Millennial Generation Vs Hamlet

In past movie adaptations of Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, most have been set for a time accurate portrayal. Unfortunately however, the interest rate of a movie set in the early 1600’s Elizabethan era with old English, is not something many from the millennial generation can appreciate and gain interest to. Teens tend to have interest in a wide variety of movie categories, from romance to suspense; there are not many limitations to preference, except the time period the film was set in. The use of modern day costume design and a modern setting, a full script change to modern English, and choice of correctly recognizable actors to a teenage audience, will allow this modern adaptation to be successful among the millennial generation.

Perhaps the film could be adapted into a modern day suspense type film surrounding a business. A family business where King Hamlet and Claudius as the sons of the original business owner. King Hamlet gets chosen as the next owner to take over the business. In an act of anger that he did not get chosen, Claudius sets up a scene where it appears that King Hamlet has been illegally

Many Hamlet inspired films in the industry so far have chosen to keep in the outdated Shakespearian language. However, leaving this in makes it mostly not understandable for the teen generation. Changing sentences such as, “What means this, my lord?” to “What does that mean boss?” or “sir?” (3.2.140). As well as other sentence changes such as,” I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us, sir.” (3.2.37) to, “I hope we’ve corrected that fault pretty well in our company, sir.” a quote taken from No Fear Shakespeare that translates Shakespeare plays to modern day English. It is from sites like these that it is known that teens are completely unfamiliar with the old English and often rely of assistance with sites for