To rent, or not to rent. That is the question. Whether it's nobler in the mind to choose between Ernest Goes to the Beach or Ernest Doesn't Go to the Beach.
100%. Although it almost works to speak it in bored disdain, given the setting. It says something about the malaise of the time - almost as if the question, itself doesn't even matter - which is actually a pretty powerful take on the speech. That said, if that was the intention, it would have been better to speak it that way the entire time, rather than the whispered sincerity it started with.
@@redadamearth Great observation. This scene is so 90s to me, and not just in a superficial nostalgic way--it might be one the most perfect depictions of what the culture had become in the fullness of its decadence at the end of the decade/century/millennium. The performative nihilism, the de rigueur critiques of media and corporations, the vague apocalyptic dread. This encapsulates all that and more in 3 minutes.
I like how the monologue is a voiceover and somewhat displays that he is inner-monologuing I think the movie titles are also part of his thought process
I feel like I've seen someone do this in a blockbuster before. Not necessarily reciting hamlet but definitely wandering the aisles muttering to themselves and while they try to find that one film they're always looking for but never seems to be there when they come in. Meanwhile the staff is looking at this guy because he's literally the last one in the store and they need to close
This scene has unintentionally aged so much more on time while walking along the gravestones of blockbuster - but he’s always great regardless (ambiguous; William or Ethan, your choice)
I know nobody cares, but I hunted down the location of Hamlet's Blockbuster with considerable effort.....I can't prove it 100% since we were given no external view but I think the Blockbuster location used was 2510 Broadway,New York, NY 10025...it is now known as 2512 and has 4000 sq ft...[an "alley" building to the right is now 2510]...there is a slope in the area and the floor was raised like 2.5 feet with access gained by a short set of stairs...in the movie you can see this as slouching Hamlet and the vsc, even with the forced perspective, are still tall compared to the door, it is the bottom floor for a seven story building so it has support columns in the front that match the movie brick internals and the support column in the middle of the floor lines up with the door support column like in the movie, also the floor tile pattern matches the movie...the location has window areas that match very well to the movie and to the left of the "Deep Impact" (1998) poster/above the Small Soldiers (1998) poster are outside lights that look to match the halfgreen/halfwhite globes over the subway access on the sidewalk outside...[the ceiling does look to have been raised/replaced since then and the overhead light pattern is "now" different from the movie].
we watched this in my first year poetry and drama course, and we talked about the relevance of the setting in the context of the film and about the subtleties of things happening around him, and i totally get that it's an important and serious speech, and i believe that that the acting is extremely well done, but also this is one of the funniest things i've seen all year. i'm sorry, it just is.
My english professor from university brought me here. I think this is brilliant. There's just something about Ethan Hawke. Loved his performance in Dead Poets Society as well.
Boredom, emptiness, and sick nameless dread all weighing upon you, while you search in vain for a distraction, not because you want it, but because it's What People Do. I felt this in my soul.
I don't get people's negativity with this movie. I loved it and thought it was great, the acting and the soundtrack. Guess people read a bunch of negative comments and feel they have to fit in.
Not a great Hamlet overall, but I can definitely relate to the concept of having an existential breakdown in a video store. I miss those humble pre-streaming days.
So wait, Small Soldiers, Deep Impact, and Crow: City of Angels exist in the story of Hamlet? 🤯That's as mind blowing as finding out that a King Lear starring Arnold Schwarzenegger exists in a Jurassic Park movie!
It’s amusing to me that there is an ad for Deep Impact outside of the video store, since that movie has Maximillian Schell, who once played Hamlet in the most spare German expressionist tv version of Hamlet, that used for the MST3K episode!
I have a limited film score of just the music and Shakespeare’s spoken word, got it from Europe. I love it more than the film. I wish Julie Taymor got to direct this, Titus & the Tempest blew my mind !
The best interpretation. Majestic. Such ease and such power. You see everything here, all thoughts of past generations going through his mind, and energies of his own.. his mind is too strong to go into action too soon, and too strong to fail in the end❤️Total Hamlet.
I think it's terrible. Totally throws away Shakespeare's language. It has no meaning, no power Completely unmotivated. Completely bland. Ethan Hawke should never have been cast in this role.
Well.. It's inspiring to hear a different opinion😊this interpretation is simply blessed.. It takes me to a frequency where I feel how sweet it would be to die and forget everything, but then in a second it brings me to the reality of common sense and then in the end it makes me feel the spirit of ditachment which only comes after very deep emotions, such as those Hamlet experienced. There are some great interpretations of this monologue, but in all of them the actor is what you remember,not Hamlet. In this interpretation Hamlet is in the center, Ethan is subdued, and that's what makes it the best. Ethan went to the background and let the words be the center of attention. This is what greatest actors do.
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we and The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish 'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life....
Ok, I will watch this movie someday. I was thinking how attitudes about doing Shakespeare always end up sounding Fakespearean, like slow stilted speech is woven into the text. Or that performance is more important than the meaning of the text. It's not. I watched a bunch of other actors do the slow, stagy thing and they all sucked. This was the closest yet to the pace I heard in my head when I read the play. A little whispery, but at least the words have meaning beyond impressing the talent judges.
Netflix was born in 1997. I wonder if the filmmakers (being in the film industry, obviously) sensed Blockbuster's imminent demise and used it to add an extra layer of significance to this scene... A speech about death in a dying retail format.
I worked there. Fantastic job. Long arguments over best movie/actor/director. Recommendations out of left field that had customers amazed, inspired and hungry for more great stuff. Opening a person’s eyes to art. “Have you seen Death In Venice?” “Give Bertolucci a try” “Clint Eastwood has made so many much better movies than this” “Michael Keaton was the best Batman” “Nightmare Before Christmas will have you laughing, crying and thinking, all in one go” “Rosebud” “If this movie doesn’t make you weep, then you have no soul” “Steven Seagal is a misunderstood GENIUS!” (hey, sometimes it’s fun to screw with folks. It was a slow night)
Did anyone else come here because they remember this movie and miss aimlessly walking through the aisles of Blockbuster? (Hoping you wouldnt run into anyone but of course you always did)
The screenplay and acting make no attempt to reconcile with even half of the words' meanings that shakespeare intended. It's a modern version, but that doesnt mean u just reproduce the words with whatever movement of images...
+Roku But doesn't this Hamlet have to operate within the distractions and realms of non-reality the modern world is replete with? I thought the movie store was kind of fitting in that way. Hamlet walks around dialogueing with himself most the time, observing from an inward distance, drawing parallels with what the world shows him.
+backdoor68 its just the acting in particular I take issue with. Like, the way says everything, and looks around indiscriminately and almost apathetically, it lends no gravity to what he's saying in my opinion, and just relying on the dialogue to try to speak for itself. you might be partially right in that I hadn't reallllly properly thought about the modern reproduction of the play. but still, I find the acting atrocious and losing the essence of what hamlet was even about. I draw this more generally, I was looking at a couple other scenes from this movie (nunnery scene I think was one) as well when I said this.
+Roku It probably speaks more to a modern young person's existential crisis, when they're not moved to great emotion, but a shadow of general aimlessness and mild pity/disgust for the world, seeing no reason or goal to anything in life.
It’s funny, at the time some people complained that this was too modern, and it is, compared to the time of Shakespeare, but now certain scenes and setting seem really dated, such as this Blockbuster Video, and the Pepsi One machine.
Shakespeare's beautiful words, esp. in this part, are wasted in being whispered or spoken softly. We did Hamlet in high school in a modern setting too, but we wanted the audience to love the words as much as we did so we spoke them out loud. Of course, we could easily be theatrical onstage, but on film in a modern setting speaking out loud would probably sound unnatural. Baz Lhurmann would've done this better.
My class had to compare different performances of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy. In my opinion this was the worst because it was incredibly monotonous and I don't think the actor portrayed the emotions tied to the dialogue. It was as if he were just repeating memorized words.
Two beers, or not two beers, that is the question/Whether Wetherspoon’s is nobler in the mind for supper/The gin slings and Arrow beers of outrageous fortune/Or to the Guildford Arms for a seabreeze with bubbles/And after much dozing, upend them./Bleary eye, counting sheep; To count sheep, perchance sea bream,-aye, there’s the chub/For in that sleep with sheep, what bleats may come/When we have scuffled with that immortal gargoyle/Must give us cause-there’s the respect that makes Calamity Jane a good trouble and strife/For who would buy the Walnut Whips and Blackthorns before bedtime?/The transgressor’s thong, the loud man’s costume/The hunger-pangs of no pies, bruv, the in-law’s dismay/The insolence of Microsoft Office, and the burns/That in-patients merit if blameworthy rakes/When peeing oneself when a night-bus brakes/On a bare Bodmin/Dr Who would Daleks fear/To grunt and sweat under a weary wife/Such that the bedspread heave with every breath/The undiscovered pantry, from whose Bournville chocolate/No wanderer returns, befuddles the willpower/And makes us rather take those pills we have/Than buy others that we know not of?/Thus non-science doth make blowhards and those in thrall/And, thus, the non-native hue and cry of revolution/Is Wikileaked o’er with the frail mast and bought/And Starship-Enterprises of weight, myth and (spur-of-the-) moment/From the mouth of this Bard, their direct-currents turn and fly/And choose the name of inaction.
So the movie is set in the modern day partially to take advantage of TV and surveillance cameras with the themes of voyeurism in the play, but in the scene where voyeurism is most important, the speech the audience is meant to wonder if Hamlet is delivering for Claudius and Polonius or if he is genuinely unaware of their presence... And instead of taking advantage of the surveillance cameras they instead set it in a video store so he can walk by signs saying "action" to spell it out for the dummies in the audience. No actual taking advantage of the setting, just a set dressing to say "hey, we're modern." Made even more insulting by the fact that the 2010 production with David Tennant...which barely qualifies as a movie...understood the opportunity and worked a surveillance camera into the speech, Hamlet tearing it down so he can deliver the speech with the first guarantee of privacy in the whole thing. This is so obvious, God this movie sucks.
I saw this scene because of my theater teacher and everyone in my class bursted out with laughter at how BAD AND AWFUL this was. Like I get it "symbolism" and such...but....oh my god. It's genuinely worse than Cats(2019).
@@riopato2009 in the play, hamlet is being spied on from behind the mirrors in the hall where he performs his speech. Branagh heightens the drama by having Hamlet gaze into the mirror with the spies on the other side. I don't remember any mirrors in the Mel Gibson version. I've never sat through the thing, but seen some parts on TH-cam. I don't much care for the Freudian mama-fixation angle of it, but I may still give it a try.
@@joashtunison351 Freudian mama fixation? where'd you get that from? Hamlet lost all respect for his mother for quickly marrying his father's brother. His obsession with his mother was one of distain and ever since he sees her as an opportunist that never loved his father which made him realized she never loved him as a son. The movie has Hamlet recite his monologue in the royal cemetery instead in front of a mirror as a plea to the dead seeking resolution to his depression. Those around him already suspect that Hamlet might be going a little crazy so instead of spying on him, the movie has him contemplate the question whether if it's worth it to continue to live or to be better off dead. A sane man whose starting to believe in his charade to make everyone think he's going crazy.
@@riopato2009 I agree. The play has zero element of the oedipus complex, though in the 20th century, many people were reading this false element into the text. As I understand, the Mel Gibson version relies to a degree on this perspective. Like I said, I've never seen the whole thing, so can only rely on commentaries I've read. Also, I do think performing the speech among the tombs is a compelling modification to the original setting, which Branagh more accurately staged. I do like Gibson's speech much better than Olivier, which probably will get me royally flamed by hard core purists. Anyway, I need to check out the 1991 version in full. I read it has many good qualities. Best wishes.
Dude reads every line like they mean the same thing. I get he's trying to convey depression, but come on. That's not now Shakespeare's meant to be done.
He's become a much, much better actor over time but he definitely had some stinkers in his early days. His performance in Reality Bites as a pretentious 90's hipster who fronts a crappy grunge band was unbearable as well.
+Alex Creed Shakespeare wasn't exclusively British. Most of his plays took place in other countries. Hamlet takes place in Denmark, which is off of Germany. Even so the great thing about Shakespeare is that you can do it in whatever style or setting you want.
To rent, or not to rent. That is the question. Whether it's nobler in the mind to choose between Ernest Goes to the Beach or Ernest Doesn't Go to the Beach.
There are more Ernest movies than are dreamt of in your philosophy,Horatio
“We’ll be closing in 2 minutes.”
Ernest never went to the beach!
I don't know what's more ancient the dialogue or the blockbuster?
GrayWoIf 😂
The dialogue
Yes.
A fellow time traveler 😂
Brilliant choice to film this soliloquy amongst the "Action" flick aisles.
Brilliant, indeed. Love this movie so much.
Brilliant or eye-rollingly obvious, but certainly bold!
I’m not a huge fan of his delivery here, but having him deliver it while wandering a blockbuster is inspired
100%. Although it almost works to speak it in bored disdain, given the setting. It says something about the malaise of the time - almost as if the question, itself doesn't even matter - which is actually a pretty powerful take on the speech. That said, if that was the intention, it would have been better to speak it that way the entire time, rather than the whispered sincerity it started with.
@@redadamearth Great observation. This scene is so 90s to me, and not just in a superficial nostalgic way--it might be one the most perfect depictions of what the culture had become in the fullness of its decadence at the end of the decade/century/millennium. The performative nihilism, the de rigueur critiques of media and corporations, the vague apocalyptic dread. This encapsulates all that and more in 3 minutes.
I like how the monologue is a voiceover and somewhat displays that he is inner-monologuing I think the movie titles are also part of his thought process
Blockbusters are missed greatly
@@LL-bl8hdDeep
It's amazing that Denmark still had Blockbuster Video as recently as the 1500's.
Sire, ‘tis a Blockbuster.
To close the blockbuster or not to close the blockbuster...
...that is the question. (sorry Im late) lol
Lol
Not close
This comment made me laugh so hard I almost died
I feel like I've seen someone do this in a blockbuster before. Not necessarily reciting hamlet but definitely wandering the aisles muttering to themselves and while they try to find that one film they're always looking for but never seems to be there when they come in.
Meanwhile the staff is looking at this guy because he's literally the last one in the store and they need to close
Wandering blockbusters musing whether or not to kill myself, yes I've done it too 😂
This scene has unintentionally aged so much more on time while walking along the gravestones of blockbuster - but he’s always great regardless (ambiguous; William or Ethan, your choice)
Me whenever I’m faced with the choice of what film to watch
I know nobody cares, but I hunted down the location of Hamlet's Blockbuster with considerable effort.....I can't prove it 100% since we were given no external view but I think the Blockbuster location used was 2510 Broadway,New York, NY 10025...it is now known as 2512 and has 4000 sq ft...[an "alley" building to the right is now 2510]...there is a slope in the area and the floor was raised like 2.5 feet with access gained by a short set of stairs...in the movie you can see this as slouching Hamlet and the vsc, even with the forced perspective, are still tall compared to the door, it is the bottom floor for a seven story building so it has support columns in the front that match the movie brick internals and the support column in the middle of the floor lines up with the door support column like in the movie, also the floor tile pattern matches the movie...the location has window areas that match very well to the movie and to the left of the "Deep Impact" (1998) poster/above the Small Soldiers (1998) poster are outside lights that look to match the halfgreen/halfwhite globes over the subway access on the sidewalk outside...[the ceiling does look to have been raised/replaced since then and the overhead light pattern is "now" different from the movie].
People like me honestly appreciate comments like these that are so insightful in resemblance to a particular film. Much obliged!!
You nailed the nobody cares part.
Who was sent here by an English teacher?
I was
☝🏻
Me
Yep
Right here
This made it so much more 90’s than they were expecting
To Netflix. Or not to Netflix. That is the question.
No I miss blockbuster
we watched this in my first year poetry and drama course, and we talked about the relevance of the setting in the context of the film and about the subtleties of things happening around him, and i totally get that it's an important and serious speech, and i believe that that the acting is extremely well done, but also this is one of the funniest things i've seen all year. i'm sorry, it just is.
obeso
This guy is standing here contemplating suicide. And I'm just trying to guess what the videos are on the shelves.
My english professor from university brought me here. I think this is brilliant. There's just something about Ethan Hawke. Loved his performance in Dead Poets Society as well.
Boredom, emptiness, and sick nameless dread all weighing upon you, while you search in vain for a distraction, not because you want it, but because it's What People Do. I felt this in my soul.
Interesting fact: Shakespeare wrote this when there were still Blockbusters.
2:20 anybody notice that "The Crow" is the action movie being played in the background?
The level of cynical, existential dread Hamlet is feeling is perfect against the backdrop of a video store, oddly enough. Who would have thought?
I want a hat like his
That’s a sterotypical stoner hat
I love all the signs saying action and how the contrast with his indecisiveness.
I don't get people's negativity with this movie. I loved it and thought it was great, the acting and the soundtrack. Guess people read a bunch of negative comments and feel they have to fit in.
Think the way they played the modern setting looks off, it's not a heighten reality or stylized like 1996 Romeo & Juliet or David Tennant Hamlet.
blockbuster commercial!
Not a great Hamlet overall, but I can definitely relate to the concept of having an existential breakdown in a video store. I miss those humble pre-streaming days.
Old school rhymes in an old school place.
So wait, Small Soldiers, Deep Impact, and Crow: City of Angels exist in the story of Hamlet? 🤯That's as mind blowing as finding out that a King Lear starring Arnold Schwarzenegger exists in a Jurassic Park movie!
So many bold decision: 1) to do the famous solo as a voice-over 2) that tuque! 3) and friggin Blockbuster!
It’s amusing to me that there is an ad for Deep Impact outside of the video store, since that movie has Maximillian Schell, who once played Hamlet in the most spare German expressionist tv version of Hamlet, that used for the MST3K episode!
The choice of using one of The Crow sequels playing in the background in a Blockbuster seems both prophetic and ironic at the same time.
That wendys commercial is making me hungry
+Jacob Wiertsema FOUR for FOUR DOLLARS!!!!
I love the concept of this. I always imagined this scene in the play with Macbeth wandering through an old library in the dark
um, Macbeth?
Say sike right now
I have a limited film score of just the music and Shakespeare’s spoken word, got it from Europe. I love it more than the film. I wish Julie Taymor got to direct this, Titus & the Tempest blew my mind !
The best interpretation. Majestic. Such ease and such power. You see everything here, all thoughts of past generations going through his mind, and energies of his own.. his mind is too strong to go into action too soon, and too strong to fail in the end❤️Total Hamlet.
I think it's terrible. Totally throws away Shakespeare's language. It has no meaning, no power Completely unmotivated. Completely bland. Ethan Hawke should never have been cast in this role.
Well.. It's inspiring to hear a different opinion😊this interpretation is simply blessed.. It takes me to a frequency where I feel how sweet it would be to die and forget everything, but then in a second it brings me to the reality of common sense and then in the end it makes me feel the spirit of ditachment which only comes after very deep emotions, such as those Hamlet experienced. There are some great interpretations of this monologue, but in all of them the actor is what you remember,not Hamlet. In this interpretation Hamlet is in the center, Ethan is subdued, and that's what makes it the best. Ethan went to the background and let the words be the center of attention. This is what greatest actors do.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we and
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish 'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life....
Ok, I will watch this movie someday. I was thinking how attitudes about doing Shakespeare always end up sounding Fakespearean, like slow stilted speech is woven into the text. Or that performance is more important than the meaning of the text. It's not. I watched a bunch of other actors do the slow, stagy thing and they all sucked. This was the closest yet to the pace I heard in my head when I read the play. A little whispery, but at least the words have meaning beyond impressing the talent judges.
no
Netflix was born in 1997. I wonder if the filmmakers (being in the film industry, obviously) sensed Blockbuster's imminent demise and used it to add an extra layer of significance to this scene... A speech about death in a dying retail format.
Anyone else miss Blockbuster??? Such a wonderful scene
I worked there. Fantastic job. Long arguments over best movie/actor/director. Recommendations out of left field that had customers amazed, inspired and hungry for more great stuff. Opening a person’s eyes to art. “Have you seen Death In Venice?” “Give Bertolucci a try” “Clint Eastwood has made so many much better movies than this” “Michael Keaton was the best Batman” “Nightmare Before Christmas will have you laughing, crying and thinking, all in one go” “Rosebud” “If this movie doesn’t make you weep, then you have no soul” “Steven Seagal is a misunderstood GENIUS!” (hey, sometimes it’s fun to screw with folks. It was a slow night)
Did anyone else come here because they remember this movie and miss aimlessly walking through the aisles of Blockbuster? (Hoping you wouldnt run into anyone but of course you always did)
this is a great scene
This video clip here makes me feel nostalgic seeing Blockbuster video store
If you think this was odd, he later does the "Get Thee to a Nunnary" speech through phone messages.
So now this would take place mindlessly scrolling Netflix menus
I miss Blockbuster
After watching this portrayal of Hamlet-I'll go with "not to be"
1:19 Akira! / 1:25 Heavy metal! NGL blockbuster had the best anime...
Это просто офигенно. Обожаю эту экранизацию.
Brought to you by Blockbuster
Blockbuster: To be or not to be.
in the end Blockbuster decided not to be
Wow. Hamlet, a character plagued by inaction, is doing the soliloquy in the middle of the ACTION section of the blockbuster. How. Very. Drole.
The greatest soliloquy in the English language cheapened greatly by thus odd choice of location .
😂
When your 20 year old film is more dated than the 400 year old speech.
Wait I don’t remember the bit where Hamlet goes to rent a video?
who hasn't been high like this in a Blockbuster before tho? like really?
Crow 2 City of Angels is an Orchestra on the eyes, on Mute
The screenplay and acting make no attempt to reconcile with even half of the words' meanings that shakespeare intended. It's a modern version, but that doesnt mean u just reproduce the words with whatever movement of images...
+Roku But doesn't this Hamlet have to operate within the distractions and realms of non-reality the modern world is replete with? I thought the movie store was kind of fitting in that way. Hamlet walks around dialogueing with himself most the time, observing from an inward distance, drawing parallels with what the world shows him.
+backdoor68 its just the acting in particular I take issue with. Like, the way says everything, and looks around indiscriminately and almost apathetically, it lends no gravity to what he's saying in my opinion, and just relying on the dialogue to try to speak for itself. you might be partially right in that I hadn't reallllly properly thought about the modern reproduction of the play. but still, I find the acting atrocious and losing the essence of what hamlet was even about. I draw this more generally, I was looking at a couple other scenes from this movie (nunnery scene I think was one) as well when I said this.
Yes, I can see what you mean.
+Roku fr fr bro
+Roku It probably speaks more to a modern young person's existential crisis, when they're not moved to great emotion, but a shadow of general aimlessness and mild pity/disgust for the world, seeing no reason or goal to anything in life.
the rest is silence....
Why is it The Crow: City of Angels playing & not the original???
Holden Caulfield.
It’s funny, at the time some people complained that this was too modern, and it is, compared to the time of Shakespeare, but now certain scenes and setting seem really dated, such as this Blockbuster Video, and the Pepsi One machine.
1:07 oof wrong order
There's no better place to contemplate suicide than a blockbuster.
The crow city of angles
Shakespeare's beautiful words, esp. in this part, are wasted in being whispered or spoken softly. We did Hamlet in high school in a modern setting too, but we wanted the audience to love the words as much as we did so we spoke them out loud. Of course, we could easily be theatrical onstage, but on film in a modern setting speaking out loud would probably sound unnatural. Baz Lhurmann would've done this better.
he would get kicked out for causing a disturbance if he would speak out loud.
bruh he got that flame
For an assignment yeah
It is a very odd place to set it - a Blockbuster - and makes the whole speech come across as if he can't decide which film to rent!
In this movie, Hamlet is a film student.
¡Eso es verdad!
Dude likes Hamlet remakes
To sleep or to eat
He looks into the camera several times and that bothers me
My class had to compare different performances of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy. In my opinion this was the worst because it was incredibly monotonous and I don't think the actor portrayed the emotions tied to the dialogue. It was as if he were just repeating memorized words.
English 210 at TAMU?
But the character he was portraying was depressed and concedering taking his own life, doesn't that justify the monotonous tone of the dialogue?
LOL how is this seriously a thing with the Blockbuster logos everywhere and the hat
Janine have you not seen the movie? Or i dont get the point.
No I haven't before seeing this I didn't believe it existed
Janine yeah basically the whole premise/concept of this movie is that it’s literally in modern times. They kept the Shakespearean language though.
Two beers, or not two beers, that is the question/Whether Wetherspoon’s is nobler in the mind for supper/The gin slings and Arrow beers of outrageous fortune/Or to the Guildford Arms for a seabreeze with bubbles/And after much dozing, upend them./Bleary eye, counting sheep; To count sheep, perchance sea bream,-aye, there’s the chub/For in that sleep with sheep, what bleats may come/When we have scuffled with that immortal gargoyle/Must give us cause-there’s the respect that makes Calamity Jane a good trouble and strife/For who would buy the Walnut Whips and Blackthorns before bedtime?/The transgressor’s thong, the loud man’s costume/The hunger-pangs of no pies, bruv, the in-law’s dismay/The insolence of Microsoft Office, and the burns/That in-patients merit if blameworthy rakes/When peeing oneself when a night-bus brakes/On a bare Bodmin/Dr Who would Daleks fear/To grunt and sweat under a weary wife/Such that the bedspread heave with every breath/The undiscovered pantry, from whose Bournville chocolate/No wanderer returns, befuddles the willpower/And makes us rather take those pills we have/Than buy others that we know not of?/Thus non-science doth make blowhards and those in thrall/And, thus, the non-native hue and cry of revolution/Is Wikileaked o’er with the frail mast and bought/And Starship-Enterprises of weight, myth and (spur-of-the-) moment/From the mouth of this Bard, their direct-currents turn and fly/And choose the name of inaction.
What did he end up renting?
So the movie is set in the modern day partially to take advantage of TV and surveillance cameras with the themes of voyeurism in the play, but in the scene where voyeurism is most important, the speech the audience is meant to wonder if Hamlet is delivering for Claudius and Polonius or if he is genuinely unaware of their presence...
And instead of taking advantage of the surveillance cameras they instead set it in a video store so he can walk by signs saying "action" to spell it out for the dummies in the audience. No actual taking advantage of the setting, just a set dressing to say "hey, we're modern."
Made even more insulting by the fact that the 2010 production with David Tennant...which barely qualifies as a movie...understood the opportunity and worked a surveillance camera into the speech, Hamlet tearing it down so he can deliver the speech with the first guarantee of privacy in the whole thing. This is so obvious, God this movie sucks.
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@@giovannigiaco5238 Ok. Thanks. Will check it out.
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I saw this scene because of my theater teacher and everyone in my class bursted out with laughter at how BAD AND AWFUL this was. Like I get it "symbolism" and such...but....oh my god. It's genuinely worse than Cats(2019).
...pathetically childish attempt to be different for different's sake . Truly embarrassing,
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Kenneth Branagh is the only Hamlet for me.
Mel Gibson talking to the dead in the cemetery makes the most sense to me. Talking to a mirror and looking at himself doesn't.
@@riopato2009 in the play, hamlet is being spied on from behind the mirrors in the hall where he performs his speech. Branagh heightens the drama by having Hamlet gaze into the mirror with the spies on the other side. I don't remember any mirrors in the Mel Gibson version. I've never sat through the thing, but seen some parts on TH-cam. I don't much care for the Freudian mama-fixation angle of it, but I may still give it a try.
@@joashtunison351 Freudian mama fixation? where'd you get that from? Hamlet lost all respect for his mother for quickly marrying his father's brother. His obsession with his mother was one of distain and ever since he sees her as an opportunist that never loved his father which made him realized she never loved him as a son. The movie has Hamlet recite his monologue in the royal cemetery instead in front of a mirror as a plea to the dead seeking resolution to his depression. Those around him already suspect that Hamlet might be going a little crazy so instead of spying on him, the movie has him contemplate the question whether if it's worth it to continue to live or to be better off dead. A sane man whose starting to believe in his charade to make everyone think he's going crazy.
@@riopato2009 I agree. The play has zero element of the oedipus complex, though in the 20th century, many people were reading this false element into the text. As I understand, the Mel Gibson version relies to a degree on this perspective. Like I said, I've never seen the whole thing, so can only rely on commentaries I've read.
Also, I do think performing the speech among the tombs is a compelling modification to the original setting, which Branagh more accurately staged. I do like Gibson's speech much better than Olivier, which probably will get me royally flamed by hard core purists. Anyway, I need to check out the 1991 version in full. I read it has many good qualities. Best wishes.
Dude reads every line like they mean the same thing. I get he's trying to convey depression, but come on. That's not now Shakespeare's meant to be done.
press the next video buddy
He sounds so bored.
This is the worst Hamlet I've ever seen... Hawke should never have played this role.
Whispered readings of the bard. Not a fan.
Romeo & Juliet and David Tennant Hamlet are much better modern dress productions than this.
I bet Hawke himself is embarrassed by this pathetically empty "performance."
He's become a much, much better actor over time but he definitely had some stinkers in his early days. His performance in Reality Bites as a pretentious 90's hipster who fronts a crappy grunge band was unbearable as well.
Bastante malo
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This is embarrassing to watch.
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Mel Gibson did better
Is he half asleep or stoned or what? This is crap.
A pitiful bastardization of this timeless classic.
A pitiful parody of the classics is your birth into this world.
Cute
Ugh
An American? Naw man you can't have an American accent saying this. They've got to be from the UK or doing one of the many UK accents.
+Alex Creed Shakespeare wasn't exclusively British. Most of his plays took place in other countries. Hamlet takes place in Denmark, which is off of Germany. Even so the great thing about Shakespeare is that you can do it in whatever style or setting you want.
Alex Creed Shakespeare didn't even have a modern British accent...
The british accent didn't exist until the industrial revolution.