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Film: Hamlet, fragment: Aeneas' Speech to Dido
In 1996 Kenneth Branagh's directed the definitive screen version (as critics said) of the most famous Williams Shakespeare's play: "Hamlet". In fact, the movie is a real pleasure for all fans of the writer. The film covers all the play, the entire text and plots from the original book ... As a result, Branagh offers us a 4-hour movie, exquisitely filmed, with a great costume design, an elegant photography, a fine musical score by Patrick Doyle...and, above all, an astonishing cast: Branagh himself (who plays Hamlet), Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, Kate Winslet...and Charlton Heston, who plays the lead actor from the company that is performing in Hamlet's family palace. His monogue presents an analogy between the classic tale about Hecuba's tragedy (settled during the Trojan war) and the own Hamlet's story (his father has been murdered by his uncle to gain Denmark's Throne...).
So, enjoy the text and the imposing voice and intonation of Heston. And please, now forget about his political preferences and ideology (yes, we know he was a fervorous defender of weapons and everything that...but he also was a real Hollywood legend an icon, so let´s keep this aspect!).
.... lend a tyrannous and damned light to their lord´s murder. Roasted in wrath and fire and thus o´er-sized with coagulate gore with eyes like carbuncle the hellish Pyrrhus old grandsire Priam seeks.
- So proceed you.
- Fore God, my Lord, well-spoken, with good accent and good discretion.
Anon he finds him Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword, Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls, Repugnant to command: unequal match'd, Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium, Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, And like a neutral to his will and matter, did nothing.
But, as we often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless and the orb below As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause, Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work; And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword Now falls on Priam. Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods, In general synod 'take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, As low as to the fiends!'
- This is too long.
- It shall be to the barber´s, with your beard. Prithee, say on. He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry or he sleeps. Say on. Come to Hecuba.
But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen.
- Mobled queen.
- That's good. “Mobled queen” is good.
'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up; Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd, 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced: But if the gods themselves did see her then When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unless things mortal move them not at all, Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods.
- Look whe're he has not turned his colour and has tears in's eyes. Prithee, no more.