Original sentence: (Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes).Another notable aspect of the film was the large number of celebrity cameos; seemingly no role was too small to be played by a star (Gerard Depardieu's turn as the servant Reynaldo, who appears only briefly in a single scene and is often left out of abridged versions of the play, is a case in point).Billy Crystal made a notable appearance as the gravedigger.Brannaugh set the film with Victorian costuming and furnishings.Derek Jacobi and Julie Christie were King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, Kate Winslet was Ophelia, Richard Briers was Polonius, and Nicholas Farrell was Horatio.Other appearances by well-known actors include Charlton Heston as the First Player/Player King, Robin Williams as the courtier Osric, Richard Attenborough as the English Ambassador, Brian Blessed as the ghost of Hamlet's father, and Jack Lemmon as Marcellus, the palace guard
Edited sentence: Another notable aspect of the film was the large number of celebrity cameos; seemingly no role was too small to be played by a star (Gerard Depardieu's turn as the servant Reynaldo, who appears only briefly in a single scene and is invariably left out of shorter versions of the play, is a case in point).Derek Jacobi and Julie Christie were King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, and Kate Winslet was Ophelia.Other notable cameos include Charlton Heston as the First Player/Player King, Robin Williams as the courtier Osric, and Richard Attenborough as the English Ambassador.Some of these cameos make a sort of sense (Billy Crystal as a comic-relief gravedigger), while others seem pointless and inappropriate (Jack Lemmon as a palace guard with a jarring American accent).The setting of the movie was less faithful, with Victorian costuming and furnishings (Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes)