Hamlet’s body isn’t carried off. Instead, on Fortinbras’ last line, “Go, bid the soldiers shoot,” good Horatio is shot, his blood spattering on the wall behind him like a slasher movie.

I knew him, Horatio." See how one word can change things? Of course Arnie's depiction was even more off-book. I'm pretty sure there's no stage direction where Hamlet cobs the skull at Horatio in ...