According to Guinness Book of records from 2006; KLINGON is the most common non natural language on Earth. I think that Shakespeare would be pleased to know that we have spread his work across our galaxy.
@Villazonlover1 I would buy a full copy of the book or contact the Klingon Language Institute. I'm not saying this to be a jerk. You see, when I first heard of this translation, I looked everywhere for JUST a copy of this soliloquy, to no avail. I eventually caved in and bemoanedly bought a copy of the whole book. At the time, I was a little annoyed as I only wanted that monologue, but when I looked back, I realized it was important to support the KLI wiht my purchase for their hard work.
DaH mutlheghvam vIqelnIS! (very nice, but spoken a little to fast in parts, and needed more emphasis/heart in a few places). Don't worry about your accent; that's to be expected from period plays. }};-]
@omfgacceptmyname I don't, though I can't find the transliteration I had done. If you rent the blu-ray for Star Trek VI, though, they have a big featurette on Hamlet in Klingon and have taH pagh taHbe' subtitled literally!
@puppetsock Thanks! -To be sure, though, some of my pronunciation is off- some on purpose, some cuz they were bad takes, in particular my H's, Q's and S's. -Yeah it would.
@Cute15tricia It bothered my friend directing as well, but neither of us noticed till we were well underway because of constant outside distractions. Heh, you know, I couldn't even feel it cuz of the foam latex head piece!
Always love to see people putting the Klingon language into practice. Admittedly the pronunciation is poor, but when one rarely has the opportunity to speak Klingon, then it is to be expected. majQa'
From this man's hard work, dedication to the craft, hour and hours of hard study and memorization, and long practice--THAT'S what you came away with...
@JemmetGK Not at all, I absolutly apricate this video and all the work they put into it. It's on my favorites. I was not insulting the video in any way. I was simply pointing out something that I found humorous whilst listening to it. It was not all I got out of the video, simply all I felt to tell the world about it.
I didn't say we understood each other, I merely implied that if you feel to need to justify an insipid remark, go ahead. Won't make you seem any more intelligent.
I was delighted when I found this video (probably a year ago) and in fact showed it to nearly all if not all of my friends.Incredible performance. I only wish there were more.
@silverunya Thank you for the praise and promotion. I'm glad you you dig it. I really wanna do one more soliloquy, i.e. Hamlet's "How all occasion's do inform against me"; that one's my favorite. Unfortunately, it can't happen for a while as I'm back logged on a growing list of projects. One of which is working on my best friend's own (unrelated) fan film. I did start transliterating the other soliloquy a long while ago, and I do know it in English...
@klingonhamlet ^_^ I hadn't expected a reply thank you for doing so. I hope all of your current projects are doing well. Let me know when your friends fan film is up. I hope you had great holidays and a good start to the new year.
Actually I could see Hamlet translating into a Klingon epic very well, a son haunted by the ghost of his father to seek revenge on his killer and restore his honer, this has Klingon story written all over it.
And very well done performance hope I can see it all someday.
Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
As a teacher of English to actors and lifelong fan of Trek in a variety of incarnations, I cannot find terms adequate to express my admiration for so clear and unequivocal an embodiment of my oft-expressed assertion that Shakespeare dead on the page is among the hardest things in any language I know, whilst well performed it takes on such life as to be evident even through the obfuscations of language. A truly riveting conceit and delivery.
@Alcagaur Thank you very much, Alcaguar. I am honored for the compliment, but even more so for the like-minded belief in the power of Shakespeare in performance.
I wouldn't say I'm linguistically gifted, but if you say so...I actually find it so hard to learn the native language of my parents (Tagalog.) Seriously, I do love languages and wish to make the time to learn some. In the least, I love learning stage dialects, and I do have a strong ear for them. Speaking of German, a friend once tried to teach me some, and for the life of me I could not get my brain around the rhotic "R's"! Oh, and I must admit, it took me a year to learn this dang soliloquy.
Wow, Klingon Hamlet. It exists. People that speak fantasy languages must be linguistically gifted because I can't get the handle on real languages. (I forget my Japanese, and I have yet to properly pronounce ONE word of german to my German friends dismay. To learn a language with so little help and references much be difficult.
german SHOULD be fairly easy to learn as an english born person, because they way they speak is similar. i was born in th czech republic and i learned czech, english, and german from birth. Along with that i learned a bit (not to much) of russian from my cousians who live in st petersburg
Pronunciation is such a small part of speaking though, I find. The grammar and syntax of English and German are very different. The number of cases in German, for example, is one reason an English speaker might give up early on. Not to mention the 3 genders and large number of verb-ending variations. Word order is also a small part of the problem.
I wouldn't say "little reference" in this case actually. There exists quite the substantial dictionary and complete grammar rule book. :) But true, it's harder if you can't find many people to practice with.
It's very refreshing to hear Klingon spoken as if it were a natural language, instead of shouting every syllable separately as if foaming at the mouth! Very well done!
This actor is really good, and so is the setting and the direction. I don't follow Trek stuff at all and saw this linked on another blog -- came to YouTube just to leave this comment here. A very good piece of work, entirely apart from the Trek connection.
A warrior who dishonors his name and ancestors by poisoning his own brother? And then gets others to do his fighting for him? I think not. A true warrior would never act so dishonorably. If he wanted the thrown and the queen, he should have challenged his brother to a honorable battle.
You have a point, but at least he doesn't go sniveling on about his fear of what the afterlife might bring! An honorable Klingon would never put up with fardels just to avoid Stovokor!
He is not trying to avoid Stovor, but Gre'Thor. If he were to kill him self or die a dishonorable death he would be sent there. Like wise his father may have been sent there so he had to do the honorable thing and defeat his Uncle. Freeing his father and him self of the shadow of Gre'Thor and sending his uncle there.
I actually hate star trek but this was kinda nice to watch.. I still hate star trek tho.. The language is kinda nice i doubt it will be used in actual society tho.. Its a nice hobby tho.
Really good work. I'm glad this was done by an actor who can actually 'bring it.' (I say this as someone who worked in Hollywood as a talent manager for a number of years - long time ago, though, sorry. Completely out of the business now.) Good work.
Interesting how far Klingon has gotten. Inventing a totally new language, and having it thrive is impossibly difficult. Makes me think of the origins of languages itself.
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i know absolutely nothing about star wars but i suppose it is devotion, also felt distracted by the tree next to his head the whole way through, but aside from that, it seemed like an authentic jabba the hut
Heh heh...why not? Seriously though, as a so-called classically trained actor of very un-Hamlet-esque type, I felt this was my shot to be the Dane, and in very unique way from the rest. (I have toyed with the idea of posting my OG English version) Plus, when I saw the published translation, I felt it a small dream of mine to fulfill of showing my love for all things Shakespeare and Star trek.
It depends on your definition of "sounds like" I guess. A lot of people would also say English sounds like German, despite most English-speakers completely disagreeing.
I love this video! When will there be a full performance of Khamlet I wonder :P. If there were only enough people geeky enough with good acting skills to learn Khamlet :P
Thanks guys! Yeah....there are mistakes...but only cuz we couldn't use ALL the best takes (in editing) because of our filming situation. We scoped the place out and it was perfectly tranquil; we went back the next week (same time) and it was planes, trains, automobiles and people. Seriously, someone or something interrupted every minute and a half!
There are some parts which seem too softly spoken, but still, this is amazing. No hesitation at all, rare thing to see when people speak tlhIngan Hol.
wow ....I dont speak but I do play a Klingon in STO and I do have to say that is very impressive ...I'm sure you made mistakes , but dam hell if I saw them ..Awesome Job !!!!
A little warning: some of my pronunciation (in the takes that made it into the final edit, were slightly off. (FIlming conditions didn't necessarily allow the best takes to make it in.) If you can get a hold of the audiobook/ cd of Conversationla Klingon, Dr. Okrand himself teaches the "standard dialect"- a great source of help.
Awesome! I'm learning that scene for the talent portion of the Klingon Beauty Pageant next month, and it's very helpful to be able to listen to someone else speak the words. It's not like there are any native speakers of Klingon who can help me get the pronunciation correct. :)
jIneHqa' Dun 'oH! DawI' SoH law' DawI'pu' bIH Hoch puS. HIvje' bompu' DabomlaH'a' vIneHqu'
Forgive a beginner and, if possible, help one improve :) Really amazing performance, how many scenes have you done? Going from my Hamlet book here is a sentence that says what I think of your performance: mubelmoH loD :D Anyway, thank you for this great performance.
- In other nerdly news: I've been playing the great character of Oscar for the past 6 weeks in Fuku Americanus, Campo Santo's adaption of da Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (adpated and directed by Sean San Jose with Marc Bamuthi Joseph). The sold out run is now twice extended in SF. If you are a nerd and proud of it, see our play and read the book. One of my all time favorites. Junot Diaz da og author, was in da house tonight and he said we "killed it!"
Absolutely AWESOME!!! MAJ!!!!!!
IndigoGardenTribal 2 weeks ago
you people are retarted...
TheSvinjac 2 weeks ago
crap, I'm in that part of youtube. again.
JossJossJoss1 3 weeks ago
I'll take natlangs over conlangs anyday, and even though Klingon doesn't interest me all that much, this video is kind of cool. =)
FrankoLwizyann 4 weeks ago
This is just the best!
According to Guinness Book of records from 2006; KLINGON is the most common non natural language on Earth. I think that Shakespeare would be pleased to know that we have spread his work across our galaxy.
Reingur 1 month ago 3
he smashed it! xD
kpingvin 1 month ago
I used to learn Klingon, like some of you. Then I took an arrow to the knee.
jaspertjie 1 month ago
@jaspertjie
I used to learn Klingon but then I took a phaser to the knee
SteampunkPagan 2 weeks ago
SoH 'oH Dun QaQ ta'pu' SoH qem quv Daq lIj tuq
KageNekoSekusu 1 month ago
Cool that someone invented a language, I wish languages I made up went viral
Zizumia1 1 month ago
Any Klingon teacher?
siddh851 2 months ago
The original Klingon version sounds much better. Thank you for this.
pryletoncyo 3 months ago 2
Any chance of a script in Klingon???? pleeeeeease
Villazonlover1 4 months ago in playlist Klingon/Trek 3
@Villazonlover1 I would buy a full copy of the book or contact the Klingon Language Institute. I'm not saying this to be a jerk. You see, when I first heard of this translation, I looked everywhere for JUST a copy of this soliloquy, to no avail. I eventually caved in and bemoanedly bought a copy of the whole book. At the time, I was a little annoyed as I only wanted that monologue, but when I looked back, I realized it was important to support the KLI wiht my purchase for their hard work.
klingonhamlet 3 months ago 3
@Villazonlover1 I hope you understand. If anything, one of the chief translators, Nick NIcholas, posted half the soliloquy script somewhere online.
klingonhamlet 3 months ago
@klingonhamlet, I'm really impressed at how smooth and intricate you sound in this video. Great job!
jhaarbur 4 months ago
DaH mutlheghvam vIqelnIS! (very nice, but spoken a little to fast in parts, and needed more emphasis/heart in a few places). Don't worry about your accent; that's to be expected from period plays. }};-]
burgesskj 4 months ago
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burgesskj 4 months ago
@pbd94 Hmm. Cool. I need to listen to some.
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
Do you perchance have a literal translation? I'm always interested in seeing those.
omfgacceptmyname 4 months ago
@omfgacceptmyname I don't, though I can't find the transliteration I had done. If you rent the blu-ray for Star Trek VI, though, they have a big featurette on Hamlet in Klingon and have taH pagh taHbe' subtitled literally!
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
Youre my frikkin hereo
DeathMeridian 5 months ago
Thanks you for this! I struggle to learn the language and this is going to help me a lot.
It would be so wonderful if the entire play were available.
puppetsock 5 months ago
@puppetsock Thanks! -To be sure, though, some of my pronunciation is off- some on purpose, some cuz they were bad takes, in particular my H's, Q's and S's. -Yeah it would.
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
You haven't heard Klingon Hamlet until you've heard it in the original Yiddish.
vafiles 6 months ago
THIS WAS COMPLETELY AWESOME. But why does he have to stand next to a tree.. It bothered me.
Cute15tricia 6 months ago
@Cute15tricia It bothered my friend directing as well, but neither of us noticed till we were well underway because of constant outside distractions. Heh, you know, I couldn't even feel it cuz of the foam latex head piece!
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
Always love to see people putting the Klingon language into practice. Admittedly the pronunciation is poor, but when one rarely has the opportunity to speak Klingon, then it is to be expected. majQa'
deutschjude 6 months ago 3
Absolutely brilliant! I am rendered speechless. I can die happy now.
hitchwell 6 months ago 2
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78DaoDeJing8L 6 months ago
I like the Klingon better than the English version.
Darthkat6 7 months ago 4
As a Shakespeare-ophile, I have to say, really impressive. It's amazing how much emotion comes through even in Klingon!
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It does sound better in Klingon. Well done.
Walsh1Mark 8 months ago
It does sound better in Klingon. Well done.
Walsh1Mark 8 months ago 3
Good performance, excellent makeup.
adrius 8 months ago 4
I dunno, I kinda like the all elcor version
Guyect 9 months ago
2:07 Suck muh cock.
IncurablePessimist 9 months ago
@IncurablePessimist
From this man's hard work, dedication to the craft, hour and hours of hard study and memorization, and long practice--THAT'S what you came away with...
You're an idiot.
JemmetGK 9 months ago
@JemmetGK Not at all, I absolutly apricate this video and all the work they put into it. It's on my favorites. I was not insulting the video in any way. I was simply pointing out something that I found humorous whilst listening to it. It was not all I got out of the video, simply all I felt to tell the world about it.
Don't jump to conclusions.
IncurablePessimist 8 months ago
@IncurablePessimist
Then you lead a pretty sad life if that's the best you've got...
JemmetGK 8 months ago
@JemmetGK Not the best I got from it, as said before, but the only thing I felt to say.
IncurablePessimist 8 months ago
@IncurablePessimist
*shrug* Sure...
However you feel you need to justify it...
JemmetGK 8 months ago
@JemmetGK Glad we understand one another
IncurablePessimist 8 months ago
@IncurablePessimist
I didn't say we understood each other, I merely implied that if you feel to need to justify an insipid remark, go ahead. Won't make you seem any more intelligent.
JemmetGK 8 months ago
@JemmetGK *Sigh*, by now I can tell you are obviously just looking for an argument. Time to ignore.
IncurablePessimist 8 months ago
@IncurablePessimist
I thought so. How un-Klingon.
Ferengi wuss.
JemmetGK 8 months ago
@IncurablePessimist Guys, we should hug this out over blood wine
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
@JemmetGK Guys, we should hug this out over blood wine
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
@klingonhamlet
hug?
HUG!?!!
*imagin huge font here* HUG!!!!
What manner of Hom are you? Blood wine fine, but HUG!!!?
I should kill you where you stand!!
hug... *spit*
JemmetGK 4 months ago
@klingonhamlet
PS: Well done on this video.
JemmetGK 4 months ago
This is AMAZING!
FatMermaidsDoExist 9 months ago
Live long and prosper.
Reingur 10 months ago
This Is EPIC !!!
AmunExorbis 10 months ago
Amazing
uberonn 10 months ago 2
jIHvaD bIDDaq tIq Dachevta'. Qapla'!!!
rzbk 10 months ago
@rzbk Pardon my poor knowledge of the language, but...I broke your heart on half the screen? I hope in a nonlethal, adoring way. qatlho'!
klingonhamlet 4 months ago 3
Klingon sounds like a mixture of Polynesian languages, Native American languages, Dutch, and Korean.
sketchbookessay 11 months ago 11
@sketchbookessay
And yet, it's an indiginous language all unto itself...
JemmetGK 9 months ago
@sketchbookessay I think Klingon sounds kind of like Hungarian, but I don't speak either language.
jarblewarble 6 months ago
@sketchbookessay And Vietnamese. Really.
klingonhamlet 4 months ago
maj Qa! I fear my tlhInghan Hol has become very rusty, but I did enjoy this honorable performance!
K'Pach epetaI-jubchuQun
jubchuqun 11 months ago
Incrediable!!!! very well done to say the least. I hope you do more in the future.
DonaldMII 1 year ago
I so fucking love it!!!!! I hear it about 3 times a day!
OnceIWasJosh 1 year ago
WOW! Beautifull done!!
This makes me want to learn Klingon.
queerpriestess 1 year ago
Amazing! I never thought any one would have the courage to actually do that. Bravo! Bravo! :-)
Trekfreek 1 year ago
I was delighted when I found this video (probably a year ago) and in fact showed it to nearly all if not all of my friends.Incredible performance. I only wish there were more.
silverunya 1 year ago 8
@silverunya Thank you for the praise and promotion. I'm glad you you dig it. I really wanna do one more soliloquy, i.e. Hamlet's "How all occasion's do inform against me"; that one's my favorite. Unfortunately, it can't happen for a while as I'm back logged on a growing list of projects. One of which is working on my best friend's own (unrelated) fan film. I did start transliterating the other soliloquy a long while ago, and I do know it in English...
klingonhamlet 1 year ago
Maybe in the meantime, I'll have the English language versions filmed n put up here.
klingonhamlet 1 year ago
@klingonhamlet ^_^ I hadn't expected a reply thank you for doing so. I hope all of your current projects are doing well. Let me know when your friends fan film is up. I hope you had great holidays and a good start to the new year.
silverunya 1 year ago
Actually I could see Hamlet translating into a Klingon epic very well, a son haunted by the ghost of his father to seek revenge on his killer and restore his honer, this has Klingon story written all over it.
And very well done performance hope I can see it all someday.
whydid666 1 year ago
At 1st I thought it was gonna be funny but i was wrong. You pulled me in and blew me away.
BonScottAC 1 year ago
love the fact that this soliloquy has the phrase "the undiscovered country" and the word "enterprise" in it
mrkuegler 1 year ago
@mrkuegler
Well, wasn't The Undiscovered Country the Star Trek film that first proposed that Shakespeare was translated from Klingon to English?
1712Overture 1 year ago
Very well done
RLhole68 1 year ago
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Like tits on a bull.
tertommy 1 year ago
@tertommy Why flag as spam? Go back to Uranus all you Klingons!
inredress 1 year ago
This is absolutely amazing. Great acting transcends any language. Thank you for sharing! Q'apla!
AxeRockstar 1 year ago 3
@FawxNewbz Nah, the best females are Andorians. Tall, bold, and, according to Shran, you have the option of either marrying them or executing them.
BloodofPatriots 1 year ago
it sounds like arabic or farsi
RoboticBeat 1 year ago
Single best four minutes of youtube in my life. =) Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
xujhan 1 year ago 2
Does anyone know where I can get the performance rights to Hamlet in the original Klingon?
Please send the contact details.
Thanks
spacecadet35 1 year ago
My science fiction teacher told me to watch this. this is rather epic.
ReadingRaven019 1 year ago
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garbage. stupid. pointless. nerdy to the point of nausea. insulting. insipid. cheap and lazy.
orchote 1 year ago
@orchote no u
FijiUnited 1 year ago
@orchote Why you mad, bro?
xujhan 1 year ago
Isn't Hamlet a name of Klingon origin, coincidentally?
HectorJW2007 1 year ago
You have not heard Shakspeare until you have heard it in the original Klingon. It seems so much more lyrical in Klingon.
shura0107 1 year ago 3
OMG i did NOT realize anyone had returned any of the Bard's works to the original Klingon!!! 10 stars, 10 flags!
scoobylotus69 1 year ago
Immpressive
Potts132 1 year ago 3
WOW, just, WOW!!!!! Great performance!!!!! You make me proud to be a star trek fan and a fellow Klingon speaker.
PrinceVegeta9891 1 year ago 2
Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
princesstrek 1 year ago 7
@princesstrek Thanks again! lol Klingon actors unite!
klingonhamlet 1 year ago
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Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
princesstrek 1 year ago
Great job Brian!!! I'm so glad you reminded me about it. Happy Anniversary :) One of these days we'll have to do one of these together, you know I have the costumes and makeup, lol. Qapla'!
princesstrek 1 year ago
As a teacher of English to actors and lifelong fan of Trek in a variety of incarnations, I cannot find terms adequate to express my admiration for so clear and unequivocal an embodiment of my oft-expressed assertion that Shakespeare dead on the page is among the hardest things in any language I know, whilst well performed it takes on such life as to be evident even through the obfuscations of language. A truly riveting conceit and delivery.
Alcagaur 1 year ago 23
@Alcagaur Thank you very much, Alcaguar. I am honored for the compliment, but even more so for the like-minded belief in the power of Shakespeare in performance.
klingonhamlet 1 year ago 2
Bit sloppy tlhIngan Hol pronounciation, I think. Still quite an achievement this video. maj.
peSHIr 1 year ago
wow!
Atowntrekkie 1 year ago
AWESOME !!!!!
Hylass101 1 year ago 2
This is tiiiighht!
noepbarraza 1 year ago
taH PAGH TaHbe'
chang was right bout one thing
cant enjoy shakspere unless u hear it in klingon
smitto21 2 years ago 3
Geek-gasm.
marieanne55 2 years ago
that is really impressive on many levels.
fuhqtoo 2 years ago 13
Nice....very nice!!!
toonzguy 2 years ago 2
really good. A very powerful performance too!
thregar 2 years ago 2
You have problem learning Tagalog? I find that interesting, as I do too -- at least in speaking, but in theory it seems like an easy language.
DaleKamp 2 years ago
I wouldn't say I'm linguistically gifted, but if you say so...I actually find it so hard to learn the native language of my parents (Tagalog.) Seriously, I do love languages and wish to make the time to learn some. In the least, I love learning stage dialects, and I do have a strong ear for them. Speaking of German, a friend once tried to teach me some, and for the life of me I could not get my brain around the rhotic "R's"! Oh, and I must admit, it took me a year to learn this dang soliloquy.
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
@klingonhamlet Mabuhay!! You did a great job, Kuya!!!
HybridFlip 1 year ago
Wow, Klingon Hamlet. It exists. People that speak fantasy languages must be linguistically gifted because I can't get the handle on real languages. (I forget my Japanese, and I have yet to properly pronounce ONE word of german to my German friends dismay. To learn a language with so little help and references much be difficult.
KyaStar 2 years ago
german SHOULD be fairly easy to learn as an english born person, because they way they speak is similar. i was born in th czech republic and i learned czech, english, and german from birth. Along with that i learned a bit (not to much) of russian from my cousians who live in st petersburg
adf590 2 years ago
Pronunciation is such a small part of speaking though, I find. The grammar and syntax of English and German are very different. The number of cases in German, for example, is one reason an English speaker might give up early on. Not to mention the 3 genders and large number of verb-ending variations. Word order is also a small part of the problem.
marieanne55 2 years ago
I wouldn't say "little reference" in this case actually. There exists quite the substantial dictionary and complete grammar rule book. :) But true, it's harder if you can't find many people to practice with.
marieanne55 2 years ago
LOL This caught me off guard.
piromaniac9999 2 years ago
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This is awesome man. :)
RonnieLepkowitz 2 years ago 2
It's very refreshing to hear Klingon spoken as if it were a natural language, instead of shouting every syllable separately as if foaming at the mouth! Very well done!
ryuuhi11 2 years ago 5
Laertes would be more of a hero to most Klingons. And not only would they tire quickly of Hamlet's indecision, they'd HATE Horatio.
saxonkane 2 years ago
This actor is really good, and so is the setting and the direction. I don't follow Trek stuff at all and saw this linked on another blog -- came to YouTube just to leave this comment here. A very good piece of work, entirely apart from the Trek connection.
sissoed 2 years ago 4
LOL...You may think you've read Hamlet before, but you can't really appreciate it until you've read it in the original Klingon. Awesome.
lextune 2 years ago 4
LOL. But a very good performance. (Of course the Klingons would consider the uncle the REAL hero of the play.)
HutchandJackie 2 years ago 3
A warrior who dishonors his name and ancestors by poisoning his own brother? And then gets others to do his fighting for him? I think not. A true warrior would never act so dishonorably. If he wanted the thrown and the queen, he should have challenged his brother to a honorable battle.
fearreavers 2 years ago
You have a point, but at least he doesn't go sniveling on about his fear of what the afterlife might bring! An honorable Klingon would never put up with fardels just to avoid Stovokor!
HutchandJackie 2 years ago
He is not trying to avoid Stovor, but Gre'Thor. If he were to kill him self or die a dishonorable death he would be sent there. Like wise his father may have been sent there so he had to do the honorable thing and defeat his Uncle. Freeing his father and him self of the shadow of Gre'Thor and sending his uncle there.
fearreavers 2 years ago
Sto'vo'kor?
armyguy528 2 years ago
Yes. Sorry about that. Typo.
fearreavers 2 years ago
Sort of Brando-esque
youdru 2 years ago
I actually hate star trek but this was kinda nice to watch.. I still hate star trek tho.. The language is kinda nice i doubt it will be used in actual society tho.. Its a nice hobby tho.
inpachi123 2 years ago
Really good work. I'm glad this was done by an actor who can actually 'bring it.' (I say this as someone who worked in Hollywood as a talent manager for a number of years - long time ago, though, sorry. Completely out of the business now.) Good work.
bluechao 2 years ago 4
Interesting how far Klingon has gotten. Inventing a totally new language, and having it thrive is impossibly difficult. Makes me think of the origins of languages itself.
zentotoro 2 years ago 4
wow.. beautiful and nerdy! fav'd! :) hehe
pppllluuummm 2 years ago 3
Impressive. And it all makes sense somehow.
alienorbiter 2 years ago 3
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this sucks/...............
monkadelic13 2 years ago
Awesome.
notsally 2 years ago
Not another holodeck episode!!
suckerpinch 2 years ago
I think I am in love.
korechnyevaya86 2 years ago
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i know absolutely nothing about star wars but i suppose it is devotion, also felt distracted by the tree next to his head the whole way through, but aside from that, it seemed like an authentic jabba the hut
Karratgold 2 years ago
Lol at Star Wars!
Jaswahhihi 2 years ago
Ehh... this is Star TREK, not Star WARS.
thnidu 2 years ago
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Hey Jackass, Ster Trek... Trek, Trek, like what yo mama did barefoot after I gave her $5 to get some kickers at Payless Shoe Source.
findamir 2 years ago
I guess it is true... "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
heyandrew 2 years ago 43
Klingon sounds more like a Na-Dene language.
lohphat 2 years ago
Bravo!
Almost brought a tear to my B'oC Qoi...
lohphat 2 years ago
Wow, that is devotion.
bluebunnyram 2 years ago 2
Amazing effort - the production values (costume and film quality) are good, and the actor gives a good performance, but...
why?
EpicurusThirteen 2 years ago
@EpicurusThirteen
Heh heh...why not? Seriously though, as a so-called classically trained actor of very un-Hamlet-esque type, I felt this was my shot to be the Dane, and in very unique way from the rest. (I have toyed with the idea of posting my OG English version) Plus, when I saw the published translation, I felt it a small dream of mine to fulfill of showing my love for all things Shakespeare and Star trek.
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
I am still waiting for some full blown Klingon choral concert.
jvidell 2 years ago
@jvidell
There was some news I saw a while back of some group/opera company actually doing just that!
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
It's amazing how much Klingon resembles German.
Tubacycle 2 years ago
Klingon sounds nothing like German. o_O
minrizor 2 years ago 4
It depends on your definition of "sounds like" I guess. A lot of people would also say English sounds like German, despite most English-speakers completely disagreeing.
Tubacycle 2 years ago
This is ten kinds of wonderful. XD
maximusx3 2 years ago
indeed~ <3
Serenity202 2 years ago
I like it very much, however Shakespeare is better in English. It was brillient though :)
AlanRickmanFan1122 2 years ago
Very nice. The play sounds great this way.
shophet125 2 years ago
You have not read Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
theowarner 2 years ago 2
Thanks! There was supposed to be a college production of it somewhere in LA this Fall. Can't find anything about it, though...
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
I love this video! When will there be a full performance of Khamlet I wonder :P. If there were only enough people geeky enough with good acting skills to learn Khamlet :P
Katsuhisa777 2 years ago
Thanks guys! Yeah....there are mistakes...but only cuz we couldn't use ALL the best takes (in editing) because of our filming situation. We scoped the place out and it was perfectly tranquil; we went back the next week (same time) and it was planes, trains, automobiles and people. Seriously, someone or something interrupted every minute and a half!
We made the best of it though...
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
There are some parts which seem too softly spoken, but still, this is amazing. No hesitation at all, rare thing to see when people speak tlhIngan Hol.
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erkenbrand001 2 years ago
wow ....I dont speak but I do play a Klingon in STO and I do have to say that is very impressive ...I'm sure you made mistakes , but dam hell if I saw them ..Awesome Job !!!!
erkenbrand001 2 years ago 2
No offense, but how did you pull that off? STO hasn't even started beta yet? :S Again, no offense.
NodDisciple1 2 years ago
I play in klingon fleet , in other words we don't play yet , but we are a collective of Klingons .
erkenbrand001 2 years ago
I couldn't do better, myself. Hell, I coulnd't do HALF this good, lol! VERY impressive!
Dokmikh 2 years ago
pestlett: I haven't practiced my tlhingan Hol in a while, but qatlho' (and I'll get back to you with a proper Klingon response.)
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
Right on! I wish you the best of luck!
A little warning: some of my pronunciation (in the takes that made it into the final edit, were slightly off. (FIlming conditions didn't necessarily allow the best takes to make it in.) If you can get a hold of the audiobook/ cd of Conversationla Klingon, Dr. Okrand himself teaches the "standard dialect"- a great source of help.
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
Awesome! I'm learning that scene for the talent portion of the Klingon Beauty Pageant next month, and it's very helpful to be able to listen to someone else speak the words. It's not like there are any native speakers of Klingon who can help me get the pronunciation correct. :)
AFRoxanne 2 years ago
jIneHqa' Dun 'oH! DawI' SoH law' DawI'pu' bIH Hoch puS. HIvje' bompu' DabomlaH'a' vIneHqu'
Forgive a beginner and, if possible, help one improve :) Really amazing performance, how many scenes have you done? Going from my Hamlet book here is a sentence that says what I think of your performance: mubelmoH loD :D Anyway, thank you for this great performance.
pestlett 2 years ago
loDvam; mubelmoH loDvam, mubelmoH be'pu' lol :)
pestlett 2 years ago
I am thoroughly impressed.
yingod 2 years ago 2
majqa!
koldojguy 2 years ago 3
- In other nerdly news: I've been playing the great character of Oscar for the past 6 weeks in Fuku Americanus, Campo Santo's adaption of da Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (adpated and directed by Sean San Jose with Marc Bamuthi Joseph). The sold out run is now twice extended in SF. If you are a nerd and proud of it, see our play and read the book. One of my all time favorites. Junot Diaz da og author, was in da house tonight and he said we "killed it!"
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
qatlho"! Thank you all so much for the great response!
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
majQa' je Hoy'
I have bookmarked it.
HarleyUltraGuy 2 years ago 2
Pete, that would friggin' rock!
klingonhamlet 2 years ago
Kilngon Henry V?
"...and so says any man who fought with us, upon St Kahless' Day!!"
petesauber 2 years ago
allright Brian! Great work (sorry I don't speak Klingon)
speedstercraz 2 years ago
puS maH; Quch puS maH, loDnI' pu' ghom maH. thlIngan SeyqSpIr QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS. qathlo'. puS maH; Quch puS maH, loDnI' pu' ghom maH. thlIngan SeyqSpIr QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS. qathlo'. puS maH; Quch puS maH, loDnI' pu' ghom maH. thlIngan SeyqSpIr QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS. qathlo'. puS maH; Quch puS maH, loDnI' pu' ghom maH. thlIngan SeyqSpIr QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS. qathlo'. puS mpuS maH; Quch puS maH, loDnI' pu' ghom maH. thlIngan SeyqSpIr QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS. qathlo'.
Roadblock1080 2 years ago
Brilliant!
Dun vum. jIH muSHa' 'oH
wizzbangtg 2 years ago