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Which actors in both film and stage have done Hamlet justice?
Laurence Olivier? Kenneth Branagh? Derek Jacobi? Mel Gibson?!
Or another person?
I for one have to go with Olivier, what do you guys think?
Agreed . I remember seeing the movie in high school while we were reading the play. I also saw other versions as I got older but for me, none were as as brilliant as Olivier. The soliloquy in itself is an amazing work but when Olivier delivered it...well...I was just enveloped in the entire scene.
Oh, wasn't Richard Burton in a 60's Broadway production of Hamlet?
I do very much love the scope of Brannagh's version and I thought that Gibson's was quite well done as well.
For pure intimacy, as well as invention, it's hard to beat the recent version that starred David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.
So, no 'best' - just lots of great interpretations.
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. I remember seeing the movie in high school while we were reading the play. I also saw other versions as I got older but for me, none were as as brilliant as Olivier. The soliloquy in itself is an amazing work but when Olivier delivered it...well...I was just enveloped in the entire scene. 
