Wow. Wow. Just... wow. I've watched this about four times in a row now. If you can listen to this without listening to the words (if that makes sense), just the raw emotion in his voice is enough to tear your heart.
This is on my Netflix queue, and it's about to get bumped to the top of the list.
he skipped a few lines... he start this line and ends at time but it goes on "For would bear the whips and scorns of time, th' oppressors wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of dispriz'd love the laws delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit that th' unworthy takes, when he himself why his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?" He picks up after that. Amazing acting I love what he did with the scene!:)
I just watched the movie, and wow. How do Shakespeare enthusiasts watch normal television, knowing how much better this stuff is? Every line was beautiful, and it demanded my attention.
I watched this when it broadcasted and then bought the DVD, both times I watched it by myself and what stuck me was the feeling of eye contact, that he was looking directly at me. This scene in particular, written so beautifully is good enough but that added power of peseaved inclusion perfected it for me and added the emotion you couldn't quite only get when it is performed as it was written for
@KrazC09 Pretend you don't know what your next line is, and let yourself be surprised that you said something so perfectly valid on-the-spot. Don't think about the next line think about the logic that binds the one to the other, or that which binds the scene to the line and vice-versa.
He skipped a whole section. "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressors wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bare, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death.. "
I love David Tennant! Through the whole speech I was focused on how his lips moved and how blank he made his eyes. He is brilliant!!!XD Now, I must go searching for the full version of this!
Like Jake Lloyd (young Anikan Skywalker) said when he was accused of ruining Star Wars: Episode 1 - he said, "'I' didn't ruin Ep1... George Lucas did for casting me. You can't blame me I was just a 10 year old kid."
And so it goes with this version of Hamlet...
You can't blame David Tennant for ruining Hamlet - you gotta blame Gregory Doran for casting him...
@StuPadazzo You can't just say David Tennant, who's been widely praised for his portrail of Hamlet in a widely praised production, was badly casted as Hamlet without saying why you think that. Personally i think you're insane. David Tennant does a wonderful job and makes a great Hamlet.
@HeartxStarxDoodles No need to take it to heart, they are simple fools who would prefer Matt Smith to our precious Tennant. Never shall I be in the like-mind as them, but do they not have the right to their foolish, yet still valid opinion?
Alas poor David, we love him so, yet so long shall we spend our time unknowing of how he could traverse the cosmos with the lovely Amelia Pond.
But that he might continue to make masterworks like this, we shall rejoice, now and forever.
I have to learn the entire "Hamlet's Soliloquy" by 13th December and perform four monologues for my teacher and I can't learn this. For some reason, it wont stay in my head! =O I've learned "Is This A Dagger" from Macbeth and Mark's Monologue from "Find Me" but this one is too difficult for me to learn for some reason.
I love this movie. Were studying this in english and David just gives this play so much life. That and seeing him in a muscle shirt without shoes is hilarious XD
What idiot shot that? This is some of the worst camera work I have ever seen in a legitimate show. Cinematography, set design, lighting and acting are brilliant. It's just the organization on camera and the way the cameras move. What a piece of crap camera operator.
That really devalues the entire presentation.
Also, Gibson did a better Hamlet... sorry, I love Tennant, but it's true.
@zerooskul If you watch Olivier (who EVERYONE tries to emulate), for example, he's just a simpering whiny pug and there's no way he could have managed in that mindset. Gibson made him a madman. And he's crazy himself so he really didn't have to stretch very far to deliver a sense of realism.
@zerooskul I didn't know that - which makes me feel stupid I have been studying this play for years now.
I think though Tennant did insane better - or should I say he played it more overtly insane, but with Gibson you were never quite sure if he was faking it (which is really interesting to watch)
Although I think it is very hard to objectively say who played it better, each actor/director brought his own interpretation and enriched our understanding of the play
@MusicDudeRock Studios have these things called camera trucks. It's basically a tripod on wheels. The job of a camera operator is to capture the image in as beautiful a way as possible. This camera operator tried to jump and shout that I should notice him/her. I do not watch movies to hang out with the camera, I want the camera to be my eyes. Television, in particular: the BBC, has been at work on itself long enough to know better. A camera operator should know how to work a camera.
@zerooskul The aesthetic of scene incorporating the motion of an actor: a good director knows a good actor is going to move within the frame. It is the camera operator's job to isolate the background as a structure. The actor will move within the frame and the camera can follow while making a reveal. Hitchcock played with this. Rather than revealing the background and letting Mr. Tennant meld into it, he is isolated out of the scene in a jarring way that spoils the fantasy. It's TV.
There...are tears in my eyes. No...there are lots of tears and they are coming out of my eyes. Oh...David Tennant...making one of my favorite moments in any Shakespearean play so full of life....he really is such an amazing actor.
My hypothesis on why the Brits have some of the best actors- they actually DO Shakespeare. They DO plays- popular, well-rehearsed plays. Most of the UK's actors begin on the stage, and while many American actors do the same or similar, not everyone does.
I am definitely watching this play in its entirety as soon as I get the chance. David brings such emotion and intensity to every role he plays. He's a brilliant actor. It's been awhile since I read Hamlet so I don't remember the meaning of everything David just said, but with the way he recited it, I still hung on his every word. I could feel the sense of melancholy lingering in the air. Bravo.
Is there a hamlet for dummies? Because I can never understand what Shakespeare has written. David brings it beautifully, I can feel the emotion, but still it's a collection of words that do not make sense to me..
David Tennant makes one hell of a Hamlet! He's a fantastic actor. My teacher brought this in when we finished the book because she found out I was a Whovian (so is she) so it's great that she introduced me to his other roles!
This made Shakespeare a little easier to learn... 8D
He's such a brilliant actor. I forget that when I watch Doctor Who, because then I only see the Doctor. ..I think now I need to look up what more films or series he is in, so to enjoy even more of this wonderful man.
I have to perform this monologue for my theatre studies class, and I came across this... as a Doctor Who fan, I have nerdgasm'd, and then and chills sent down my spine from this video... I'm now looking at this speech in an entirely new way.
@666HellTiger Yes, he did. It certainly isn't his choice but the stage director's. Hamlet, like other long plays, is very rarely entirely played. Nearly every play, especially "classic" ones, are a bit edited, according to the feeling wanted to be given. (Sorry for any language mistakes, I'm french). I think here it might have been done to enhance the deep meaning, the core of the soliloquy, to avoid the "It's famous but I don't have a clue what it is about" kind of thing. Well done to me.
@Romeowyn Yes, I know, but I think it's not appropriate to reduce the most famous sililoquy... Anyway, it's still great =) . (your English is good, as far as I can estimate that, because I'm Austrian ;-) )
I loved this performance. I'm sick of seeing it too broadly acted. Tennant's Hamlet is here portrayed so intimately it's almost like we're reading his thoughts.
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Harsh as it may sound, it takes more than merely mumble one's words and stare at the camera to do a conving rendition of Hamlet. Mr Tennant should stick to performing his antics on popular TV channels for the hoi polloi rather than marr the genius of Elizabethan playwrights he knows nothing about.
@teatimelud As you clearly have no idea what you're talking about let me enlighten you: David is a classically trained actor who worked for the RSC (as Romeo among other roles) & the National Theater long before he was on tv. If you'd have seen the whole play you wouldn't say these stupid things, please watch it. He has the rare talent of speaking Shakespeare's language naturally, making easy to others to understand it. He's a brilliant Shakespearean actor that's why the RSC asked him for Hamlet
Don't get me wrong. I love David as the Doctor. Tenth will always be my favourite of all times. BUT I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP REFERRING TO HIM AS THE DOCTOR. in this scene, he is playing HAMLET, and quite brilliantly at that. So please, people. stop spoiling what he is doing now by only seeing him as what he decided to stop being (no matter how much he loved it). :) And please don't hate on me, I'm absolutely in love with the doctor, but I also like to see other sides of David Tennant...
@esthae775 I so agree with you,David is also my favorite doctor but I love seeing him in other things.French is my first language,but I read Shakespeare in english a long time ago....not sure I understood it all,still I liked it .Seeing David here makes want to read it again and maybe this time understantiing it better.
@esthae775 I really appreciate your comment. Have you ever seen interviews with David where they talk of nothing else but Doctor Who? You can tell he's trying to be polite by humoring them and answering their questiosn but he's SICK of talking about DW. He's ready to move on and be recognized for his other work.
I love the approach Tennant took with this performance. Rather than be the "Master Manipulator," he takes a more human/naturalistic approach. You can feel his fear of death when he speaks. It's like he's truly weighing what's going to be worse: to live and chance suffering until death, or to die and never dream again?
The hardest thing about this piece is how laden the lines are with people's various prejudices about the part and the "best" delivery. I find Tennant's long dramatic pauses after the most famous lines a very pleasing technique that takes all the air right out of those critical presumptions.
I find it amazing that David has such a wide range of acting. From dr who to hamlet. From secret smile to how to train your dragon. He is a wonderful actor and I hope he knows this
"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...?" Well, I know a certain bloke from Gallifrey...
Seriously though, Doctor jokes aside, this is one of the best renditions of this soliloquy I've seen, and I've seen a lot. A couple lines have been cut ("Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely", etc.) but somehow, I don't care all that much. Well done, Tennant.
I never knew David had this part. Shakespeare is my all-time favorite author. So hearing David (who is sexy enough by himself) recite SHAKESPEARE quotes, makes me melt in my seat... wowww
Acting with props and the body is easy. Acting with nothing but the face and the voice? That's hard. It takes a discipline that most actors here in the U.S. just don't have. Tennant is good. Very good.
This is seriously my favorite monologue of all time, both in the book, and in this play. David Tennant does such an excellent job on it; you can see and feel Hamlet's emotions so vividly,
there is a part missing , here they go from For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, and then they skip the following part Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
and here they start again:But that the dread of something after death,
@lucypucy12222 Most people cut lines when producing shakespeare. every now and then you get a production like Kenneth Branagh's which combines both the quarto and folio editions to make a really long unedited version, but pretty much every single shakespeare production you ever see will be edited down.
To all the people who wanted him to keep playing The Doctor he probably would've have been able to play this. He did a great job as the Doctor but he is also a damn good actor he can do more and he should do more.
Wow. Wow. Just... wow. I've watched this about four times in a row now. If you can listen to this without listening to the words (if that makes sense), just the raw emotion in his voice is enough to tear your heart.
This is on my Netflix queue, and it's about to get bumped to the top of the list.
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Captivated.
Spackle1017 4 days ago
I think i'm crying.
littleasia95 4 days ago
It's just amazing how he can turn staring into the camera into a genuine connection with the audience.
2gigapuppies 5 days ago
He's staring into the depths of my soul! Truly brilliant actor, but I was waiting for him to say, "Allons-y!" when he walked away.
2gigapuppies 5 days ago
I have never envied a wall so much in my life! (faint)
LadyFan05 1 week ago 4
@WhitneyJ006 they cut some things out for time because most people dont want to see anything more than 2hours or so.
MsHabtami 2 weeks ago
i enjoy this alot because its not over the top he had the chance to make it personal and he did i love it
MsHabtami 2 weeks ago
I definitely have to watch the whole thing. I read Hamlet in college, so I'd love to see what he did with it.
soldiergirl84 2 weeks ago
ALLONS-Y!
Confuzledish 3 weeks ago
Oh my god. My heart just broke. He was just beyond words with his acting
StarCrossedFates 3 weeks ago
Truly one of the best I have seen, can't wait to preform this but was it just me or did he skip a part....? 1:53
"Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pang of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of Th' unworthy takes
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life"
WhitneyJ006 3 weeks ago 3
He can do more with his eyes than some actors can do with the whole of their being.
jaydeebee69 1 month ago 8
He is better than Kenneth Branagh! (for all you Shakespeare fanatics)
ginger18devil 1 month ago
he skipped a few lines... he start this line and ends at time but it goes on "For would bear the whips and scorns of time, th' oppressors wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of dispriz'd love the laws delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit that th' unworthy takes, when he himself why his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life?" He picks up after that. Amazing acting I love what he did with the scene!:)
dandaness 1 month ago
To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance, to dream.
AnelesXD 1 month ago
I love him.... I really do..... He will forever and always be the most amazing and gorgeous man on the face of this planet.....
midnightstormwolf 1 month ago 5
David Tennant you single handedly turned me from a pudgy male nerd on the internet into a screaming fangirl.
H20Incorporated 1 month ago 11
WTF. It looks like he is satisfying himself.
BadFurrVideos 1 month ago 2
I just watched the movie, and wow. How do Shakespeare enthusiasts watch normal television, knowing how much better this stuff is? Every line was beautiful, and it demanded my attention.
jediscum42 1 month ago 3
He skipped quite a few lines
yo2yeknom 1 month ago
@yo2yeknom Most adaptions of Shakespeare are like that. They abridge it by cutting out a line here or there so that the film isn't too long.
teotorriatte7 1 month ago
I watched this when it broadcasted and then bought the DVD, both times I watched it by myself and what stuck me was the feeling of eye contact, that he was looking directly at me. This scene in particular, written so beautifully is good enough but that added power of peseaved inclusion perfected it for me and added the emotion you couldn't quite only get when it is performed as it was written for
sekirk 1 month ago 3
I got shivers listening to this. If he was reading this to me in English class, I might pay attention...
fieldhockeylover1994 1 month ago
Um. he touched my soul.
like legit I felt him touch my soul.
flyawayhope 1 month ago 3
i aspire to be even 1% as good as him
KrazC09 2 months ago
@KrazC09 Pretend you don't know what your next line is, and let yourself be surprised that you said something so perfectly valid on-the-spot. Don't think about the next line think about the logic that binds the one to the other, or that which binds the scene to the line and vice-versa.
zerooskul 2 months ago
the best part about this is that is was apparently on greek television
FootDanielLight 2 months ago
i am incoherent now. he reached into my soul with thouse EYES!!
Alysin123 2 months ago
This...is....AMAZING!! David Tennant is one of the most powerful actors I've ever seen!
KannonTheNinja 2 months ago 4
i cant even find words to describe this man. he can possess and capture your full attention without even trying.
shaleenfarrell 2 months ago
I'm pretty sure i just saw into David Tennant's soul...and it was beautiful.
wickedchik96 2 months ago
He is such an awesome actor. He can be very funny and also serius. Just like Jim Carrey.
TheRollyCZE 2 months ago
This could only be better if Jon Simms were cast as Laertes, and the two dueled at the end with two screwdrivers.
Psychonaut316 2 months ago 3
BRILLIANT
xofrancie 2 months ago 25
Of course David Tennant doesn't blink. Or the Weeping Angels would get him.
KrustyFrank27 2 months ago 4
Blinkblinkblinkblinkblinkblinkblink
BandNerd06Forever 2 months ago
Wow!!! Greatest actor of our time!!! Hollywood- Please steal him away from Britain. WE NEED MORE TENNANT!!!!
judysorge39 2 months ago 2
You guys, YES he is attractive, YES he has a great head of hair, but his ACTING is what we should be raving about!! this man is magnificent
Skillet48 2 months ago 2
I hadn't realized I'd been holding my breath until I started gasping when the video ended.
hiabbeyhimaggy 2 months ago
I like the way he say 'thousand' in 0.53.
DTminervaDT 2 months ago
He skipped a whole section. "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressors wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bare, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death.. "
yeahboii45 2 months ago
"But that the dread of something after death..." shivers down my spine.
ulyssesthewanderer 2 months ago
just got goosebumps with the way he said 'time', gotta love David Tennant :)
CSISmileySara 2 months ago
why is hair always so perfect :P i love it
Blisk121 2 months ago
It's like he woke up one day and decided not that he was going to play Hamlet, no. That he was going to BE Hamlet. Incredible.
VideoVoltage 2 months ago 3
I love David Tennant! Through the whole speech I was focused on how his lips moved and how blank he made his eyes. He is brilliant!!!XD Now, I must go searching for the full version of this!
HaruOx 3 months ago
Like Jake Lloyd (young Anikan Skywalker) said when he was accused of ruining Star Wars: Episode 1 - he said, "'I' didn't ruin Ep1... George Lucas did for casting me. You can't blame me I was just a 10 year old kid."
And so it goes with this version of Hamlet...
You can't blame David Tennant for ruining Hamlet - you gotta blame Gregory Doran for casting him...
StuPadazzo 3 months ago
@StuPadazzo You can't just say David Tennant, who's been widely praised for his portrail of Hamlet in a widely praised production, was badly casted as Hamlet without saying why you think that. Personally i think you're insane. David Tennant does a wonderful job and makes a great Hamlet.
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@HeartxStarxDoodles No need to take it to heart, they are simple fools who would prefer Matt Smith to our precious Tennant. Never shall I be in the like-mind as them, but do they not have the right to their foolish, yet still valid opinion?
Alas poor David, we love him so, yet so long shall we spend our time unknowing of how he could traverse the cosmos with the lovely Amelia Pond.
But that he might continue to make masterworks like this, we shall rejoice, now and forever.
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AntiChristAntiFail 3 months ago
I have to learn the entire "Hamlet's Soliloquy" by 13th December and perform four monologues for my teacher and I can't learn this. For some reason, it wont stay in my head! =O I've learned "Is This A Dagger" from Macbeth and Mark's Monologue from "Find Me" but this one is too difficult for me to learn for some reason.
TakatoJoshuaKai 3 months ago
You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when you witness someone upset, and you don't know how you should react? I just got that feeling.
this guy's good.
KatTheCat21 3 months ago 3
I fell in love again.
btwujustlostTHEGAME 3 months ago 4
Those eyes....
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they cut a chunk from the soliloquy but it was still very well performed.
Jokerlund646 3 months ago
I love this movie. Were studying this in english and David just gives this play so much life. That and seeing him in a muscle shirt without shoes is hilarious XD
inuyashacrazy123 3 months ago 4
I freakin love you David!
TheGigigurl 3 months ago
that's why I love Tennant the best.
burningburney94 3 months ago
His voice. My god.
carriewhite410 3 months ago 4
He is such a brilliant actor in everything he does... I love him so much :)
RedHeadHippie27 3 months ago
Tried to have a staring contest with him. I lost.
MsMeloo 3 months ago
my fucking god, he is hot and speaking like that .... SPECHLESS!!...im now wet hahahahaha xD
ezteliita 3 months ago
What idiot shot that? This is some of the worst camera work I have ever seen in a legitimate show. Cinematography, set design, lighting and acting are brilliant. It's just the organization on camera and the way the cameras move. What a piece of crap camera operator.
That really devalues the entire presentation.
Also, Gibson did a better Hamlet... sorry, I love Tennant, but it's true.
zerooskul 3 months ago
@zerooskul Gibson did a better To be or not To be... not sure if he did a better Hamlet though. Why do you say so?
emmahouli 3 months ago
@emmahouli Because he opened an Oxford English Dictionary and read that in 1603 Melancholy did not mean sad. It meant insane.
He actually played the role the way Shakespeare wrote it.
zerooskul 2 months ago
@zerooskul If you watch Olivier (who EVERYONE tries to emulate), for example, he's just a simpering whiny pug and there's no way he could have managed in that mindset. Gibson made him a madman. And he's crazy himself so he really didn't have to stretch very far to deliver a sense of realism.
zerooskul 2 months ago
@zerooskul I didn't know that - which makes me feel stupid I have been studying this play for years now.
I think though Tennant did insane better - or should I say he played it more overtly insane, but with Gibson you were never quite sure if he was faking it (which is really interesting to watch)
Although I think it is very hard to objectively say who played it better, each actor/director brought his own interpretation and enriched our understanding of the play
emmahouli 2 months ago
@zerooskul what was wrong with the camera work? the camera barely moved
MusicDudeRock 2 months ago
@MusicDudeRock Studios have these things called camera trucks. It's basically a tripod on wheels. The job of a camera operator is to capture the image in as beautiful a way as possible. This camera operator tried to jump and shout that I should notice him/her. I do not watch movies to hang out with the camera, I want the camera to be my eyes. Television, in particular: the BBC, has been at work on itself long enough to know better. A camera operator should know how to work a camera.
zerooskul 2 months ago
@zerooskul The aesthetic of scene incorporating the motion of an actor: a good director knows a good actor is going to move within the frame. It is the camera operator's job to isolate the background as a structure. The actor will move within the frame and the camera can follow while making a reveal. Hitchcock played with this. Rather than revealing the background and letting Mr. Tennant meld into it, he is isolated out of the scene in a jarring way that spoils the fantasy. It's TV.
zerooskul 2 months ago
There...are tears in my eyes. No...there are lots of tears and they are coming out of my eyes. Oh...David Tennant...making one of my favorite moments in any Shakespearean play so full of life....he really is such an amazing actor.
Faichan 3 months ago
My hypothesis on why the Brits have some of the best actors- they actually DO Shakespeare. They DO plays- popular, well-rehearsed plays. Most of the UK's actors begin on the stage, and while many American actors do the same or similar, not everyone does.
Scholarlyobsession 3 months ago
That's a great actor. So underrated by Hollywood, though...
DudsCampos 3 months ago
@DudsCampos Well Hollywood is American.
DeathnoteBB 2 months ago
this guy doesnt blink
rogers5thadress 3 months ago
@rogers5thadress duh, that's what happens when you spend time with the weeping angels
RazFan11 3 months ago
@RazFan11 lollllll
snake1million 3 months ago
What a beautiful man from whose eloquent mouth such pain-laden words come.
ineedadamnedname 4 months ago 3
He is just plain amazing/beautiful.
xo2desibabe 4 months ago
*mesmerized*
Zinferbuddy 4 months ago 3
That BBC logo is the only imperfection in this piece of art
virtualpigmaster 4 months ago
I am definitely watching this play in its entirety as soon as I get the chance. David brings such emotion and intensity to every role he plays. He's a brilliant actor. It's been awhile since I read Hamlet so I don't remember the meaning of everything David just said, but with the way he recited it, I still hung on his every word. I could feel the sense of melancholy lingering in the air. Bravo.
BriannaBanana1 4 months ago
I...I just...I have no words for how beautiful that was.
whoareyouvegas 4 months ago 3
♥ perfect
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@zippoloko Or natural awesomeness.
lollipopgerald 4 months ago
christ how perfect is he
kittykatkelley 4 months ago
So so good.
Volvican 4 months ago
Oh my god this is perfect. Dying.
rachelsaunicorn 4 months ago
I do believe he was born with hair gel.
lollipopgerald 4 months ago 135
@lollipopgerald You think that's hair gel??
zippoloko 4 months ago
Really, it doesn't matter with what accent David speaks, it always suits him :)
EmeraldVideosNL 4 months ago
Is there a hamlet for dummies? Because I can never understand what Shakespeare has written. David brings it beautifully, I can feel the emotion, but still it's a collection of words that do not make sense to me..
kirihitiana 4 months ago
Christ, memories of having to memorize this soliloquy for my honors English class are all coming back!
DoctorNumber10 5 months ago
David Tennant makes one hell of a Hamlet! He's a fantastic actor. My teacher brought this in when we finished the book because she found out I was a Whovian (so is she) so it's great that she introduced me to his other roles!
This made Shakespeare a little easier to learn... 8D
ToxikHazzard 5 months ago 3
i've never loved this monologue this much in my life
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garussell2010 5 months ago
Billy Madison is a better Hamlet!
crafteurotarekmaxim 5 months ago
He's such a brilliant actor. I forget that when I watch Doctor Who, because then I only see the Doctor. ..I think now I need to look up what more films or series he is in, so to enjoy even more of this wonderful man.
xIceM 5 months ago 4
dramatic interpretation!
AsterAllonsY 5 months ago 4
Tragic and sexy. Wow.
CaseyLovesBrightEyes 5 months ago 5
That awkward moment in French class when your teacher asks you to recite this... and you do... and she just stands there like "...Oh."
hrc071995 5 months ago
I have to perform this monologue for my theatre studies class, and I came across this... as a Doctor Who fan, I have nerdgasm'd, and then and chills sent down my spine from this video... I'm now looking at this speech in an entirely new way.
RVBDeathbot 5 months ago
His hair. I just love his hair.
EdHardy2552 5 months ago 23
@EdHardy2552 if hamlet was performed end to end, without cutting stuff out, it goes for 7 or so hours. they kinda had to cut it out.
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LocalChamp9139 5 months ago
I've never been more turned on by Hamlet's soliloquy...
jeanee1228 5 months ago 6
I know that isn't even near pillow talk, But when its done by david, i only got two words: Multiple. orgasms.
OhTheAli 5 months ago
@OhTheAli A-men.
jeanee1228 5 months ago
Doesn't he leave out seven lines?? "Th'oppressor's wrong, the pround man's contumely" and so on?
666HellTiger 5 months ago
@666HellTiger He does leave out lines, which kind of upset me, but I'm sure they had a reason for doing so
sokklafan11 5 months ago
@666HellTiger Yes, he did. It certainly isn't his choice but the stage director's. Hamlet, like other long plays, is very rarely entirely played. Nearly every play, especially "classic" ones, are a bit edited, according to the feeling wanted to be given. (Sorry for any language mistakes, I'm french). I think here it might have been done to enhance the deep meaning, the core of the soliloquy, to avoid the "It's famous but I don't have a clue what it is about" kind of thing. Well done to me.
Romeowyn 5 months ago
@Romeowyn Yes, I know, but I think it's not appropriate to reduce the most famous sililoquy... Anyway, it's still great =) . (your English is good, as far as I can estimate that, because I'm Austrian ;-) )
666HellTiger 5 months ago
Hamlet, don't you know that time is just a bunch of wibbly, wobbly...timey wimey...stuff!
actressforever14 6 months ago 7
"No traveller returns"
... unless he's in a little blue box (it's bigger on the inside)
musicmacandmodelling 6 months ago 4
I love whee stares into the camera:) I looove him!
Theshortyization1 6 months ago
I had no idea what he was talking about - but who cares, when you can listen to that voice?! :D
David, if you need someone to speak to - I'd listen anyway... ;D
killerpussy84 6 months ago
The new doctor got nothing on david tennant.
David Tennant - great actor and great Doctor
New guy (dont know or care enough to look up his name) - ugly, so so actor, stupid Doctor
LtEggSalad86 6 months ago
such a powerfull scene!!!! Great David! As always!! <3
MonkeyBusinnesss 6 months ago
The hell. He skipped a bunch of lines
WockeeNamedWookie 6 months ago
he skipped like 7 lines. wtf
KPM828 6 months ago
swoon *thud*
Redravendew 6 months ago
I loved this performance. I'm sick of seeing it too broadly acted. Tennant's Hamlet is here portrayed so intimately it's almost like we're reading his thoughts.
pipkinsweetgrass 6 months ago 5
My favorite portion of my favorite Shakespeare play done by my favorite actor. This makes my life a better place!
LifeLoveMusical 6 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Harsh as it may sound, it takes more than merely mumble one's words and stare at the camera to do a conving rendition of Hamlet. Mr Tennant should stick to performing his antics on popular TV channels for the hoi polloi rather than marr the genius of Elizabethan playwrights he knows nothing about.
teatimelud 6 months ago
@teatimelud As you clearly have no idea what you're talking about let me enlighten you: David is a classically trained actor who worked for the RSC (as Romeo among other roles) & the National Theater long before he was on tv. If you'd have seen the whole play you wouldn't say these stupid things, please watch it. He has the rare talent of speaking Shakespeare's language naturally, making easy to others to understand it. He's a brilliant Shakespearean actor that's why the RSC asked him for Hamlet
esgaril 5 months ago
Don't get me wrong. I love David as the Doctor. Tenth will always be my favourite of all times. BUT I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP REFERRING TO HIM AS THE DOCTOR. in this scene, he is playing HAMLET, and quite brilliantly at that. So please, people. stop spoiling what he is doing now by only seeing him as what he decided to stop being (no matter how much he loved it). :) And please don't hate on me, I'm absolutely in love with the doctor, but I also like to see other sides of David Tennant...
esthae775 6 months ago 161
@esthae775 its Dr. hamlet XD JK
therealpohlio 5 months ago
@esthae775 I so agree with you,David is also my favorite doctor but I love seeing him in other things.French is my first language,but I read Shakespeare in english a long time ago....not sure I understood it all,still I liked it .Seeing David here makes want to read it again and maybe this time understantiing it better.
Vailover4ever 4 months ago
@esthae775 I love you for this. Srsly :P
loopylukittyify 3 months ago
@esthae775 I really appreciate your comment. Have you ever seen interviews with David where they talk of nothing else but Doctor Who? You can tell he's trying to be polite by humoring them and answering their questiosn but he's SICK of talking about DW. He's ready to move on and be recognized for his other work.
seattlegrobanite 3 months ago
Oh gosh, David Tennant doing Shakespeare... I came.
madeinpunk07 6 months ago 53
I love the approach Tennant took with this performance. Rather than be the "Master Manipulator," he takes a more human/naturalistic approach. You can feel his fear of death when he speaks. It's like he's truly weighing what's going to be worse: to live and chance suffering until death, or to die and never dream again?
HellsingHQ 6 months ago 10
Doctor, 11 Daleks arestill out there..not liking your stuff!!!
0KAIndigo0 6 months ago
Why did they shorten it? It's not even that long!
MisusePerfected 7 months ago
Clearly the 10 dislikes were by Daleks!
Oh wow, those gorgeous brown eyes. I got chills. I love David; he's got such a great ability to play any part he's given.
EDubs93 7 months ago 11
The hardest thing about this piece is how laden the lines are with people's various prejudices about the part and the "best" delivery. I find Tennant's long dramatic pauses after the most famous lines a very pleasing technique that takes all the air right out of those critical presumptions.
endersgame55 7 months ago 6
I find it amazing that David has such a wide range of acting. From dr who to hamlet. From secret smile to how to train your dragon. He is a wonderful actor and I hope he knows this
MsHabtami 7 months ago 2
For when I dream....... I See Life I See Hope! I see MEN! ( GOOD START! LOL).
ladyagaga24 7 months ago
"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...?" Well, I know a certain bloke from Gallifrey...
Seriously though, Doctor jokes aside, this is one of the best renditions of this soliloquy I've seen, and I've seen a lot. A couple lines have been cut ("Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely", etc.) but somehow, I don't care all that much. Well done, Tennant.
MissGrapeNehi 7 months ago 9
10 people have obviously never seen doctor who!
jerseygirl1192 7 months ago
oh that was beautiful. i love this man, my Doctor for all time.
GoddessOfWhim2003 7 months ago
"No traveler returns..." Perfect recite.
thickbro522 7 months ago
I never knew David had this part. Shakespeare is my all-time favorite author. So hearing David (who is sexy enough by himself) recite SHAKESPEARE quotes, makes me melt in my seat... wowww
Simsplayer5 7 months ago
Acting with props and the body is easy. Acting with nothing but the face and the voice? That's hard. It takes a discipline that most actors here in the U.S. just don't have. Tennant is good. Very good.
BenMcCormack91 7 months ago
@wolfca IKR? They're so deep and shimmery and beautiful :3 *sigh*
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rckr125 7 months ago
This is seriously my favorite monologue of all time, both in the book, and in this play. David Tennant does such an excellent job on it; you can see and feel Hamlet's emotions so vividly,
gladnxofxgallifrey 7 months ago
only david could wear a t-shirt (not a costume more fitting for the time) and make me want to cry!
Icefire3700 8 months ago 3
Wonderful.
girlcalledamelia 8 months ago
Sorry ... it was a dumb, smart-ass remark. This is perhaps my favorite speech of all-time, so I'm a bit over-critical of any performance of it ....
I think it epitomizes the greatest - and least examined - question plaguing mankind ....
82airbornesoldier 8 months ago
Is he BritAsian ? Kind of a strange looking fellow ...
82airbornesoldier 8 months ago
@82airbornesoldier he's scottish
joszher 8 months ago
sexiest hamlet evar.x
georgia00ful 8 months ago 2
I seriously think there is just one word for this: amazing. Or awesome. Or amazingly awesome, which would be two words, but who cares?
Two facts: a) It's David Tennant. Who is hot.
b) He's reciting Shakespeare. Which makes everything impossibly better.
Oh yes, me likey. :)
Asphyxiapallida 8 months ago 5
10 people who disliked the video can obviously perform Hamlet better then David Tennant
LaurentzandLuke 8 months ago 2
@LaurentzandLuke No, the 10 people who disliked this video THINK they can perform Hamlet better than David
slightlyinsaneFTW 7 months ago
@slightlyinsaneFTW "corection" Correct
LaurentzandLuke 7 months ago
@LaurentzandLuke :D
slightlyinsaneFTW 7 months ago
Doctor Who+Hamlet= LOVELOVELOVELOVE!!!!
AmyRose1312 8 months ago
oh dear lord...his eyes...they make me melt
wolfca 8 months ago 3
there is a part missing , here they go from For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, and then they skip the following part Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
and here they start again:But that the dread of something after death,
lucypucy12222 8 months ago
@lucypucy12222 Most people cut lines when producing shakespeare. every now and then you get a production like Kenneth Branagh's which combines both the quarto and folio editions to make a really long unedited version, but pretty much every single shakespeare production you ever see will be edited down.
MandeeSparkle 8 months ago
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lucypucy12222 8 months ago
To all the people who wanted him to keep playing The Doctor he probably would've have been able to play this. He did a great job as the Doctor but he is also a damn good actor he can do more and he should do more.
johnhamilton08 8 months ago
It's always a joy to see Tennant acting in something he is practicably born to do
It's quite a sad fact, however, that he is known almost only as the Doctor
He has quite good range
Also a personal query
I understand that YouTube uses ratings for videos to let the viewers see how something is good or bad
But the star rating seemed to be an alright rating system
Because now we have "likes" or "dislikes"
Which makes people confused why anybody who dislike Hamlet
Are they ignorant?
I'll never know
Jradgex 8 months ago
I haven't cried so hard from Tennant's beautiful acting since his regeneration into the 11th doctor.
alchemist4evr 8 months ago
i had trouble understanding david tenant, on some words he was really effective in articulating, but in others, i didnt know what he was saying...
Chelseaisinlovewithu 8 months ago
I had a nerdgasm when he said "Time"
Tasteslikecake 9 months ago 247