Hamlet (Mel Gibson) and Horatio (Stephen Dillane) meet a gravedigger on their way back to Denmark.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father has died and his uncle Claudius (Alan Bates) is the new king. To make matters worse, Claudius has married Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude (Glenn Close), whom he has unusually strong feelings for. Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost (Paul Scofield), who asks him to seek revenge for his murder. In order to find out who the real killer is, Hamlet stages a theatrical scene resembling his father's death. Claudius is upset by the production and leaves to arrange for Hamlet's murder. In the ensuing confusion, Hamlet accidentally kills Polonious (Ian Holm) instead of Claudius; Hamlet's lover, Ophelia (Helena Bonham Carter), goes mad and commits suicide; and eventually Hamlet and Claudius both meet their fate.
CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1990)
Cast: Stephen Dillane, Mel Gibson, Trevor Peacock
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Producers: Dyson Lovell, Bruce Davey
Screenwriters: Christopher De Vore, William Shakespeare, Franco Zeffirelli
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FILM DESCRIPTION:
Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father has died and his uncle Claudius (Alan Bates) is the new king. To make matters worse, Claudius has married Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude (Glenn Close), whom he has unusually strong feelings for. Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost (Paul Scofield), who asks him to seek revenge for his murder. In order to find out who the real killer is, Hamlet stages a theatrical scene resembling his father's death. Claudius is upset by the production and leaves to arrange for Hamlet's murder. In the ensuing confusion, Hamlet accidentally kills Polonious (Ian Holm) instead of Claudius; Hamlet's lover, Ophelia (Helena Bonham Carter), goes mad and commits suicide; and eventually Hamlet and Claudius both meet their fate.
CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1990)
Cast: Stephen Dillane, Mel Gibson, Trevor Peacock
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Producers: Dyson Lovell, Bruce Davey
Screenwriters: Christopher De Vore, William Shakespeare, Franco Zeffirelli
Rotten Tomatoes MOVIECLIPS is the largest collection of movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes, and lines from all your favorite films.
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00:01How long will a man lay the earth ere he rot?
00:04Oh, faith, if he be not rotten before he die, some eight year, nine year.
00:10Here's a skull now.
00:12That'll line you in the earth some three and twenty years.
00:15Whose was it?
00:17A horse and mad fellas it was.
00:20He poured a flagon of ranish on my head once.
00:23Whose do you think it was?
00:24Nay, I know not.
00:26The same skull, sir. Was, sir?
00:28Yorick's skull. The king's jester.
00:32This?
00:33In that.
00:34Let me see.
00:43Alas, poor Yorick.
00:47I knew him, Horatio.
00:49A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
00:58He hath borne me on his back a thousand times.
01:04And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is.
01:11My gorge rises at it.
01:16Here, and those lips that I have kissed, I know not how oft.
01:20Where be your jibes now?
01:23Your gambles, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar.
01:33Not one now to mock your own grinning.
01:43Quite chop fallen.
01:48Now, get you to my lady's chamber.
01:52And tell her, let her paint an inch thick.
01:56To this favour she must come.
02:03Make her laugh at that.
02:05That's okay.
02:07All right.
02:08You're in the pit.
02:10Like her.
02:11Thanks for your show, Scotty.
02:14That's all.
02:16I'll see you guys soon, or not.
02:20You're about the day.
02:22Bye, my dear.
02:24That's all.
02:26My dear.
02:28You're okay.
02:30My dear.