#notes as I go

[yowlthinks]

12 Months of Shakespeare: Hamlet (2009)

Finally watched Hamlet with DT and Patrick Stewart!

- DT is so young there, at the beginning there seems to be a lot of similarity with his delivery of Benedick there, in his more vulnerable moments, then once spoke to the ghost you cab suddenly see the decisiveness and mad understanding and formulation of a plan come through, which is quite reminiscent of the Doctor and frankly a little scary.

- The scene where he scorns Ophelia is so sad... Apart from the obvious compassion for Ophelia and sadness for Hamlet, it made me think how an old man's meddling into the affairs of his daughter and the Prince has actually robbed him of the solutions to a lot of problems. Had Hamlet been allowed to develop a deeper bond with Ophelia, he would have probably come to her not just to say goodbye as he embarked on his quest, but to actually talk to her. He would have been able to share his worries with her and the story would have been a very different one, likely that of conspiracy. Or maybe she would have managed to get him to reconsider (although, I do think it unlikely). Her marriage prospects were quite good, but now the Prince has repeatedly told her to go to a nunnery, so again, not amazing news for the father who probably would have quite liked her to be Queen. Point is: don't meddle into other people's love affairs!

- The way in which Hamlet talks to his school 'friends' vs his actual friend is stunning... the difference is so obvious, it seems like you can see his heart breaking from betrayal in real time.

-DT in a crown. Damn, he is stunning! He wears one in Richard II, he puts one on in Hamlet and while he looks exceptionally royal / princely these are two very different qualities to it, the mood is different, the characters are very different and so the impression of DT in the crown while always amazing is so different. The only thing in common is the undertone of fragility in both roles, I think this is really makes the delivery. In fact, it is perhaps what makes DT such a good actor: you can feel that internal softer core, that fragility in his roles. It may be closer to or further from the surface, but it is always there, and god, it makes me want to cry.

- Patrick Stewart is acing it too as the Ghost and the King's brother. His acting style is quite different, but what he does with his eyes... wow.

- When Ophelia goes mad after the death of her father... it is silly, really, but I have never thought of it as a parallel / mirror. They are both striken by grief at the death of their murdered fathers, but their approaches to dealing with it are different: Hamlet seeks to right the wrongs, his anger and despair is not so much for his father, but for the way his memory is treated by those he thought loyal. For Ophelia it is just grief, she has noone to lean on, no action she wants to persue, she goes mad with it... again, back to the point of having someone close on whom she could lean would have made her story so different.

- Hamlet and Horatio - I really liked the dynamic there

- It is silly that having seen multiple Hamlets over the years I always forget how exactly it ends. Somehow this again was a surprise (as in, I knew that Hamlet dies, I was just surprised that so does everyone else!)

Overall, I really liked it, certainly one of the best productions I have ever seen. It was touching and again, surprising how much it made me feel, given that I know the play and have seen it before. The acting was phenomenal, the staging... I am still unclear how they filmed it and what it looked like in the theatre, but it doesn't matter, I enjoyed it a lot. A definite 9/10, maybe even 9,5.

[girldraki]

[becquerel]

STOP TELLING ME ABOUT HOW SHE DOES SHROOMS SHROOMS AND MARIJUANA ARE DIFFERENT THINGS I HATE ALL OF YOU THIS POST HAS ALMOST 40K NOTES YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL

I KNOW SHE DOES SHROOMS IN THE MAIN COMIC I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY SINCE ITS NEVER DISCUSSED 😭 PLEASE MY NOTES ARE JUST PEOPLE TELLING ME THIS NOW

i really like ryoko kui's dedication to making this elf chick smoke weed in every modern clothing art she appears in

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[pillowspace]

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

[doctorsiren]

Oh Dipper, you would LOVE Chappell Roan

[martyrbat]

hate when a batman artist isn't committed to bruce's lame bat schtick... give that man a bat insignia on the bottom of his boots rn

[crustaceousfaggot]

No nuance allowed. Put your nuance in the tags, I just want a yes or no answer

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Today in vc we discussed the concept of a gmod funeral so I drew my interpretation.

[cataclysmcrows]

big fan of when grief drives characters to do fucked up things that are ultimately pointless and do more harm than good rather than just like. going to therapy

[stil-lindigo]

frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.

like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[aropride]

i’ve begun saying people “obviously aren’t in a romantic relationship, they have something deeper and more intimate going on” as this seems to confuse and upset alloromantics

(ID: a banner with text over the aro flag. the text says: i don't care about blorbotags go wild but this post is about hating the hierarchial system of relationships & if you're mad about it you're probably been poisoned by ace discourse brainworms. and are also proving my point. /end ID)

[cosmicrhetoric]

ok i finally get why everyone fucking loves law it's cause every time the straw hats do literally anything they cut back to him making this EXACT face

[housederiva]

Who's gonna tell him