Catherine Hardwicke made Lords of Dogtown and Thirteen, which weren’t terrible, so it might be slightly unfair to label her “the director of Twilight.”   Then again, she’s now making a Shakespeare movie with a number in the title.  You can find her on MySpace under I♥RpattZ~RIPbiLLy$hak3zzz.  And now, some sh’t that doesn’t seem real:

“It’s a modern-day film, set at a liberal-arts college where words matter — so people are careful and talk in beautiful language, and Hamlet tries to express himself through music,” Hardwicke explained recently, saying that her “Hamlet” reinterpretation will continue the filmmaker’s love affair with music [you like music? holy sh't, next you'll tell me you enjoy having fun, it's like we're soul mates!  we're the most unique people in the world!] by combining the spirit of the legendary Nirvana frontman with the Bard. “So, we’re using some of the cooler Shakespeare language, in a musical way. [My Hamlet] is like an [aspiring] rock star. He’s got six people* that go to his performances, go to clubs and listen to him. It’s like an early Kurt Cobain.”

The idea is that Emile Hirsch’s take on the character will blend a unique mix of music, sincerity and Shakespearean prose to re-envision the 400-year-old character not as a vengeful prince, but as a credibility-sensitive indie musician attending a school like Berklee. [MTV via ThePlaylist]

On the one hand, this idea sounds so lame and pretentious that it might as well be wearing white Ray-Bans.  On the other, Hamlet was kind of a whiney emo-pussy to begin with.  And, and I know this is neither here nor there, but I’ve been started to see a lot of people in my neighborhood carrying around ukuleles.  Is that, like, the new hipster thing?  Does switching to an even smaller, more annoying instrument make it easier to pull out at inopportune times?  God I hate you trust-fund hippies so much.

*…they like all his pretty songs, like to sing along, don’t know what it means, etc.