@@charislouise8173 His character does seem to change after this -- we just don't know if it's because he killed R&G, got captured by pirates or just decided to quit with the whining.
I can just imagine Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hearing him in the distance like: Rosencrantz: Do you think he knows we can hear him? Guildenstern: I really don't think he cares, just let him finish
well, I never read much of Shakespeare, and listening to the lively actor, I would have to solidly agree with you without no reservations. I should parlay like that in East los angeles.
The most exciting moment in the movie, with Patrick Doyle's strings, brass, and bass drum operating barely at heartbeat volume, then crescendoing to match Hamlet's intensifying rage for vengeance.
It is a soliloquy and a rallying call . He speaks as if to an entire army when the truth is he is rallying himself. The way branagh delivers this is apt i think. By speaking as if to an army which is about to go to war he tries to put a psychological end to his procrastination. His words are aimed inward making himself the army. It can be seen as a psychological attempt to create enormous courage. This is one interpretation of both the playwrights intention linked to the actors performance.
@@NobodyCaresALot hey I dont even have a job at all. I usually recite this speech every time I go out my door. I have bad social anxiety almost phobia. Thankyou will for the courage.
The heart of the entire story. Its a masterpiece of cinema in itself. With these couple of brief minutes Branagh shows himself in absolute glory and the music is overwhelming by doyle. I can not watch it without my emotions welling up and tears running down my face. Shakespeare + ken+ patrick= glory
I saw this movie first time when I was16 years old. Love this words, the way Kenneth act. My favorite scene ever. Can watch this 1.000 times maybe I did. And everytime it blows up my mind over and over again.
A man groped me and followed me to my apartment before my boyfriend was home. I just recited this soliloquy and he thought I was nuts. Plus, he didn’t know much English and basically said, “that was unexpected, I should flee.” I’LL be nothing LESS. It works
I often quote some of this to myself when I'm fighting to get out of a lazy rut. A little shakespeare can be quite the wind beneath your wings if you know enough of it.
I think it's not a real pullback. This looks filmed in studio ... So i suspect that camera were steady and they created an enormous moving platform and dragged it in the opposite direction!
@@TranslatorTuberI thought that was The Netherlands
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@@sleepygirl92 It's obvious the background behind Kenneth Branagh was green-screened, but all the detail in the ground in front of Hamlet is real, so they had to use a gigantic set.
'Examples gross as earth exhort me.' Staggering , devastating performance . Funny enough this speech is usually cut because the play is about four hours long. Oliviers version is about two hours. For Branagh to film the entire play was quite a risk. Yet he totally succeded on every level. This movie version is the one I've used to win over neutrals . It should be far more celebrated.
This film absolutely blow me away, It is incredible! Kenneth Branagh is fully responsible for my love of Shakespeare and I can’t thank him enough for the introduction 🤩 This scene is probably the most memorable for me when I saw it on the big screen for the first time, as this soliloquy is usually cut from most productions, I’d never heard it before, it has so many layers and I was left stunned in my seat when it went to intermission 😮 Needless to say I went back the next night!
The sync between "fight for a plot" and the music always gives me chills...so much respect and love to Branagh's work with adapting Shakespeare for the silver screen!
I couldn't agree more Pumpkin. Branagh is my favorite, and this movie is my favorite!!!!! Such a treatment of both folios, such perfection. Even at Folger we talk about this work!
I remember being in awe of this scene, being left with chills as it cut to the intermission in the theatre. There probably hasn't been a moment like that in cinema since. But then again, look at the source material. It's more than a notch up from any Hollywood script you're like to ever see.
How all occasions do inform against me And spur my dull revenge. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast - no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now whether it be Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th’event (A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward) I do not know Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do, Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me - Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed Makes mouths at the invisible event Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep; while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. (Act 4 Scene 4)
Just rented the Blu-Ray of this this weekend. If you missed it in 70mm (I didn't), it's really the only way you'll even get close to what that was like on the big screen.
Incredible. As this progresses the occurrence of human genius becomes more frequent. In the past it was once in every 300 year or so that a genius in one of the various fields of human endeavor was born and nurtured. When that happens something incredible is created. Those people pushed and led and sometimes forced their scribes to grow and to develop. These pure nuggets of perfection and oasis of sublime creation guaranteed that the human race will not only survive but it will thrive despite our innate stupidity, our bigotry and our fears. When we are honored or graced with such special people, we can take comfort from the reality that they will lead, inspire and stimulate us to continue to strive to be more than we are….
"My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" I remember this scene. It is even better on a large movie screen. It looses so much is seen on TV or a computer. On a cell phone, it would be a joke. Such a great performance lost to modern technology!
This is by far the best presentation of Shakespeare I know of. Not even close, can I think of another scene by another actor that can reach my emotions the way this scene does.
The panning out is no accident. As fervent as his words are, they will come to naught. He is the addict swearing off his addiction one more time...words, words, words.
How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. Here hamlet is blaming everyone including himself and everything for his failure to avenge his father. But his procrastination seems to hint at some psychopathic tendencies. I say this because hes not really procrastinating because he cant decide whether to kill Claudius or not but rather hes trying to work out how he can kill him but then basically get away with it. Its an extreme premeditation rather than procrastination.
Hamlet as a character does seem to have some delusions of grandeur but that might be apparent simply by the grandiose style of some of the language. So you can argue who is truly the one to blame: the character or the author. Sometimes people who are extremely insecure at times come out with the most bombastic and grandiose statements. This makes the character of hamlet more conplex still than he at first appears. I do believe king lear is the greatest play by shakespeare but i will always believe the creation of hamlet as a character is Shakespeare's finest achievement. He's a man pretending to be mad in places, in other places he appears slightly crazy even when talking to his friend horatio. Does this mean he is indeed a crazy man pretending to be sane pretending to be insane, or does he trust absolutely no one. This is my thinking and my opinion . It might be a misplaced opinion but it fuels the belief in me that the character of hamlet is almost a miracle of literary creation.
Interesting interpretation and very similar to what the late Professor Harold Bloom argued in his last book "Possessed by Memory", where he argues that Hamlet whom he describes as a Hero-Villain is a character that is perhaps conscious that he himself is in a play and resents being in it.
@@richardisted3703 o ok I havent read harold bloom. Thanks for the comment. It's only my view anyway but interesting that it's similar to that of a professor. I feel humbled. I'm not an expert on Shakespeare nor anything else.
@@misterrkalebhimself But for the full effect, you need to see it on a large screen. Or do you think it was filmed with the intention of being watched on your cell phone?
"My thoughts be BLOODY!" - Fuck mandarin, spanish, or french... shakespeare makes a good case for English being the prime candidate for the world language. The beauty of french, the lyricality of spanish, and the math advantages of mandarin, just can't beat the powerful expressiveness of english when used as eloquently as this. My polish friend, who is just learning english, stood with his mouth agape when I played this for him. He didn't really know the words, but he knew exactly what it meant.
*Down below* "Fie, wherefore doth such racket shoot itself between the high peaks of heaven and earth?" "That figure, I think, there upon the ridge." "Canst thou make out either uproar or din?" "Me thinks he speaks of a 'muddy earth.'" "Tis habit for the pulpit to proclaim Such base subjects from so lofty a place!"
The Russian Army in Ukraine. "While, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain"
_Dramatic speech announcing the end of his procrastination._
_Proceeds to procrastinate for four more Scenes._
Hamlet: the original uni lad.
Your comment made me laugh!
The best part is that Hamlet actually just came from university at the beginning of the story.
there's only one more act after this
@@charislouise8173 His character does seem to change after this -- we just don't know if it's because he killed R&G, got captured by pirates or just decided to quit with the whining.
@@roblyndon5267 ????
Kenneth Branagh was made for monologuing.
Absolutely!
I can just imagine Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hearing him in the distance like:
Rosencrantz: Do you think he knows we can hear him?
Guildenstern: I really don't think he cares, just let him finish
Kit Wilshere success belongs to the man who doesn't care about what others think and finishes the job.
Wouldn’t look out of place in Stoppard.
😁😁😂😂👍🏻
The entire scene was filmed uncut. Such emotion, such delivery of dialogue. Kenneth Branagh was the best Hamlet ever.
You've got Sir Lawrence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh - and not much in between.
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No matter how many times I watch this I get goosebumps. Shakespeare's language is the most powerful and beautiful I have ever heard.
It's magic.
well, I never read much of Shakespeare, and listening to the lively actor, I would have to solidly agree with you without no reservations. I should parlay like that in East los angeles.
This scene, but Branagh fighting a parking ticket in court.
He would, too! 😂
The most exciting moment in the movie, with Patrick Doyle's strings, brass, and bass drum operating barely at heartbeat volume, then crescendoing to match Hamlet's intensifying rage for vengeance.
Anyone agrees this is better than to be or not to be?
Yes :'v
truck yes
Act III: What is the worth of life?
Act IV: I SEE NOTHING BUT GORE IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE MUST DIE
Yes, this arguably is the bards best soliloquy
Oh 100% , I do prefer the “Oh what rogue and peasant slave am I” soliloquy above all
He "sings" it here, but my God - what a singer and what a song!
It is a soliloquy and a rallying call . He speaks as if to an entire army when the truth is he is rallying himself. The way branagh delivers this is apt i think. By speaking as if to an army which is about to go to war he tries to put a psychological end to his procrastination. His words are aimed inward making himself the army. It can be seen as a psychological attempt to create enormous courage. This is one interpretation of both the playwrights intention linked to the actors performance.
This should be how we wake up in the morning for our dead end jobs.
@@NobodyCaresALot hey I dont even have a job at all. I usually recite this speech every time I go out my door. I have bad social anxiety almost phobia. Thankyou will for the courage.
The heart of the entire story. Its a masterpiece of cinema in itself. With these couple of brief minutes Branagh shows himself in absolute glory and the music is overwhelming by doyle. I can not watch it without my emotions welling up and tears running down my face. Shakespeare + ken+ patrick= glory
I can write better than Shakespeare.
Damn brilliant, really... emotional and powerful. And Sir Kenneth making it the best monologue ever.
And he also directed this film too. It was a dream project for him.
I'm proud to say I have Branagh's Hamlet as the jewel in my film collection.
I saw this movie first time when I was16 years old. Love this words, the way Kenneth act. My favorite scene ever. Can watch this 1.000 times maybe I did. And everytime it blows up my mind over and over again.
A man groped me and followed me to my apartment before my boyfriend was home. I just recited this soliloquy and he thought I was nuts. Plus, he didn’t know much English and basically said, “that was unexpected, I should flee.” I’LL be nothing LESS. It works
I often quote some of this to myself when I'm fighting to get out of a lazy rut. A little shakespeare can be quite the wind beneath your wings if you know enough of it.
I get the goosebumps here. Like every time... And for good reasons too, aye, for my own private ones, and for those of my Country.
I’ve seen quite a few Hamlets but nothing has ever topped this! Should have won an Oscar 🏆
God I love this speech so powerful and motivational!!!
THE LONGEST PULLBACK IN THE FILM INDUSTRY
All of Denmark looks like that apparently.
I think it's not a real pullback. This looks filmed in studio ... So i suspect that camera were steady and they created an enormous moving platform and dragged it in the opposite direction!
@@rong2912 Denmark is well-known for its vertiginous mountain ranges.
@@TranslatorTuberI thought that was The Netherlands
@@sleepygirl92 It's obvious the background behind Kenneth Branagh was green-screened, but all the detail in the ground in front of Hamlet is real, so they had to use a gigantic set.
Hamlet: O, from this time forth, My thoughts be BLOODY, or be NOTHING WORTH!
Rosencrantz: Are you coming or not?!
Hamlet: Yes! Yes!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂How has this comment not gotten more reaction
Yeah, and don't interupt me when I'm in the zone. I've completely lost my train of thought now. Someone should have written that down.
There is no better video to see before getting yourself into a whirlpool of work.
'Examples gross as earth exhort me.'
Staggering , devastating performance .
Funny enough this speech is usually cut
because the play is about four hours long. Oliviers version is about two hours. For Branagh to film the entire play was quite a risk. Yet he totally succeded on every level. This movie version is the one I've used to win over neutrals . It should be far more celebrated.
"O from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
This film absolutely blow me away, It is incredible! Kenneth Branagh is fully responsible for my love of Shakespeare and I can’t thank him enough for the introduction 🤩
This scene is probably the most memorable for me when I saw it on the big screen for the first time, as this soliloquy is usually cut from most productions, I’d never heard it before, it has so many layers and I was left stunned in my seat when it went to intermission 😮 Needless to say I went back the next night!
The sync between "fight for a plot" and the music always gives me chills...so much respect and love to Branagh's work with adapting Shakespeare for the silver screen!
I couldn't agree more Pumpkin. Branagh is my favorite, and this movie is my favorite!!!!! Such a treatment of both folios, such perfection. Even at Folger we talk about this work!
This is that rare case when we get that modern film can be as great as the original play.
I respectfully but forcefully disagree.
It's a masterful effort. But nothing can top an amazing live performance.
@@Hotspur77 I respectfully but forcefully disagree with your respectful but forceful disagreement.
I remember being in awe of this scene, being left with chills as it cut to the intermission in the theatre. There probably hasn't been a moment like that in cinema since. But then again, look at the source material. It's more than a notch up from any Hollywood script you're like to ever see.
Kenneth Branagh is a living legend.
Gosh I forgot about the power of this speech so powerful and motivational!!!
This is what I say to myself when I finally decide to write that essay with the deadline in a couple of days.
His Henry V, Eve of St. Crispin's Day speech is my all time favorite dramatic scene
Same!
Yep and Batman is in it as well!!
Modern English translation: it's on, motherfuckers.
web.mit.edu/johanna/Public/skinhead.hamlet
How all occasions do inform against me
And spur my dull revenge. What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast - no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th’event
(A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward) I do not know
Why yet I live to say this thing’s to do,
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
To do’t. Examples gross as earth exhort me -
Witness this army of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince
Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed
Makes mouths at the invisible event
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death and danger dare
Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour’s at the stake. How stand I then
That have a father killed, a mother stained,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep; while to my shame I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.
(Act 4 Scene 4)
I just saw this. And I'm transformed by the experience.
The score and Branaugh's acting are a beautiful combination! :0
Significantly better than any other version of this soliloquy that I’ve ever seen.
He's got a beautiful smile and great eyes :)
Just rented the Blu-Ray of this this weekend. If you missed it in 70mm (I didn't), it's really the only way you'll even get close to what that was like on the big screen.
I can't stop listening to these genius emotive words. It puts me to shame.
Look at Andrew Scott’s
I feel like breaking into wild applause! How beautiful!
Goosebumps. Every time.
This is the most inspirational speech I’ve ever heard.
Inspirational to do what?
@@loriscunado3607 Whatever you want to do but are insecure about doing.
I feel like starting a revolution…
Mindblowingly great. So powerful and stirring.
This was the most epic part of this movie.
The talk with the gravediggers, the funniest.
todays light saber effects make the video so much better
Incredible.
As this progresses the occurrence of human genius becomes more frequent. In the past it was once in every 300 year or so that a genius in one of the various fields of human endeavor was born and nurtured. When that happens something incredible is created. Those people pushed and led and sometimes forced their scribes to grow and to develop.
These pure nuggets of perfection and oasis of sublime creation guaranteed that the human race will not only survive but it will thrive despite our innate stupidity, our bigotry and our fears. When we are honored or graced with such special people, we can take comfort from the reality that they will lead, inspire and stimulate us to continue to strive to be more than we are….
"My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" I remember this scene. It is even better on a large movie screen. It looses so much is seen on TV or a computer. On a cell phone, it would be a joke. Such a great performance lost to modern technology!
Well you can recreate it on a 4K big screen TV with surround sound
Not totally. Your 4K big screen is hardly as large as the theater screen I watch this film on.
ok, boomer
sasha hahaha
This is by far the best presentation of Shakespeare I know of. Not even close, can I think of another scene by another actor that can reach my emotions the way this scene does.
0:25 a miserable little pile of secrets!
+John David Tibbetts enough talk, have at you!!!
I came here to see if someone made this joke. Wasn't disappointed.
@@misterrkalebhimself I don't get it. I mean, I know the meme, but I don't see how it is related to this.
@@smartchamber It's a quote from the PS1 game, "Castlevania: Symphony of the Night", during the opening battle with Dracula.
Shakespeare got there first : a quintessence of dust ;)
My favorite piece in the play - might be my favorite in all of Willy's plays
Beyond incredible 👏
Total purpose and commitment yet God's resolve and purposes are infinitely more so.
The panning out is no accident. As fervent as his words are, they will come to naught. He is the addict swearing off his addiction one more time...words, words, words.
Kenneth Branagh is the ultimate medium
2:37 one thing that bugs me about this movie is the mountains. Denmark is totally flat!
Maybe he is in Norway on his way to England...watching the armies of the King of Sweden head south?
Maybe? Shrug...maybe not.
@@dclark142002 But the play says the scene takes place on a plain in Denmark. Kenneth Branagh must be held accountable.
How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge.
Here hamlet is blaming everyone including himself and everything for his failure to avenge his father.
But his procrastination seems to hint at some psychopathic tendencies. I say this because hes not really procrastinating because he cant decide whether to kill Claudius or not but rather hes trying to work out how he can kill him but then basically get away with it. Its an extreme premeditation rather than procrastination.
Masterpiece delivered perfectly
I keep expecting his voice to get softer as they pull back.
jjj7790 That's why he's talking louder and louder.
This movie has got to be up there on amount of dialogue for one actor.
This will get me through my A-levels.
That soundtrack is so epic.
The quality of mercity is not strained
"A thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward... I DO NOT KNOW!" 😮
Me when I’m writing my New Years resolutions
Shakespeare was a genius
Hamlet as a character does seem to have some delusions of grandeur but that might be apparent simply by the grandiose style of some of the language. So you can argue who is truly the one to blame: the character or the author. Sometimes people who are extremely insecure at times come out with the most bombastic and grandiose statements. This makes the character of hamlet more conplex still than he at first appears. I do believe king lear is the greatest play by shakespeare but i will always believe the creation of hamlet as a character is Shakespeare's finest achievement. He's a man pretending to be mad in places, in other places he appears slightly crazy even when talking to his friend horatio. Does this mean he is indeed a crazy man pretending to be sane pretending to be insane, or does he trust absolutely no one. This is my thinking and my opinion . It might be a misplaced opinion but it fuels the belief in me that the character of hamlet is almost a miracle of literary creation.
Interesting interpretation and very similar to what the late Professor Harold Bloom argued in his last book "Possessed by Memory", where he argues that Hamlet whom he describes as a Hero-Villain is a character that is perhaps conscious that he himself is in a play and resents being in it.
@@richardisted3703 o ok I havent read harold bloom. Thanks for the comment. It's only my view anyway but interesting that it's similar to that of a professor. I feel humbled. I'm not an expert on Shakespeare nor anything else.
He's good this guy... 👏🏼😎💗
I'm glad I'm not Claudius!
Sounds like a speech to the troops!
Amazing!
honestly i went into hamlet thinking hamlet is kinda a bitch, but then this speech happened and i was like, "whoa this can be a metal song"
That sure sums it up.
are you still inspired after nine years?
Chilling!!!
Incredible actor.
My God!
Laurence Olivier,best Hamlet ever
The eyeroll before "such LARGE discourse" does suggest something. I don't mean the New York Review of Books.
Alright, Ken, you did it. You wanted to be the Dane, you wanted to do it better than anyone else. The dog had his day.
I think your question raises an important question: do we listen to “To be or not to be…” or do we hear it?
Imagine if it were Adolf Hiter's monologue at the point of his decision.
when this was the last part of disc 1 and i thought it was the end i was like "wtf!?" lol
If this was disc 1, wouldn't you know there was more?
You need to see it on a large theater screen. It was shot for a large theater.
@@MFPhoto1 Dude, stop. People can watch it however they want.
@@misterrkalebhimself But for the full effect, you need to see it on a large screen. Or do you think it was filmed with the intention of being watched on your cell phone?
1 jour je vais le mettre ! tant pis pour les droits d'auteur;;ainsi que RICHARD III avec AL PACINO . ..OU SUR FB
Formidable.
"My thoughts be BLOODY!" - Fuck mandarin, spanish, or french... shakespeare makes a good case for English being the prime candidate for the world language. The beauty of french, the lyricality of spanish, and the math advantages of mandarin, just can't beat the powerful expressiveness of english when used as eloquently as this. My polish friend, who is just learning english, stood with his mouth agape when I played this for him. He didn't really know the words, but he knew exactly what it meant.
As true today as ever.
You should read "Philosophy in Hamlet" to understand Shakespeare's Hamlet.
*Down below*
"Fie, wherefore doth such racket shoot itself
between the high peaks of heaven and earth?"
"That figure, I think, there upon the ridge."
"Canst thou make out either uproar or din?"
"Me thinks he speaks of a 'muddy earth.'"
"Tis habit for the pulpit to proclaim
Such base subjects from so lofty a place!"
Why does he pump his arms out at the end
This. This is the Klingon version of Hamlet.
Epic
2021
INTERMISSION
Yeah, it was released in theaters with an intermission. Well, there had to be one, since the damn thing is four hours! But it is great!!
There's a Coors light can in the back round if you look hard enough~
S H A K E S P E A R E
Filmed on location in front of a real green screen
The Russian Army in Ukraine.
"While, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain"