Hawke

[InsideMyMind]

This is surprising and good, yet I love David Tennant as Hamlet. It owns it so well and says it with such conviction and pure madness. I think I prefer it.

[bennihana123]

BILL MURRAY

[himrawkz]

this could have been good but it just feels Shit

[LimerickLinz]

In my opinion this is the perfect way to play this scene...

he is in love with her, but is distracted by revenge, but fears even more isolation and lonliness if he loses her. He only becomes angry and puts on his mad act when realizes that they are listening. After I read the play I always thought that is how they should act, but couldn't find a version that did, until this one. I think that they were both really good.

[barajassara11]

the mothers a big bitch also the farther

[kiddypop]

I feel like they don't understand what the words mean...and Julia Styles isn't a very wonderful Shakespearean actor. It's so awkward! But I loooove Ethan Hawke.

[parisad]

I very like this scene. This version of Hamlet is interesting, in my opinion, Hawke did a good job and there are some beautifully done scenes. this one, Hamlet's death, the "Mousetrap", the soliloquy "to be or not to be" and a few others.

[andromeda138]

why does he massage her shoulders while saying, "get thee to a nunnery"?

[muric111]

kenneth Branagh's Hamlet...AWESOME!!!!!

[rhino111191]

@muric111 Him and David Tennant!!!

[saltyypeoch]

He is... so.. beautiful...

[oracleofaltoona]

Slacker Hamlet? "Rich gifts". A rubber ducky?!

[ritzduck]

...why is there an airplane randomly in this scene? :P

[shawnc514]

this being on here just saved me from failing my lit paper, thank you!!!!

[NateH47]

Oh my gosh, I have been looking all day for this scene all over the internet! Thank you soooo much!

[Bateman212]

I don't know what it is but Ethan Hawke is a perfect Hamlet. Comment?

[spiegelhaus]

I concede to the fact that the character created by the setting and even some of the cinematography is very modern, very appropriate and very 'Hamlet', but I think there's a certain nobility lacking in his performance and carriage. I'm seeing too much of a nerd and an art freak (which, by all means, Hamlet is) and not enough Prince.

[Bateman212]

I think it depends on what Hamlet you are portraying, different interpretations make Hamlet either a late teen or a man in his thirties. Hawke's Hamlet seems to be still at college, so maybe 18-20 years old. He is barely old enough to be called a man and wouldn't be fully developed in his, "Princely manner" shall we say. He is still at heart a maladjusted teen. And lets not forget, their is a method in his madness.

[spiegelhaus]

I don't think you need to be thirty or British or even male to be princely, nor does being a maladjusted college student bar you from the quality.

[iluvlost09]

Um....no not really.

[kara366]

Actually Kenneth Branagh is.

[gabriel4990]

@Bateman212 Depends completely. Lots of missing ambiguity in his characterisation. He plays a moody modern teenager type character here but that would not have existed in Elizabethan england, and was certainly not written in. His madness is far more complicated than a 1 hour and a quarter production can really portray, and so any estimation of this film has to be tempered by the knowledge that 3/4 of the script is missing

[italianstallion4000]

@Bateman212 I can respect your opinion, but i'm afraid i must disagree. I've seen many different interpretations of Hamlet through English classes, studies and the like, and through having the opportunity to view many different Hamlets i actually find Hawke's portrayal of the character to be the most bland. Rather than expressing the lamentations and mournings of a deranged, confused soul, Hawke plays the character as trite and impersonal.

[italianstallion4000]

@Bateman212 Of course these are all my own feelings, but if you would like to view what I believe to be Hamlet's character at its most brilliant and refined, I would strongly suggest you watch Derek Jacobi's performance of Act 3, Scene 1. It is within his performance that I see the originality, emotion, and fervency absent in Hawke's.

[Bateman212]

@italianstallion4000 I will certainly look that up. I know Derek Jacobi to be a very accomplished actor and am certain he has done a worthy rendition of the character. Though, I do think my opinion on the Hamlet question will always remain bias, as Hawke's Hamlet was the first one to interest me in the play. Thank you for your opinion. I love how many replies this post has gotten. It's great to see so many people still interested in Shakespeare.

[writingmaniac27]

Ooh... I like it. I didn't think I would but I do! It's emotional, heart-breaking, it feels real... And the rubber duck is genius!!

[77REVOLTFORAFRIKA77]

what is the name of the blonde???

[writingmaniac27]

Julia Stiles. She was in '10 Things I Hate About You' and 'The Bourne Identity' amongst others. =)

[MixedTracialArtist]

id tap dat ass

[andrewpeyterrmann]

Thanks, this really helped when I was writing a film comparison for Engrish crass!

[HMovieAddict]

wow. I can't believe someone thought that was a good idea.

[Hooray4nay]

really???

[BBonidacci]

What is the name of the song that is playing?

[BBonidacci]

I fell in love at 0:56