> > > (5) As someone else mentioned, nominating "O Brother Where Art Thou" for Adapted Screenplay
> > > is the silliest nomination since Kenneth Branagh was nominated for Adapted Screenplay
> > > for "Hamlet" despite not changing a single word.
> >
> > Not to be pedantic, but, actually, he did change a word. *One* word.
> > I.v.166-167: "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
> > philosophy." In the Branaugh version, that line reads "... in our philosophy." A nitpick, but,
> > hey, I'm a Shakespeare nerd. And I legitimately *did* notice that watching the movie the *first*
> > time. :-}
> >
> > More notably than that, he changed the order of some of the scenes (though I fail to remember
> > which offhand).
>
> One obvious point is the rearrangement of Act IV, scene 5.
> As Shakespeare wrote it, there's a speech about halfway through where Claudius recaps all the things that have gone wrong in the play so far.
> In the movie, where IV:5 is the first scene after the intermission, it's been shifted to the beginning of the scene to refresh the audience members' memories.

That's one of them. Also, if I remember properly (I've not seen the movie in quite some time), Hamlet's speech ending IV.iv (32-66) was moved to the *end* of Act IV (which has seven scenes).

> And if you don't restrict yourself to dialogue, Branagh did a lot of adapting of the stage directions as well.

... But Shakespeare didn't write those. They were added later. :-}