As RIZ Ahmed has outgrown ‘Hamlet’ as a contemporary thriller

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He says, it’s not on the edge of suicide in his “to be or not” Solilokui – trying to be man.

“It’s not” should I finish everything? “” Says Ahmed, which speaks iconic lines in the new “Hamlet” who debuted it Telluride Film Festival and will be displayed on Toronto Film Festival. “It’s about” Are we willing to live under injustice? Do you fight or give up? ”

Ahmed does not accept the usual display of hamlets as a man who tortures indecision. On the screen,
His hamlet is a coiled ball of indignation waiting for the right moment to revenge his father. “He is constantly active,” says Ahmed. “He investigates, strategists, gathers evidence while he is also feeling unimaginable.”

This adaptation of “Hamlet” interrupts tradition in other ways, moving his setting in modern
London and exchange of the Royal Court for McMansions filled with a group of southern Asian mogues, their families and their loading. Also steam in the text, exciting signs (forgiveness, choratio!) And scenes, so the focus is firmly on his tortured main junction.

“We did everything that did not increase the subjectivity of experience,” says Ahmed. “We kept all the parts that brought us to Hamlet’s mind and gave the viewers the feeling of what she feels.”

But his dazzling view of power and corruption remains intact and is even more relevant as the world shines towards Kleptocracy.

“There used to be unsaid rules,” says the director of Aniil Karia. “But now people don’t even try
to hide their crime. The country is transferred under Hamlet’s feet. And like so many people these days, he rebelled on what happens, but feels helpless to change it. ”

Ahmed for the first time he fell in love with “Hamlet” as a teenager when his English teacher, Mr. Roseblad, suggested to read the show.

“It was a time when I felt like I really didn’t go”, “says Ahmed. “And like so many people in such a long time, I found myself in that play. I saw a character that also felt not fitting inside.”

Even after Ahmed grew up and found success, in blockbusters like “Rogue One: Star Wars Story” and earned the nomination of the Oscar for “sound metal”, he kept dreaming of putting his print on the available prince. The job was for almost a decade on the scenario, looking for a perfect creative partner. In the end, he found him in Coria, who focused Ahmed in a short film for winning the Oscar, “Long Goodbie”. This film is based on Ahmed’s hip-hop album of the same name and felt that Karia had a unique ability to translate poetry into action.

“We want to democratize Shakespeare and not to do it tight and remote,” says Ahmed. “And Aneil understood how to feel that he lived and urgently and modernly and whether that action thriller felt it.”

Yes, you read that right. Shakespeare’s decisive, a four-hour opus gotille into something halfway that length and a far kinetic. It involves a speech “to be” or not, “Hamlet delivers while driving a car on a breakthrough, turning through traffic.

“The question has always been,” How can this speech be feeling alive and visceral? “” Says Karia. “And the answer was to be behind the point of accelerating the car moving towards Liria.”