Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (Actors Play Death Airplane)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Play & Film by Tom Stoppard
Based on "Hamlet" by Shakespeare
Gary Oldman (pre-Dracula)
Tim Roth (pre-Resevoir Dogs)

"Play within a Play" "The World is a Stage"
"Experience Death" "Paper Airplane"
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The Actors are the only characters who will talk with them outside of the Hamlet script. They are practicing a play to perform within a play and they live only to act. No questions are asked or answered that are not within the script.
Rosencrantz discovers how to make a paper airplane, and then a design for a biplane; which is foiled by Guildenstern who is not to be distracted from eavesdropping.

Post-Modern play in the tradition of "Waiting for Godot" by Sam Beckett
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• guildenstern
• dead
• tom
• stoppard
• shakespeare
• hamlet
• coin
• law
• probability
• heads
• tim
• roth
• gary
• oldman
• godot

[notsosugarfree]

ahh, Guil, that was just the slightest bit uncalled-for don't you think? D:

[Oddsweb]

LOL another great clip.. pity there are not many left :¬D

[JaYNeCaTie]

That's my favorite part!!! I looove it! I liked the Questions Game too, but awww, I feel so bad for Guildenstern! Can anyone see Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki playing these two??? I think they'd be great!

[spiritinthe7thsky]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead wasn't based on Hamlet as a modern thing, it was actualy one of shakespears plays. This is what makes Stoppards adaptation of it so funny, with the addition of all the things we know happened much later. :)

[undeadly]

pay attention to it though, It shows what happens in the rest of the movie, foreshadowing at its most obvious

[BabyFishOwtaWater]

haha rosencrantz is so dof...lol

[CandiieHearts27]

aww his paper airplane

[NGTheAmateurAnimator]

I love this scene so much!