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100 Things You Learned From Hamlet


1) The fall of a royal family can result from a fencing match

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2) Don't drink the wine.
3) Don't eavesdrop.
4) Trust no one. Except one really good friend.
5) They really are all out to get you.

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6) If you're the Prince of Denmark, you can accurately throw a sword with a cool "swooshing" sound across the length of a Royal court, and hit your Uncle/King in the bum :P

7) Dead people blink when carried out "crucifix-style"

8) Everyone loves to read words. Words! WOOooOAAoooaaaAARRDSSSS!


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9) It is really good to be a background or non important character lol cause everyone important pretty much dies

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10) It's okay to kiss your brother sensually on the lips many times.


It's like being inside a dream or something.. There's truth, but no logic.

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11) A chandelier hitting your uncle isn't enough. Shove mouthfuls of poison down his throat for good measure.

12) Nothing stops a troop of soldiers running after you than a slow moving bookcase

13) Billy Crystal did a great job

14) Hamlet procrastinated, like all university students :)

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15. Ophelia was frightened when Hamlet burst into her room with 'no hat upon his head' - even though Hamlet never wears a hat.
16. The Ghost's stories could part Hamlet's 'knotted and combined locks' - although Hamlet's hair is never knotted, nor combined.
17. Shakespeare's timeless play does, in fact, include a steam locomotive.
18. Hamlet's always got a skull mask handy.
19. If a crazy audience member steals the stage and starts narrating your play, just keep going, he really likes it.
20. Asides work in real life - say something secret out loud, and you can choose who gets to hear it!
21. If a woman is raving mad, hose her down with cold water. That'll work.

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Bleached blonde was a big look in the 19th century.

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23) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

24) Polonius wears a man-corset.

25) and has a whore in his room o_O

26) Horatio wears a nerdishly awesome suit.

27) Charlton Heston has a perfect Shakespeare voice.

28) Hamlet has a symbolic toy theatre.

29) The ghost of Hamlet Sr. can make the ground split apart and spew steam.

30) If you want someone to go to hell, don't kill him while he is confessing.


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31. Don't trust the enemy Fortinbras. He still attacks the castle.
32. They had newspapers in that time.
33. They had doctors in that time too.
34. People wore hats indoors.
35. Littering confetti was okay.

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36. When a King demands Light, you escort him out of the room

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37. The mobled queen freakin' rocked.
38. That's wormwood. WOOOOOOOOOOORRMMMMMMMMWOOOOODDD!!!!!!!!!

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39. Branaugh slips tongue in kissing scenes.

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40. A contemplative, intellectual, deep, old-at-heart brilliant young man can fall in love with a manipulable, hollow shell of a girl. Then he can be blindsided when his enemies conscript her.

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41. Hamlet and Ophelia had already consummated their relationship at the outset of the play... which explains Hamlet's intense bitterness toward Ophelia. Polonius decides to put the kibosh on it when he figures out Claudius is gonna keep Hamlet from succeeding to the throne.

42. Hamlet is also another iteration of the Osiris myth.

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43. People in Shakespeare's day went batshyt insane over things you and I take in stride (break-up, parent's death) and by insane I do mean tossing flowers around, singing folk songs instead of speaking, hanging around half-dressed, speaking gibberish, and floating in a lake unaware that they are drowning.


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44. Robin Williams does not belong in a Shakespeare play.

45. When you have a two page speech and are going to film it in one take, make sure to put lots of music over it to drown it out.

46. If you have both Michael Maloney and Rufus Sewell in the same movie...don't cast Maloney as Laertes and give Sewell a supporting role. Sewell is bloody awesome!

47. Way to go with the "To be or not to be" speech. Olivier spoke it on top of the battlements in his mellifluous voice, but didn't really get personal, Gibson spoke surprisingly emotionally and heartfelt-ly, Tennant was just crazy...but Branagh was the only one to capture Hamlet's tortured, fractured, multi-faceted soul. Brilliant.

48. Do not introduce Shakespeare to teens with a 4 hour, un-cut, super-film like this. Give them Shakespeare dumbed down. Right? WRONG!

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49) Adolescent royalty will seek revenge if their father is murdered and everyone will then die.

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50) the difference between a hawk and a handsaw.

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Is Kenneth Branagh the handsaw?

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All history books lie, cause Poland was actually in war against Norway.

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52. Hamlet talks about his beard, which he doesn't have.
53. Hamlet has white hair, even though he is supposed to be a young man.

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54. We may call rue herb-grace o' Sundays.
55. All the violets withered when Polonius died.
56. They say he made a good end.

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