I absolutely love this soliloquy. It is possibly the most inspiring and amazing soliloquy ever written by Shakespeare. It is a masterpiece of the English language. We are truly blessed to be able to recite these words.
I love this rendition of Hamlet. I have been seeing Shakespeare plays since I was like 8 years old and Hamlet is by far my favorite. I even saw a Shakespeare company north of London do Hamlet once, but I still think that Kenneth Branagh does the best Hamlet. He was in the Royal Shakespeare Company when he started acting, so he does alot of Shakespeare such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Othello. So it is no surprise that he blows every other Hamlet out of the water.
I remember reading Hamlet in my Dual Credit English class & then watching this film and I distinctly remember watching this scene in class. It was at that moment that I fell in love with both Shakespeare's work & Kenneth's absolutely FLAWLESS, I repeat, FLAWLESS, delivery! Watching this scene nearly brings me to tears because it is so heartbreakingly beautiful! I looked around the classroom to see if anyone else was as captivated as I was by the sheer brilliance of the play and the acting only to see my classmates staring either at the television screen with glazed eyes or at their phone screens. Tragic.
This is the best Hamlet ever and the only film that has the entire play word for word and then some (they added lines at the end in some of Hamlet's soliloquies).
This is the best filmed version of Hamlet!! Of course the acting is incredible (except for a few exceptions), but this is the only film that includes the entire play as written.
I'm curious why - this scene feels more about a general disgust/abhorrence for everything generally. Unless your tears are pity for Hamlet's state; being so unable to be ok with anything as it is
he was in university. Royalty went to university when they were 15 in those days. And actually if you really analyse the text you can see elements of the adolescent...angst, hatred, passion (in vengeance).
Obviously mattcole doesn't have any movie taste. This is by far the best movie version of Hamlet. Branagh is spot on, bringing out Hamlet's depression and confusion and youth... the shots are beautiful and colorful. Awesome movie, and wonderful scene.
@PhillAlexandros Yes! this film was shot, blocked, and set flawlessly. They tell the entire story of Hamlet by the shot-setup and editing alone. This film is truly one of the greatest, for more than a few reasons.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month- Let me not think on’t-Frailty, thy name is woman!- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears:-why she, even she- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer-married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
Well it is said that Hamlet was intended to be around 17 but the original actor was 30 so the play was edited originally and has been kept this way since.
@degree7 I don't know about *the* biggest vanity project, but it's up there, for sure. Branagh wanted to shoot Hamlet in 70mm, which fell out of usage by then, and hasn't been used since. It was a good decision because it's so gorgeous. And, Branagh really is a ham, but that's what I love about him. He puts forth so much passion into his work. I believe Shakespeare would've been proud of this adaptation. There's absolutely nothing stiff or stale about it, and it's the first full version, too. :)
he didn't say that. he said "Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young hamlet was born..." and then proceeds in saying "Why here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years" indicating he was working when King Hamlet was alive as well as when Hamlet was born. Hamlet is meant to be 16-18, he just returned from university, which in those days would have been around that time, Ophelia is 14...so it would make sense.
@nehnehmjfan22 if you read the play he's in his thirtieth year: In Act V, scene I of the First Gravedigger is asked by Hamlet (line 147) how long he has "been a grave-maker." His reply shows the age of Hamlet in an explicit manner. "I have been in my profession since Old Hamlet defeated Old Fortinbras, which was "the very day that young Hamlet was born." Then "I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years." According to this logic, Hamlet must be thirty years old.
Basically, he's angry that his mother (not his sister) married his uncle only one or two months after his father's death, even though she'd professed great love for his father and mourned his death.
Out of those three, I like Branagh the best, since he seems to understand Hamlet more than the others. But if I had to pick one filmed performance of Hamlet, I'd pick Richard Burton. Why is lenegan's comment so badly rated? What is he not allowed to have his own opinion?
Yeah they are both good. It's personal opinion, acting is an art, I myself am an actor, and it's a skill that evolves better as you get older. But in essence it is an art form, and with that some people prefer minimalistic some people drama, some people naturalism, some people abstract. I would love to see you try and do this scene and not get criticized. I think you need to be more open to other peoples point of view and actually start listening instead of arguing.
But Hamlet remembers Yorick, who had been buried at least "three-and-twenty years" ago at the time of the play. Harold Bloom, a Shakespeare scholar, suggests that Shakespeare was reckless in his mathematics and would have laughed at our confusion.
actually, his age is an inconsistency in this play. in the beginning, he is said to be 18, and yes the gravediggers reveal that he would be around 35. Yes Shakespeare knew this, but he never corrected his plays. All or most of his plays were just manuscripts. Anything that wasn't working out right, he just abandoned in the writing process.
@bulletcookiegirl Actually, I think Hamlet is saying that his father died two months ago "But two months dead" and that his mother married within a month of her father's death "within a month...married with my uncle".
Shakespeare wrote PLAYS to be performed, not just read and put back on the shelf like a book!!, as for this film sucking, this is one of the clearest well spoken versions of the play I have seen, performed by the best actors in this field.
@starrbeatlesqueen Umm, no, they didn't. What they did was switch some lines around. For instance, when Hamlet sees the Ghost when he is with Horatio and Marcellus, he speaks to it before the Ghost beckons. in this movie, the Ghost beckons first, and then when Hamlet is running through the forest after the Ghost, you hear what he says to it in voiceover. (This is all before the Ghost tells Hamlet who he is and that he was murdered by Claudius.)
Interestingly, though, there is a lot of disagreement about his age. Many think his original age was intended to be about 17. The age of 30 resulted from use of one version of the play.
He is sick with how everyone moved on so quickly after his father's death. Especially his mother and even more by getting married to her brother in law (Hamlet's uncle from his father's side) only a month after his death.
"How long hast thou been a grave-maker" (V.i.132)? "every fool can tell that: it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England" (V.i.135). "Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years" (V.i.150). Argal, we can say that Hamlet is zero and thirty years. Nay, next time you ask this question, take thee to the care of a grave-maker. p.s. it is a play, not a book.
No, its just the original idea was that Hamlet was early-mid 20's. The grave digger says hes about 30. There is such differentiation between ideas. There might even be the idea that Hamlet is 16 during the entire play. I like the idea of him late teens- mid 20's. But that is me.
@bulletcookiegirl I think when he says "within a month!" he is talking about the marriage between his mother and His fathers brother, but not fully explained.
you mean play not book, and actually if you see it done properly for example watch this film more than once if necessary, you will see it is far from stupid, although I agree I used to hate school, this is a masterpiece you will understand, its worth the effort.
Very true. I don't buy the whole "can't make up his mind" way of playing Hamlet. His indecisiveness is a VERY small facet of his character. To bleach him down to one statement is an insult.
I volunteered to play Hamlet in my Literature class despite having no real acting experience and this is pretty much how I chose to deliver this monologue. Looking at this... I feel validated.
@DarkRyokoGirl Read the scene when hamlet is talking to the gravedigger, you have to do some math, but shakespeare reveals Hamlets age exactly, i think its 30 or 32
Yes the dialect is identical however I'm pretty sure Branagh altered the structure of scenes in places, in my opinion affecting the authenticity which he could have achieved by honoring Shakespeare's brilliance!
I absolutely love this soliloquy. It is possibly the most inspiring and amazing soliloquy ever written by Shakespeare.
It is a masterpiece of the English language. We are truly blessed to be able to recite these words.
If I don't do well on this Hamlet test tomorrow I am going to be wishing my flesh would melt.
NinjaAssassin407 Did you do good?
NinjaAssassin407 haha I have exam tomorrow. Stressed out.
me too too
@@cat_sqeaker help me bro i dont understand \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
@@ipherx6496 i dunno man. maybe this will help www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/page_26/
I love this rendition of Hamlet. I have been seeing Shakespeare plays since I was like 8 years old and Hamlet is by far my favorite. I even saw a Shakespeare company north of London do Hamlet once, but I still think that Kenneth Branagh does the best Hamlet. He was in the Royal Shakespeare Company when he started acting, so he does alot of Shakespeare such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Othello. So it is no surprise that he blows every other Hamlet out of the water.
Hamet is soooo much better than Romeo and juliet in my opinion
As if there were only those two...
I remember reading Hamlet in my Dual Credit English class & then watching this film and I distinctly remember watching this scene in class. It was at that moment that I fell in love with both Shakespeare's work & Kenneth's absolutely FLAWLESS, I repeat, FLAWLESS, delivery! Watching this scene nearly brings me to tears because it is so heartbreakingly beautiful!
I looked around the classroom to see if anyone else was as captivated as I was by the sheer brilliance of the play and the acting only to see my classmates staring either at the television screen with glazed eyes or at their phone screens.
Tragic.
that's really fuckin gay dude!
This is the best Hamlet ever and the only film that has the entire play word for word and then some (they added lines at the end in some of Hamlet's soliloquies).
This is the best filmed version of Hamlet!! Of course the acting is incredible (except for a few exceptions), but this is the only film that includes the entire play as written.
The man of my dreams! Kenneth Branagh is pure perfection.
Have you seen him in Much Ado About Nothing? Yummy
that's the best soliloquy Shakespeare's ever made
It's certainly right up there!!
watched this film in class. 2nd Shakespeare I've ever seen. I was close to tears when this part came. Jesus, the emotion! brilliant!
I'm curious why - this scene feels more about a general disgust/abhorrence for everything generally. Unless your tears are pity for Hamlet's state; being so unable to be ok with anything as it is
Psycho bandits in Borderlands 2 recite this very scene. It surprises me that the word Hyperion is in this.
0:32 is what the neighborhood association says to my parents.
i love how this soliloquy is done, infact, i just love this movie =)
I'm presenting this tomorrow :), So excited, putting as much emotion and passion into it, fully memorized: )
Septimius Severus me but 8 years later
i have probably watched this soliloquy 1000 times for my essay
Performing this soliloquy tomorrow! Wish me luck, guys!
che voce meravigliosa...una voce da Amleto...ti scava fino al cuore
i have to memorize this and re do it in english faaacckkk
WOW his acting is so powerful!!!! everyones acting is soo spot on!!!
he was in university. Royalty went to university when they were 15 in those days. And actually if you really analyse the text you can see elements of the adolescent...angst, hatred, passion (in vengeance).
God...if this man I've never met and who could easily be my father...swore his love to me in this voice...I'd believe it!
Hell yeah! I just memorized this motherfucking soliloquy. What up extra credit
Thank you for posting this, RuGaNHoZ.
this is the best Hamlet i love this movie Kenneth Branagh' is really the best Shakespeare player.
Obviously mattcole doesn't have any movie taste. This is by far the best movie version of Hamlet. Branagh is spot on, bringing out Hamlet's depression and confusion and youth... the shots are beautiful and colorful. Awesome movie, and wonderful scene.
Kenneth Branagh is absolutely amazing
really helpful video for when you need to memorize and recite it for english class
very nice. now let's see act 1 scene 1
LOL, 100% the reason why I'm watching these. XD
The clips of Burton as Hamlet are great.
From this Hamlet clip, I didn't really sense Hamlet. I sensed Branagh.
His vowels are flawless.
yes, hamlet is around 35, maybe younger, as he played with his jester before the gravediggers started his job 30 years prior.
He is such a good actor in this scene!!!
The vowels in this performance are amazing.
@PhillAlexandros
Yes! this film was shot, blocked, and set flawlessly. They tell the entire story of Hamlet by the shot-setup and editing alone. This film is truly one of the greatest, for more than a few reasons.
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on’t-Frailty, thy name is woman!-
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow’d my poor father’s body,
Like Niobe, all tears:-why she, even she-
O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn’d longer-married with my uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month:
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.
I love you Hamlet!
Kenneth Branagh is just a Shakespeare God. I bow down to him.
My favorite Shakespeare play!
Such a sad and beautiful story.
the best Hamlet done.
I KEEP THINKIN THIS GUY REMINDS ME OF THAT GUY FROM RENO 911 WITH THE LITTLE SHORTS.. LOL
It makes no sense that a guy like you would even be aware of Shakespeare, so how did you find this?
Amazing film. Best Shakespeare in Cinema.
Great. Interesting, he leans on the double chairs which Olivier did in his version later in the same speech.
Hamlet is the perfect character.
He is like the real Hamlet, although he has never existed; Kenneth is truly himself.
This clip helped me write a paper!!! THANKS!!!!
Well it is said that Hamlet was intended to be around 17 but the original actor was 30 so the play was edited originally and has been kept this way since.
I luv this soliloquy!! thank you!
Funny how at first Hamlet sems like a cool calm guy and then he goes all crazy.
he is perfect
"Frailty, thy name is woman" I feel you, Hamlet.
@degree7 I don't know about *the* biggest vanity project, but it's up there, for sure. Branagh wanted to shoot Hamlet in 70mm, which fell out of usage by then, and hasn't been used since. It was a good decision because it's so gorgeous. And, Branagh really is a ham, but that's what I love about him. He puts forth so much passion into his work. I believe Shakespeare would've been proud of this adaptation. There's absolutely nothing stiff or stale about it, and it's the first full version, too. :)
Yeah, but read Hamlet's advice to the actors.
I just like this version of Hamlet (:
he didn't say that. he said "Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young hamlet was born..." and then proceeds in saying "Why here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years" indicating he was working when King Hamlet was alive as well as when Hamlet was born. Hamlet is meant to be 16-18, he just returned from university, which in those days would have been around that time, Ophelia is 14...so it would make sense.
Lol, I'm just watching this repeatedly for fun.
can't wait to buy this :-)
i wish that hamlet lived
Wonderful
I love this one!!!
@bfoaliali it went great, the class was so surprised and my teacher was raining compliments on me. I loved it.
Great.
Keneth Bragham, excelente actor protagonizando a Hamlet y a otros personajes importantes de las obras de Shakespeare.
@nehnehmjfan22 if you read the play he's in his thirtieth year: In Act V, scene I of the First Gravedigger is asked by Hamlet (line 147) how long he has "been a grave-maker." His reply shows the age of Hamlet in an explicit manner. "I have been in my profession since Old Hamlet defeated Old Fortinbras, which was "the very day that young Hamlet was born." Then "I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years." According to this logic, Hamlet must be thirty years old.
thank you so much
Basically, he's angry that his mother (not his sister) married his uncle only one or two months after his father's death, even though she'd professed great love for his father and mourned his death.
This. All of THIS.
this is great
Out of those three, I like Branagh the best, since he seems to understand Hamlet more than the others. But if I had to pick one filmed performance of Hamlet, I'd pick Richard Burton.
Why is lenegan's comment so badly rated? What is he not allowed to have his own opinion?
Yeah they are both good. It's personal opinion, acting is an art, I myself am an actor, and it's a skill that evolves better as you get older. But in essence it is an art form, and with that some people prefer minimalistic some people drama, some people naturalism, some people abstract. I would love to see you try and do this scene and not get criticized. I think you need to be more open to other peoples point of view and actually start listening instead of arguing.
But Hamlet remembers Yorick, who had been buried at least "three-and-twenty years" ago at the time of the play.
Harold Bloom, a Shakespeare scholar, suggests that Shakespeare was reckless in his mathematics and would have laughed at our confusion.
Stop over thinking it mate. Just be.
stop
Come on, Hamlet! Buck up!
actually, his age is an inconsistency in this play. in the beginning, he is said to be 18, and yes the gravediggers reveal that he would be around 35. Yes Shakespeare knew this, but he never corrected his plays. All or most of his plays were just manuscripts. Anything that wasn't working out right, he just abandoned in the writing process.
@bulletcookiegirl Actually, I think Hamlet is saying that his father died two months ago "But two months dead" and that his mother married within a month of her father's death "within a month...married with my uncle".
Shakespeare wrote PLAYS to be performed, not just read and put back on the shelf like a book!!, as for this film sucking, this is one of the clearest well spoken versions of the play I have seen, performed by the best actors in this field.
@starrbeatlesqueen Umm, no, they didn't. What they did was switch some lines around. For instance, when Hamlet sees the Ghost when he is with Horatio and Marcellus, he speaks to it before the Ghost beckons. in this movie, the Ghost beckons first, and then when Hamlet is running through the forest after the Ghost, you hear what he says to it in voiceover. (This is all before the Ghost tells Hamlet who he is and that he was murdered by Claudius.)
Interestingly, though, there is a lot of disagreement about his age. Many think his original age was intended to be about 17. The age of 30 resulted from use of one version of the play.
so true
He is sick with how everyone moved on so quickly after his father's death. Especially his mother and even more by getting married to her brother in law (Hamlet's uncle from his father's side) only a month after his death.
"How long hast thou been a grave-maker" (V.i.132)?
"every fool can tell that: it was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England" (V.i.135).
"Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years" (V.i.150).
Argal, we can say that Hamlet is zero and thirty years. Nay, next time you ask this question, take thee to the care of a grave-maker.
p.s. it is a play, not a book.
@PhilAlexandrs @bulletcookiegirl You just did my english homework. Thank you very much.
ugh, i just want sir kenneth branagh to be the 12th Doctor.
No...this is Kenneth Branagh playing Hamlet in the film he directed. Ewan McGregor has no connections with this movie.
No, its just the original idea was that Hamlet was early-mid 20's. The grave digger says hes about 30.
There is such differentiation between ideas. There might even be the idea that Hamlet is 16 during the entire play.
I like the idea of him late teens- mid 20's. But that is me.
It's not a book, it's a play...
i love this :)))
@kathleeeeeeeeenn But just because he attends college doesn't mean that he is in his 20s.
as well as Benedick from Much Ado About NOthing :)
...it's not a monologue, it's a soliloquy. ;)
@bulletcookiegirl I think when he says "within a month!" he is talking about the marriage between his mother and His fathers brother, but not fully explained.
i just gave you a thumbs up
you mean play not book, and actually if you see it done properly for example watch this film more than once if necessary, you will see it is far from stupid, although I agree I used to hate school, this is a masterpiece you will understand, its worth the effort.
Very true. I don't buy the whole "can't make up his mind" way of playing Hamlet. His indecisiveness is a VERY small facet of his character. To bleach him down to one statement is an insult.
chill bra
I volunteered to play Hamlet in my Literature class despite having no real acting experience and this is pretty much how I chose to deliver this monologue. Looking at this... I feel validated.
Yeah, I'm sure you approximated this... not.
Is there anywhere I can ACTUALLY FIND THE FULL THING?
Dude, you guys, this actor also plays Professor Lockhart in Harry Potter. Hamlet = Lockhart.
...
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHOSE MIND IS BLOWN RIGHT NOW?
Harusha12 yes
Wait, this is the same guy??? I didn't even recognize him! I knew Lockhart's actor was a Shakespearean actor, but I didn't know he had done Hamlet!
What's the name of this actor? It's funny to watch him do this, because he also acted as Iago in a movie version of Othello.
He means "later in the monolog"
@DarkRyokoGirl Read the scene when hamlet is talking to the gravedigger, you have to do some math, but shakespeare reveals Hamlets age exactly, i think its 30 or 32
Yes the dialect is identical however I'm pretty sure Branagh altered the structure of scenes in places, in my opinion affecting the authenticity which he could have achieved by honoring Shakespeare's brilliance!