Hamlet Goes Business - A Different Aproach to Hamlet

Introduction Hamlet, one of world’s most famous plays has been performed countless times all over the world during the 400 years, since it was written. It is clearly among Shakespeare’s most iconic plays and due to its popularity it is no wonder that it has been adapted to the big screen over sixty times already (www.absoluteshakespeare.com, accessed 2014). Taking a look at the original script, it is easy to see what keeps drawing filmmakers into the same text over and over again. The play follows Hamlet, prince of Denmark, as he proceeds to revenge his father’s death to Claudius, the new king. The story of Hamlet, filled with complex characters, strong emotions and passionate acts of love, revenge and even insanity, surely has lots of interesting themes for filmmakers to dig in. The attraction of this particular play is possibly the many different interpretations of it. The play as well as the characters have multiple different sides that can be emphasized, changing the atmo sphere and perhaps also the meaning of the story. This can be seen, by observing a very different and unique film adaptation from Finland. Hamlet Liikemaailmassa (Hamlet Goes Business) is a 1987 film from Aki Kaurismà ¤ki. With nearly 20 feature films and various international film awards, including Cannes, Kaurismà ¤ki is currently one of the most internationally recognized film directors from Finland. His work has an original, easily recognizable style that consists of plain, minimalistic expression,Show MoreRelatedTop 1 Cause for Project Failure65023 Words   |  261 PagesProgramme Managers. The programme as you can imagine suffered from scope creep or actually scope cuts to meet continuing slipping go-live dates. The Programme PMO has had in 18 months had seven different PMO Managers. There was poor co-operation between the different Programme entities. Nobody seemed to have overall authority and lack of accountability allowed the Programme to severely slip and go over over budget. The Programme Director eventually resigned closely followed