#hamlet 1996

[c0alminecanary]

can you tell which version we had to watch in highschool

my friend and I also got our English teacher to believe in the ship, so jokes on you, it's canon

[costumeloverz71]

Ophelia (Kate Winslet) Red blouse and print skirt. Hamlet (1996). Costume by Alexandra Byrne.

[spoofaloofa]

Hamlet buddy you’re not gonna believe this

[miyamiwu]

Hamlet’s soliloquy from the Hamlet 1996 movie

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd 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, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.

[thoughtfulfangirling]

So in preparation with Empty and @rosepetalrevolution to watch Slings & Arrows, Empty has us watching Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. This is where I admit that I made it through high school and a minor in English in college without ever reading or watching Hamlet. So this is my first time knowing the piece outside of memes or random popular osmosis. We're about halfway through the film at the moment.

What I'd known:

Hamlet's ghost of a father tells him he was murdered by his brother.

Hamlet is going to want revenge

People are bad to Ophelia

"To be, or not to be" (and thinking it a monologue for the audience only)

Hamlet is somber and depressed and vengeful

Ophelia kills herself

Things that have been fascinating to learn:

The ghost thing is almost the first thing that happens

Hamlet is crazy

Hamlet is funny in his scenes with Polonius in particular

Hamlet questions if the specter was actually his father and so isn't sure if wanting vengeance from that point on

The 'To Be, or not to be' monologue is witnessed by like three other characters

Relevant mainly for the coming Slings and Arrows watch: there's a play within a play so now I'm ready to see parallels in the director in S&A and Hamlet

Again, we are about halfway through the film. We spend about a good hour or so just chatting so our actual watch time on a weekday evening is limited. We just finished the play in the play, so I imagine Hamlet is going to escalate his crazy, and I look forward to it.

If you enjoyed anything about this post, don't mock me for not having already known Hamlet 😅

[partiallypearl]

 Kate Winslet as Ophelia in Hamlet 1996

I would give you some violets... but they withered all when my father died. They say a made a good end.

[cosmicretreat]

Kenneth Branagh on the set of Hamlet (1996), both star and director.

[aqvilegias]

o, woe is me, to have seen what i have seen, see what i see!

kate winslet as ophelia in hamlet (1996)

dir. by kenneth branagh