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‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ Review: To Be Or Not To Be Shot While Staging A Shakespeare Classic – SXSW
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: To be or not to be shot while staging a Shakespeare classic – SXSW
Titled Make Love, Not Warcraft, it found Cartman marshalling his friends to take on a super-advanced rogue player with a posse of killer crabs who has taken to killing everyone in his path in the Tolkienesque greenfields of Azeroth. To combat what Mark calls “the crushing inevitability of your pointless life,” the pair take to playing Grand Theft Auto IV for a bit of cathartic escapism: a chance to “blow stuff up and shoot people.” Perversely, although Crane and Grylls’ film is set in a game famous for its brutality and excess — and, as we are reminded constantly, everybody dies in Shakespeare’s play — Grand Theft Hamlet looks for its hidden corners and empty spaces, finding a wholly unexpected but really quite affecting sense of Hopper-esque melancholy.
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