To be or not to be - Kenneth Branagh HD (HAMLET)

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  • @maxmartinez8122
    @maxmartinez8122 5 років тому +3489

    My conversation with my self before i get up for work every morning.

  • @KJDaMiSSiLe
    @KJDaMiSSiLe 5 років тому +3194

    i aspire to own a mirror that clean

    • @natkazagadka9900
      @natkazagadka9900 4 роки тому +26

      hahha it's so funny and... TRUE

    • @OscarSimansky
      @OscarSimansky 4 роки тому +37

      Well then, you're quite different in this regard than our esteemed Prince of Denmark over here. The guy literally smears that thing with fair Ophelia's face in the very next scene.

    • @wilville3752
      @wilville3752 4 роки тому +5

      It’s a plate on a green screen the movement is different they did this so they didn’t get glare

    • @AnAppleWithEyes
      @AnAppleWithEyes 4 роки тому +6

      Thanks for reminding me to buy windex:)

    • @pdubzpyro
      @pdubzpyro 3 роки тому +9

      Wax on, wax off, Daniel son.

  • @wink3194
    @wink3194 3 роки тому +2041

    Our high school teacher asked us to memorize this soliloquy and oh boy 12 years later, I can still recall every line.

    • @cmdelpino
      @cmdelpino 3 роки тому +46

      Excellent! 32 years later for me, but remember only the first few lines.

    • @stevencooke6451
      @stevencooke6451 2 роки тому +10

      That's impressive. I once knew this speech as well.

    • @julianaurregobonilla6319
      @julianaurregobonilla6319 2 роки тому +4

      10 months ago, i still remember jeje

    • @colevilleproductions
      @colevilleproductions 2 роки тому +5

      i can remember every line from the tomorrow soliloquy

    • @Isa-tn7ex
      @Isa-tn7ex 2 роки тому +1

      suicide prevention maybe?

  • @mae123love
    @mae123love 4 роки тому +271

    you know an actor is doing his job well when you can't breathe in fear of disturbing his moment

    • @GoldenMushroom64
      @GoldenMushroom64 9 місяців тому +1

      Oh piss off

    • @fuffilicious
      @fuffilicious 8 місяців тому +14

      ​@@GoldenMushroom64We getting mad over performance appreciation now⁉️⁉️

    • @zarosderer4447
      @zarosderer4447 5 місяців тому

      @@fuffilicious New world order. The one Joe Biden was talking about. With incompetence and arrogance and beeing a dumb shit sheep

    • @zonesquestiloveunderworld
      @zonesquestiloveunderworld 3 дні тому

      ​@@GoldenMushroom64If you don't appreciate it, why are you even commenting on this video?

  • @devonburdeyney8555
    @devonburdeyney8555 2 роки тому +556

    I had to learn this soliloquy in grade 12 English class. After reciting it my English teacher pulled me aside and asked me if I was alright cause I clearly understood the message of this soliloquy, and I said yes as I explained that I knew it was about Hamlet contemplating suicide. My teacher had me stay after class and said that he believed I had a future in the performing arts and not in the tech field's like I planned. Decided to listen to him over my parents, and I have not regretted that choice since.

    • @mallbratgirl_3005
      @mallbratgirl_3005 Рік тому +15

      that's so sweet thanks for sharing

    • @marcospunkposermedina4819
      @marcospunkposermedina4819 Рік тому +9

      I remember I had a similar experience with defining the meaning of the to be or not to be line. I remember I wrote 2 to 3 pages about it, and earlier in the year, my English teacher said to the class that one of us can be a major in English/writing.

    • @gipperbanana
      @gipperbanana 10 місяців тому +1

      was this in good will hunting?

    • @keithbarlow9701
      @keithbarlow9701 10 місяців тому +9

      Wholesome shit like this is why I browse the comment section.

    • @whatthehelv
      @whatthehelv 10 місяців тому +4

      @@keithbarlow9701 RIGHT!?? I want to know what this person's acting career ended up looking like so we can cheer him on!!

  • @marvin_meza
    @marvin_meza 7 років тому +1568

    He never blinks...

    • @syourke3
      @syourke3 6 років тому +42

      Marvin Meza How does he do that? I can't go for more than a few seconds without blinking.

    • @sahayeda5220
      @sahayeda5220 6 років тому +32

      Steven Yourke i think you can do that if you're super hydrated?

    • @theloffikilli4794
      @theloffikilli4794 6 років тому +69

      Legend says he's still not blinking

    • @jaipao9527
      @jaipao9527 5 років тому +3

      +Oriano Augustin DANK 😂😵

    • @sahayeda5220
      @sahayeda5220 5 років тому +5

      @@Vagabon1729dho-_ lol wtf chill

  • @DigidesteinedSayian
    @DigidesteinedSayian 8 років тому +2350

    The most famous speech in the English language... and here I am wondering how the cameraman managed to not get into the shot. I thought the gray bit was him or her, but it's actually a flaw in the mirror.

    • @justin8e8
      @justin8e8 8 років тому +48

      +DigidesteinedSayian Probably used photoshop and took a picture from the otherside of the mirror in advance

    • @ThePaintballgun
      @ThePaintballgun 7 років тому +145

      You're looking at the mirror on an angle.

    • @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
      @bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 6 років тому +45

      used the right angles probably.. but also, it is possible he was removed in post-production.. either way

    • @riffi15
      @riffi15 5 років тому +115

      Its a zoom technique. The camera is at the endge of the room on the right side but the zoom-in makes you think the camera is straight behind the actor.

    • @3seven5seven1nine9
      @3seven5seven1nine9 5 років тому +3

      @riffi15 Yea I learned about that from a Tom Scott video lmao

  • @oHAYyeaiiTzArtur
    @oHAYyeaiiTzArtur 8 років тому +3476

    Crap i gotta memorize this whole thing by tmr rip

  • @enricmm85
    @enricmm85 5 років тому +560

    [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
    😭
    Best verse ever. Had me crying out of sheer emotion.

    • @tsayin2662
      @tsayin2662 Рік тому +21

      You thought it was your dear girl Ophelia coming to talk…
      BUT IT WAS I D I O

    • @eye9444
      @eye9444 9 місяців тому

      Gotta pull up the Secret Joestar Technique@@tsayin2662

  • @Chris_Preese
    @Chris_Preese 3 роки тому +234

    Kenneth Branagah really speaks the lines as they're supposed to be spoken, or at least closest to. All the other actors I've seen overcomplicate the whole thing. Shakespeare was not a stupid man. He wrote the lines in a way that made their natural reading the way they should be spoken. Speak it as you read it and you will feel the pauses and the emphases at the appropriate moments.

    • @waterglas21
      @waterglas21 3 роки тому +23

      I 100% agree with your comment. Branagah sounds so natural and real in the version, he is not trying, he is flowing in the scene

    • @GoldenMushroom64
      @GoldenMushroom64 9 місяців тому +2

      That’s so true.

    • @Carl-nj1op
      @Carl-nj1op 5 місяців тому

      "Shakespeare was not a stupid man." That's quite the safe take.

  • @UpNfamish2
    @UpNfamish2 8 років тому +1630

    Kenneth Branagh got this "to be or not to be" 100% right. Prince Hamlet is talking to himself, talking to his most inner heart and soul alone and away from all the people of the world. He, himself and the Universe are having this conservation alone. Prince Hamlet is asking if the Universe cares if he lives or die. Words and thoughts are becoming funny to our human brains when talking like this. Only Shakespeare can capture this "taking one's own life" questioning conundrum and Kenneth Branagh delivers it.

    • @Yowzoe
      @Yowzoe 8 років тому +7

      What are your other favorite movie versions? I might like this one the best but I'd like to see the other really good ones…

    • @UpNfamish2
      @UpNfamish2 8 років тому +5

      Yowzoe sorry, in all other version,actors are talking to the audiences. They are so obviously funny.

    • @UpNfamish2
      @UpNfamish2 8 років тому +2

      +Yowzoe the newest Hamlet-playing actor is Benedict Cumberbatch. There is just a barely beginning clip of his "to be or not be be" from youtube. Search-"Benedict Cumberbatch - Hamlet Interview [42 mins]". See for yourself. I can't hardly wait for its release.

    • @jabbapop
      @jabbapop 8 років тому +22

      +UpNfamish2 yeah this version isn't just whiny boy angsting but inner monologue expressed outwardly building up to fixity of purpose. you really get the impression that hamlet could have killed himself if he wasn't interrupted. this hamlet is OG no regrets.

    • @UpNfamish2
      @UpNfamish2 8 років тому +8

      thx for the reply, I have seen most of L.Olivier's movies and I think of him as a very good actor, but in his rendition of Hamlet, I get away from this feeling that he is still talking to the audience-i.e. there is so much b bodily movements while giving out this Me and the Cosmo(the very life giver of your body) talk while Kenneth Branagh was basically motionless, his hands dropped to the side.

  • @lynnturman8157
    @lynnturman8157 9 років тому +780

    Branagh's version of HAMLET is the best movie version, imo. Because it takes 400 year old play & makes it CINEMATIC.

    • @dreamyjess
      @dreamyjess 9 років тому +15

      Lynn Turman I'm inclined to agree, with Derek Jacobi's performance as a close second. I haven't seen a rendition that compares to those two ever since (sorry David Tennant fans, that version is good but I'll never get over all the cuts it made to the script) I'm going to be crucified for saying this, but the Laurence Olivier version just doesn't do it for me.

    • @iiAngelic
      @iiAngelic 9 років тому +3

      dreamyjess How is Jacobi's rendition good? When he looks at the camera, the scene doesn't feel personal or realistic anymore.

    • @lynnturman8157
      @lynnturman8157 9 років тому +8

      I'm not talking about Branagh's PERFORMANCE as Hamlet (which to me seems fine). I'm talking about his DIRECTION of the movie.

    • @anothercountyheard2
      @anothercountyheard2 9 років тому +3

      Lynn Turman i agree

    • @HominidMachinae
      @HominidMachinae 9 років тому +13

      Lynn Turman Brannagh's is quite excellent but I prefer the David Tennent just because I feel like it handles the comic parts better, though some parts (the ghost scene in act I) are a bit overwrought.
      It also does a very good job at making it cinematic.

  • @alexcaswell6745
    @alexcaswell6745 3 роки тому +185

    From Frankenstein, to Hamlet, to Thor, and everything else in between, every project this man was involved with, in front and or behind the camera, incredible. Kenneth is SEVERELY underrated...

    • @TH3F4LC0Nx
      @TH3F4LC0Nx Рік тому +1

      Artemis Fowl: Everything?

    • @tobietera
      @tobietera Рік тому +2

      I'm not sure you understand what the word "underrated" means...

    • @karlosthejackel69
      @karlosthejackel69 10 місяців тому +1

      He didn’t save Harry Potter 2 though!!!

    • @papabear6611
      @papabear6611 8 місяців тому +4

      @@karlosthejackel69isn’t Harry Potter 2 the best one

    • @karlosthejackel69
      @karlosthejackel69 5 місяців тому

      @@papabear6611the worst.

  • @julie1776
    @julie1776 7 років тому +154

    This man is the ultimate Shakespearean - actor, director - the only thing he doesn't do is write it! Any student who thinks he dislikes Shakespeare or finds it difficult need only watch Branagh at work.

  • @glassarthouse
    @glassarthouse 3 роки тому +124

    I think it's hard to accurately describe how powerful this speech is. We can not do justice to it.

  • @holynarwhale8729
    @holynarwhale8729 5 років тому +186

    I'll say it right now, Shakespeare is badass.

  • @jordanmatthew6315
    @jordanmatthew6315 Рік тому +3

    When you overthink, it's best to remember Hamlet.

  • @blondthought5175
    @blondthought5175 10 років тому +638

    Well, he nailed that.

    • @ari8184
      @ari8184 3 роки тому +1

      I like Mel gibsons version better but this is good for you I guess .....

    • @jessica5497
      @jessica5497 3 роки тому +38

      @@ari8184 "this is good for you, i guess..." LOL wtf Do you think you are superior because you like a version, which is not even really superior in quality? To each their own i guess...
      (You can say "but I didn't say I felt superior" but implied, and that's a shame)

    • @trubblegum5787
      @trubblegum5787 3 роки тому

      @@jessica5497 haha "burn" @Ari

    • @gasnerhoris119
      @gasnerhoris119 3 роки тому +1

      @@jessica5497 lol. Some people are just rude by nature

    • @kimzeroen
      @kimzeroen 2 роки тому +2

      @@jessica5497 some people likes ruining the fun:(

  • @manlyduckling
    @manlyduckling 4 роки тому +13

    KB is just great. People tend to forget this. He's got it all. Of course his acting talent is top-notch but his direction puts him up there with the best living directors.

  • @TBomb15
    @TBomb15 4 роки тому +62

    imagine you were the guys watching this happen behind the mirror and hamlet just starts ranting crazy shit like this.

  • @simonb5561
    @simonb5561 Рік тому +7

    This soliloquy has helped me tremendously with my suicidality

  • @SouthernGothicYT
    @SouthernGothicYT 7 років тому +378

    I'm too busy being wrapped up in the words themselves to judge his portrayal of Hamlet. I'm a sucker for tormented characters and Hamlet just might be my #1. The fact that he's caught in a massive balancing act between his love life, his family, being in mourning, and a façade of insanity and has a raw moment of clarity, deciding whether or not to end it all, really speaks to my heart. I feel like this soliloquy was his most revealing moment of weakness in the entirety of the play. I can't help but romanticize it and feel the strong need to protect, comfort, console and care for the fictional character that is prince Hamlet.

    • @Neuroneos
      @Neuroneos 5 років тому +9

      He is too full of the milk of human kindness...

    • @vintagesubliminals3398
      @vintagesubliminals3398 4 роки тому +5

      Southern Gothic you’ve put to words exactly what I wanted to say about this monologue

    • @happybirthday146
      @happybirthday146 3 роки тому +2

    • @ruly8153
      @ruly8153 3 роки тому +1

      That’s kind of the problem here
      You should kind of re- experience the words when the actor speaks them but here you do not. Richard Burton’s is my favorite rendering

    • @answer1840
      @answer1840 2 роки тому

      @@ruly8153 speak for yourself!

  • @wassabiii600
    @wassabiii600 5 років тому +316

    Going through the comment section to find good use for my Hamlet essay.

    • @vfa9761
      @vfa9761 4 роки тому

      Was it useful?

    • @wassabiii600
      @wassabiii600 4 роки тому +11

      @@vfa9761 There were some good points but nothing really answered the essay question

    • @ArtyomLensky
      @ArtyomLensky 3 роки тому +12

      @@wassabiii600 Basically, Hamlet is sad

    • @ttime441
      @ttime441 3 роки тому +2

      @@ArtyomLensky Ah thanks for helping with my 1000 words essay

  • @Fabi-zd4lf
    @Fabi-zd4lf 10 місяців тому +8

    My teacher asked us to learn the whole monologue by heart in English . We were 14 years old and I still remember it.
    I am so glad she did so.

    (I am from Naples 🇮🇹🌋)

  • @PrivateBooth
    @PrivateBooth 4 роки тому +46

    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 does 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 pitch and moment
    With this regard their currents turn awry
    And lose the name of action.

  • @DjBloor
    @DjBloor 7 років тому +80

    Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy captures the essence of what the scene means to Hamlet. Hamlet is debating suicide, which is a dark and melancholic concept with no right or wrong answer, so they made him perform it in a place that represents limbo or purgatory. The (mostly) white and vacant hall is fitting, as it is a clear representation of purgatory, which is the state of limbo where a person has died in a "state of grace", however the person had not been cleansed of all his/her sins, which carries symbolic meaning with Hamlet, he does not have the strength or courage to kill Claudius, but he also wants to achieve justice so his real-world circumstance is also in limbo. Kenneth makes great of camera techniques, when Hamlet is getting closer to the mirror the screen is entirely covered with the reflection. This gives extra metaphorical presence to the situation, Hamlet is considering suicide and is staring intently at himself, it's as if he is trying to convince his reflection to do commit suicide. And since it's his reflection it's also a mirror image of his appearance, so it's reversed and can be interpreted that "his" views are also reversed, so it's more like Hamlet arguing with himself. He is saying to commit suicide, while the reflection is denying him. And when the camera view is entirely covered by the reflection all we see is the reflection pointing the knife at Hamlet and he speaks of the "undiscovered country". And before that point the only thing Hamlet spoke of was the pros of suicide, but the reflection gives him the biggest point against it and points at him with the knife. Then right when he says "of action" we are shown the scene over his left shoulder, while the whole scene was shown over his right. This felt like the camera crossed over the mirror and now we're on the side of the Hamlet who did not want to commit suicide, so we are showed his change in perspective. Despite how unreal that may sound like, if you really watch the video at (time stamp) 3:03, the cross over in perspective feels meaningful and deliberate.

    • @julie1776
      @julie1776 7 років тому +1

      Dj Bloor Agree. But you can't do anything with the faux-elite who practice reverse snobbery by denouncing any of Branagh's Shakespeare work. Of course these are the same snowflakes and professors who think e.e. cummings is a talent in the Bard's league!

    • @DjBloor
      @DjBloor 7 років тому +1

      Goodness I made a ton of spelling mistakes. That's the last time I let autocorrect get the best of me.

    • @kltpzyxm
      @kltpzyxm 6 років тому

      le anime

    • @brookeschwartz8470
      @brookeschwartz8470 5 років тому

      Is there any chance I can adopt a couple of these ideas for my English paper?

  • @bananielrush8602
    @bananielrush8602 5 років тому +20

    I will always be thankful to my High school English teacher Mr Lawndy for showing this movie in class.

  • @poljakov13
    @poljakov13 4 роки тому +24

    To LIVE or just to EXIST ?
    That is the question .

  • @meliharrison3806
    @meliharrison3806 6 років тому +27

    I thought I understood this in high school, but I think you have to have lived through some trials and tribulations to really understand. He's hating life, he wants it to be over, but he's scared to die. We'd say he's tired of "adulting" these days. I enjoyed this interpretation. Thanks for posting.

  • @aza091234
    @aza091234 9 років тому +93

    I think this is the best interpretation because in my opinion Hamlet honestly has to sound crazy to suddenly come up with this imaculate monologue. Holy moly.That's just a small part of it though. So Intense, I love it.

  • @Beesting421
    @Beesting421 2 місяці тому +2

    I watched this in middle school and now it’s js such a good movie to me

  • @modernape9878
    @modernape9878 Рік тому +16

    That line "for in that sleep of death / what dreams may come?" Goes hard. Crazy how even during Elizabethan/Anglican England, Shakespeare is so openly floating out the idea of oblivion/nothingness after death.

    • @retarazao9600
      @retarazao9600 10 місяців тому

      But that idea is in the bible itself, wisdom of solomon puts it in the mouth of the ungodly:
      "For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air, And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof".

    • @gipperbanana
      @gipperbanana 10 місяців тому

      dreams imply afterlife consciousness , hence heaven

  • @LindaLiang
    @LindaLiang 6 років тому +11

    Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet is the most impressive! I feel his pain !

  • @emperorpingusmathchannel5365
    @emperorpingusmathchannel5365 3 роки тому +11

    The most beautiful way to describe fear of death.

  • @answer1840
    @answer1840 2 роки тому +20

    Kenneth Branagh, the savior of my teenage years and introduction to Shakespeare. I am forever thankful for the existence of this incredible film.

  • @leightatterton
    @leightatterton 5 років тому +12

    My favourite. He's detached from himself and coldly watched himself struggling in pain. I feel so much for this.

  • @icegirl-bs1qr
    @icegirl-bs1qr 9 років тому +10

    I love Hamlet's play and more when Kenneth Branagh plays him :)

  • @nadjetkaraer2769
    @nadjetkaraer2769 8 років тому +364

    Kenneth Branagh's movie is the best cinematographic adaptation of Hamlet ...seems so real that takes me away

  • @d2bgaming134
    @d2bgaming134 2 роки тому +2

    i have to memorize this by wednesday and today’s sunday, wish me 🍀

  • @kirstymoss9810
    @kirstymoss9810 3 роки тому +8

    I was teased mercilessly as a little girl, for telling my classmates that Kenneth was going to be my husband. What do they know, the plebeians. Kenneth, what happened? We were destined for each other...

  • @mrzapz8211
    @mrzapz8211 4 роки тому +122

    When you finally reach that impossible itch spot on your back 1:14

  • @caffeineravine4404
    @caffeineravine4404 9 років тому +625

    Kenneth Branagh, the ONLY actor who can play Hamlet. Effortlessly acted with so much energy.

  • @laylover7621
    @laylover7621 2 роки тому +39

    I'm usually not a fan of Shakespeare but god damn this monologue deserves every bit of praise. Timeless.

    • @Kobe_Jay_Kenobii
      @Kobe_Jay_Kenobii Рік тому +8

      This is known as a soliloquy not a monologue, just trying to let you know, not trying to be an asshole

    • @jelly.212
      @jelly.212 Рік тому +2

      @@Kobe_Jay_Kenobii
      Ok nerd 🤓

    • @Joelgavidia69
      @Joelgavidia69 9 місяців тому

      Like we say in Spain: "Eres subnormal"@@jelly.212

    • @pastatsap
      @pastatsap 8 місяців тому

      @@Kobe_Jay_Kenobiiare soliloquies not a type of monologue?

  • @clashwithbunniesandrewsava4846

    My favorite part of Hamlet was when he said "it's hammin' time" and then hammed all those other guys

  • @Tigreblanco229
    @Tigreblanco229 3 роки тому +46

    Branagh is the only actor I've ever seen pulling out decently the ambiguity of this passage. Most people I know seem to think Hamlet is reflecting on whether or not to take his own life, but Branagh here gives me the other possible meaning, "who am I to take my uncle's life, or to deny him such a peaceful and well-earned death?"

    • @egecebi2659
      @egecebi2659 3 роки тому

      Does he know about the people behind the mirror? I didn't watch the movie yet.

    • @dinorex3464
      @dinorex3464 2 роки тому +1

      @@egecebi2659 He doesn't

  • @heyitsablackguy9553
    @heyitsablackguy9553 2 роки тому +3

    The Great Kenneth Branagh Presiding...

  • @meerhajji381
    @meerhajji381 4 роки тому +22

    I always get goosebumps with this epic soliloquy... literature is life😭😍

  • @volcanoarrima
    @volcanoarrima 4 роки тому +11

    The fact that he does it infront of a mirror, to memorize and reproduce exactly with expressions, I would say this is underrated from my pov

  • @vssprc
    @vssprc 2 роки тому +17

    He makes Shakespeare so easily understood. Amazing

  • @itsiwhatitsi
    @itsiwhatitsi 8 років тому +213

    Hamlet is my nigga

  • @SafetyMentalst
    @SafetyMentalst Місяць тому +1

    "To Be or Not to Be"
    Be you an only you an you shall be
    You choose who you want to be
    Not what others queue you to be
    Be you through an through to be
    Through thick and thin You are to Be

  • @SparkleP8nter
    @SparkleP8nter 3 роки тому +15

    I’ve reached that AHa moment. I’m finally understanding what this means, for Real I got CHILLS. How relevant this is to RIGHT NOW. Shakespeare is a genius

    • @zonesquestiloveunderworld
      @zonesquestiloveunderworld 3 дні тому

      It's such an amazing feeling when the Bard's words finally _CLICK._ It's like a whole new world of profound, effusive expression has opened itself to you. The man could draw out the deepest fathoms of the soul with his immaculate command of language and irrepressible wit. There's simply nobody else like him, and he truly, _TRULY_ deserves the venerable reputation that precedes him.

  • @aliasmcalias5042
    @aliasmcalias5042 6 років тому +7

    I’ve been in love with this since high school.

  • @tr_g
    @tr_g Рік тому +4

    Famous Play. Famous Actor. Famous Mirror Scene. All in all EPIC. Thank you for posting it.

  • @BrainSeepsOut
    @BrainSeepsOut 7 років тому +2

    It's always a joy to come back to this film, it's like his pet project.

  • @zonesquestiloveunderworld
    @zonesquestiloveunderworld 3 дні тому

    Branagh is absolutely riveting. Nobody else even begins to approach his utterly majestic portrayal of this magnificently-realised character. I wish he'd adapt some of Shakespeare's lesser known works in a similar cinematic style, like "Timon of Athens", "The Winter's Tale", "Henry IV", "Cymbeline", "Measure for Measure", "King John", "Titus Andronicus", "Twelfth Night", "Richard II", "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Love's Labours Lost".

  • @jameslonergan4830
    @jameslonergan4830 3 роки тому +8

    I was an English Lit Honors Student in college. I had an Honors course in SP. This was one of three SP plays we studied. My final thesis was that Hamlet was in fact only feigning madness. My prof disagreed, but he reluctantly gave me an A anyway

  • @avinashnair8491
    @avinashnair8491 2 роки тому +5

    I remember I had to memorize this 5 years ago for AP English and on the first watch through I was shook that this was Gilderoy Lockhart (this guy is just so talented) 😂💀

  • @crapObear2323
    @crapObear2323 8 років тому +276

    close captions:
    **looks around room** Cool.
    LOL.

  • @siobhanlyons1907
    @siobhanlyons1907 4 роки тому +5

    Shakespeare is relevant in any era and listening to the likes of Branagh, Dench, Blessed and Thompson bring his words to life is bliss.

  • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
    @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 3 роки тому +5

    Oh, to see it in 70 mm on a big cinema screen - that would be glorious.

    • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
      @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 2 роки тому

      @@CommunistBot Well, I take your point - you probably would feel dwarfed by such a big image.

  • @PyroMynx
    @PyroMynx 3 роки тому +6

    This is my favorite performance. He does it so well and you feel every line. Damn.

  • @zeke_squareroot
    @zeke_squareroot Рік тому +1

    My english teacher showed this to our class because we have to memorize this! Such a great scene.

  • @alwaysnever6004
    @alwaysnever6004 7 років тому +417

    How I feel when I am deciding whether I should screenshot my crush's snapchat or not.

    • @limitedAxe99
      @limitedAxe99 7 років тому +63

      to screenshot or not to screenshot

    • @uniqueandspecial
      @uniqueandspecial 6 років тому +1

      Yuepeng Wei ahahahahah 😂

    • @ideologictube7100
      @ideologictube7100 6 років тому +14

      Please take your stupid modern garbage and get the hell out of a cinematic masterpiece's comment section you goddamn millennial

    • @jaipao9527
      @jaipao9527 5 років тому +8

      +IdeologicTube this is not a millenial this is a Gen Z child, which the children of Gen Z havent gotten a name yet.

    • @susie6311
      @susie6311 4 роки тому +17

      @@ideologictube7100 wow geez chill 😂

  • @oriolez5582
    @oriolez5582 7 років тому +5

    Now this is brilliance at its prime... when the performance is effortlessly beyond amazing

  • @thelittlesagg2
    @thelittlesagg2 5 років тому +8

    Absolutely brilliant performance. I loved every second of this film.

  • @jylyhughes5085
    @jylyhughes5085 3 роки тому +2

    What an extraordinary film! Brilliant! Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is a triumph. This is possibly my favourite film, to watched over and over again. Such delicious language. Such profound performances. Sublime.

  • @TheCoolProfessor
    @TheCoolProfessor 8 років тому +22

    What acting! Brilliant! Oh my passion for Shakespeare is kindled deeply as if sprung from the ocean's source! To share this passion with those I name friend! My friend! I tell him "To be...or not to be..."
    And my friend says "To be or not to be. That's the part that always confuses me!"
    The rest is pissed off silence!

  • @phantastic013
    @phantastic013 8 років тому +45

    i remember i had to recite this whole part infront of the class. cant believe i remember all those lines lol

  • @69cuervos
    @69cuervos 7 років тому +12

    Awesome performing from Branagh as well envolving as convincing it is full of undertones !

  • @tubeethet
    @tubeethet 3 роки тому +1

    This is the scene.. it played in my last day of the senior high school year. At last period, before the bell had rung... unforgettable.

  • @colin2116
    @colin2116 3 роки тому +4

    This is quite simply, sublime.
    Of all the great readings of this passage, from Olivier to Gielgud to more modern takes, Branagh's is the most human. His has become to the "true" reading for me, with all others acting as a contrast.

  • @jauregi2726
    @jauregi2726 7 років тому +11

    one of my favourite versions of this soliloquy ❤

  • @Scoonertuna
    @Scoonertuna 3 роки тому +1

    This film was clearly a passion project for Kenneth Branagh and boy did he take it for all that its worth... one of the best adaptations of a play!

  • @Nickgreek123
    @Nickgreek123 3 роки тому +1

    The greatest English actor of all time, Kenneth doesn’t take on roles; he owns them.

  • @goneatlast
    @goneatlast 7 років тому +89

    Branagh: The greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.

    • @groofoot
      @groofoot 6 років тому

      over Jacobi??! (he's still alive, non?)

    • @Gabebigdog
      @Gabebigdog 5 років тому +2

      David Tennant

    • @druidus
      @druidus 5 років тому +2

      Mel Gibson?

    • @ykkrasaoz9748
      @ykkrasaoz9748 5 років тому +9

      @@druidus wtf lol

    • @enricmm85
      @enricmm85 5 років тому

      Patrick Stewart wins.

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605
    @sherlockholmeslives.1605 8 років тому +19

    WOW! I don't think I could have put it better myself!

  • @vleaky3430
    @vleaky3430 3 роки тому +1

    One of the most versatile actors in the world

  • @damienprs3216
    @damienprs3216 Рік тому +1

    Best quotes before doing it , . Couldn’t describe a suicidal man’s thoughts better than this .

  • @deepchillasmr6319
    @deepchillasmr6319 Рік тому +3

    This gives me chills every time I hear it🔥💯🔥

  • @JarrettLeonard
    @JarrettLeonard 8 років тому +4

    Ok just last month we finished reading Othello, and my english teacher would show us clips from the Othello movie that had Kenneth Branagh as Iago, and now I'm finding out he is playing Hamlet in this movie, so you can understand when I say that all I can think of is him as Iago while watching this.

  • @wesjohnson4637
    @wesjohnson4637 2 роки тому +1

    Best adaptation of Hamlet. Ever.

  • @m444ss
    @m444ss 2 місяці тому +1

    the best performance of a Shakespeare soliloquy

  • @Rylie133
    @Rylie133 5 років тому +4

    I could listen to this for hours

  • @arjayecho9890
    @arjayecho9890 4 роки тому +3

    I feel like I'd appreciate this a lot more if I didn't have to cram the whole thing into my head within the next 5 days.

  • @RationalLlama
    @RationalLlama 7 років тому +1

    I am currently reading and watching Hamlet at school. While I am not a big fan of reading the play itself, I must say that I am at awe of this movie! This some of the best acting I have ever seen.

  • @LancerBoy365
    @LancerBoy365 2 роки тому +1

    To be or not to be that' is the question my favorite catch phrase in this movie Hamlet.

  • @specialk4431
    @specialk4431 7 років тому +91

    Get thee to a nunnery!

    • @gfksennek
      @gfksennek 4 роки тому +3

      Why not? Depends on the nuns though.

  • @oolaurasgachaoo2985
    @oolaurasgachaoo2985 4 роки тому +9

    Hamlet: Starts getting into an intense speech
    Me: ey, wait up! I'm still in the "To be or not to be"!

  • @abelmaharjan4181
    @abelmaharjan4181 5 років тому +2

    I love when he gets into the line of uncertainty and horrors of death the creepy song comes on. And even more amazing is the fact that the music is only the voice of other people reinforcing the idea of the dilemma of life and death as a question for all of humanity. Excellent.

  • @TheMelody2009
    @TheMelody2009 7 років тому +1

    It's the best movie version of Hamlet by Kenneth Branagh. I like his accent.

  • @TheInkPitOx
    @TheInkPitOx 4 роки тому +4

    I am considering reciting this at a talent show in May. This video helped me get an idea of how to perform.

  • @laurenr1629
    @laurenr1629 3 роки тому +9

    My mood while studying for finals “To die to sleep no more”

  • @chihuahua3239
    @chihuahua3239 4 роки тому +1

    I watched this when I was in high school. Ah what memories 😓

  • @WimbledonEngland
    @WimbledonEngland 7 років тому +2

    the funniest thing I have noticed after reading some of the comments is how people are trying to be more descriptive (and overall sound more pretentious though they might not mean to) in what they are writing after having watched this clip of the movie. lmao, one guy writes: "no play, no movie, no song can be as moving without a great singer or actor behind it" (or something like this) I bet this guy wouldn't write like this if he hadn't just watched this clip; this is the power a man's (i.e. Shakespeare) work can have. more than 400 years have passed since Shakespeare died, and yet his work can influence us today to such an extent. this is genius.

  • @ohwhatworld5851
    @ohwhatworld5851 4 роки тому +6

    "There's the rub'
    I thought that was a modern saying. Surprised it goes back centuries.

    • @suburbia2050
      @suburbia2050 4 роки тому +6

      Many English sayings/quotes used today come from Shakespeare

  • @UntitledStudio12
    @UntitledStudio12 4 роки тому +4

    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 wished. To die, to sleep,
    perchance to Dream; aye, 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,
    The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,
    The pangs of dispised Love, the Law’s delay,
    The insolence of Office, and the spurns
    That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
    When he himself might his Quietus make
    With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels]
    To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
    But that the dread of something after death,
    The undiscovered 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 does 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 pitch and moment, [F: pith]
    With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
    And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,
    The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons
    Be all my sins remember'd.[1]

  • @cheetyliciousmeowmeow1085
    @cheetyliciousmeowmeow1085 3 роки тому

    This is just fantasic...the mirror and men behind. He was just wonderful😎

  • @joegrimes9232
    @joegrimes9232 Рік тому

    That speech. The speech with a thousand interpretations. It's a wrestle of the conscious. A weigh in. A schism. The weight of a King . The weight of a "man." The weight of anyone who has drawn breath. It's the chilling thought we all put to the back of our minds and only age, war or poverty draws it. One day everyone faces it.

  • @izievalo6319
    @izievalo6319 8 років тому +5

    outstanding speech technique Sir.