Hamlet is a 1990 drama film based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the same name directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Mel Gibson as the titular character. The film also features Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Dillane, and Nathaniel Parker. It is notable for being the first film from Icon Productions, a company co-founded by Gibson.
The cast includes three actors - Paul Scofield, Alan Bates, and Ian Holm - who had themselves played Hamlet on stage or film. It also features two actors - Stephen Dillane and Michael Maloney - who went on to play Hamlet onstage.
Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, Blackness Castle and Dover Castle were used as locations in the film.
Film scholar Deborah Cartmell has suggested that Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films are appealing because they are "sensual rather than cerebral", an approach by which he aims to make Shakespeare "even more popular". To this end, he cast Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films — in the title role. Cartmell also notes that the text is drastically cut, but with the effect of enhancing the roles of the women.
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In 1767, the British Princess Caroline is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark, but her life with the erratic monarch in the oppressive country becomes an isolating misery. However, Christian soon gains a fast companion with the German Dr. Johann Struensee, a quietly idealistic man of the Enlightenment. As the only one who can influence the King, Struensee is able to begin sweeping enlightened reforms of Denmark through Christian even as Caroline falls for the doctor. However, their secret affair proves a tragic mistake that their conservative enemies use to their advantage in a conflict that threatens to claim more than just the lovers as their victims.
Keywords: 1760s, 1770s, 18th-century, aristocracy, arranged-marriage, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, bath, bathtub, beheading
They changed a nation forever
Their love affair would divide a nation.
Johann Friedrich Struensee: Your majesty.::Caroline Mathilde: You recognized me.::Johann Friedrich Struensee: I would recognize you blindfolded.::Caroline Mathilde: But your costume is not very imaginative.::Johann Friedrich Struensee: I'm afraid I'm not very good at the masquerade.::Caroline Mathilde: I believe this is the one night when everyone can be themselves. [pause] But you never remove your mask. Do you?
Johann Friedrich Struensee: Do you remember our first night together?::Caroline Mathilde: It feels like we've been unhappy ever since.::Johann Friedrich Struensee: I have been happy.::Caroline Mathilde: Come to me tonight?
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This Is Hamlet is a feature-length introduction to the world of Shakespeare's great tragedy, Hamlet, using 'Larry King' style interviews with the characters in character and an 'on the scene' reporter for updates in the wings as the play progresses. Funny, informative, entertaining. You'll understand Hamlet as you never have before.
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By 2008, more than 25 percent of major league baseball players were born in Latin America. At 19, Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a serious kid from the Dominican Republic, signs with Kansas City. He flies to Phoenix for tryouts and is sent to the Class A team "The Swing" in the fictional town of Bridgetown, Iowa, where he lives with a farm family. Thus begins his odyssey: leaving his mom and girlfriend; living in an alien culture; learning English; overcoming jitters; working hard; achieving early success; navigating friendships, occasional racism, and a woman's mixed signals; dealing with an injury; trying performance-enhancing drugs; and, searching for his place in the world. Will he make it to the Majors; will he play in New York?
Keywords: american-dream, athlete, baseball, caribbean, character-name-in-title, coming-of-age, dominican-republic, fish-out-of-water, furniture, illegal-immigrant
Earl Higgins: No drinking. No cervezas in the casa. No chicas in the bedroom.
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Claire Bloom has performed leading and important supporting roles in numerous plays by William Shakespeare, starting while she was still in her teens. In this documentary, she discusses her experiences and performs monologues and soliloquies from 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'As You Like It,' 'Richard III,' 'Hamlet,' and 'King Henry the Eighth,' among others. Film and television footage from her earlier performances is also featured, as is a brief clip of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet in a 1900 silent film version of that play.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, reference-to-shakespeare's-as-you-like-it, reference-to-shakespeare's-coriolanus, reference-to-shakespeare's-cymbeline, reference-to-shakespeare's-hamlet, reference-to-shakespeare's-henry-viii, reference-to-shakespeare's-king-john, reference-to-shakespeare's-othello, reference-to-shakespeare's-richard-iii
Mothers, Lovers & Wives
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Injurious distance should not stop my way
For then despite of space, I would be brought
From limits far remote where thou dost stay
Not so far, mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of your irresistible sight
When you are here with your poetry.
But ah! Thought kills me that I'm not thought
To leap large lengths of miles when you are gone
These are our sacrifices, roses have thorns and silver fountains mud
But that, so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan
Let me confess that we two... we must be twain!
Rise with your stateliness, dream of us with open eye
Like waves make towards the shore
Our minutes hasten to their end
Not so far, mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of your irresistible sight
When you are here in your person.
But ah! Thought kills me that I'm not thought
To leap large lengths of miles when you are gone
These are our sacrifices, roses have thorns and silver fountains mud
But that, so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan
These are our sacrifices...
Mine are heavy tears, mine is the grief of having you
So shall I compare you to a summer's day?
No, you are more lovely and more temperate
Within the distance my mind dives in yours
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts, and with my love?
So long as eyes can see
On the darkest night
In the woods
The king's spirit appeared
He revealed what I already know
King's brother betrayed
By my sword he will pay for his sins
I will take back the crown
You were trying to send me away
I'm back to spill your blood
Lies and crimes
You took over the throne
And seducted the queen
Bring the chariots to this battlefield
To take his bloody corpse away
The light of our people will shine if he dies
My uncle's dark ages are over from now
In the name of my father
In the name of my people
King's brother must die
Vultures fly over him
2, 3, 4!
The light of our people will shine if he dies
My uncle's dark ages are over from now
In the name of my father
In the name of my people
Mira la noche, como cae la niebla
y un miedo oculto se apodera de ti
en la muralla vaga un alma en pena
por la traición que le llevó a morir
Es el espectro de su padre
al que su hermano asesinó
pidiendo al hijo la venganza
que hará lavar su honor
Se finge loco y en su mente oculta
un odio eterno hacia su madre y su rey
bajo la pena esconde la vergüenza
que el luto de su padre clama en él
Ahora su rey quiere matarle
ha descubierto la traición
pero él burlando a su verdugo
ha liberado su prisión
ha de esperar
hasta el final
para vengarse por ti
ha de esperar
hasta el final
para vengarse por ti
Llegó el final, se acerca la venganza
su brazo en duelo por su padre hablará
la ira justa de un castigo errante
que abrió la herida que hoy se ha de cerrar
Tan sólo es dulce la venganza
si no llega su final
porque acabar esta locura
es la ira alimentar
ha de esperar
hasta el final
para vengarse por ti
ha de esperar
hasta el final
Hamlet's endurance has reached the breaking point. His
father has been murdered. His mother who he loves
dearly has married her dead husband's brother.
Moreover his sweetheart, Ophelia has been acting very
strangely and he senses that she does not love him
anymore.
Now he is all alone. The world that he knew is
shattered, his black mood of despair is deepened by his
inability to act, to do something, change the
situation. Now he ponders to continue living or take
his own life.
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,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised 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,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'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 pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,