Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...graduate leave with a debt load as big as a barn. This is the difference between my day and now. In my day, the G.I. Bill made it patriotic to support higher education, and those of us who went to college in the 1960s were the beneficiaries: tuition was cheap. Now we launch kids into the world with a devalued B.A. from a declining state college and $15,000 in debt and an additional $10,000 on four different credit cards...
...Almereyda's own admission, the film was shot "fast and cheap" on 16mm film, and it shows. This version is certainly a "poor man's" Hamlet that neither remains truthful to the original text, nor emerges as a stunningly relevant interpretation that redefines the tale for our time. Under the circumstances, the text can't be faulted, but what the production team does in interpretation and execution makes for largely uninvolving storytelling...
...play is one of the greatest literary works written, but you wouldn't know it from Hamlet in the year 2000. Despite some fleeting high points, you might as well add "out of control" to Almereyda's acknowledgment the film was done "fast and cheap." The subject matter requires more time, more money and certainly more thought than this treatment has afforded...
...lucky to have so many great actors jump in. I'm not sure if you know how cheaply the movie was made. It was shot in super 16 mm film, all the actors worked for scale. It's a miracle this movie was done. It was done fast and cheap in New York - it's very hard to do a movie like this. Part of the challenge was just physically getting it done, but it felt great. It was actually a cinch...
...forced to grant. The vastly underrated American work ethic that prompts the most oddly assorted people to snap up jobs when offered a chance has kept the boom boiling longer than anyone expected. But from now on, putting them on the payroll is less likely to be as cheap...