Grand Theft Hamlet: the inevitable documentary that replayed Shakespeare in GTA (Critique)

Two actors who are unemployed by confinement are trying to set up a representation of Hamlet in the GTA video game: Online. As crazy as it looks.

We were in early 2021, during the third confinement of the United Kingdom. Failing to exercise their profession, the actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen occupy their days by playing Grand Theft Auto OnlineMULI -PLUS version of GTA V which reproduces Los Angeles under the name of Los Santos. At the whim of their wanderings, they fall stunned on the consistent copy of the Hollywood Bowl, a huge outdoor theater overlooking the Le Duo de Potes invests the scene and begins to recite, for the mess, some dialogues from Hamlet from Shakespeare.

Would it be possible to set up the room in Gta ? “” C‘is a bad idea, but we really have to try “Answers Oosterveen. Pinny Grylls, Crane companion and documentary maker, smells a making-of dingo.

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Completely shot in the world of game, with a mixture of professional actors and amateurs recruited online, Grand Theft Hamlet therefore retraces this brinquebalant epic. A chain of reflections on the staging (big piece of cinema than the finale on an airship), unexpected falls along a cliff like Buster Keaton, chelous avatars and wild disconnections that poison the program…

In a shabby bar, the troop meditates on the deep meaning of ” to be or not to be By making the mandals of players who came to seek Castagne. It will also be their big occupation: where to repeat when the slightest who is looking for you with a rocket launcher? This widespread damn gives birth to absurd and hilarious scenes, but the film is tinged with an unexpected darkness when the real rushes into the virtual: the covored life of Oosterveen is only due to this project, while Crane does not come across More his wife than in the game … There is something rotten in the kingdom of Los Santos.

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