You say Hamlet, I quote Hamlet. From Act II Scene 2 HAMLET What's the news? ROSENCRANTZ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true. Let me question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison hither? GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord! HAMLET Denmark's a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst. http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ham ... t.2.2.html
I acknowledge your superiority, in all Bardish matters my lord Roel. Being only an 'umble peasant, it was deemed above my station to study English lit' at school.
You're too kind. We just had a little project in school some four years back about Hamlet, I never actually read it, just saw the movie...
Which one? I saw the Mel Gibson one a few years ago, and was suprised by how good it was, and how good he was. I am not a fan. (But he was good in Maverick).
Maverick is pretty good. I didn't think I would like it but I did. Hamlet brings back some blurry memories. I was Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in my 8th grade class reading of Hamlet. In 10th grade, I was Julius Caeser and my best friend was Mark Anthony, which worked out pretty good. We also done a class reading of Macbeth in 12th grade. I was Macduff. Too bad I don't remember much of the lines. :-?
I saw the Mel Gibson one. In secondary school the only way to hold the average student's attention on English literature is to throw a few famous faces into the classroom, I suppose. However, I knew the line above because of an adaptation I recently saw, a clever comedy called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". Might interest you, Jody! It has two of my favourite unhinged character actors, Tim Roth and Gary Oldman.
Have you seen Tim Roth alongside John Hurt in 'The Hit'? Very atmospheric. Most of the film is just those two. What's Gary Oldman been in? The name is familiar, but no film titles spring to mind.
I love Hamlet and I adore Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead....I've studied both at length. I like the fact that R and G are interchangeable, neither has a defined character.....a bit like Carl and Lenny on the Simpsons (that particular joke has been used a couple of times on there)....or Ant and Dec....which one is which? Gary Oldman is the brother of Big Mo on Eastenders.....in real life. :roll: He's been in The Fifth Element, Leon, Harry Potter (Sirius Black), Lost in Space, Batman Begins and it has been announced that he is going to be in The Dark Knight next year.
I will be looking for that one. I mostly admire Tim Roth for his work in "Four Rooms" and "Reservoir Dogs" - and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", now. I'm surprised, I had never expected to find anyone else here who knew that film! Though I must disagree with you Roxy, the two definitely have different personalities in RaGaD, though not in the play. Interestingly Oldman and Roth were originally casted the other way around. "Leon, the Professional". One of Natalie Portman's earliest films and possibly the best movie I've ever seen. Oldman is utterly brilliant in it.
tim roth imo is one of the very best ever movie villains in ROB ROY...it should got best picture that year ...over mel rent gibsons braveheart...rent and watch it again ...its still first class...
"And you'd be absolutely right." "The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter." "Whoah... We're out of our depths here."
