@@charislouise8173 His character does seem to change after this -- we just don't know if it's because he killed R&G, got captured by pirates or just decided to quit with the whining.
I can just imagine Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hearing him in the distance like: Rosencrantz: Do you think he knows we can hear him? Guildenstern: I really don't think he cares, just let him finish
well, I never read much of Shakespeare, and listening to the lively actor, I would have to solidly agree with you without no reservations. I should parlay like that in East los angeles.
It is a soliloquy and a rallying call . He speaks as if to an entire army when the truth is he is rallying himself. The way branagh delivers this is apt i think. By speaking as if to an army which is about to go to war he tries to put a psychological end to his procrastination. His words are aimed inward making himself the army. It can be seen as a psychological attempt to create enormous courage. This is one interpretation of both the playwrights intention linked to the actors performance.
@@NobodyCaresALot hey I dont even have a job at all. I usually recite this speech every time I go out my door. I have bad social anxiety almost phobia. Thankyou will for the courage.
The most exciting moment in the movie, with Patrick Doyle's strings, brass, and bass drum operating barely at heartbeat volume, then crescendoing to match Hamlet's intensifying rage for vengeance.
The heart of the entire story. Its a masterpiece of cinema in itself. With these couple of brief minutes Branagh shows himself in absolute glory and the music is overwhelming by doyle. I can not watch it without my emotions welling up and tears running down my face. Shakespeare + ken+ patrick= glory
I think it's not a real pullback. This looks filmed in studio ... So i suspect that camera were steady and they created an enormous moving platform and dragged it in the opposite direction!
How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast - no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th’event (A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward) I do not know Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do, Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me - Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep; while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. (Act 4 Scene 4)
'Examples gross as earth exhort me.' Staggering , devastating performance . Funny enough this speech is usually cut because the play is about four hours long. Oliviers version is about two hours. For Branagh to film the entire play was quite a risk. Yet he totally succeded on every level. This movie version is the one I've used to win over neutrals . It should be far more celebrated.
This film absolutely blow me away, It is incredible! Kenneth Branagh is fully responsible for my love of Shakespeare and I can’t thank him enough for the introduction 🤩 This scene is probably the most memorable for me when I saw it on the big screen for the first time, as this soliloquy is usually cut from most productions, I’d never heard it before, it has so many layers and I was left stunned in my seat when it went to intermission 😮 Needless to say I went back the next night!
I saw this movie first time when I was16 years old. Love this words, the way Kenneth act. My favorite scene ever. Can watch this 1.000 times maybe I did. And everytime it blows up my mind over and over again.
The sync between "fight for a plot" and the music always gives me chills...so much respect and love to Branagh's work with adapting Shakespeare for the silver screen!
I remember being in awe of this scene, being left with chills as it cut to the intermission in the theatre. There probably hasn't been a moment like that in cinema since. But then again, look at the source material. It's more than a notch up from any Hollywood script you're like to ever see.
I couldn't agree more Pumpkin. Branagh is my favorite, and this movie is my favorite!!!!! Such a treatment of both folios, such perfection. Even at Folger we talk about this work!
I often quote some of this to myself when I'm fighting to get out of a lazy rut. A little shakespeare can be quite the wind beneath your wings if you know enough of it.
A man groped me and followed me to my apartment before my boyfriend was home. I just recited this soliloquy and he thought I was nuts. Plus, he didn’t know much English and basically said, “that was unexpected, I should flee.” I’LL be nothing LESS. It works
Just rented the Blu-Ray of this this weekend. If you missed it in 70mm (I didn't), it's really the only way you'll even get close to what that was like on the big screen.
How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. Here hamlet is blaming everyone including himself and everything for his failure to avenge his father. But his procrastination seems to hint at some psychopathic tendencies. I say this because hes not really procrastinating because he cant decide whether to kill Claudius or not but rather hes trying to work out how he can kill him but then basically get away with it. Its an extreme premeditation rather than procrastination.
This is by far the best presentation of Shakespeare I know of. Not even close, can I think of another scene by another actor that can reach my emotions the way this scene does.
"My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" I remember this scene. It is even better on a large movie screen. It looses so much is seen on TV or a computer. On a cell phone, it would be a joke. Such a great performance lost to modern technology!
Incredible. As this progresses the occurrence of human genius becomes more frequent. In the past it was once in every 300 year or so that a genius in one of the various fields of human endeavor was born and nurtured. When that happens something incredible is created. Those people pushed and led and sometimes forced their scribes to grow and to develop. These pure nuggets of perfection and oasis of sublime creation guaranteed that the human race will not only survive but it will thrive despite our innate stupidity, our bigotry and our fears. When we are honored or graced with such special people, we can take comfort from the reality that they will lead, inspire and stimulate us to continue to strive to be more than we are….
Hamlet as a character does seem to have some delusions of grandeur but that might be apparent simply by the grandiose style of some of the language. So you can argue who is truly the one to blame: the character or the author. Sometimes people who are extremely insecure at times come out with the most bombastic and grandiose statements. This makes the character of hamlet more conplex still than he at first appears. I do believe king lear is the greatest play by shakespeare but i will always believe the creation of hamlet as a character is Shakespeare's finest achievement. He's a man pretending to be mad in places, in other places he appears slightly crazy even when talking to his friend horatio. Does this mean he is indeed a crazy man pretending to be sane pretending to be insane, or does he trust absolutely no one. This is my thinking and my opinion . It might be a misplaced opinion but it fuels the belief in me that the character of hamlet is almost a miracle of literary creation.
Interesting interpretation and very similar to what the late Professor Harold Bloom argued in his last book "Possessed by Memory", where he argues that Hamlet whom he describes as a Hero-Villain is a character that is perhaps conscious that he himself is in a play and resents being in it.
@@richardisted3703 o ok I havent read harold bloom. Thanks for the comment. It's only my view anyway but interesting that it's similar to that of a professor. I feel humbled. I'm not an expert on Shakespeare nor anything else.
The panning out is no accident. As fervent as his words are, they will come to naught. He is the addict swearing off his addiction one more time...words, words, words.
"My thoughts be BLOODY!" - Fuck mandarin, spanish, or french... shakespeare makes a good case for English being the prime candidate for the world language. The beauty of french, the lyricality of spanish, and the math advantages of mandarin, just can't beat the powerful expressiveness of english when used as eloquently as this. My polish friend, who is just learning english, stood with his mouth agape when I played this for him. He didn't really know the words, but he knew exactly what it meant.
@@misterrkalebhimself But for the full effect, you need to see it on a large screen. Or do you think it was filmed with the intention of being watched on your cell phone?
The Russian Army in Ukraine. "While, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain"
*Down below* "Fie, wherefore doth such racket shoot itself between the high peaks of heaven and earth?" "That figure, I think, there upon the ridge." "Canst thou make out either uproar or din?" "Me thinks he speaks of a 'muddy earth.'" "Tis habit for the pulpit to proclaim Such base subjects from so lofty a place!"
