Hamlet - (Ophelia's Drowning)

[hbkrulestheworld]

since when is she so fat?

[ErinJosephine1]

The voice does sound very much like Sylvia Plath. Such a haunting voice. Beautiful video.

[DeborahMareePeace]

Is the voice meant to sound like Sylvia Plath?

[InsanityAndFlowers]

The reason Shakespeare never had the actor of Ophelia actually have a death scene was due to the intimacy of suicide itself, and it was very private, hence why Hamlets mother tells of the suicide rather than it being shown. This is tragic and beautiful, but I did feel like I was impeding, since the act was meant to be intimate and hidden from the reader/watcher/listeners view.

[lucydesichase]

PS-I'm not 100% certain, but I am pretty sure that Irish song started with a "J." PLEASE SOMEONE RESPOND WITH AN ANSWER!!!!! Everyone knows what's it like to be driven mad when you can't remember the name of a song you've heard or an actor you're watching, one of those "where have I seen/heard that before?" et cetera, et cetera. So....please? Anyone?

[lucydesichase]

This video's lovely. I love this play.

ATTENTION EVERYBODY READING THIS COMMENT: A few years ago, there was another "Drowning Ophelia" video that someone recorded to play behind Gertrude during this monologue for their production. They filmed Ophelia in a backyard pool at night.  That video has been taken off but what has bugged me for so long is that that video was accompanied by a beautiful Irish song and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was entitled. Does anyone know? Please?

[markandrach]

my daughter is due in 3 months,we are calling her ophelia

[MoranaLestrange]

@markandrach .. As much as a nice name it is, I wouldn't call my daughter that >.>" probably cause its taken from the noun Opheliac meaning someone who's delved into madness, :|, but yeah... good luck on the birth though <3.

[nevanovna]

dreadful voice

[bhenzy08]

it was great when you watch the video of mel gibson's hamlet.... !!! very great.. ophelia as helena!!! very beautiful...!!!! i know that shakespear wrote the story... !! very tragic ending!!! like romeo and juliet..!!!

[DIA4DILA]

It would work a lot better in an english accent. :)

[bertie4evr]

Why?Hamlet was set in Denmark.

[bhenzy08]

@bertie4evr not in denmark.. hamlet was sent in england for he killed polonius,.. Ophelia's father,,, and as the king claudius sent him.. he also send an order to kill halmet.. in england... before everything.. polonius was talking to the queen and when he heard hamlet coming.. he hide behind the curtain, eardrop, and as evrything goes very abusive polonius shout for help... and though that was king claudius... so hamlet stub him !!! so a very fault death by polonius the father of ophelia.

[Lillianbabyford]

@DIA4DILA its for school.

[omnimon11]

Wow. This is unexpected..so Ophelia's drowning in the Sea of Black Tears in Brutal Legend was based off one of Shakespeare's works...? Talk about a twist...

[Ergastina]

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

[Ergastina]

There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds

Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;

When down her weedy trophies and herself

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;

[Ergastina]

There is a willow grows aslant a brook,

That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;

Therewith fantastic garlands did she make

Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples

That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,

But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:

[evolutionblows]

Beautifully portrayed. Well done :)

[poisondesires]

beautiful. love how this is exactlt verfbatumto what Gertrude says...I love the voice

mixed in with the violin

[johnnycalv]

cute girl very cute girl