threatened to chip away at the creative spirit itself. Suddenly unemployed and unable to support his family after landing the biggest role of his life (the titular wizard in the London production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”), British actor Sam Crane couldn’t help but wonder — to quote a certain Danish prince — “whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of…
I'm broadly moved by the grand social experiment of playing video games, and my life was changed (?) by playing Witcher 3 in the winter of 2020/2021, AND I love Hamlet (grad school alert) therefore I am ideally the target audience for this sort of thing. I've seen a handful of complaints that gripe with the film's "scripted" quality – I basically do not really accept this movie as a "documentary"; it's quite staged, and that's fine. that works within the broad conceit of the subject matter, and I don't really trust "theatre people" to go full-blown verité. BUT – I do think those scenes that people take issue with – where the characters are simply spelling out what is…