Hamlet - Act V Scene II (sadness) - Kenneth Branagh

[meezreal]

yeah havin a quiz on this 2mrrw!!!! whoa hamlet!!

[Thyflyingsteve]

My favorite Hamlet

[thickbro522]

What is't to leave betimes: pierces through me every time. Beautiful.

[LOMSam1]

just watched this again. with the combination of Kenneth's acting and Shakespeare's beautiful words....

.... time stops.

Everything stands still while these profound and beautiful words are uttered.

[Emmetl43]

Hamlet is played brilliantly by Brannagh, but he failed to portray the true Hamlet. Hamlet is an evil, selfish prik who is responsible for wiping out an entire family! Im studying it for my leaving Cert and ive come to that conclusion.

[SpiderXxPirate]

@Emmetl43 Well, that's your own assessment of the character. Others might see him as sensitive and compassionate, but so bent on revenge that he loses himself. Like, how would you feel if your dad was murdered by your uncle who married your mother asap. Not to mention seeing the ghost of said daddy. . . Oh and EVERYONE spying on him and setting him up. I'd be pretty damn screwed up after that. I'd say he's only human.

Now Branagh's Iago. THAT'S an evil, selfish 'prik'.

[Emmetl43]

@SpiderXxPirate

Youve got a fair point man! But i would never see him as sensitive or compassionate or bent on revenge?!? Hes a contemplative character. Hes not so much obsessed with revenge as he is with the IDEA of revenge....know what i mean?

[SpiderXxPirate]

@Emmetl43 Totally! Yeah, I guess 'bent' isn't the right phrase. :)

[SpiderXxPirate]

@Emmetl43 Totally! Yeah, I guess 'bent' isn't the right phrase. :)

-BUT- I'm going to insist that he is incredibly sensitive. Not always in a good way (in fact, never). Case-in-point. His reaction to his father's death. Everyone was long over it while he was still mourning. Oh, and pretty much everything else in his life is a major tragedy to him, so in that sense, yes. Completely sensitive. Compassionate on the other hand, yep, that's open to argument.

[IrishGodThe4th]

Hamlet was such a wanker.

[bernhardtsen74]

then you must be family then!

[kiikat]

wonderful actor

[LoneSola]

beautiful scene. i know i cried.

[PrincessAr1]

Love this scene, so sad. Kenneth Branagh is such an amazing actor. He played Hamlet perfectly!

[LOMSam1]

this is certaintly the best filmed version of Hamlet

[bernhardtsen74]

my thoughts too!



[crysiseternity]

Looks great, but when is this set? The main story is kind of medievil, but Keneth's version appears to be closer to modern times.

[paranoiagent0]

@crysiseternity yeah kenneth branagh's version is set in victorian times in denmark

[ItsTurok]

@crysiseternity It isn't set in modern times. This is an excellent film version nonetheless.

[brainwasher9876]

@crysiseternity set sometime after the renaissance, perhaps the 1700s or 1800s.

[TorgoNeedsLove]

@crysiseternity It's set in the late 19th century.

[cineastasolaris]

I think if we all human beings accept our death like hamlet did it, in any way of our death even knowing or not the reason. The world will be other. My favorite quote. Hello from Mexico, Alex.

[Irishgal333]

too low,but this is so sad!!!! gruesome

[Iamphenomenalaj]

I too remember crying whilst watching this scene...I was around 9 at the time :P I'm 15 now haha.

[juhee589]

this scene made my cry while i was watching this in my british lit. class... it was so embarrassing to see my professor laugh at me... anyway beautiful scene done perfectly by Kenneth!

[cauim]

i cry too, but

certainly there is beauty in sadness

[juhee589]

true in a very odd, sentimental sort of way... the beauty in watching Hamlet accept death/his fate...

goddammit i love shakespeare!

[brainwasher9876]

It's not embarrassing at all. I cried too if it's any consolance to you.

[Slypaperclips]

@juhee589 we call it English Lit, because the Welsh and Scottish weren't up to much in the 17th century.

[NapoleonCalland]

@Slypaperclips It's called English Lit because it's written in English...

[Slypaperclips]

@NapoleonCalland good point. Gold star to you :D

[NapoleonCalland]

@Slypaperclips One of the first things I was taught at school was that English Lit includes Oscar Wilde and Seamus Heaney (Irish), Conrad who was Polish-English, Dylan Thomas (Welsh), Margaret Atwood who is Canadian and Iain M Banks (Scottish). You're welcome for the gold star (I have a sense of humour), but I've already got a BA and an MA and I'm currently finishing my PhD. ;)

[Slypaperclips]

@NapoleonCalland I would suggest that if you actually had a sense of humour you would realise that I was joking...I've studied Salinger, Fitzgerald, Burnes, Conrad and Wilde in the last two years. So you're doing a PHD in English Lit...am I supposed to be impressed? Get over yourself.

[NapoleonCalland]

@Slypaperclips I would suggest that if you actually read my comment it was obvious that I realised you were making a joke. Either that or you were being patronising, given that gold stars (for anyone else reading this comment who doesn't know) are usually awarded to children under 10. My PhD is in History and the point (which you obviously missed) is that if you're going to patronise people (or just be rude) you might as well look at their CV before you pat them on the head and offer a biscuit.

[Slypaperclips]

@NapoleonCalland well I'm glad you were joking, but your comments made you come across as a smart arse... so of course I was going to patronise you. And having a PhD (which, by the way, it was quite logical to assume was in English Lit) doesn't mean you're untouchable. Hence my 'get over yourself' comment. But hey, water under the bridge...

[SpiderXxPirate]

@NapoleonCalland Margaret Atwood makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Naw - no one can take away my Canuk Pride . . . So you took English Lit? I'm selecting my courses next month. Would you recommend it? :)

[NapoleonCalland]

@SpiderXxPirate I would recommend Literature in whatever language. :)

ps. Any other Canadian authors you'd like to recommend? (I'm not being "funny", I'm eager to learn).

pps That includes Canuk authors.

[SpiderXxPirate]

@NapoleonCalland Haha actually yes. Definatley check out Mordecai Richler and Robertson Davies if you haven't already. In particular their books "the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" and "Fifth Business". The latter can be pretty dull at times, but there's still a lot to be appreciated

[Hauntedscotland]

@juhee589 what a pig, to laugh at you - this moron wants you to understand the greatness of shakespeare and then laughs when you understand it - idiotic prick. you understood more than him. but aren't most teachers like this...? most of my school time i spent being amazed and stunned by the spiritual and emotional shallowness of my teachers. my real teachers were never in the classroom. they composed music, they painted, and they wrote "Hamlet". Fullstop.

[asafk8]

@Hauntedscotland My English teacher loves Shakespeare, literally... We did Macbeth last year and it was really fun. I mean, I first thought that Shakespeare would be boring, but thanks to her I really like it. I even went through a few more plays like Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Julius Caesar by myself. I saw 3 Hamlet screen adaptions (including this) and 2 Macbeth adaptions. When I told her I saw this one she went all excited and we talked about it for almost an hour =O

[asafk8]

@juhee589 It's embarrassing that a literature teacher would laugh about something related to a masterpiece adaption of shakespeare or any adaption of shakespeare.