![]() ![]() In 1992, he made a film on a toy camera from Fisher-Price the pleasure-pain of ephemeral technology is not lost on him.Ī fake issue of WIRED also shows up in one scene, leafed through by Rosencrantz, or maybe Guildenstern. “The fact that much of this technology is now obsolete can make the movie seem both poignant and comic,” Almereyda told me recently, by email. Flashing slants of screens, reflections, and projections abound in Almereyda’s film, along with the uncertain transitional tech that defined the years of the so-called analog sunset. ![]() Hamlet is a film of blue hallucinations and vertigo in a strange, nervous year that seems to prefigure the anguish that is 2020. ![]() For extra bittersweetness, Sam Shepard, who died in 2017, plays Hamlet’s father, the ghost. Hamlet is a pre-Prozac indie filmmaker (Ethan Hawke), Claudius is a bluff CEO (Kyle MacLachlan), and Polonius is a washed-up comic (Bill Murray). Almereyda situates the play in New York City, where the centuries-old rot of Shakespeare’s Europe becomes the brand-new rot of the 21st century United States. Almereyda’s inventive film adaptation is particularly necessary now in plague times, when theaters are dark around the world, and our flesh is heir to the thousand natural shocks of this damned pandemic. If American Beauty is best forgotten, Hamlet in its 420th year should always be close at hand. Subscribe to WIRED and stay smart with more of your favorite Ideas writers. ![]()
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