1 00:00:15,513 --> 00:00:18,641 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 2 00:00:18,641 --> 00:00:21,769 English / 23.976 / MicroDVD 3 00:00:21,769 --> 00:00:24,897 Subtitles by helldust [helldust@mail.ru] 4 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:48,851 Heads. 5 00:03:51,896 --> 00:03:53,230 Heads. 6 00:03:56,358 --> 00:03:57,651 Heads. 7 00:04:00,863 --> 00:04:02,072 Heads. 8 00:04:05,367 --> 00:04:06,619 Heads. 9 00:04:09,246 --> 00:04:10,539 Heads. 10 00:04:12,541 --> 00:04:13,834 Heads. 11 00:04:17,379 --> 00:04:18,714 Heads. 12 00:04:20,758 --> 00:04:22,051 Heads. 13 00:04:24,136 --> 00:04:25,346 Heads. 14 00:04:29,892 --> 00:04:31,268 Heads. 15 00:04:34,897 --> 00:04:36,148 Heads. 16 00:04:38,734 --> 00:04:40,069 Heads. 17 00:04:41,529 --> 00:04:42,863 Heads. 18 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:46,492 Heads. 19 00:04:50,996 --> 00:04:52,122 Heads. 20 00:04:55,584 --> 00:04:56,710 Heads. 21 00:04:59,421 --> 00:05:00,548 Heads. 22 00:05:09,890 --> 00:05:10,599 Heads. 23 00:05:20,276 --> 00:05:21,402 Bet? 24 00:05:21,986 --> 00:05:22,778 Heads I win. 25 00:05:30,286 --> 00:05:31,287 Again... 26 00:05:33,873 --> 00:05:34,915 Heads. 27 00:05:45,301 --> 00:05:46,302 Heads. 28 00:05:48,304 --> 00:05:49,263 Heads. 29 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:52,057 Heads. 30 00:05:53,601 --> 00:05:54,560 Heads. 31 00:05:55,895 --> 00:05:56,896 Whoops! 32 00:06:09,783 --> 00:06:12,620 It must be indicative of something besides the redistribution of wealth. 33 00:06:20,836 --> 00:06:21,795 Heads. 34 00:06:22,213 --> 00:06:25,090 A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith, 35 00:06:25,341 --> 00:06:27,968 for nothing else at least in the law of probability... 36 00:06:28,844 --> 00:06:29,845 Heads. 37 00:06:33,849 --> 00:06:35,017 Consider. 38 00:06:35,893 --> 00:06:36,936 One, 39 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,065 probability is a factor which operates within natural forces. 40 00:06:41,565 --> 00:06:45,778 Two, probability is not operating as a factor. 41 00:06:46,362 --> 00:06:49,907 Three, we are now held within um... 42 00:06:50,074 --> 00:06:54,286 sub or supernatural forces. 43 00:06:55,871 --> 00:06:58,499 - Discuss! - What? 44 00:06:59,291 --> 00:07:01,794 Look at it this way. If six monkeys... 45 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,632 If six monkeys... 46 00:07:07,675 --> 00:07:09,343 The law of averages, if I have got this right means... 47 00:07:09,426 --> 00:07:11,595 that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air long enough... 48 00:07:12,054 --> 00:07:14,890 they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their... 49 00:07:15,266 --> 00:07:18,727 Heads, getting a bit of a bore, isn't it? 50 00:07:19,478 --> 00:07:21,522 - A bore? - Well... 51 00:07:22,106 --> 00:07:23,190 What about the suspense? 52 00:07:25,109 --> 00:07:26,527 What suspense? 53 00:07:26,735 --> 00:07:29,405 It must be the law of diminishing returns. 54 00:07:29,822 --> 00:07:31,907 I still spell about to be broken. 55 00:07:42,418 --> 00:07:44,879 Well, it was an even chance. 56 00:07:47,673 --> 00:07:51,552 Seventy eight in a row. A new record, I imagine. 57 00:07:53,888 --> 00:07:57,057 Is that what you imagine? A new record? 58 00:07:58,726 --> 00:08:01,478 No questions? Not a flicker of doubt? 59 00:08:02,563 --> 00:08:03,564 I could be wrong. 60 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,984 - No fear? - Fear? 61 00:08:08,527 --> 00:08:09,570 Fear! 62 00:08:13,032 --> 00:08:14,200 Seventy nine. 63 00:08:34,637 --> 00:08:38,140 I think I have it. Time has stopped dead. 64 00:08:38,307 --> 00:08:42,394 The single experience of one coin being spun once has been repeated. 65 00:08:42,978 --> 00:08:45,147 A hundred and fifty six times. 66 00:08:45,856 --> 00:08:47,316 On the whole, doubtful. 67 00:08:48,651 --> 00:08:52,655 Or, a spectacular vindication of the principle. 68 00:08:52,655 --> 00:08:54,865 That each individual coin spun individually is... 69 00:08:54,865 --> 00:08:56,116 as likely to come down heads as tails 70 00:08:56,325 --> 00:08:59,328 and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does. 71 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:05,334 Heads... I've never known anything like it. 72 00:09:05,626 --> 00:09:07,044 He has never known anything like it. 73 00:09:08,003 --> 00:09:10,297 But he has never known anything to write home about. 74 00:09:10,297 --> 00:09:13,133 Therefore it's just nothing to write home about. 75 00:09:28,357 --> 00:09:30,067 What's the first thing you remember? 76 00:09:31,485 --> 00:09:33,988 Oh, let's see, hm... 77 00:09:34,113 --> 00:09:36,657 the first thing that comes into my head, you mean? 78 00:09:37,783 --> 00:09:38,701 No... 79 00:09:38,701 --> 00:09:40,828 the first thing you remember... 80 00:09:45,499 --> 00:09:51,172 No, it's not good. It's gone. So long time ago. 81 00:09:51,505 --> 00:09:52,923 You don't get my mean. 82 00:09:53,382 --> 00:09:57,720 Most first thing after all the things you forgot? 83 00:09:58,179 --> 00:09:59,388 Oh, I see. 84 00:10:09,565 --> 00:10:11,108 I've forgotten the question. 85 00:10:13,319 --> 00:10:14,570 Are you happy? 86 00:10:15,321 --> 00:10:17,990 - What? - Content? At ease? 87 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,868 - Well I suppose so. - What are you going to do now? 88 00:10:21,035 --> 00:10:21,577 I don't know. 89 00:10:23,412 --> 00:10:24,747 What do you want to do? 90 00:10:26,582 --> 00:10:27,666 Look... 91 00:10:31,462 --> 00:10:32,338 What about it? 92 00:10:38,886 --> 00:10:43,557 We have been spinning coins together since I don't know when... 93 00:10:43,933 --> 00:10:44,558 and in all that time, 94 00:10:44,683 --> 00:10:48,354 if it is all that time, one hundred and fifty seven coins spun... consecutively have come down heads 95 00:10:48,604 --> 00:10:52,566 one hundred and fifty seven consecutive times, and all you can do is play with your food. 96 00:10:52,733 --> 00:10:53,859 Wait a minute. 97 00:10:57,279 --> 00:10:58,697 There was a messenger. 98 00:11:01,242 --> 00:11:04,203 Rosencrantz... Guildenstern... 99 00:11:04,453 --> 00:11:05,704 We were sent for. 100 00:11:36,068 --> 00:11:41,490 Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death 101 00:11:41,657 --> 00:11:43,200 ... as does the beard. 102 00:11:44,076 --> 00:11:45,035 What? 103 00:11:46,287 --> 00:11:48,664 - Beard! - But you're not dead! 104 00:11:49,123 --> 00:11:52,293 I didn't say they only started to grow after death! 105 00:11:53,502 --> 00:11:57,673 The fingernails also grow before birth. Though not the beard. 106 00:11:59,049 --> 00:12:01,677 - What? - Beard! What's the matter with you? 107 00:12:02,511 --> 00:12:05,097 The toenails on the other hand never grow at all. 108 00:12:05,973 --> 00:12:09,143 The toenails on the other foot never grow at all. 109 00:12:10,311 --> 00:12:13,272 Do you remember the first thing that happened today? 110 00:12:13,856 --> 00:12:15,733 Oh, I woke up, I suppose. 111 00:12:22,364 --> 00:12:23,616 I've got it now... 112 00:12:25,701 --> 00:12:28,412 That man, he woke us up. 113 00:12:28,787 --> 00:12:30,706 - A messenger. - That's it... 114 00:12:30,915 --> 00:12:33,250 pale sky before dawn, 115 00:12:33,417 --> 00:12:36,462 a man standing on his saddle to bang on the shutters... 116 00:12:37,630 --> 00:12:41,258 But then he called our names... 117 00:12:41,258 --> 00:12:44,428 You remember, man woke us up. 118 00:12:45,763 --> 00:12:48,974 We were sent for. That's why we're here. 119 00:12:50,935 --> 00:12:57,441 Traveling a matter of extreme urgency... a royal summons, his very words... 120 00:12:57,608 --> 00:13:02,029 official business no questions asked up, we get and off at the gallop, fearful lest we come too late! 121 00:13:02,238 --> 00:13:02,947 Too late for what? 122 00:13:04,198 --> 00:13:07,201 How would I know? We haven't got there yet. 123 00:13:12,581 --> 00:13:13,624 What's that? 124 00:13:46,949 --> 00:13:48,075 Halt! 125 00:13:51,328 --> 00:13:52,913 An audience! 126 00:13:59,295 --> 00:14:00,838 Don't move! 127 00:14:40,669 --> 00:14:44,548 Perfect... well met, in fact, and just in time. 128 00:14:44,924 --> 00:14:45,633 Why's that? 129 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:50,012 Why, we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence... 130 00:14:50,346 --> 00:14:52,890 this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew. 131 00:14:53,057 --> 00:14:55,226 We'd be back where we started, improvising. 132 00:14:55,601 --> 00:14:56,560 Tumblers, are you? 133 00:14:56,852 --> 00:15:01,190 We can give you a tumble, if that's your taste, and times being what they are. 134 00:15:01,482 --> 00:15:05,736 Otherwise for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances. 135 00:15:05,903 --> 00:15:09,448 Pirated from the Italian and it doesn't take much to make a jingle... 136 00:15:09,448 --> 00:15:13,494 even a single coin has music in it, should it be gold. 137 00:15:13,661 --> 00:15:14,537 Tragedians, 138 00:15:22,419 --> 00:15:24,338 at your command. 139 00:15:26,590 --> 00:15:29,176 My name is Guildenstern, and this is Rosencrantz. 140 00:15:30,928 --> 00:15:34,181 I'm sorry, his name's Guildenstern, and I'm Rosencrantz. 141 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,561 We've played to bigger, but quality counts for something. 142 00:15:40,396 --> 00:15:42,857 Tragedians? What exactly do you do? 143 00:15:43,023 --> 00:15:44,692 Tragedy, sir. 144 00:15:48,153 --> 00:15:52,199 Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, 145 00:15:52,575 --> 00:15:53,325 denouements... 146 00:15:55,494 --> 00:15:57,663 transvestite melodrama... 147 00:15:58,205 --> 00:16:02,793 We transport you back into a world of intrigue and illusion. Clowns if you like... 148 00:16:09,175 --> 00:16:10,301 murders... 149 00:16:18,267 --> 00:16:19,727 We can do you ghosts... 150 00:16:22,396 --> 00:16:23,397 and battles... 151 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,280 on the skirmish level... 152 00:16:31,906 --> 00:16:36,494 heroes... villains... tormented lovers... 153 00:16:39,580 --> 00:16:44,001 set pieces in the poetic vein, we can do you rapiers, 154 00:16:45,127 --> 00:16:45,794 or rape... 155 00:16:47,296 --> 00:16:48,130 or both, 156 00:16:51,008 --> 00:16:54,678 by all means faithless wives and ravished virgins... 157 00:16:55,262 --> 00:17:00,476 flagrante delicto at a price. For which there are special terms. 158 00:17:00,643 --> 00:17:02,770 It costs little to watch, 159 00:17:02,770 --> 00:17:05,648 and a little more to get caught up in the action. 160 00:17:05,856 --> 00:17:08,484 If that's your taste and times being what they are. 161 00:17:08,692 --> 00:17:11,362 - What are they? - Indifferent. 162 00:17:11,737 --> 00:17:12,738 Bad? 163 00:17:13,155 --> 00:17:14,281 Wicked. 164 00:17:17,159 --> 00:17:20,871 See anything you like? Lucky thing we came along. 165 00:17:21,038 --> 00:17:24,500 - For us? - Also for you. 166 00:17:24,708 --> 00:17:28,587 For some it is performance, for others patronage, 167 00:17:28,754 --> 00:17:31,340 they are two sides of the same coin... 168 00:17:31,423 --> 00:17:36,720 or being as there are so many of us the same side of two coins. 169 00:17:37,179 --> 00:17:39,056 - It was luck, then? - Or fate. 170 00:17:39,515 --> 00:17:42,643 - Yours or ours? - It could hardly be one without the other. 171 00:17:44,687 --> 00:17:51,819 - Fate then. - You said, caught up in the action? 172 00:17:54,029 --> 00:17:59,577 I did! I did! You're quicker than your friend. 173 00:18:00,578 --> 00:18:02,955 For a handful of coins I happen to have... 174 00:18:03,038 --> 00:18:07,459 a private and uncut performance of the Rape of the Sabine Women... 175 00:18:08,169 --> 00:18:09,295 or rather woman... 176 00:18:09,378 --> 00:18:12,840 or rather Alfred... and for eight you can participate. 177 00:18:26,687 --> 00:18:28,272 It could have been. 178 00:18:30,357 --> 00:18:33,360 It didn't have to be obscene. 179 00:18:34,403 --> 00:18:35,738 I was prepared. 180 00:18:36,739 --> 00:18:37,823 But it's this, is it? 181 00:18:39,742 --> 00:18:43,662 No enigma... no dignity, nothing classical or poetic... 182 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:45,247 only this... 183 00:18:47,208 --> 00:18:49,793 a comic pornographer and a rabble of prostitutes. 184 00:18:52,087 --> 00:18:53,881 You should have caught us in better times. 185 00:18:55,382 --> 00:18:56,926 We were purists then. 186 00:18:58,844 --> 00:19:00,054 Excuse me! 187 00:19:01,305 --> 00:19:02,389 Alfred. 188 00:19:03,807 --> 00:19:06,769 You're not, ah, exclusively players, then? 189 00:19:06,936 --> 00:19:09,271 We're inclusively players, sir. 190 00:19:10,564 --> 00:19:11,982 - I had no idea-- - No. 191 00:19:12,066 --> 00:19:18,447 I mean I've heard of--, but I've never actually seen... I mean, what exactly do you do? 192 00:19:18,739 --> 00:19:23,202 We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. 193 00:19:23,369 --> 00:19:26,872 We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. 194 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:32,294 Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as an entrance somewhere else. 195 00:19:33,462 --> 00:19:34,421 Wait a minute. 196 00:19:40,553 --> 00:19:42,972 What will you do for that? 197 00:19:50,229 --> 00:19:51,313 Do you know any good plays? 198 00:19:52,314 --> 00:19:54,817 Plays? Oh, yes. 199 00:19:55,109 --> 00:19:58,279 One of the Greeks, perhaps? You're familiar with the tragedies of Antiquity, are you? 200 00:19:58,445 --> 00:19:59,697 The great homicidal classics? 201 00:19:59,822 --> 00:20:05,452 'Maidens aspiring to Godheads', or vice versa? That's your kind of thing, is it? 202 00:20:05,619 --> 00:20:10,708 I can't say it is, really. Eh we're more of the love, blood and rhetoric school. 203 00:20:10,916 --> 00:20:15,212 Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric without the love... 204 00:20:15,379 --> 00:20:18,757 and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. 205 00:20:18,924 --> 00:20:22,469 But we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. 206 00:20:22,636 --> 00:20:26,432 Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see. 207 00:20:26,724 --> 00:20:30,227 - Is that what people want? - It's what we do. 208 00:20:31,937 --> 00:20:32,688 Would you like a bet? 209 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,484 Double or nothing. 210 00:20:37,651 --> 00:20:38,194 Heads. 211 00:20:46,827 --> 00:20:47,244 Heads. 212 00:20:53,459 --> 00:20:55,711 Double or... nothing. 213 00:21:00,966 --> 00:21:01,509 Come on. 214 00:21:03,719 --> 00:21:06,263 I say that was lucky. It was "tails". 215 00:22:29,763 --> 00:22:33,767 Welcome! Dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 216 00:22:35,728 --> 00:22:37,980 Moreover that we much did long to see you. 217 00:22:38,147 --> 00:22:41,859 The need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending. 218 00:22:42,526 --> 00:22:47,031 Something have you heard of Hamlet's transformation, so call it, 219 00:22:47,406 --> 00:22:51,118 sith nor th' exterior nor the inward men resembles that it was. 220 00:22:53,329 --> 00:22:57,791 What it should be, more than his father's death, that thus hath put him 221 00:22:57,875 --> 00:23:00,085 so much from th' understanding of himself. 222 00:23:00,711 --> 00:23:02,254 I cannot dream of. 223 00:23:04,757 --> 00:23:09,512 I entreat you both that, being of so young days brought up with him. 224 00:23:09,512 --> 00:23:13,140 And sith so neighbored to his youth and haviour, 225 00:23:13,432 --> 00:23:17,520 that you vouch-safe your rest here in our court some little time 226 00:23:17,645 --> 00:23:20,397 so by your companies to draw him on to pleasures 227 00:23:21,023 --> 00:23:24,568 and to gather so much as from occasion you may glean 228 00:23:25,069 --> 00:23:28,239 whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus 229 00:23:29,573 --> 00:23:33,160 that opened lies within our remedy. 230 00:23:34,036 --> 00:23:34,620 Good... 231 00:23:37,498 --> 00:23:41,210 Gentleman, he hath much talked of you, 232 00:23:41,585 --> 00:23:45,381 and sure I am, two men there are not living to whom he more adheres. 233 00:23:45,923 --> 00:23:49,301 If it will please you to show us so much gentry and good will 234 00:23:49,468 --> 00:23:54,682 as to extend your time with us awhile for the supply and profit of our hope, 235 00:23:54,849 --> 00:23:59,895 your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance. 236 00:24:00,062 --> 00:24:03,023 Both your majesties might by the sovereign power you have of us, 237 00:24:03,190 --> 00:24:07,027 put your dread pleasures more into command than to entreaty. 238 00:24:07,236 --> 00:24:10,197 But we both obey, and here give up ourselves in the full bent 239 00:24:10,406 --> 00:24:12,741 to lay our service freely at your feet, to be commanded. 240 00:24:13,075 --> 00:24:15,244 Thanks, Rosencrantz... 241 00:24:15,661 --> 00:24:17,580 and gentle Guildenstern. 242 00:24:17,746 --> 00:24:21,876 Thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz. 243 00:24:22,585 --> 00:24:26,755 And I beseech you instantly to visit my too much changed son. 244 00:24:27,131 --> 00:24:30,801 Heaven make our presence and our practices pleasant and helpful to him! 245 00:24:30,926 --> 00:24:32,052 Ah, amen! 246 00:24:36,098 --> 00:24:38,976 - I want to go home. - Don't let them confuse you. 247 00:24:51,780 --> 00:24:54,200 We're in over our steps, 248 00:24:54,283 --> 00:24:55,951 heading out of depth. 249 00:24:57,036 --> 00:25:01,290 stepping out of the heads, so heading to that step. 250 00:25:01,457 --> 00:25:02,583 Stop there! 251 00:25:06,128 --> 00:25:08,881 Hasn't it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all 252 00:25:09,006 --> 00:25:12,092 you haven't the faintest idea how to spell the word... 253 00:25:12,593 --> 00:25:18,057 which or "house"... because when you write it down 254 00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:21,310 you just can't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before? 255 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:22,770 - I remember... - What? 256 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:24,480 I remember when there were no questions. 257 00:25:24,647 --> 00:25:26,065 There were always questions. 258 00:25:26,232 --> 00:25:28,234 Answers, yes. There were answers to everything. 259 00:25:28,484 --> 00:25:30,319 - You've forgotten. - I haven't forgotten. 260 00:25:31,278 --> 00:25:33,822 How I used to remember my own name! And yours, Oh, yes! 261 00:25:34,615 --> 00:25:38,035 There were answers everywhere you looked. There was no question about it-- 262 00:25:38,661 --> 00:25:42,289 people knew who we were and if they didn't they asked and we told them out names. 263 00:25:42,498 --> 00:25:46,752 We did the trouble is, each of them is plausible, without being instinctive. 264 00:25:52,424 --> 00:25:53,717 Instinctive? 265 00:25:54,385 --> 00:25:59,265 All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, 266 00:25:59,431 --> 00:26:03,727 and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. 267 00:26:04,019 --> 00:26:07,648 A man standing in his saddle in the half-lit, half-alive dawn banged in the shutters 268 00:26:07,690 --> 00:26:12,403 and called two names. And when he called we came. That much is certain, we came. 269 00:26:13,237 --> 00:26:15,447 Well, I can tell you I'm sick to death of it. 270 00:26:15,531 --> 00:26:17,825 I don't care which one I am. So why don't you make up your mind. 271 00:26:18,033 --> 00:26:23,247 We didn't come all this way for a christening. But we have been comparatively fortunate. 272 00:26:23,414 --> 00:26:25,791 We might have been left to sift the whole field... of human nomen-clauture 273 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:28,794 Like two blind men... Looting a bazaar for heir own portraits 274 00:26:28,878 --> 00:26:30,754 at least we are presented with alternatives. 275 00:26:30,963 --> 00:26:34,258 - Well, as from now my name is... - But not choice. 276 00:26:34,592 --> 00:26:37,845 Your smallest action sets off another somewhere else, and is set off by it. 277 00:26:37,887 --> 00:26:40,723 And I do think or else this brain of mine hunts not the trail of policy... 278 00:26:40,764 --> 00:26:43,517 We're going round in circles! 279 00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:50,149 ... so sure as it hath use to do that I have found the very cause of hamlet's lunacy! 280 00:26:51,567 --> 00:26:55,154 Oh, speak of that! That do I long to hear. 281 00:26:55,362 --> 00:26:58,532 Give first admittance to the ambassadors. 282 00:27:15,466 --> 00:27:19,929 He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the head and source of all your son's distemper. 283 00:27:20,095 --> 00:27:22,932 I doubt it is no other but the main... 284 00:27:25,267 --> 00:27:29,897 his father's death and our o'er hasty marriage. 285 00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:36,904 Well... we shall sift him. 286 00:27:51,460 --> 00:27:52,670 It's all right. 287 00:27:53,921 --> 00:27:57,591 There's a logic at work. It's all done for you, don't worry. 288 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,135 Enjoy it. Relax. 289 00:28:08,727 --> 00:28:09,770 Relax. 290 00:28:12,731 --> 00:28:14,817 - We have been briefed. - Have we? 291 00:28:15,192 --> 00:28:17,820 Hamlet's transformation. What do you recollect? 292 00:28:18,946 --> 00:28:23,450 Well, he's changed, hasn't he? The exterior and inward man fails to resemble. 293 00:28:23,617 --> 00:28:25,661 Draw him onto pleasures... glean what afflicts him. 294 00:28:25,828 --> 00:28:27,496 Something more than his father's death. 295 00:28:27,663 --> 00:28:30,791 He's always talking about us... there aren't two people living whom he dotes on more than us. 296 00:28:30,958 --> 00:28:34,336 - We cheer him up... find out what's the matter. - Exactly. 297 00:28:34,503 --> 00:28:39,049 It's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can. 298 00:28:39,258 --> 00:28:39,967 And then we can go? 299 00:28:40,134 --> 00:28:42,803 And receive such thanks as fits as king's remembrance. 300 00:28:44,346 --> 00:28:45,306 Oh, I like the sound of that... 301 00:28:46,724 --> 00:28:49,268 What do you think she means by remembrance? 302 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:52,605 - He doesn't forget his friend? - Would you care to estimate? 303 00:28:52,771 --> 00:28:56,734 Some kings tend to be amnesiac, others in the opposite, I suppose... 304 00:28:56,859 --> 00:28:57,985 whatever that is... 305 00:28:58,277 --> 00:28:59,737 - How much? - Elephantine. 306 00:29:00,029 --> 00:29:01,155 How much? 307 00:29:02,323 --> 00:29:07,495 Retentive... he's a very retentive king, a royal retainer. 308 00:29:07,703 --> 00:29:08,496 What are you playing at? 309 00:29:08,662 --> 00:29:11,457 Words... words they're all we have to go on. 310 00:30:17,439 --> 00:30:18,566 Look at this. 311 00:30:25,072 --> 00:30:28,367 - Leave things alone. - Sorry. 312 00:30:54,476 --> 00:30:55,561 This is interesting. 313 00:30:59,565 --> 00:31:00,941 You would think 314 00:31:01,984 --> 00:31:07,114 that this would fall faster than this, wouldn't you? 315 00:31:25,466 --> 00:31:27,510 Well... and you'd be absolutely right. 316 00:31:45,069 --> 00:31:46,362 Fancy a game? 317 00:31:48,364 --> 00:31:49,824 We're spectators. 318 00:31:50,157 --> 00:31:51,325 Do you want to play questions? 319 00:31:55,204 --> 00:31:57,540 - How do you play that? - You have to ask questions. 320 00:31:57,706 --> 00:31:58,666 Statement! One... Love. 321 00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:01,043 - Cheating! - How? 322 00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:03,170 - I hadn't started yet. - Statement! Two... Love. 323 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,463 - Are you counting that? - What? 324 00:32:04,630 --> 00:32:05,673 Are you counting that? 325 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,175 Foul! No repetitions. Three... Love and game. 326 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:13,973 I'm not going to play if you're going to be like that. 327 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:28,612 Whose serve? 328 00:32:29,905 --> 00:32:31,240 - Err... - Hesitation! Love... one. 329 00:32:34,368 --> 00:32:35,828 - Whose go? - Why? 330 00:32:35,911 --> 00:32:36,537 - Why not? - What for? 331 00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:39,039 Foul! No synonyms! One... all. 332 00:32:43,002 --> 00:32:44,378 What in God's name is going on? 333 00:32:44,670 --> 00:32:46,922 Foul! No rhetoric! Two... one. 334 00:32:47,089 --> 00:32:49,592 - What does it all add up to? - Can't you guess? 335 00:32:49,758 --> 00:32:52,136 - Were you addressing me? - Is there anyone else? 336 00:32:52,678 --> 00:32:54,305 - Who? - How would I know? 337 00:32:54,513 --> 00:32:55,931 - Why do you ask? - Are you serious? 338 00:32:56,348 --> 00:32:57,808 - Was that rhetoric? - No. 339 00:32:57,975 --> 00:32:59,935 Statement! Two all. Game point. 340 00:33:03,522 --> 00:33:06,192 - What's the matter with you today? - When? 341 00:33:06,358 --> 00:33:06,901 - What? - Are you deaf? 342 00:33:07,109 --> 00:33:09,153 - Am I dead? - Yes or no? 343 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,571 - Is there a choice? - Is there a God? 344 00:33:10,696 --> 00:33:13,532 Foul! No non sequiturs! Three... two, one game all. 345 00:33:18,621 --> 00:33:20,456 - What's your name? - What's yours? 346 00:33:20,623 --> 00:33:23,083 - You first. - Statement! One... Love. 347 00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,378 - What's your name when you're at home? - What's yours? 348 00:33:26,545 --> 00:33:28,088 - When I'm at home? - Is it different at home? 349 00:33:28,297 --> 00:33:29,757 - What home? - Haven't you got one? 350 00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:32,092 - Why do you ask? - What are you driving at? 351 00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:32,801 What's your name? 352 00:33:33,010 --> 00:33:35,513 Repetition! Two... Love. Match point. 353 00:33:35,721 --> 00:33:40,267 - Who do you think you are? - Rhetoric!! Game and match! 354 00:34:02,414 --> 00:34:03,415 - Rosencrantz! - What? 355 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:10,464 There! 356 00:34:14,176 --> 00:34:16,303 - How was that? - Clever. 357 00:34:16,512 --> 00:34:18,597 - Natural? - Instinctive! 358 00:34:20,683 --> 00:34:24,270 - Now I'll try you! - Not yet! Catch me unawares! 359 00:34:27,857 --> 00:34:31,110 - Guilden... - Me unawares. 360 00:34:53,924 --> 00:34:58,929 - Ready? - Never mind. 361 00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:15,404 ... for I will use no art, mad let us grant him then and now remains. 362 00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:19,408 That we find out the cause of this effect, or rather say, the cause of this defect. 363 00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:25,581 For this effect defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. 364 00:35:25,581 --> 00:35:30,836 Perpend. I have a daughter: Have, while she mine. 365 00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:36,634 Who in her duty and obedience, mark. Hath given me this: 366 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,596 now gather, and surmise. 367 00:35:40,763 --> 00:35:42,389 "To the Celestial, 368 00:35:42,473 --> 00:35:47,728 and my soul's idol, the most beautified Ophelia" 369 00:35:47,895 --> 00:35:52,483 That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase, beautified is a vile phrase: 370 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:58,239 but eh, you shall hear thus "In her excellent white bosom..." 371 00:35:58,405 --> 00:36:00,825 Came this from Hamlet to her? 372 00:36:00,991 --> 00:36:03,953 Good Madam stay awhile, I will be faithful. 373 00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:07,957 "Doubt thou, the stars are fire." 374 00:36:08,123 --> 00:36:10,376 "Doubt that the sun doth move, 375 00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:16,131 but never doubt I love." 376 00:37:04,346 --> 00:37:07,516 ... this hot love on the wing, as I perceived it, 377 00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:12,021 I must tell you that. Before my daughter told me, what might you. 378 00:37:12,188 --> 00:37:13,981 Or my dear Majesty your Queen here, think, 379 00:37:14,148 --> 00:37:18,527 If I had play'd the desk or table-book. Or given my heart a winking, 380 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:25,701 dump, or look'd upon this love, with idle sight, what might you think? 381 00:37:25,868 --> 00:37:31,957 No, I went round to work, and my mistress thus I did bespeak, 382 00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:36,462 Lord Hamlet is a Prince out of thy star, 383 00:37:36,629 --> 00:37:38,839 this must not be... 384 00:38:03,155 --> 00:38:04,949 How does my good lord Hamlet? 385 00:38:05,699 --> 00:38:07,076 Well, God have mercy. 386 00:38:07,868 --> 00:38:10,538 Do you know me, my lord? 387 00:38:10,704 --> 00:38:12,039 Excellent. 388 00:38:13,082 --> 00:38:14,416 Excellent well. 389 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:16,919 - You are a fishmonger. - Not I, my lord. 390 00:38:17,127 --> 00:38:20,714 - Then I would you were so honest a man. - Honest my lord? 391 00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:28,639 What do you read, my lord? 392 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:31,267 Words, words, words. 393 00:38:31,433 --> 00:38:34,061 - What is the matter, my lord? - Between who? 394 00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:38,274 - I mean the matter that your read, my lord. - Statement. 395 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,572 But the satirical role it says here that old man have grey beards... 396 00:38:52,454 --> 00:38:54,498 - Who was that? - Didn't you know him? 397 00:38:54,665 --> 00:38:56,667 - He didn't know me. - He didn't see you. 398 00:38:56,834 --> 00:38:59,628 - I didn't see him. - We shall see. 399 00:39:00,087 --> 00:39:01,589 I hardly knew him, he's changed. 400 00:39:01,797 --> 00:39:03,299 - You could see that? - Transformed. 401 00:39:03,465 --> 00:39:05,342 - How do you know? - Inside and out. 402 00:39:05,467 --> 00:39:06,427 - I see. - He's not himself. 403 00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:08,596 - He's changed. - I could see that. 404 00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:11,640 Glean what afflicts him! 405 00:39:12,057 --> 00:39:13,392 - Me? - Him. 406 00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:15,269 - How? - Question and answer. 407 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:18,439 - He's afflicted. - You question, I answer. 408 00:39:18,606 --> 00:39:20,608 - He's not himself, you know. - I'm him, you see. 409 00:39:20,816 --> 00:39:22,234 - Who am I? - You're yourself. 410 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,820 - And he's you? - Not a bit of it. 411 00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:32,828 - Are you afflicted? - That's the idea. Are you ready? 412 00:39:34,622 --> 00:39:35,748 Let's go back a bit. 413 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:39,502 - I'm afflicted. - I see. 414 00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:43,088 - Glean what afflicts me. - Right. 415 00:39:43,339 --> 00:39:46,800 - Question and answer. - How should I begin? 416 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:48,511 Address me. 417 00:39:49,678 --> 00:39:51,096 My dear Guildenstern! 418 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,101 - You've forgotten, haven't you? - My dear Rosencrantz! 419 00:40:00,189 --> 00:40:03,317 I don't think you quite understand. What we are attempting is a hypothesis... 420 00:40:03,442 --> 00:40:08,280 in which I answer for him while you ask me question. 421 00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:12,326 Ready? 422 00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:15,204 - You know what to do? - What? 423 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,498 - Are you stupid? - Pardon? 424 00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:19,083 - Are you deaf? - Did you speak? 425 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:20,209 - Not now... - Statement! 426 00:40:20,376 --> 00:40:21,877 Not now! 427 00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:04,587 What sign? 428 00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:06,589 - What? - Well... uh, uh... 429 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:15,764 - Would you like a bite? - No. 430 00:41:21,103 --> 00:41:22,229 Thank you. 431 00:41:41,290 --> 00:41:47,546 Oh, you mean you pretend to be him. And I ask you questions! 432 00:41:48,589 --> 00:41:49,757 Very good. 433 00:41:50,257 --> 00:41:53,135 - You had me confused. - I could see I had. 434 00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:56,388 - How should I begin? - Address me. 435 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,642 - My honoured lord! - My dear Rosencrantz! 436 00:42:02,311 --> 00:42:04,772 - Am I pretending to be you, then? - Certainly not. 437 00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:06,565 Well if you like. Shall we continue. 438 00:42:08,692 --> 00:42:10,861 - My honoured lord! - My dear fellow! 439 00:42:11,028 --> 00:42:12,238 - How are you? - Afflicted! 440 00:42:12,404 --> 00:42:13,614 - Really? In what way? - Transformed. 441 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:14,865 - Inside or out? - Both. 442 00:42:14,990 --> 00:42:18,536 I see. Not much new there. 443 00:42:18,994 --> 00:42:21,872 Look go into details... Delve. 444 00:42:28,587 --> 00:42:33,050 Probe the background... establish the situation. 445 00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:41,308 So your uncle's the king of Denmark? 446 00:42:41,517 --> 00:42:43,686 That's right. And my father before him. 447 00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,814 - His father before him. - No, my father before him. 448 00:42:47,189 --> 00:42:49,024 - But surely... - You may well ask. 449 00:42:49,733 --> 00:42:51,026 Let me get it straight. 450 00:42:52,403 --> 00:42:54,613 Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. 451 00:42:54,697 --> 00:42:56,323 You are of age. Your uncle becomes king. 452 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:57,158 - Yes. - Unusual. 453 00:42:57,366 --> 00:42:58,534 - Undid me. - Undeniable. 454 00:42:58,742 --> 00:42:59,869 - He slipped in. - Which reminds me. 455 00:42:59,869 --> 00:43:00,369 Well, it would. 456 00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:01,453 - I don't want to be personal. - lt's common knowledge. 457 00:43:01,453 --> 00:43:03,289 - Your mother's marriage. - He slipped in. 458 00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:05,374 - His body was still warm. - So was hers. 459 00:43:05,541 --> 00:43:07,334 - Extraordinary. - Indecent. 460 00:43:07,501 --> 00:43:08,836 - It makes you think. - Don't think I haven't. 461 00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:10,546 - And with her husband's brother. - They were close. 462 00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:11,547 - She went to him. - Too close. 463 00:43:11,714 --> 00:43:13,048 - For comfort. - lt looks bad. 464 00:43:13,174 --> 00:43:14,091 - It adds up. - Incest to adultery. 465 00:43:14,216 --> 00:43:15,509 - Would you go so far. - Never! 466 00:43:15,676 --> 00:43:16,760 To sum up! 467 00:43:17,553 --> 00:43:21,807 Your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back... 468 00:43:21,891 --> 00:43:24,894 to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother... poped onto his throne 469 00:43:25,019 --> 00:43:27,897 and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. 470 00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:31,734 Now... why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner? 471 00:43:32,735 --> 00:43:34,361 I can't imagine! 472 00:43:36,864 --> 00:43:38,365 And yet we were sent for. 473 00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:45,372 And we did come. 474 00:44:04,558 --> 00:44:05,726 Rosencrantz... 475 00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:09,271 - What? - Guildenstern. 476 00:44:09,605 --> 00:44:12,650 - What? - Don't you discriminate at all? 477 00:44:12,942 --> 00:44:15,486 - What? - Nothing! 478 00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:21,742 Look at this! 479 00:44:27,456 --> 00:44:29,083 Watch closely! 480 00:44:37,883 --> 00:44:39,051 Interesting. 481 00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:02,825 Will you walk out of the air, my lord? 482 00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:04,994 Into my grave? 483 00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:07,496 Indeed that is out of the air. 484 00:45:12,293 --> 00:45:14,211 My honourable lord. 485 00:45:17,381 --> 00:45:19,925 I would, most humbly, take my leave of you. 486 00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:25,097 You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part with all. 487 00:45:25,264 --> 00:45:26,807 Except my life. 488 00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:29,643 Except my life. 489 00:45:30,019 --> 00:45:31,645 Except my life. 490 00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:34,899 Fare you well, my lord. 491 00:45:38,027 --> 00:45:40,237 There tedious old fools. 492 00:45:42,865 --> 00:45:44,825 You go to seek the lord Hamlet? 493 00:45:45,868 --> 00:45:46,994 There he is. 494 00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:00,382 What's he doing? 495 00:46:01,175 --> 00:46:06,430 Talking... to himself. 496 00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:14,772 My honoured lord! 497 00:46:14,939 --> 00:46:15,898 My most dear lord! 498 00:46:19,068 --> 00:46:23,405 My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? 499 00:46:23,739 --> 00:46:25,366 Ah, Rosencrantz! 500 00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:28,369 Oh, good lads, how do you both? 501 00:46:28,536 --> 00:46:30,037 As the indifferent children of the earth. 502 00:46:30,246 --> 00:46:33,457 Happy in that we are not overhappy. On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. 503 00:46:33,624 --> 00:46:34,625 Nor the soles of her shoes? 504 00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:35,251 Neither, my lord. 505 00:46:35,417 --> 00:46:38,170 Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours? 506 00:46:38,337 --> 00:46:39,672 Faith, her privates we. 507 00:46:39,839 --> 00:46:41,757 In the secret parts of fortune? 508 00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:45,928 O, most true! She is a strumpet. 509 00:46:46,804 --> 00:46:47,763 Well what news? 510 00:46:47,930 --> 00:46:49,849 None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. 511 00:46:50,349 --> 00:46:53,853 Then is doomsday near. But your news is not true. 512 00:46:54,353 --> 00:46:56,230 Let me question more in particular. 513 00:46:56,397 --> 00:47:01,569 What have you, my good friends deserved at the hands of fortune that she spends you to prison hither? 514 00:47:01,777 --> 00:47:02,695 Prison, my lord? 515 00:47:04,071 --> 00:47:05,281 Denmark's a prison. 516 00:47:05,447 --> 00:47:06,699 Then is the world one. 517 00:47:06,866 --> 00:47:07,908 A goodly one, 518 00:47:07,950 --> 00:47:12,788 in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark begin one of the worst. 519 00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:14,582 We think not so, my lord. 520 00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:17,626 Why, then 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either 521 00:47:17,710 --> 00:47:20,754 good or bad but thinking makes it so. 522 00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:22,548 To me it is a prison. 523 00:47:22,715 --> 00:47:25,885 Why then your ambition makes it one. 'Tis too narrow for your mind. 524 00:47:26,051 --> 00:47:31,599 O, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space... 525 00:47:31,807 --> 00:47:34,768 were it not that I have bad dreams. 526 00:47:38,314 --> 00:47:40,649 But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore? 527 00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:43,235 To visit you, my lord: no other occasion. 528 00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:45,946 Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks 529 00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:47,490 but I thank you. 530 00:47:48,991 --> 00:47:50,493 Were you not sent for? 531 00:47:56,373 --> 00:48:02,004 Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? 532 00:48:03,172 --> 00:48:04,632 Well... come, come, nay, speak. 533 00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,425 What should we say, my lord? 534 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,514 Why anything but to the purpose. You were sent for. 535 00:48:11,764 --> 00:48:16,560 And there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. 536 00:48:17,061 --> 00:48:20,022 I know the good King and Queen have sent for you. 537 00:48:20,272 --> 00:48:21,482 To what end, my lord? 538 00:48:21,649 --> 00:48:23,526 That you must teach me. 539 00:48:24,151 --> 00:48:27,655 Be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no. 540 00:48:27,947 --> 00:48:29,406 My lord, we were sent for. 541 00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:36,914 Ah... I will tell you why. 542 00:49:02,022 --> 00:49:05,901 I know he finds it striking too short at grief... 543 00:49:06,068 --> 00:49:11,490 His antique sword the bearer to his arms lies where it falls, repugnant to command. 544 00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:23,919 I have of late, but wherefore I know not, 545 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:30,259 Lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises, 546 00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:35,389 and indeed, it goes so heavily with my dispositions... 547 00:49:35,556 --> 00:49:40,561 that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory: 548 00:49:40,936 --> 00:49:47,568 this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament... 549 00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:52,239 this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, 550 00:49:53,282 --> 00:49:54,408 Why, 551 00:49:55,451 --> 00:50:00,164 it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 552 00:50:04,293 --> 00:50:06,587 What a piece of work is a man, 553 00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:10,090 How noble in reason, 554 00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:17,389 how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, 555 00:50:17,556 --> 00:50:21,101 in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: 556 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:27,191 the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, and yet to me, 557 00:50:28,275 --> 00:50:30,820 what is this quint essence of dust? 558 00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:35,032 Man delights not me... 559 00:50:37,076 --> 00:50:40,788 nor woman neither though by your smiling you seem to say so. 560 00:50:41,413 --> 00:50:44,542 My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts. 561 00:50:44,792 --> 00:50:48,128 Why did ye laugh then, when I said "Man delights not me"? 562 00:50:48,629 --> 00:50:51,799 To think, my lord, if you delight not in man... 563 00:50:52,174 --> 00:50:56,762 what Lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you. 564 00:50:57,346 --> 00:51:01,308 We coted them on the way: and hither are they coming to offer you service. 565 00:51:01,517 --> 00:51:04,144 Eh, he that plays the king shall be welcome. 566 00:51:05,688 --> 00:51:10,818 Gentleman, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come then. You are welcome. 567 00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:17,867 But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. 568 00:51:18,284 --> 00:51:19,869 In what, my dear lord? 569 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:25,833 I am but mad north-northwest. 570 00:51:26,375 --> 00:51:30,713 when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 571 00:51:33,716 --> 00:51:35,676 Well be with you, gentleman. 572 00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:42,183 Hark you... Guildenstern... And eh you too, at each ear a hearer. 573 00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:47,021 that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts. 574 00:51:47,188 --> 00:51:49,482 I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players. 575 00:51:49,690 --> 00:51:52,276 My lord, I have news to tell you. 576 00:51:52,485 --> 00:51:55,988 Eh my lord, I have news to tell you. 577 00:51:56,197 --> 00:51:58,866 When Roscius was an actor in Rome. 578 00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:01,368 The actors are come hither, my lord. 579 00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:02,703 Buzz, buzz. 580 00:52:02,870 --> 00:52:03,746 Upon my honour-- 581 00:52:03,913 --> 00:52:06,081 Then came each actor on his ass. 582 00:52:06,248 --> 00:52:10,211 The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy... 583 00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:14,715 history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical. 584 00:52:23,098 --> 00:52:26,143 - I thought you... - No. 585 00:53:49,685 --> 00:53:52,271 I say... Look at this! 586 00:54:21,550 --> 00:54:23,469 I think we can say we made some progress. 587 00:54:24,053 --> 00:54:26,180 - You think so? - I think we can say that. 588 00:54:26,388 --> 00:54:28,807 I think we can say he made us look ridiculous. 589 00:54:30,017 --> 00:54:33,729 - We played it close to the chest of course. - Question and answer! 590 00:54:33,813 --> 00:54:36,482 He was scoring off us all down the line. 591 00:54:36,774 --> 00:54:39,360 He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice, perhaps, but I think we gained some ground. 592 00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:41,070 - He murdered us. - He might have had the edge. 593 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,572 Twenty-seven-three, and you think he might have had the edge? 594 00:54:43,656 --> 00:54:45,324 - He murdered us. - What about our evasions? 595 00:54:45,491 --> 00:54:47,368 Oh, our evasions were lovely. 596 00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:51,288 You were sent for? He says. "My lord, we were sent for." 597 00:54:51,372 --> 00:54:53,499 - I didn't know where to put myself. - He had six rhetoricals- 598 00:54:53,707 --> 00:54:55,751 - It was question and answer alright. - And two repetitions. 599 00:54:55,918 --> 00:55:00,130 Twenty-seven questions he got out and answered three. I was waiting for you to delve. 600 00:55:00,130 --> 00:55:02,925 When is he going to start delving, I asked myself. 601 00:55:03,509 --> 00:55:05,427 We got his symptoms, didn't we? 602 00:55:06,053 --> 00:55:09,932 Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all. 603 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:13,394 Thwarted ambition a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis. 604 00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:16,939 Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen of which we answered fifteen. 605 00:55:17,148 --> 00:55:19,859 And what did we get in return? He's depressed! 606 00:55:20,276 --> 00:55:23,863 Denmark's a prison and he'd rather live in a nutshell. 607 00:55:24,029 --> 00:55:28,951 Some shadow play about the nature of ambition and finally one direct question which might've led somewhere 608 00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:31,996 and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk for a handbag. 609 00:55:32,329 --> 00:55:33,289 - Handsaw. - Handsaw. 610 00:55:34,123 --> 00:55:35,291 When the wind is southerly. 611 00:55:35,457 --> 00:55:36,792 And the weather's clear. 612 00:55:37,293 --> 00:55:38,419 And when it isn't he can't. 613 00:55:38,794 --> 00:55:40,796 He's at the mercy of the elements. 614 00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:49,054 Is that southerly? 615 00:55:49,138 --> 00:55:51,098 We came from roughly south. 616 00:55:53,809 --> 00:55:55,144 Which way is that? 617 00:55:55,811 --> 00:55:59,607 In the morning the sun would be easterly. I think we can assume that. 618 00:55:59,982 --> 00:56:01,734 That it's morning? 619 00:56:02,485 --> 00:56:05,070 If it is, and the sun is over there, 620 00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:08,240 for instance, that would be northerly. 621 00:56:09,158 --> 00:56:11,660 On the other hand, if it is not morning and the sun is over there. 622 00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:14,580 that would still be northerly. 623 00:56:17,333 --> 00:56:18,792 To put it another way, 624 00:56:19,919 --> 00:56:23,964 if we came from down there, and it's morning, the sun would be up there... 625 00:56:24,048 --> 00:56:26,050 but if is actually, over there, and it's still morning, 626 00:56:26,050 --> 00:56:33,015 we must have come from back there and if that is southerly, and the sun is really over there... 627 00:56:34,725 --> 00:56:36,435 then it's the afternoon. 628 00:56:39,688 --> 00:56:42,441 However, if none of these is the case. 629 00:56:42,566 --> 00:56:46,028 - Why don't you go and have a look? - Pragmatism! 630 00:56:46,153 --> 00:56:48,030 Is that all you have to offer? 631 00:56:49,865 --> 00:56:52,701 I merely suggest the position of the sun... 632 00:56:52,701 --> 00:56:57,164 if it is out, would give you a rough idea of the time. 633 00:56:57,456 --> 00:57:00,626 Alternatively, the clock, if it is going, 634 00:57:00,793 --> 00:57:02,837 would give you a rough idea of the position of the sun. 635 00:57:03,045 --> 00:57:05,881 I forget which you are trying to establish. 636 00:57:06,215 --> 00:57:09,718 I am trying to establish the direction of the wind. 637 00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:13,222 There isn't any wind. 638 00:57:18,352 --> 00:57:20,938 Draught, yes. 639 00:57:47,047 --> 00:57:52,469 Repugnant to command, unequal match'd Pyrrhus at Priam drives, in rage strikes wide. 640 00:57:52,636 --> 00:57:55,014 but with the whiff and wind of his fell sword, 641 00:57:55,181 --> 00:57:57,892 the unnerved father falls. 642 00:57:58,184 --> 00:58:00,519 Then senseless Ilium, 643 00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:06,567 seeming to feel his blow, with flaming top. Stoops to his base, 644 00:58:07,109 --> 00:58:09,904 and with a hideous crash. 645 00:58:10,488 --> 00:58:13,866 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear. 646 00:58:14,283 --> 00:58:16,911 For lo, his sword... 647 00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:21,540 Of reverend Priam, seem'd I the air to stick... 648 00:58:32,635 --> 00:58:33,594 Mind the bottom of... 649 00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:35,471 the step. 650 00:58:37,848 --> 00:58:38,807 Sorry. 651 00:58:48,108 --> 00:58:51,278 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-word, 652 00:58:51,529 --> 00:58:55,115 and never did the Cyclops' hammers fall on Mars his armours, 653 00:58:55,115 --> 00:58:56,826 forg'd for proof eterne, 654 00:58:56,826 --> 00:59:04,166 with less remorse than Pyrrhus bleeding sword. Priam. 655 00:59:05,334 --> 00:59:10,381 Out... out thou strumpet Fortune, 656 00:59:10,381 --> 00:59:15,928 all you gods, in general Synod take away her power, 657 00:59:16,345 --> 00:59:19,849 break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, 658 00:59:20,391 --> 00:59:28,190 and bowl the round nave down the hill of Heaven, as low as to the fiends. 659 00:59:28,357 --> 00:59:29,567 This is too long. 660 00:59:31,026 --> 00:59:32,528 It shall to the barber's, with your beard. 661 00:59:32,695 --> 00:59:37,158 Prithee say on: he's for a speech, or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps. 662 00:59:37,366 --> 00:59:39,076 Say on, come to Hecuba. 663 00:59:39,577 --> 00:59:45,040 But who, O who, had seen the mobled Queen... 664 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:49,003 - The mobled Queen? - That's good, mobled Queen is good. 665 01:00:18,449 --> 01:00:19,617 This is interesting. 666 01:00:21,911 --> 01:00:22,703 'Tis well. 667 01:00:23,287 --> 01:00:25,581 I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon. 668 01:00:25,664 --> 01:00:29,376 Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear? 669 01:00:29,585 --> 01:00:34,381 Let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. 670 01:00:34,548 --> 01:00:38,928 After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. 671 01:00:39,094 --> 01:00:41,680 My lord, I will use them according to their desert. 672 01:00:41,847 --> 01:00:44,308 God's bodkin, man, much better! 673 01:00:44,517 --> 01:00:48,312 Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? 674 01:00:48,479 --> 01:00:50,439 Use them after your own honour and dignity. 675 01:00:50,648 --> 01:00:53,108 The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. 676 01:00:53,442 --> 01:00:54,902 - Take them in. - Come sirs. 677 01:00:55,861 --> 01:00:59,073 Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play tomorrow. 678 01:01:00,449 --> 01:01:02,409 Can you play the "Murder of Gonzago"? 679 01:01:02,618 --> 01:01:03,369 Ay, my lord. 680 01:01:03,786 --> 01:01:05,037 We'll have it tomorrow night. 681 01:01:05,204 --> 01:01:09,625 You could for a need study a speech of some 12 or 16 lines which I would set down and insert in it. 682 01:01:13,462 --> 01:01:17,883 Follow that lord and look you mock him not. 683 01:01:28,978 --> 01:01:32,773 My good friends, I'll leave you till night. You are welcome in Elsinore. 684 01:01:32,857 --> 01:01:34,066 Good, my lord. 685 01:04:43,339 --> 01:04:45,299 So you've caught up. 686 01:04:46,342 --> 01:04:47,259 Not yet, sir. 687 01:04:47,343 --> 01:04:48,719 Now mind your tongue, or we'll have it out and 688 01:04:48,802 --> 01:04:51,180 throw the rest of you away like a nightingale at a Roman feast. 689 01:04:51,263 --> 01:04:52,973 - Took the words out of my mouth. - You'd be lost for words. 690 01:04:53,057 --> 01:04:55,142 - You'd be tongue tied. - Like a mute in a monologue. 691 01:04:55,309 --> 01:04:57,853 Like a nightingale at a Roman feast. 692 01:04:58,854 --> 01:05:01,816 - You left us. - Yes... on the road. 693 01:05:02,024 --> 01:05:07,071 You don't understand the humiliation of it... to be tricked out of the single assumption 694 01:05:07,196 --> 01:05:11,659 that makes our existence bearable. That somebody is watching. 695 01:05:11,700 --> 01:05:15,079 We are actors, we are the opposite of people. 696 01:05:16,413 --> 01:05:19,250 - So? - We need an audience. 697 01:05:20,376 --> 01:05:25,881 - We had an appointment. - That is true. 698 01:05:44,984 --> 01:05:47,027 You know why you're here. 699 01:05:47,653 --> 01:05:51,157 We only know what we're told and for all we know it isn't even true. 700 01:05:51,365 --> 01:05:53,784 One acts on assumptions. What do you assume? 701 01:05:54,785 --> 01:05:58,247 Hamlet is not himself outside or in. We have to glean what afflicts him. 702 01:05:58,414 --> 01:05:59,707 - He's melancholy. - Melancholy? 703 01:05:59,874 --> 01:06:01,834 - Mad. - How is he mad? 704 01:06:03,002 --> 01:06:03,752 How's he mad? 705 01:06:03,919 --> 01:06:05,212 More morose than mad perhaps. 706 01:06:05,588 --> 01:06:07,047 - Melancholy. - Moody. 707 01:06:07,214 --> 01:06:08,757 - He had moods. - Of moroseness? 708 01:06:08,924 --> 01:06:10,176 - Madness and yet. - Quite. 709 01:06:10,384 --> 01:06:11,385 For instance. 710 01:06:11,594 --> 01:06:14,388 He talks to himself which might be madness. 711 01:06:14,555 --> 01:06:17,057 - If he didn't talk sense, which he does. - Which suggests the opposite. 712 01:06:17,266 --> 01:06:21,479 - Of what? - I think I have it. 713 01:06:22,855 --> 01:06:24,398 A man talking sense to himself... 714 01:06:24,482 --> 01:06:29,028 is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself. 715 01:06:29,111 --> 01:06:30,321 - Or just as mad. - Or just as mad. 716 01:06:30,321 --> 01:06:31,280 - And he does both. - So there you are. 717 01:06:31,405 --> 01:06:34,074 - Start raving sane. - Why? 718 01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:37,536 - Ah. Why? - Exactly. 719 01:06:39,747 --> 01:06:40,915 Exactly what? 720 01:06:42,041 --> 01:06:43,834 - Exactly why? - Exactly why what? 721 01:06:43,834 --> 01:06:45,002 - What? - Why? 722 01:06:45,085 --> 01:06:47,671 - Why what, exactly? - Why is he mad? 723 01:06:47,838 --> 01:06:48,923 I don't know! 724 01:06:49,131 --> 01:06:54,428 The old man thinks he's in love with his daughter. 725 01:06:54,637 --> 01:06:57,264 We're out of our depth here! 726 01:06:57,473 --> 01:07:00,309 No, no, no, he hasn't got a daughter, 727 01:07:00,476 --> 01:07:03,103 the old man thinks he's in love with his daughter. 728 01:07:06,232 --> 01:07:07,566 The old man is? 729 01:07:08,859 --> 01:07:16,158 Hamlet. In love. Man's daughter. 730 01:07:16,575 --> 01:07:20,329 The old man thinks. 731 01:07:25,835 --> 01:07:29,296 It's beginning to make sense! Unrequited passion! 732 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:35,678 Where are you going? 733 01:07:36,262 --> 01:07:38,055 I can come and go as I please. 734 01:07:38,222 --> 01:07:40,766 - You know your way around. - I've been here before. 735 01:07:40,933 --> 01:07:42,309 We're still finding our feet. 736 01:07:42,476 --> 01:07:44,895 I should concentrate on not losing your heads. 737 01:07:45,062 --> 01:07:47,481 - Do you speak from knowledge? - Precedent. 738 01:07:48,357 --> 01:07:49,441 You've been here before. 739 01:07:49,775 --> 01:07:51,902 And I know which way the wind is blowing. 740 01:08:16,010 --> 01:08:18,179 Wait! Back! 741 01:08:29,440 --> 01:08:31,066 This place is a mad house. 742 01:09:32,336 --> 01:09:33,921 Behind ye! 743 01:14:12,741 --> 01:14:15,995 - Are you familiar with this play? - No. 744 01:14:20,583 --> 01:14:24,879 A slaughterhouse, eight corpses all told. 745 01:14:28,215 --> 01:14:30,342 - Six. - Eight. 746 01:14:33,512 --> 01:14:34,555 What are they? 747 01:14:35,639 --> 01:14:36,849 They're dead. 748 01:14:47,610 --> 01:14:51,697 - Actor! What do you know about death? The mechanics of cheap melodrama! - Cheap melodrama. 749 01:14:51,864 --> 01:14:53,782 - It doesn't bring death home to anyone! - lt's not at home to anyone! 750 01:14:54,033 --> 01:14:54,950 - Shut up! - Shut up! 751 01:14:55,493 --> 01:14:56,744 You can't do death! 752 01:14:56,952 --> 01:14:58,704 On the contrary, it's what we do best. 753 01:14:59,371 --> 01:15:04,335 We have to exploit whatever talent is given to us and our talent is for dying. 754 01:15:04,710 --> 01:15:09,173 We can die heroically, comically, ironically, sadly, suddenly, slowly... 755 01:15:09,465 --> 01:15:12,801 disgustingly charmingly or from a great height. 756 01:15:16,222 --> 01:15:21,477 Audiences know what to expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in. 757 01:15:46,085 --> 01:15:47,127 Next... 758 01:15:48,462 --> 01:15:52,716 And can you by no drift of conference get from him why he puts on his confusion? 759 01:15:53,300 --> 01:15:56,595 He does confess he feels himself distracted. 760 01:15:56,762 --> 01:15:59,682 But from what cause he will by no means speak. 761 01:16:25,541 --> 01:16:29,086 (To be or not to be...) 762 01:16:31,922 --> 01:16:33,883 that is the question. 763 01:16:35,759 --> 01:16:37,720 Did he receive you well? 764 01:16:38,387 --> 01:16:39,513 Most like a gentleman. 765 01:16:39,722 --> 01:16:42,141 But with much forcing of his disposition. 766 01:16:42,308 --> 01:16:46,562 Niggard of question but of our demands, most free in his reply. 767 01:16:47,730 --> 01:16:49,982 Did you assay him to any pastime? 768 01:16:51,817 --> 01:16:55,488 Madam, it so fell out that certain players we o'er-raught on the way 769 01:16:55,571 --> 01:17:00,701 of these we told him, and there did seem in him a kind of joy to hear of it. 770 01:17:01,827 --> 01:17:05,539 They are here about the court, this night to play before him. 771 01:17:05,748 --> 01:17:07,374 'Tis most true, 772 01:17:07,750 --> 01:17:12,588 and he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties to here and see the matter. 773 01:17:13,088 --> 01:17:14,298 Good gentlemen, 774 01:17:14,590 --> 01:17:20,387 give him a further edge and drive his purpose into these delights. 775 01:17:21,347 --> 01:17:22,223 We shall, my lord. 776 01:17:26,602 --> 01:17:28,604 Sweet Gertrude, leave us too... 777 01:17:29,605 --> 01:17:31,732 For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, 778 01:17:31,857 --> 01:17:37,738 that he, as 'twere by accident may here affront Ophelia. 779 01:17:56,465 --> 01:18:01,220 Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead lying in a box with a lid on it? 780 01:18:01,512 --> 01:18:02,471 No. 781 01:18:03,222 --> 01:18:04,640 Nor do I really. 782 01:18:06,642 --> 01:18:08,561 It's silly to be depressed by it. 783 01:18:09,395 --> 01:18:12,273 I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box, 784 01:18:12,982 --> 01:18:16,610 and one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead... 785 01:18:17,444 --> 01:18:21,574 which should make all the difference... shouldn't it? 786 01:18:22,741 --> 01:18:26,620 I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you? 787 01:18:27,246 --> 01:18:30,541 It would be just like you were asleep in a box. 788 01:18:32,501 --> 01:18:36,672 Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air, 789 01:18:37,214 --> 01:18:40,009 you'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be? 790 01:18:41,177 --> 01:18:47,475 In a box. That's the bit I don't like frankly. That's why don't think of it. 791 01:18:55,191 --> 01:18:57,902 Because you'd be helpless? 792 01:18:58,194 --> 01:19:03,324 Stuffed in a box like that, I mean, you'd be in there for ever. 793 01:19:03,866 --> 01:19:07,912 Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. 794 01:19:09,079 --> 01:19:11,165 Especially if you're dead, really... 795 01:19:11,874 --> 01:19:13,083 ask yourself, 796 01:19:14,126 --> 01:19:16,670 if I asked you straight off... 797 01:19:16,879 --> 01:19:20,674 I'm going to stuff you in this box now, would you rather be alive or dead. 798 01:19:20,841 --> 01:19:23,636 Naturally, you prefer to be alive. 799 01:19:24,178 --> 01:19:29,934 Life in a box is better than no life at all. I expect. 800 01:19:30,100 --> 01:19:32,061 You'd have a chance at least. 801 01:19:32,228 --> 01:19:39,193 You could lie there thinking well, at least I'm not dead! 802 01:19:40,110 --> 01:19:43,656 In a minute somebody is going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out. 803 01:19:46,242 --> 01:19:49,745 Hey, you! What's yer name! Come out of there! 804 01:19:54,542 --> 01:19:56,502 I think I'm going to kill you. 805 01:20:51,557 --> 01:20:55,936 Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. 806 01:21:00,274 --> 01:21:04,528 I wouldn't think about it, if I were you. You'd only get depressed. 807 01:21:12,745 --> 01:21:17,458 My lord, I have rememberances of yours 808 01:21:17,958 --> 01:21:20,669 that I have long had long to redeliver, 809 01:21:22,254 --> 01:21:23,714 I pray you now receive them. 810 01:21:24,089 --> 01:21:29,053 No, not I. I never gave you ought. 811 01:21:29,303 --> 01:21:32,723 My honoured lord, you know right well you did. 812 01:21:33,098 --> 01:21:38,020 And with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich. 813 01:22:00,042 --> 01:22:04,839 Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? 814 01:22:05,631 --> 01:22:11,679 There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, 815 01:22:12,847 --> 01:22:15,933 when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. 816 01:22:17,226 --> 01:22:21,939 It must have been shattering stamped into one's memory. 817 01:22:23,566 --> 01:22:29,697 And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. 818 01:22:30,531 --> 01:22:34,785 We must be born with an intuition of mortality. 819 01:22:35,661 --> 01:22:37,454 Before we know the word for it, 820 01:22:38,122 --> 01:22:40,124 before we know that there are words, 821 01:22:41,250 --> 01:22:44,211 out we come, bloodied and squalling... 822 01:22:44,587 --> 01:22:48,048 with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, 823 01:22:48,299 --> 01:22:55,139 there's only one direction and time is its only measure. 824 01:26:11,043 --> 01:26:14,588 - What is the dumb show for? - lt's a device, really, 825 01:26:14,797 --> 01:26:18,717 it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible. 826 01:26:18,968 --> 01:26:19,593 You understand, 827 01:26:19,802 --> 01:26:24,598 we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. 828 01:26:24,890 --> 01:26:28,602 - Is this the "Murder of Gonzago"? - That's the least of it. 829 01:26:31,397 --> 01:26:32,106 Who was that? 830 01:26:32,314 --> 01:26:35,526 The king's brother and uncle to the prince. 831 01:26:41,574 --> 01:26:42,825 Not exactly fraternal. 832 01:26:43,075 --> 01:26:46,162 Not exactly avuncular as time goes on. 833 01:27:25,367 --> 01:27:30,748 Go to, I'll no more on't, it hath made me mad! 834 01:27:30,956 --> 01:27:35,377 I say we will have no more marriages! 835 01:27:39,089 --> 01:27:44,345 Those that are married already all but one shall live. 836 01:27:44,678 --> 01:27:50,184 The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go. 837 01:27:54,563 --> 01:27:56,273 That didn't look like love to me. 838 01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:57,566 Love! 839 01:27:58,984 --> 01:28:01,445 His affections do not that way tend, 840 01:28:02,696 --> 01:28:06,659 nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, 841 01:28:07,076 --> 01:28:08,452 was not like madness. 842 01:28:08,619 --> 01:28:13,958 How now Ophelia. You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said, we heard it all. 843 01:28:15,209 --> 01:28:19,004 There's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood. 844 01:28:19,171 --> 01:28:22,550 And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger, 845 01:28:22,716 --> 01:28:25,261 which for to prevent I have in quick determination. 846 01:28:25,427 --> 01:28:28,514 Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England. 847 01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:42,027 Gentlemen! Gentlemen, it doesn't seem to be coming. 848 01:28:43,487 --> 01:28:46,866 We are not getting it at all what do you think? 849 01:28:47,032 --> 01:28:49,577 - What was I supposed to think? - Wasn't that the end? 850 01:28:49,785 --> 01:28:53,497 Do you call that an ending? With practically everyone still on his feet? 851 01:28:53,664 --> 01:28:56,542 My goodness no over your dead body. 852 01:28:57,209 --> 01:29:00,588 There's a design at work in all art surely you know that? 853 01:29:01,255 --> 01:29:05,634 Events must play themselves out to an aesthetic, moral and logical conclusion. 854 01:29:05,926 --> 01:29:08,512 - And what's that in this case? - lt never varies. 855 01:29:08,721 --> 01:29:14,477 We aim for the point where everyone who is marked for death dies. 856 01:29:15,144 --> 01:29:16,020 Marked? 857 01:29:16,187 --> 01:29:19,940 Generally speaking things have gone about as far as they can possibly go 858 01:29:20,149 --> 01:29:23,277 when things have got about as bad as they can reasonably get. 859 01:29:23,694 --> 01:29:25,029 Who decides? 860 01:29:25,571 --> 01:29:26,780 Decides? It is written. 861 01:29:29,325 --> 01:29:33,787 We're tragedians, you see. We follow direction there is no choice involved. 862 01:29:33,954 --> 01:29:38,542 The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. 863 01:29:38,709 --> 01:29:42,004 That is what tragedy means. Next! 864 01:29:43,255 --> 01:29:45,841 Having murdered his brother and wooed the widow, 865 01:29:46,050 --> 01:29:48,594 the Poisoner mounts the throne! 866 01:29:51,013 --> 01:29:55,518 Here we see him. And his queen give rein to their unbridled passion! 867 01:29:56,977 --> 01:30:00,731 Enter Lucianus, nephew to the king! 868 01:30:01,524 --> 01:30:07,154 Usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother's incestuous marriage... 869 01:30:08,572 --> 01:30:10,115 He loses his reason. 870 01:30:12,451 --> 01:30:14,703 Throwing the court into turmoil 871 01:30:14,703 --> 01:30:21,252 and disarray staggering from the suicidal to the merely idle. 872 01:30:21,460 --> 01:30:26,006 He has a plan to catch the conscience of the king. 873 01:31:58,891 --> 01:32:00,309 The king rises! 874 01:32:01,101 --> 01:32:02,561 What... frighted with false fire! 875 01:32:05,856 --> 01:32:07,191 How fares my lord? 876 01:32:07,358 --> 01:32:10,110 - Give o'er the play! - Give me some light! 877 01:32:10,611 --> 01:32:11,904 Away! 878 01:32:32,007 --> 01:32:37,513 That's so interesting play. What a thing of the world! 879 01:32:45,855 --> 01:32:47,231 It wasn't that bad... 880 01:33:01,704 --> 01:33:03,747 - There's something they're not telling us. - What? 881 01:33:04,915 --> 01:33:07,334 There's something they're not telling us. 882 01:33:28,230 --> 01:33:35,529 My lord... My lord... 883 01:33:36,906 --> 01:33:40,409 The Queen would speak with you. And presently... 884 01:33:40,534 --> 01:33:44,246 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel? 885 01:33:44,914 --> 01:33:47,750 By the mass, and this like a camel indeed. 886 01:33:48,083 --> 01:33:51,879 - Me thinks it is like a weasel. - lt is backed like a weasel. 887 01:33:52,046 --> 01:33:54,381 - Or like a whale? - Very like a whale. 888 01:33:55,508 --> 01:33:57,384 Then I will come to my mother by and by. 889 01:33:57,885 --> 01:34:01,639 - I will say so. - 'By and by' is easily said. 890 01:34:07,645 --> 01:34:09,396 Leave me, friends. 891 01:34:20,699 --> 01:34:24,912 I like him not, nor stand it safe with us to let his madness range. 892 01:34:25,079 --> 01:34:26,705 Therefore prepare you. 893 01:34:26,956 --> 01:34:31,877 I your commission will forthwith despatch, and he to England shall along with you. 894 01:34:43,889 --> 01:34:46,600 No by the Rood, not so: You are the Queen, 895 01:34:46,767 --> 01:34:51,230 your husband's brother's wife, but would you were not so. You are my mother. 896 01:34:51,480 --> 01:34:55,109 Nay, then I'll set those to you than can speak. 897 01:34:55,317 --> 01:34:57,111 Come come and sit you down, you shall not budge. 898 01:34:57,319 --> 01:35:01,782 You go not till I sent you up a glass, where you may see the in most part of you. 899 01:35:01,991 --> 01:35:04,660 What wilt thou do thou: wilt not murder me. 900 01:35:04,827 --> 01:35:06,954 Help... help... ho. 901 01:35:07,705 --> 01:35:12,001 How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat dead! 902 01:35:13,335 --> 01:35:17,965 - Oh, I am slain! - Oh me, what hast thou done? 903 01:35:18,674 --> 01:35:20,718 Nay, I know not! 904 01:35:21,886 --> 01:35:22,928 Is the king? 905 01:35:23,137 --> 01:35:26,557 Oh, what a rash and bloody deed is this? 906 01:35:26,724 --> 01:35:28,184 A rash and bloody deed? 907 01:35:28,350 --> 01:35:31,979 A bloody deed almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother. 908 01:35:32,188 --> 01:35:35,149 - As kill a king? - Ay, lady, it was my word. 909 01:35:35,941 --> 01:35:40,738 Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! 910 01:35:44,950 --> 01:35:47,661 - Is that you? - I don't know. 911 01:35:49,830 --> 01:35:50,998 It's you. 912 01:35:52,333 --> 01:35:55,503 - We're not dead yet then? - Well we're here, aren't we? 913 01:35:55,711 --> 01:35:58,839 Are we? I can't see a thing. 914 01:36:27,284 --> 01:36:30,955 - We're on a boat. - I know. 915 01:36:47,429 --> 01:36:50,975 - Dark, isn't it? - Not for night. 916 01:36:51,934 --> 01:36:54,687 No, not for night. 917 01:36:55,396 --> 01:37:00,192 - It's dark for day. - Oh, yes, it's dark for day. 918 01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:14,081 Do you think death could possibly be a boat? 919 01:37:18,210 --> 01:37:23,215 No, no, no... death is... not. Death isn't. 920 01:37:24,425 --> 01:37:28,637 You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not being. 921 01:37:29,388 --> 01:37:31,182 You can't not be on a boat. 922 01:37:31,974 --> 01:37:34,101 I've frequently not been on boats. 923 01:37:35,436 --> 01:37:38,606 No, no, no... what you've been is not on boats. 924 01:37:40,524 --> 01:37:42,067 I wish I was dead. 925 01:37:48,157 --> 01:37:50,493 I could jump over the side. That would put a spoke in their wheel. 926 01:37:51,118 --> 01:37:52,286 Unless they're counting on it. 927 01:37:52,411 --> 01:37:55,247 I shall remain on board. That will put a spoke in their wheel. 928 01:38:07,176 --> 01:38:11,263 - You all right? - Yes, why? 929 01:38:11,514 --> 01:38:14,892 - Would you like to come up now? - Yes all right, thank you. 930 01:38:18,562 --> 01:38:21,315 - Try to be more careful. - Sorry. 931 01:38:23,484 --> 01:38:25,027 - Nice bit of planking that. - Yes. 932 01:38:25,528 --> 01:38:26,946 - Lovely bilges. - Yes. 933 01:38:27,029 --> 01:38:29,907 - Beautiful bottom... - Yes. I'm very fond of boats myself. 934 01:38:30,533 --> 01:38:32,535 I like the way they're contained. 935 01:38:32,660 --> 01:38:36,789 You don't have to worry about which way to go, or whether to go at all... 936 01:38:36,997 --> 01:38:38,582 the question doesn't arise, does it? 937 01:38:38,791 --> 01:38:40,793 I think I'll spend the rest of my life on boats. 938 01:38:42,002 --> 01:38:44,839 - Very healthy. - One is free on a boat. 939 01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,550 For a time, relatively. 940 01:38:50,511 --> 01:38:52,346 I think I'm going to be sick. 941 01:39:16,036 --> 01:39:16,662 He's there! 942 01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:20,791 - What's he doing? - Sleeping. 943 01:39:22,126 --> 01:39:23,043 It's all right for him. 944 01:39:23,544 --> 01:39:25,045 - What is? - He can sleep. 945 01:39:26,505 --> 01:39:29,550 - It's all right for him. - He's got us now. 946 01:39:30,009 --> 01:39:31,677 - He can sleep. - lt's all done for him. 947 01:39:31,927 --> 01:39:33,679 - He's got us. - And we've got nothing. 948 01:39:33,762 --> 01:39:35,514 And we've got nothing. 949 01:39:36,515 --> 01:39:39,894 Why don't you say something original! You don't take me up on anything... 950 01:39:40,102 --> 01:39:41,562 you just repeat everything I say in a different order. 951 01:39:41,770 --> 01:39:44,398 I can't think of anything original. I am only good in support. 952 01:39:44,482 --> 01:39:46,901 I'm sick of making the running. 953 01:39:57,786 --> 01:40:00,956 There it's all right. I'll see we're all right. 954 01:40:01,749 --> 01:40:05,920 But we've got nothing to go on. We're out on our own. 955 01:40:06,670 --> 01:40:10,257 We're on our way to England. We're taking Hamlet to the English King. 956 01:40:10,466 --> 01:40:12,885 - What for? - What for? Where have you been? 957 01:40:13,052 --> 01:40:13,928 When? 958 01:40:14,637 --> 01:40:16,555 We've got a letter. You remember the letter. 959 01:40:16,972 --> 01:40:18,015 Do I? 960 01:40:19,058 --> 01:40:22,061 Everything is explained in the letter. 961 01:40:22,311 --> 01:40:23,938 - Is that it, then? - What? 962 01:40:24,355 --> 01:40:28,609 So we take Hamlet to the English King, we hand over the letter, what then? 963 01:40:29,610 --> 01:40:36,325 - That's it, we're finished. - Who is the English King? 964 01:40:36,534 --> 01:40:38,994 That depends on when we get there. 965 01:40:39,411 --> 01:40:41,914 So we've got a letter which explains everything. 966 01:40:42,081 --> 01:40:43,123 You've got it. 967 01:40:43,791 --> 01:40:45,251 - I thought you had it. - I do have it. 968 01:40:45,501 --> 01:40:46,961 - You have it. - You've got it. 969 01:40:47,128 --> 01:40:49,046 - I don't get it. - You haven't got it. 970 01:40:49,213 --> 01:40:51,173 - I just said that. - I've got it. 971 01:40:51,632 --> 01:40:53,342 - Oh, I've got it. - Shut up. 972 01:40:53,551 --> 01:40:54,802 Right. 973 01:40:59,974 --> 01:41:05,312 What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere! 974 01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:07,022 I don't believe in it anyway. 975 01:41:07,106 --> 01:41:08,566 - In what? - England. 976 01:41:08,858 --> 01:41:13,028 - Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean? - I mean I don't believe it. 977 01:41:13,362 --> 01:41:16,907 And even if it's true, the King of England won't know what we're taking about. 978 01:41:17,074 --> 01:41:21,829 - What are we going to say? - We say your majesty, we have arrived. 979 01:41:22,037 --> 01:41:23,831 - And who are you? - We are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 980 01:41:24,039 --> 01:41:25,124 - Never heard of you! - Well, we're nobody special. 981 01:41:25,458 --> 01:41:26,750 - What's your game? - We have our instructions... 982 01:41:26,917 --> 01:41:28,794 - First I've heard of it. - Let me finish. 983 01:41:30,754 --> 01:41:31,589 We've come from Denmark. 984 01:41:32,047 --> 01:41:34,216 - What do you want? - Nothing... 985 01:41:34,300 --> 01:41:36,469 - We're delivering Hamlet... - Who's he? 986 01:41:36,677 --> 01:41:39,013 - You've heard of him. - Oh, I've heard of him all right 987 01:41:39,096 --> 01:41:42,141 and I want nothing to do with it. You march in here without so much as a by your leave 988 01:41:42,224 --> 01:41:46,270 and expect me to take in every lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated. 989 01:41:46,896 --> 01:41:50,691 - We've got a letter! - I see... I see... 990 01:41:51,066 --> 01:41:55,654 Well, this seems to support your story. Such as it is... it is an exact command from the King of Denmark. 991 01:41:55,821 --> 01:41:59,450 for several different reasons, importing Denmark's health and England's too, 992 01:41:59,450 --> 01:42:03,579 that on the reading of this letter, without delay, I should have Hamlet's head cut off! 993 01:42:58,843 --> 01:43:00,010 We're his friends. 994 01:43:01,846 --> 01:43:02,805 How do you know? 995 01:43:03,222 --> 01:43:05,391 From our young days brought up with him. 996 01:43:05,766 --> 01:43:07,768 You've only got their word for it. 997 01:43:08,602 --> 01:43:10,271 But that's what we depend on. 998 01:43:11,355 --> 01:43:16,610 Well, yes... and then again no. 999 01:43:17,987 --> 01:43:22,825 Let us keep things in proportion. Assume, if you like, that they're going to kill him. 1000 01:43:22,992 --> 01:43:26,245 Well, he is a man, he is mortal. Death comes too, so on extra. 1001 01:43:26,412 --> 01:43:28,873 And consequently he would have died anyway, sooner or later. 1002 01:43:29,665 --> 01:43:31,417 And then again, what is so terrible about death? 1003 01:43:31,500 --> 01:43:36,464 As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it. 1004 01:43:36,547 --> 01:43:40,384 It might be... very nice. 1005 01:43:41,635 --> 01:43:44,346 Or to look at it another way, 1006 01:43:44,763 --> 01:43:48,350 we are little men, we don't know the ins and outs of the matter, there are wheels within wheels, etc... 1007 01:43:48,517 --> 01:43:51,645 All in all, I think we'd be well advised to leave well alone. 1008 01:43:52,855 --> 01:43:56,734 - It's awful. - But it could have been worse. 1009 01:44:01,530 --> 01:44:03,491 I was beginning to think it was. 1010 01:44:35,064 --> 01:44:35,940 Night. 1011 01:46:33,849 --> 01:46:35,434 Huh, all in the same boat then. 1012 01:46:40,189 --> 01:46:41,440 What do you make of it so far? 1013 01:46:42,525 --> 01:46:43,317 What's a happening? 1014 01:46:46,946 --> 01:46:47,655 Pirates. 1015 01:46:49,698 --> 01:46:51,826 Everyone on stage! 1016 01:47:26,235 --> 01:47:27,111 Hamlet! 1017 01:48:38,808 --> 01:48:39,975 Where's Hamlet? 1018 01:48:40,476 --> 01:48:42,436 - Gone. - Gone where? 1019 01:48:43,854 --> 01:48:45,314 The pirates took him. 1020 01:48:47,983 --> 01:48:51,654 But they can't. We're supposed to be... 1021 01:48:52,488 --> 01:48:54,490 we've got a letter which says... 1022 01:48:54,782 --> 01:48:58,452 the whole thing's pointless without him, we need Hamlet for our release! 1023 01:48:59,829 --> 01:49:03,290 I'll pretend to be... You pretend to be him and... 1024 01:49:07,336 --> 01:49:10,131 - I suppose we just go on. - Go where? 1025 01:49:11,006 --> 01:49:14,635 - England. - England! I don't believe it! 1026 01:49:14,969 --> 01:49:17,596 Just a conspiracy of cartographers you mean. 1027 01:49:18,889 --> 01:49:22,768 I mean I don't believe it and even if it's true what do we say? 1028 01:49:22,935 --> 01:49:26,564 - We say we've arrived! - Who are you? 1029 01:49:32,820 --> 01:49:34,655 We are Guildenstern and Rosencrantz. 1030 01:49:34,905 --> 01:49:37,158 - Which is which? - Well, I'm Guildenstern. 1031 01:49:37,366 --> 01:49:39,743 - And then he's Rosencrantz. Exactly. - What does this have to do with me? 1032 01:49:39,743 --> 01:49:42,204 You turn up out of the blue with some cock and bull story. 1033 01:49:42,204 --> 01:49:44,373 - We have a letter! - A letter! 1034 01:49:49,211 --> 01:49:55,468 As England is Denmark's faithful tributary as love between them like the palm might flourish, etc. 1035 01:49:55,634 --> 01:49:58,679 That on the knowing of this contents, without delay of any kind... 1036 01:49:58,888 --> 01:50:03,851 should those bearers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, put to sudden death. 1037 01:50:05,060 --> 01:50:06,645 Not that letter. Give him the other one. 1038 01:50:06,812 --> 01:50:08,022 I haven't got another one. 1039 01:50:11,192 --> 01:50:12,359 They've gone! 1040 01:50:13,694 --> 01:50:14,695 It's all over! 1041 01:50:17,656 --> 01:50:21,452 Where we went wrong? Was getting on a boat. 1042 01:50:21,660 --> 01:50:25,790 They had it in for us didn't they? Right from the beginning who'd have thought that we were so important? 1043 01:50:25,956 --> 01:50:27,208 But why? 1044 01:50:27,583 --> 01:50:31,587 Was it all for this? Who are we that so much should converge on our little deaths? 1045 01:50:31,754 --> 01:50:34,632 You are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. That is enough. 1046 01:50:35,424 --> 01:50:36,717 No, it is not enough. 1047 01:50:36,926 --> 01:50:41,680 To be told so little to such an end and still, finally, to be denied an explanation. 1048 01:50:42,223 --> 01:50:44,683 In our experience, almost everything ends in death. 1049 01:50:44,850 --> 01:50:48,395 Your experience! Actors! 1050 01:50:48,938 --> 01:50:54,485 You die a thousand casual deaths and come back in a different hat. 1051 01:50:54,610 --> 01:50:56,737 But nobody gets up after death... 1052 01:50:57,112 --> 01:51:02,743 there's no applause only silence and some secondhand clothes, that's death! 1053 01:51:16,298 --> 01:51:19,927 If we have a destiny, then so had he and this is ours, then that was his 1054 01:51:20,136 --> 01:51:23,139 and if there are no explanations for us, then let there be none for him. 1055 01:51:32,690 --> 01:51:36,944 Oh, come, come gentlemen, no flattery it was merely competent. 1056 01:51:38,195 --> 01:51:42,116 You see, it is the kind you do believe in, 1057 01:51:45,411 --> 01:51:50,249 it's what is expected. Deaths for all ages and occasions! 1058 01:52:20,070 --> 01:52:27,161 Deaths of king and princes and nobodies... 1059 01:52:40,883 --> 01:52:42,551 That's it then, is it? 1060 01:52:46,764 --> 01:52:49,266 We've done nothing wrong. We didn't harm anyone, did we? 1061 01:52:50,142 --> 01:52:51,519 I can't remember. 1062 01:52:54,897 --> 01:53:01,111 All right, then, I don't care. I've had enough. 1063 01:53:01,278 --> 01:53:04,114 To tell you the truth, I'm relieved. 1064 01:53:04,657 --> 01:53:09,703 There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. 1065 01:53:11,914 --> 01:53:16,168 But somehow we missed it. Well, we'll now better next time. 1066 01:53:17,461 --> 01:53:18,587 Till then. 1067 01:53:34,854 --> 01:53:36,856 The sight is dismal. 1068 01:53:37,940 --> 01:53:41,610 And our affairs from England come too late. 1069 01:53:41,610 --> 01:53:48,200 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. To tell him his commandment is fulfilled... 1070 01:53:48,325 --> 01:53:51,620 that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.