There is no gravity to a single idea he presents - this masterpiece of soliloquies, in this rendition, has been reduced to a mere stream-of-consciousness with no value or meaning. Does it matter that he is thinking these thoughts? With how it is presented here, he could be thinking through the ingredients to his mother's home-made lasagna and it would not change the feeling of the scene...honestly, it is a waste.
@Slickwhisk thats most likely cause yanks have a hard time understanding old style english and because of that ethan probs couldnt convey the right emotions. hawke is actually really fuckin good actor i just think he didnt quite understand the depth of what was being said.
Why did they change so many words...? Especially in the section following "for who would bear the whips and scorns of time", they switched the order of so many words, I don't understand the purpose...
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I made a demo torch song about Hamlet’s Ophelia; it’s about the greatness and inevitable tragedy of loving unconditionally in human relationships. I wanna share this for free before I release it in studio version. This is not just for fans of Shakespeare and the theatre; this is for all people who have loved and got their hearts broken in return in 2010.
Check it out in the response of this awesome video or in my channel. Happy New Year Everyone!
I think it is somehow appropriate to this particular rendering of Hamlet's famous soliloquy that one of the related videos is Sesame Streets: Soliloquy on B.
(Really, I LOVE the setting for this film, as far as the SETS goi, the concept there is great--to have a modern-day Hamlet walk down the "Action" isle in a video store is perfectly ironic, really does fit the work...but you STILL need a good actor to give meaning to those words, to speak the speech WELL and NOT, say, in that Keanu Reeves, emotionless, pedantic, and dull way. A great setting for "Hamlet," but as far as Ethan Hawk's performance--a TERRIBLE Hamlet.)
"Despris-ed love"... What the fuck? He fucked up the order of the lines too, and missed bits out. Oh well, it's an adaptation I guess- not a great one though.
@DravenUrei well you know it's blockbuster and he was apparently having a hard time trying to decide what to rent for the night and he couldn't find Othello
@DravenUrei It's an *inner* dialog given outward form and voice for the sake of the play/movie...ya dingbat! Crack a book. The idea is that profound insights and emotional turmoil can strike us in the most mundane of places like the video store or whatnot. Or do bad things only happen to you in the most dramatic of settings?
@wjb67 I recall my comment being a mere joke. I know what a soliloquy is. I know why and how Shakespeare used it. It was just a joke on the fact that he is in Blockbusters and talking like he's in the 1500's. Which, apparently, is also amusing to 33 other people. Calm Down.
@DravenUrei ooohhhhh....well that's my mistake then. what threw me was that "jokes" usually contain humour or other things that are "funny". Where did you write this "joke"...at the video store?
i love how the isle is the "action" isle, and how he isn't choosing a movie, which represents his own inability to act and kill his uncle. great movie making.
I think that this version of "to be or not to be" is sorely underrated. At this point of the play, Hamlet is depressed, sick of life, but scared of what could happen to him after he dies. This version gets the point across far better than any other that I've ever seen. Stop putting his acting down so much.
I love how this is set in a modern Blockbuster, but I think that he needs to be bigger with his emotions. I realize that this is film, not theater, but his emotion is almost intangible. Hamlet was a depressed, love struck young twenty-something... Hawke sounds more like a bratty teenager talking to his friends about how mad he is that he lost a level on a video game.
@heyitskelseylolNo,no,no. Go back to Hamlet. Read it again. You'll find that he was more numbed by love than struck by it, and more contemplative than depressed. That is after all the great appeal of Hamlet, that he was so wise that both life and love with all of their boundless contradictions only made him weary and gave him pause even to the point of neglecting vengeance for his wronged father. In short, he was profoundly jaded. Hawk captures this tone better than any Hamlet I've seen.
I'm sorry, I LOVE all literature, and Shakespeare's work is very near and dear to my heart, and I personally consider "Hamlet" to be the pinnacle of literary and artistic achievement...
But I just DO NOT like this version of it, and I don't care for Ethan Hawk's entire performance, and this monologue shows why. The one good thing about this production was that the setting really worked, having Hamlet walk down the "Action" aisle in a movie theatre is genius...but HAWK IS SO DULL HERE--EMOTE!
the goal of this movie was to keep the traditional wording, yet place it in modern times with modern characters. i think this famous monologue is so very beautifully done. you have a young man with many burdens, verse himself, questioning his ultimate fate. how else would you expect him to sound but disdainful of everything and emotionally devoid?
people keep saying that Hamlet can't commit to action but the damn guy commits more action in the play than most people are able to accomplish in a lifetime.
I don't care for this production and I don't care for this Hamlet...I DO like the idea of having him walking down the "Action" isle in the video store while doing the monologue, very nice set and blocking choice, but it's overdone, we don't need to see the Terminator or whoever blowing things up when we right now need HAMLET to be taking center stage, modern or not this is HIS MOMENT, more than any other, to be the central figure...and this actor doesn't really give an engaging read, either...
@obiwanobiwan13 Buddy, that movie that is playing is not the Terminator, its the Crow... and what is the movie the Crow famous for...find out and I think you will understand a bit more
@obiwanobiwan13 he's contemplating suicide. The nature of depression is a lack of self-esteem and self-coherence. That's why when I watched the Branaugh version it didn't click for me. Here you have a powerful sense of self in Hamlet. Cunning, powerful, dominating... but a character who has it together to that degree is going to take it all in stride. I find Branaugh's motivation doubtful. However this setting breaths life and pathos back into Hamlet.
Very convincing. Hawkes performance shows that what he says is just in his mind. He isn't to loud and he doesn't use too much underlining movement of his hands or whatever. Very good!
@creation23 I agree. This is a modern version of Hamlet afterall. Unlike previous versions, this Hamlet is colored with a "slacker" disposition. Hamlet's inaction is highlighted in this version above his other qualities, especially because he's so sick of everything. There are many scenes in this version where Hamlet just lays on his bed looking through his film clips. Believable, but not the best and nor my favorite.
okay its stupid of me to watch this cause i havent learnt hamlet and might never will but i'm still gonna say... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE'S SAYIN!! No idea at all... All i see is this uh, hamlet? Walking around like a person who well, is crazy? Seriouly no offence to you hamlet lovers out there but im 12 and still learning shit and not literature... Gud zombie/crazy acting by th ways..
@jazzet90 Almost everyone had to read it for high school. He's really talking about killing himself because life sucks when his uncle killed his dad and had sex with his mom
@krystalklear21 Intersting theory or story maybe... The way you say it is kinda cool like the part when life seriously sucks like crap.. :) But still, why does Shakespeare have to make it so complicated? It is written by Shakespeare right?
@jazzet90 Maybe because that's how they wrote back then? I mean back then only educated people knew how to read. They had put some good thought in their words . Plus, if Shakespeare is living now and had 2 reed liek dis he'd b shittin briks
@jazzet90 Oh my good sweet jesus, please tell me you were joking when you said "It is written by Shakespeare right?"
I feel like this is a troll, but good GOD, son. Assuming 90 is the year you were born, you are far too old to be this ignorant of the workings of Shakespeare. He didn't write things complicatedly, they were written quite plainly for the period. In fact, he was very much the original Spielberg, making both classics and dumb fun stories, but with the common man in mind.
@KiltOfIron Unfortunately, I was not joking about the whole thing... I am quite not familliar with dear Shakespeare's work... Plus, I was born on 98 which means that I'm still learning the damned basics of like everything... So interesting to know that Shakespeare was a talented play-writer.. No offence but really, I haven't the foggiest at all.. You could tell me the same thing a million and a half times but I still wouldn't get what the whole stuff is going on... Maybe interestingly I might...
This version of the soliloquy isn't amazing IMO. Very monotone and 'Batman' like. And this is me being a huge Hawke fan. But now, he's just not portraying any sort of emotion whatsoever. I'd suggest looking up David Tennant's version. He's the whole reason I got into Shakespeare in the first place! (lol--lame I know)
@geniusABBY I underdstand why you don't like this version as there seems to be a lack of emotion, but really, he is sick of everything, after mourning for so long, eventually you would become like this (zombie state). I think it's a very believable rendition! :)
@geniusABBY I think the emotion is.... sorrow? sadness?
Maybe you mean he's lacking in vigor? Which to my mind is a misplaced convention for Hamlet. However that reading is absolutely necessary to the stage production of Hamlet so he can project his voice. This production takes advantage of the nuance available in the emotional portrayal of Hamlet that isn't available on the stage.
people seem to be hating on this a lot. I think it rather good. Not amazing or anything but an interesting version. It seems that on here people either love something or hate it. Shame really...
Almereyda establishes a lot of Shakespeares themes in his various To be or not to be scenes in his interpretation of Hamlet. By breaking up the various themes through out the play Micheal Almereyda shows how various themes fit under the thought To be or not be.
The third scene of Almereydas To be or not be piece is located in the in the Action isle of a video rental store. The setting is important in establishing the theme of the difference between thought and action. As Hamlet walks through the isle of action he looks very out of place. Hes dressed darkly in a very well lit room, Hes wearing a hat with a suit in the 20th century, and His facial expression screams lost?
Micheal Almereydas To be or not be scene is cut up into 3 separate scenes In the first scene of To be or not to be the camera zooms in to a television program of a person discussing what it means To be. The second scene of Almereydas To be or not be scene contemplates the thought of suicide and death. (The shot of him holding a gun and asking himself to be or not to be)
Ehh... Does anyone else feel that having this super-duper dramatic soliloquy while walking through the aisles of Blockbuster is a little odd? It kind of ruins the seriousness of the moment... Makes it a little comical, really.
when you look at most of Shakespeare plays sought comic relief at somewhat serious moments, so the fact that this may seem funny actually keeps with tradition.
You know, I thought that at first, too. "What, did he also meet his father's ghost in a McDonald's playplace?"
But on second thought, it's interesting because it's so ordinary and real-life. In real life, people don't go to the Sistine Chapel to contemplate suicide. They contemplate it in class, at work, on the bus, in the DMV waiting room...the Blockbuster actually makes it feel a little more relevant.
Every film adaptation of a Shakespearean play is bound to be hated because it has to make interpretations on how his characters would act on stage, revealing things such as whether or not they're crazy, their relations with others (kissing etc), tone of voice... The brilliant thing about Shakespeare is how it can be interpreted so many different ways that it's always meaningful. Film adaptations almost always crush that, with the exception of few.
The Crow: City of Angels was infact the second one. The name is to set the theme in Los Angeles. Vincent Parez as Ashe Corven. No where near as much of a success as The Crow, but I loved it just as much.......the third one The Crow: Salvation, sucked.
You know a lot of people tell me that, but so far this is the only rendition of Hamlet that kept my attention. I loved this movie but if you think that what are some better performances?
true... no struggle in here... but a good performance showing a hamlet searching for truth... being totaly inside himself... paying disregard to this life... wishing for death so strong... but without struggle... just being so fucking curious of what might come afterwards. And in a way it is like a prophecy how all will end... a self fullfilling prophecy... when in the end his wish becomes fullfilled.
hamlet est dégoûté de lui même, il est cynique envers la vie et envers lui même, envers sa prétendue lâcheté. Le pauvre, si gentil et s'imposer un tel fardeau : tuer son oncle. Lui qui ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche, ça le torture et le rend dépressif : des périodes d'allégresses suivies d'abattement. Ethan Hawk le joue à merveille.
this Hamlet seems more tired and cynical about the situation at hand, whereas Branagh's Hamlet simmers with anger, frustration, and miss-dirrected apprehension from Ophelia
and I get what youre saying, but they both and most get it wrong,, for me - and that's the question, for me in time, with my personality wrapped around my coil, I mean, I take myself as seriously as everything I've said and I could never maintain putzness like Edgar Allan Hipster or Kenneth Blowhardness
Very modern. Usually, this soliloquy is different due to a change in the actors proffession. They are not trying to "act as if they were their characters". They try to be them. Imagine a young man, very emotional, unstable, depressed. I belive that is what he would sound like.
Every time I visit BlockBuster, I wander the aisles aimlessly scanning new movie titles and uttering this famous soliloquy.
mrjackolanterns 3 days ago
I wish I could give a cool speech like this at the time of my death. I guess I will have to youtube it then kill myself.
smllmyfngrs 1 week ago in playlist movie clips
I would like to see you try to do it, and watch you make a fool of yourself.
oromisszane 1 week ago
He was just walking around a movie store--anyone could have done this--any homeless dude could have.
NestoriusAlpha 2 weeks ago
I love the action action action action action on the sides. So ironic
vLinko777 1 month ago 2
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How is that ironic?
ybrik222 1 week ago
@ybrik222 Because Hamlet isn't acting. He's just sitting around contemplating.
scrubsrox77 5 days ago
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Oh, I see. The action film boxes are meant to be considered in the context of the actual play.
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matejkrevs 2 months ago
Completely messed up on the pangs of despised love the laws delay the insolence of office and the spurns not however the hell he said it
112293Tmoney 3 months ago
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It's "dispriz'd love," not "despised love."
ybrik222 1 week ago
There is no gravity to a single idea he presents - this masterpiece of soliloquies, in this rendition, has been reduced to a mere stream-of-consciousness with no value or meaning. Does it matter that he is thinking these thoughts? With how it is presented here, he could be thinking through the ingredients to his mother's home-made lasagna and it would not change the feeling of the scene...honestly, it is a waste.
Slickwhisk 3 months ago
@Slickwhisk whats wrong with a stream of consciousness? youre missing the obvious mistake: americans doing shakespeare
BlunderCats 2 months ago
@Slickwhisk thats most likely cause yanks have a hard time understanding old style english and because of that ethan probs couldnt convey the right emotions. hawke is actually really fuckin good actor i just think he didnt quite understand the depth of what was being said.
BeNJaMiN2050 1 month ago
Wish this happened to me when I visited blockbuster. Instead, I just get too relaxed and eventually have to poop.
bentoore 3 months ago 3
Amazing. Really amazing.
LoonyLovegoodx 3 months ago
We are a little gay
HillsBoyZ 3 months ago
Yeah, Blockbuster makes me think too
J25code2 4 months ago
I LOL at that, that tells you how awful that video was, horrible acting
J25code2 4 months ago
But will it blend?
Holygiant 4 months ago
lol
riethc 4 months ago in playlist to be or not to be
"the proud man's contumely" love his delivery on that one
ThomasPinching 5 months ago
sooo bad!
joehoe1620 5 months ago
this bum is Hamlet?
kittykatro 5 months ago
Tried this once. Got kicked out when they spotted my friend filming.
jjboyo 5 months ago
anyone know where I can watch the full movie?
Zetsume1991 6 months ago
Nice hat.
blackskullthunder 6 months ago
He forgot to say "the oppressors wrong"
tigerspar1 8 months ago 2
@tigerspar1 i think he changed the order of that whole part, because "the pangs of despised love" was not last on that list
ThisNerdyGirl 7 months ago
The Crow: City Of Angels movie playing on the TV screens in the background. :)
yethboth 8 months ago
47 people were not to be!!
MrBelgiumrulz 8 months ago
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MrBelgiumrulz 8 months ago
Shakespear FTW
IncurablePessimist 9 months ago
for anyone that was wondering... the movie that is playing on the screen at Blockbuster is The Crow: City of Angels.
danieljamesaraujo 9 months ago 3
The hat alone gets my thumbs up
TheTvrulesthenation 9 months ago 24
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incrowdcynic 9 months ago
Why did they change so many words...? Especially in the section following "for who would bear the whips and scorns of time", they switched the order of so many words, I don't understand the purpose...
TKDCats312 9 months ago
i don't believe shakespeare editted out "the oppresser's wrong" but i like the hat
MoonlitFangs 9 months ago
is this based on hamlet?
MrBillybob12203 9 months ago
@MrBillybob12203 It's all Hamlet, at most and least in words.
Indeed, in action and feeling it is a completely (entirely) different animal all together.
But...how can one thing be two things without one outweighing and overriding the other?
Aye, but there's the rub.
A great filmmaker should be able to make a classic work their own, no?
Or are they spitting in the faces of masters by changing the literal face of the subject?
BlackRadioProject 8 months ago
what movie is this from?
MrBillybob12203 9 months ago
He messed up on so many parts. How did they not check the lines before releasing it?
93RebelSon 10 months ago
notice he's in the "action" section haha.
laurenninja 10 months ago 3
The Canadian looking Hat makes Ethan Hawke look Like the Goofiest Hamlet I've seen
jonchu16 10 months ago 2
@jonchu16 I think its a peruvian hat... not sure.. but my roommate's peruvian and he has like 30 of them...
imlost19 9 months ago
disprised love? How exactly does one disprise love?
Teri0is0Resa 10 months ago
okay. whats with the hat
Ledzeptenr 10 months ago
Why's everyone complaining about this? it's not that bad...
lunaticorthelover 10 months ago
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incrowdcynic 9 months ago
Is kinda creepy
skokiepup181 10 months ago
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GIFT1FROM1THE1GODZ 10 months ago
Why does he mix up the lines? Was that on purpose?
misinmyname 11 months ago
@misinmyname no im sure he just decided to bang out a multi million dollar of hamlet without checking the lines first...
himrawkz 10 months ago
worst hamlet movie ever!
kthebeast 11 months ago
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agreed
419CrazyDiamond 11 months ago
beast! lolz
GIFT1FROM1THE1GODZ 11 months ago
ahHAHHASUAHSUHuahsuahha WTF is this??
zof31091 11 months ago
This is the worst
TheQueenofSnow 11 months ago
The empty wastelands of a video store at 2am, the desolate marketplace of illusions where no one comes to buy. Just browsing Thanks...........
oSEIDOSHIo 11 months ago 2
Fail
MrTomahawk17 1 year ago
I made a demo torch song about Hamlet’s Ophelia; it’s about the greatness and inevitable tragedy of loving unconditionally in human relationships. I wanna share this for free before I release it in studio version. This is not just for fans of Shakespeare and the theatre; this is for all people who have loved and got their hearts broken in return in 2010.
Check it out in the response of this awesome video or in my channel. Happy New Year Everyone!
darcon81 1 year ago
I think it is somehow appropriate to this particular rendering of Hamlet's famous soliloquy that one of the related videos is Sesame Streets: Soliloquy on B.
eternityisyouth 1 year ago 4
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RabbitMB 1 year ago
Worst. Actor. Ever.
jmricks73 1 year ago
@jmricks73 I. Agree. ;)
(Really, I LOVE the setting for this film, as far as the SETS goi, the concept there is great--to have a modern-day Hamlet walk down the "Action" isle in a video store is perfectly ironic, really does fit the work...but you STILL need a good actor to give meaning to those words, to speak the speech WELL and NOT, say, in that Keanu Reeves, emotionless, pedantic, and dull way. A great setting for "Hamlet," but as far as Ethan Hawk's performance--a TERRIBLE Hamlet.)
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
I think Blockbuster chose "not to be"
Sevencrazythings 1 year ago 131
@Sevencrazythings lmao
runinshadows5 10 months ago
@Sevencrazythings I just signed in just to vote you up. I wish that this film had chosen not to be.
Geistjaeger 2 months ago
this has got to be the worst version of hamlet
coxjohn 1 year ago
I gotta say the fact that he's in blockbuster and wearing that hat is really killing the mood for me.
apvideogame 1 year ago 3
Ok, seems the original rendering was "dispriz'd". For some reason all the versions I've seen, make it "despised".
Ascaithe 1 year ago
"Despris-ed love"... What the fuck? He fucked up the order of the lines too, and missed bits out. Oh well, it's an adaptation I guess- not a great one though.
Ascaithe 1 year ago
did anyone notice how all the aisles he went through in this scene said action?
Interesting... lol
yoonalovesbrofo 1 year ago
You know.....when I'm in Blockbusters, I burst out in Shakespearian soliloquies too.
DravenUrei 1 year ago 176
@DravenUrei you still got a blockbuster? :O
lestat34208 1 year ago
@DravenUrei well you know it's blockbuster and he was apparently having a hard time trying to decide what to rent for the night and he couldn't find Othello
masterYoshimistsu 1 year ago 3
he chose Kung Pow!
a better choice than the Skyline movie!
it was the biggest fail of 2010 cinema wise!!!
bernhardtsen74 1 year ago
@DravenUrei It's an *inner* dialog given outward form and voice for the sake of the play/movie...ya dingbat! Crack a book. The idea is that profound insights and emotional turmoil can strike us in the most mundane of places like the video store or whatnot. Or do bad things only happen to you in the most dramatic of settings?
wjb67 1 year ago 2
@wjb67 I recall my comment being a mere joke. I know what a soliloquy is. I know why and how Shakespeare used it. It was just a joke on the fact that he is in Blockbusters and talking like he's in the 1500's. Which, apparently, is also amusing to 33 other people. Calm Down.
DravenUrei 1 year ago
@DravenUrei ooohhhhh....well that's my mistake then. what threw me was that "jokes" usually contain humour or other things that are "funny". Where did you write this "joke"...at the video store?
wjb67 1 year ago
@wjb67 No. actually I wrote it while ordering from Netflix.
But I don't want to waste your time, so have a good day~!
DravenUrei 1 year ago 2
@DravenUrei that actually made me laugh out loud :p
ladiesman2427 6 months ago
@DravenUrei you funny son of a gun
mazzydae15 2 months ago
@DravenUrei woe is Blockbuster's fate!
ihmJr 2 months ago
great interpretation... just needs to learn the lines
upeiballer15 1 year ago
lol Blockbuster
patyoyo 1 year ago
i love how the isle is the "action" isle, and how he isn't choosing a movie, which represents his own inability to act and kill his uncle. great movie making.
BeccaBoo2You5792 1 year ago
There are so many words missing in this soliloquy towards the middle =\
gibbonluver1 1 year ago
I think that this version of "to be or not to be" is sorely underrated. At this point of the play, Hamlet is depressed, sick of life, but scared of what could happen to him after he dies. This version gets the point across far better than any other that I've ever seen. Stop putting his acting down so much.
misinmyname 1 year ago 3
I love how this is set in a modern Blockbuster, but I think that he needs to be bigger with his emotions. I realize that this is film, not theater, but his emotion is almost intangible. Hamlet was a depressed, love struck young twenty-something... Hawke sounds more like a bratty teenager talking to his friends about how mad he is that he lost a level on a video game.
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Rush555555 1 year ago
@heyitskelseylolNo,no,no. Go back to Hamlet. Read it again. You'll find that he was more numbed by love than struck by it, and more contemplative than depressed. That is after all the great appeal of Hamlet, that he was so wise that both life and love with all of their boundless contradictions only made him weary and gave him pause even to the point of neglecting vengeance for his wronged father. In short, he was profoundly jaded. Hawk captures this tone better than any Hamlet I've seen.
Rush555555 1 year ago 4
I'm sorry, I LOVE all literature, and Shakespeare's work is very near and dear to my heart, and I personally consider "Hamlet" to be the pinnacle of literary and artistic achievement...
But I just DO NOT like this version of it, and I don't care for Ethan Hawk's entire performance, and this monologue shows why. The one good thing about this production was that the setting really worked, having Hamlet walk down the "Action" aisle in a movie theatre is genius...but HAWK IS SO DULL HERE--EMOTE!
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure this is in the Mobile Station on the Deerfield - Whatley town line
mtp111391 1 year ago
the goal of this movie was to keep the traditional wording, yet place it in modern times with modern characters. i think this famous monologue is so very beautifully done. you have a young man with many burdens, verse himself, questioning his ultimate fate. how else would you expect him to sound but disdainful of everything and emotionally devoid?
MsLadyCracker 1 year ago 2
people keep saying that Hamlet can't commit to action but the damn guy commits more action in the play than most people are able to accomplish in a lifetime.
Lemmyisgod20 1 year ago
I don't care for this production and I don't care for this Hamlet...I DO like the idea of having him walking down the "Action" isle in the video store while doing the monologue, very nice set and blocking choice, but it's overdone, we don't need to see the Terminator or whoever blowing things up when we right now need HAMLET to be taking center stage, modern or not this is HIS MOMENT, more than any other, to be the central figure...and this actor doesn't really give an engaging read, either...
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
@obiwanobiwan13 Buddy, that movie that is playing is not the Terminator, its the Crow... and what is the movie the Crow famous for...find out and I think you will understand a bit more
brownmanofcanada 1 year ago
@obiwanobiwan13 he's contemplating suicide. The nature of depression is a lack of self-esteem and self-coherence. That's why when I watched the Branaugh version it didn't click for me. Here you have a powerful sense of self in Hamlet. Cunning, powerful, dominating... but a character who has it together to that degree is going to take it all in stride. I find Branaugh's motivation doubtful. However this setting breaths life and pathos back into Hamlet.
ActraiserIII 1 year ago
he needs to start laughing randomly.
returnoftheramble3 1 year ago
yeah, I do that too; it's part of the job of a civilized bum.
returnoftheramble3 1 year ago
<3 this
theweakwillwalk 1 year ago
Very convincing. Hawkes performance shows that what he says is just in his mind. He isn't to loud and he doesn't use too much underlining movement of his hands or whatever. Very good!
Elektromephisto 1 year ago 2
embarrassing. this is absolutely terrible.
manda032145 1 year ago 3
what's blockbuster
and when does this movie come out
bobbytmathew 1 year ago
what's blockbuster
bobbytmathew 1 year ago
ok that was AWESOME!!!!
johnytwobyfour 1 year ago
i miss blockbuster ):
Danpwnsun00b 1 year ago
he forgot the oppresor's wrong. DISLIKE :(
Erlir 1 year ago
i would have taken him more seriously in this part if he wasn't wearing the cute hat lol kinda reminds me of the lovely bones :s
Rockstar911BG 1 year ago
@creation23 I agree. This is a modern version of Hamlet afterall. Unlike previous versions, this Hamlet is colored with a "slacker" disposition. Hamlet's inaction is highlighted in this version above his other qualities, especially because he's so sick of everything. There are many scenes in this version where Hamlet just lays on his bed looking through his film clips. Believable, but not the best and nor my favorite.
SudokuFriend 1 year ago
the inqusition...
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
Sheakespeare; Não escreveu com a mão sim com o coração. Colocou vida
em sua arte. Que ela atravessa decadas,seculos, e parecem ter sindo escrita
hoje. Sua linguagem é para todas epocas e idades. Mesmo quem não entende
emociona.
JMDES100 1 year ago
okay its stupid of me to watch this cause i havent learnt hamlet and might never will but i'm still gonna say... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE'S SAYIN!! No idea at all... All i see is this uh, hamlet? Walking around like a person who well, is crazy? Seriouly no offence to you hamlet lovers out there but im 12 and still learning shit and not literature... Gud zombie/crazy acting by th ways..
jazzet90 1 year ago
@jazzet90 Almost everyone had to read it for high school. He's really talking about killing himself because life sucks when his uncle killed his dad and had sex with his mom
krystalklear21 1 year ago
@krystalklear21 Intersting theory or story maybe... The way you say it is kinda cool like the part when life seriously sucks like crap.. :) But still, why does Shakespeare have to make it so complicated? It is written by Shakespeare right?
jazzet90 1 year ago
@jazzet90 Maybe because that's how they wrote back then? I mean back then only educated people knew how to read. They had put some good thought in their words . Plus, if Shakespeare is living now and had 2 reed liek dis he'd b shittin briks
krystalklear21 1 year ago
@jazzet90 And it isn't a theory, that's really what he's saying. =)
krystalklear21 1 year ago
@jazzet90 Oh my good sweet jesus, please tell me you were joking when you said "It is written by Shakespeare right?"
I feel like this is a troll, but good GOD, son. Assuming 90 is the year you were born, you are far too old to be this ignorant of the workings of Shakespeare. He didn't write things complicatedly, they were written quite plainly for the period. In fact, he was very much the original Spielberg, making both classics and dumb fun stories, but with the common man in mind.
KiltOfIron 1 year ago
@KiltOfIron Unfortunately, I was not joking about the whole thing... I am quite not familliar with dear Shakespeare's work... Plus, I was born on 98 which means that I'm still learning the damned basics of like everything... So interesting to know that Shakespeare was a talented play-writer.. No offence but really, I haven't the foggiest at all.. You could tell me the same thing a million and a half times but I still wouldn't get what the whole stuff is going on... Maybe interestingly I might...
jazzet90 1 year ago
@jazzet90 Ignorance sucks xP
XxRottenMuffinxX 1 year ago
contemplatin' suicide at blockbuster! something we all relate to!
iambiglucas 1 year ago 4
This version of the soliloquy isn't amazing IMO. Very monotone and 'Batman' like. And this is me being a huge Hawke fan. But now, he's just not portraying any sort of emotion whatsoever. I'd suggest looking up David Tennant's version. He's the whole reason I got into Shakespeare in the first place! (lol--lame I know)
geniusABBY 1 year ago
@geniusABBY I underdstand why you don't like this version as there seems to be a lack of emotion, but really, he is sick of everything, after mourning for so long, eventually you would become like this (zombie state). I think it's a very believable rendition! :)
creation23 1 year ago
@geniusABBY I think the emotion is.... sorrow? sadness?
Maybe you mean he's lacking in vigor? Which to my mind is a misplaced convention for Hamlet. However that reading is absolutely necessary to the stage production of Hamlet so he can project his voice. This production takes advantage of the nuance available in the emotional portrayal of Hamlet that isn't available on the stage.
ActraiserIII 1 year ago 2
he leaves parts out lol. but still good.
ingramw1202 1 year ago
Nice hat
botticelligal 1 year ago 2
This really and truly was the best. I don't care for the old fashioned ones much, didn't make me feel the words as much as this one.
DaysStrange 1 year ago
people seem to be hating on this a lot. I think it rather good. Not amazing or anything but an interesting version. It seems that on here people either love something or hate it. Shame really...
theskilled99 1 year ago 3
how does ophelia die in this film i cant remember?
PRoToTiiPe 1 year ago
can we say product placement lol
kevbot241 1 year ago
Don't like the cuts ... but I love the way he says "the proud man's contumely"!
90lysander 1 year ago 2
<3 Gotta love it.
lycantherapy 1 year ago
good sayings i like
marshalparshal 1 year ago
the worst!
titaniarox 1 year ago 2
To buy or to alquilte
SAGG95 1 year ago
To buy or to alquilate that is the question! hehehe
SAGG95 1 year ago
Shakespeare is spinning in his grave.
niallguinan 1 year ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
Beautiful !!! ;)
ARTT0M 1 year ago
Beautiful !!! ;)
ARTT0M 1 year ago
This is.. bad
There are way better versions of this soliloquy on youtube than this
leedoyeon 1 year ago
Montgomery County Represent
ImHewg 1 year ago
I think he forgot the oppresor's wrong part before the proud men's contumely
360gamer4life12 1 year ago
Almereyda establishes a lot of Shakespeares themes in his various To be or not to be scenes in his interpretation of Hamlet. By breaking up the various themes through out the play Micheal Almereyda shows how various themes fit under the thought To be or not be.
MsKittenMeow 1 year ago
The third scene of Almereydas To be or not be piece is located in the in the Action isle of a video rental store. The setting is important in establishing the theme of the difference between thought and action. As Hamlet walks through the isle of action he looks very out of place. Hes dressed darkly in a very well lit room, Hes wearing a hat with a suit in the 20th century, and His facial expression screams lost?
MsKittenMeow 1 year ago
Micheal Almereydas To be or not be scene is cut up into 3 separate scenes In the first scene of To be or not to be the camera zooms in to a television program of a person discussing what it means To be. The second scene of Almereydas To be or not be scene contemplates the thought of suicide and death. (The shot of him holding a gun and asking himself to be or not to be)
MsKittenMeow 1 year ago
lol this is the best ive heard yet haha
zimmmm1 1 year ago
Crackhead Hamlet
TheTopBloke 1 year ago 2
i love his hat (stoner much?) lol jk
daronishot 1 year ago 2
Ehh... Does anyone else feel that having this super-duper dramatic soliloquy while walking through the aisles of Blockbuster is a little odd? It kind of ruins the seriousness of the moment... Makes it a little comical, really.
ThunderChunky01 1 year ago
when you look at most of Shakespeare plays sought comic relief at somewhat serious moments, so the fact that this may seem funny actually keeps with tradition.
Lolothe1 1 year ago
You know, I thought that at first, too. "What, did he also meet his father's ghost in a McDonald's playplace?"
But on second thought, it's interesting because it's so ordinary and real-life. In real life, people don't go to the Sistine Chapel to contemplate suicide. They contemplate it in class, at work, on the bus, in the DMV waiting room...the Blockbuster actually makes it feel a little more relevant.
AniRemi 1 year ago 3
@AniRemi especialllly the DMZ waiting room
BowlboKhabra92 1 year ago
@BowlboKhabra92 DMV rather
BowlboKhabra92 1 year ago
Every film adaptation of a Shakespearean play is bound to be hated because it has to make interpretations on how his characters would act on stage, revealing things such as whether or not they're crazy, their relations with others (kissing etc), tone of voice... The brilliant thing about Shakespeare is how it can be interpreted so many different ways that it's always meaningful. Film adaptations almost always crush that, with the exception of few.
Hando92 1 year ago 3
ethan hawke is secii im in love with him i love his role in day breakers
sweetgoods350 1 year ago
I think that I'll just link the next person who asks me what the definition of the word "monotone" is to this scene...
xXdarkwhitewolfXx 2 years ago
that movie that was playing on the monitors on the set.......was that The Crow: City of Angels?
ComaAlpha 2 years ago
Yes, I believe it was.... the second one?
jmania3162 2 years ago
The Crow: City of Angels was infact the second one. The name is to set the theme in Los Angeles. Vincent Parez as Ashe Corven. No where near as much of a success as The Crow, but I loved it just as much.......the third one The Crow: Salvation, sucked.
ComaAlpha 1 year ago
???
Nianden64 2 years ago
i love ethan hawke's version...but the best is definitely kenneth brannagh's!
RuthismyHomegirl 2 years ago 3
he messes up a few times.
MattsMistake 2 years ago
David tennants version is awesome, i like this one, its a twist on the original :)
lisaJay20 2 years ago 3
I really enjoyed his interpretation.
woutertron 2 years ago 14
he missed the oppressor's wrong...and changed some stuff...
Sath770 2 years ago
too whispery, more conviction..
ezelite 2 years ago 2
Bad performance.
I don't believe the struggle.
NapuZupaN 2 years ago
You know a lot of people tell me that, but so far this is the only rendition of Hamlet that kept my attention. I loved this movie but if you think that what are some better performances?
nights1515 2 years ago
true... no struggle in here... but a good performance showing a hamlet searching for truth... being totaly inside himself... paying disregard to this life... wishing for death so strong... but without struggle... just being so fucking curious of what might come afterwards. And in a way it is like a prophecy how all will end... a self fullfilling prophecy... when in the end his wish becomes fullfilled.
Chesed30 2 years ago 7
@drone81 lmfao,
MeKa360 2 years ago
i like how he's walking down the "action" aisle and saying, "And lose the name of action"
mementoteamari 2 years ago 2
how much did you like it?
Sabooru 2 years ago
hamlet est dégoûté de lui même, il est cynique envers la vie et envers lui même, envers sa prétendue lâcheté. Le pauvre, si gentil et s'imposer un tel fardeau : tuer son oncle. Lui qui ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche, ça le torture et le rend dépressif : des périodes d'allégresses suivies d'abattement. Ethan Hawk le joue à merveille.
Zefabou 2 years ago
this Hamlet seems more tired and cynical about the situation at hand, whereas Branagh's Hamlet simmers with anger, frustration, and miss-dirrected apprehension from Ophelia
spinklevic 2 years ago 6
and I get what youre saying, but they both and most get it wrong,, for me - and that's the question, for me in time, with my personality wrapped around my coil, I mean, I take myself as seriously as everything I've said and I could never maintain putzness like Edgar Allan Hipster or Kenneth Blowhardness
billintheworld 2 years ago
Very modern. Usually, this soliloquy is different due to a change in the actors proffession. They are not trying to "act as if they were their characters". They try to be them. Imagine a young man, very emotional, unstable, depressed. I belive that is what he would sound like.
Tharrel 2 years ago 29