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I just saw this film Royal Deceit (original European title - Prince of Jutland) and thought it was decent.
It has a variety of name actors in it, including: Helen Mirren, Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale and even Brian Cox and Andy Serkis, both of which surprised me.
It's the story of Hamlet from the original Danish source material, not the Shakespeare version.
This movie totally flew under the radar for me back 1994. Probably because it was a lower budget European movie. At least it seems lower budget or they spent it all on cast. I can't find an actual budget anywhere.
Probably what shocks me the most about this film is the look and feel of it. It doesn't feel like a shot on 35mm movie from 1994 compared to others from that era. It feels like a movie from the 70s or at best the early 80s. It just has that look about it and probably more specifically, that kind of sound. So it kind of messed with my head a bit because I felt like I was watching an older movie, yet I'm seeing Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale at he ages they would have been in the early 90s, plus a few other actors I would have never recognized back then had I seen it when it was released, but I do recognize now.
Sadly it was only ever released on DVD and Amazon streaming. So there is no HD transfer that I have found. I would love to see it with a nice HD or preferrably 4K scan. Being that it's from 1994 the negative should still be in alright shape, I would hope. Considering the number of name actors it should at least get an HD transfer just to ahe a nice digital version for posterity before the negative gets too old. But sadly I don't think this film will get even that ecause I don't think it would jive well with most modern audiences. Mostly because it looks and sounds older, has the slower pace of an older film, cheesy looking action scenes and that overall low budget period piece look about it. But hey, there's nudity. Sadly not by Beckinsale, but what are you going to do?
I actually enjoyed it. But I like 70s/80s looking films even if this was shot in the 90s. They still have that magical celluloid quality about them. Plus the lower budget look fits the period of this story because it's kind of authentic and not overglossed like modern period pieces. Would really like an HD copy though, just to see how much that look changes with a modern film scan.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110891/
It has a variety of name actors in it, including: Helen Mirren, Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Tom Wilkinson, Kate Beckinsale and even Brian Cox and Andy Serkis, both of which surprised me.
It's the story of Hamlet from the original Danish source material, not the Shakespeare version.
This movie totally flew under the radar for me back 1994. Probably because it was a lower budget European movie. At least it seems lower budget or they spent it all on cast. I can't find an actual budget anywhere.
Probably what shocks me the most about this film is the look and feel of it. It doesn't feel like a shot on 35mm movie from 1994 compared to others from that era. It feels like a movie from the 70s or at best the early 80s. It just has that look about it and probably more specifically, that kind of sound. So it kind of messed with my head a bit because I felt like I was watching an older movie, yet I'm seeing Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale at he ages they would have been in the early 90s, plus a few other actors I would have never recognized back then had I seen it when it was released, but I do recognize now.
Sadly it was only ever released on DVD and Amazon streaming. So there is no HD transfer that I have found. I would love to see it with a nice HD or preferrably 4K scan. Being that it's from 1994 the negative should still be in alright shape, I would hope. Considering the number of name actors it should at least get an HD transfer just to ahe a nice digital version for posterity before the negative gets too old. But sadly I don't think this film will get even that ecause I don't think it would jive well with most modern audiences. Mostly because it looks and sounds older, has the slower pace of an older film, cheesy looking action scenes and that overall low budget period piece look about it. But hey, there's nudity. Sadly not by Beckinsale, but what are you going to do?
I actually enjoyed it. But I like 70s/80s looking films even if this was shot in the 90s. They still have that magical celluloid quality about them. Plus the lower budget look fits the period of this story because it's kind of authentic and not overglossed like modern period pieces. Would really like an HD copy though, just to see how much that look changes with a modern film scan.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110891/