I'd seen this so so SO many times before but this version is what Shakespeare was trying to communicate with these words. It's just so absolutely heart breakingly human. He's not just digesting absently and contemplating cerebrally, he's in surreal agony, longing for an end. It explains our collective dilemma flawlessly to anyone who has ears and a heart to listen with.
It's strange how I've heard those words a hundred times and yet I cling to his lips like it's the very first. Because for the first time they make sense, for the first time I feel them!! David Tennant is an extraordinarily brilliant (human?) being.
This scene is heartbreaking. The way Tennant can project a quiet voice is really tough. There's that almost intimacy of private thought but it also has to be heard. You literally hear the silence and his need to end his torment. I just love this man's talent at acting. The lines flow. He gets on with the acting. Every other version sounds like an actor delivering lines - no matter how well. He comes across as a man lost in his pain, yet the clarity and such needed for being heard is all there. It just seems to happen. He is such an incredible actor.
The missing text is too cumbersome, it is a good decision to cut it from the play, it makes it easier to understand (as per all the comments here) what Hamlet really meant. Adding a bunch of examples like : "Th' oppressor's wrong, the poor man's contumely, The pangs of disprized 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 these Fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life," would not make things easier. It was a great decision on the part of the director. I salute the decision, keep it focused and simple so people sip each word out of his lips. Great interpretation. Just like he's thinking it out loud instead of regurgitating learned lines.
I'd seen this so so SO many times before but this version is what Shakespeare was trying to communicate with these words. It's just so absolutely heart breakingly human. He's not just digesting absently and contemplating cerebrally, he's in surreal agony, longing for an end. It explains our collective dilemma flawlessly to anyone who has ears and a heart to listen with.
It's strange how I've heard those words a hundred times and yet I cling to his lips like it's the very first. Because for the first time they make sense, for the first time I feel them!! David Tennant is an extraordinarily brilliant (human?) being.
Agreed! This is the first time I've actually understood what Hamlet is getting at!
Same
Agreed! The soliloquy is about death. It’s not meant to be flamboyant. It’s meant to be humble. This guy nailed it!
Because he is not quite human and has met Shakespeare in person. Absolutely tickedy-bo! =D
tis 'Lizzard being', please
Yes! This is the BEST interpretation of this iconic soliloquy! Shakespeare wrote this to be presented in this, of most noblest ways!
This scene is heartbreaking. The way Tennant can project a quiet voice is really tough. There's that almost intimacy of private thought but it also has to be heard. You literally hear the silence and his need to end his torment. I just love this man's talent at acting. The lines flow. He gets on with the acting. Every other version sounds like an actor delivering lines - no matter how well. He comes across as a man lost in his pain, yet the clarity and such needed for being heard is all there. It just seems to happen. He is such an incredible actor.
very good and very true. he brings words to life!.. so many others failed by being too dramatic!
This is the first UA-cam video I've seen without a thumbs down.... It is so pure
you shouldn't have said that... ;-)
You really shouldn't have aha
It made me cry for some reason
I've just heard that Hamlet is not actually considering suicide here
www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/not-that-question
The nod at must give us pause .and micro expressions etc just awesome physicality
Splendid!
Pure beauty
God I love David Tenant in everything he does
Why isn’t there a million views on this video?
Trying to understand this better for an essay, and this seems to be a very good performance of the soliloquy!
The words for my headstone.
wow
@2:45 Does he say "Pith" instead of "Pitch"? If so, what is the correct word?
This man it's a God!
Omitted or deliberately skipped part of the monologue. How do you go on stage to the audience after that?
I loved his performance. In case anyone wanna see the different version with B Cumberbatch, here it is: ua-cam.com/video/EV4fF3rqWqQ/v-deo.html
isn't there like missing the "th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumley...." part.... strange...
This version of the play is really cut down, but your right, it's weird how they'd cut part of one of the most famous speeches in the English language
The missing text is too cumbersome, it is a good decision to cut it from the play, it makes it easier to understand (as per all the comments here) what Hamlet really meant. Adding a bunch of examples like : "Th' oppressor's wrong, the poor man's contumely,
The pangs of disprized 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 these Fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,"
would not make things easier. It was a great decision on the part of the director. I salute the decision, keep it focused and simple so people sip each word out of his lips. Great interpretation. Just like he's thinking it out loud instead of regurgitating learned lines.
Who is here from 8G
He skipped some lines tho
Ну че русские есть?