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Staging Hamlet Inside Grand Theft Auto Is Even Harder Than It Looks
“It’s a very basic challenge when, as a performer, you have to think, Is this person going to shoot me?”
It’s also a documentary about the texture, beauty, and comedy of life in digital worlds, a quality underscored by Grand Theft Hamlet being entirely composed of in-game footage, Machinima-style. At one point, for example, Sam and Mark encounter ParTebMosMir, a chaotically inclined player who doesn’t really speak the same language as the crew or seem to understand what they’re trying to do. Grylls: Stuff like that pisses some people off, but I think it’s a really interesting part of the filmmaking: There’s a texture where the film is about different layers of reality.
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