Hamlet - To Be Or Not To Be - Mel Gibson

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• hamlet
• to be or not to be
• mel gibson
• sililoquy

[ebm93nor]

gotta admit i prefer kenneth brannaghs

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

Well I will tell you one thing.....the way he says the first line without halting after "To be' and goes through like an actual natural thought makes me happy as hell.

[Drtomterrific]

I judge shakespearean actors by how well I can follow the train of thought in the soliloquies and dialogue. Whether I hear it as actual conversation and not just as poetry. . .

By that standard, Gibson is by far the best Hamlet I have seen. I remember the first time I saw this movie I was amazed that all those flowery speeches were actual conversations between people!

But then I got my first exposure to Shakespeare from Mad Magazine.

[ShayneThoman]

He does alright. I myself prefer Adam Sandler

[throwoutyourarms]

i'm actually quite shocked by this as i was expecting it to be terribly messy but this is the only version i've seen on youtube that honours the verse.

interesting that the responses below talk about it NOT sounding like poetry - watch this while reading the text and you will see that it is Shakespeare doing all the work for him.

[Tommo8540]

I really like this! I must be the only one who does not like David tennants i really did not feel the emotion in his at all.

[macduffandfirstwitch]

Gibson just happens to be a very good actor.

[HumaneAnon]

The first line rolls off his tongue without that pretenious crap all the dramatists use. Very good.

It's just too bad he's a complete crackpot. And the rest is bs.

[gunnerboy661]

This is so bad XD

[jg2904]

@TheJayObrain Coming from someone who cannot even spell Branagh's name correctly, I sincerely doubt your knowledge of this play... But I'm sure you know SO much more about Shakespeare than people like Branagh, Tennant, and Olivier (who also wielded a knife during Act III, Scene 1) who've spent their lives devoted to the subject.

You can like Gibson's version just fine without being a patronizing dick about the other performances.

[drayofchilastra]

First performance of this piece which I have seen and believed. He isn't acting. He's empathizing. He's real.

[TheJayObrain]

You're all deluded...I think Gibson does it most realisticly, he plays Hamlet as someone who is actually depressed and mad at himself. Tennant recites it like poetry, barely showing much emotion throughout. Brannagh's average, standing infront of a mirror is not something Hamlet would do, When Brannagh gets the knife out it's not something hamlet would do, NOT YET! he wouldn't carry a knife he's too scared and frightened of death, angry at himself and Gibson gets that through perfectly