Gibson Hamlet 3.1

Hamlet

[@lalexander1144]

I love his Hamlet. Such intensity it's hard to believe Hamlet didn't actually go mad. He's not so theatrical either...just raw.

[@caffeinated1432]

Words. Words. Words.

[@sha11235]

I don't think he ever goes mad. He was just playing it. Ophelia is the one who goes mad.

[@bowtiesarecool1011]

I agree! And it makes more poetic sense lol. That bittersweet irony…😭🥹

[@lindseysummers5351]

We got to view this film in my 9th Grade English class. Mel Gibson gave a surprisingly powerful performance as Hamlet. And Helena Bonham Carter...well, enough said. She never disappoints.

[@79eyre]

he is not a typical Hamlet definitely but that does not diminish his performance...he is a pure refreshment in this role, giving a new perspective to this eternal riddle of Hamlet

[@girlscarf]

omg helena is such a good actress

[@PRIDEfc88]

Very good movie, mostly do to both Gibson's awesome acting, and young Bonhams beauty... and good story

[@ozzian2000]

This would be my favorite filmed version, but the cuts are so oppressive. LOVE the graveyard scene LOVE the bedroom scene (sans open-mouthed kiss) LOVE Gibson, Close, Bates, Schofield and Holm and, no surprises here, Bonham Carter is absolute genius!!!

[@greywolf850]

The most honest, real authentic Hamlet… not the usual whimsical prose of overacting from stage performers that augment their status with long pauses as if the pauses reflecting acting. Hamlet would be manic and depressed and sling between the two … Mel understood this and his performance breathed life into Shakespeare soliloquies …

[@ritzreference]

Actually, I think she gives the best performance in the film! Born to play Ophelia.

[@DanielleCrookMusic]

Yay, finally someone actually put a scene with Ophelia talking! Thanks for putting this up, I was just about to throw up if I had to see another "Ophelia montage" with clips of beautiful actresses playing Ophelia accompanied by sappy music and no dialogue. The Hamlets get clips of their ACTING up on youtube but Ophelia just gets wistful music video crap.

[@tayluvofficial]

14 years ago ... Holy shit ! Do you exist now?

[@DanielleCrookMusic]

@@tayluvofficial yep!

[@tayluvofficial]

​@@DanielleCrookMusic oh my Lord!!

[@DDD11239]

​@@DanielleCrookMusic Scenes are more than available, these days.

[@DDD11239]

​@@tayluvofficial Most humans live longer than 14 years, buddy.

[@connornicholas8628]

Mel Gibson is good in this scene. He is not like David Tennant in that his voice is more powerful than most renditions of Hamlet, which brings a certain aggressiveness to the character that most actors don't bring. This does not cause his performance to suffer for it, rather he brought a different feeling to it, one of real anger (and possibly madness, as this was his plan).

[@hidden4horror]

helena looks beautiful , and she's sooo talented!!! :D

[@lucasdavis1964]

Gibson may not be an Olivier but he's really good in this adaptation. Just go see the movie. It's worth a rental, at least!

[@kathy-t5q]

He did stage acting at NIDA; he's very talented.

[@chronictown5802]

the acting here is sublime..HBC is a national treasure

[@tompaulcampbell]

INTERNATIONAL Treasure now!

[@alaza61]

Mel is good in this. Not being like Olivier or Branagh or any other typical British pretty boy doesn't mean his performance is bad. He brought a different energy to it. His voice is more powerful than most Hamlets, which brings a certain agression to the character that most Hamlets don't bring. Another underrated Hamlet is Richard Burton.

[@angelafischettifitness]

You might want to check out all reviews of Burton's Hamlet. I think you might enjoy them. He was far from underrated. In fact, it was a groundbreaking performance. Costumes and scenery were also groundbreaking. This was the production that brought minimalism to the forefront. Gielgud's direction was also outstanding. The digitally remastered audio is available. This production took Broadway by storm.

[@alaza61]

+Angela Fischetti Burton is underrated COMPARED to the likes of Olivier for sure.

[@angelafischettifitness]

Agreed.

[@PhillAlexandros]

I have always enjoyed this version because to me it was less theatrical. I love Mel's intensity in this role, like at times you can't tell if Hamlet is pretending to be mad or already there.

[@chopin65]

wm young He gives it a lot more life than those other stiffs.

[@rayoostoo]

Mel is simply the best.

[@ParalyzedQueen]

SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONE WITH KATE WINSLET!! When I watched that one I literally cringed. Mel Gibson and Helena Bonham-Carter truly TRULY captured the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. The other more modern version... Horribly done. Great actors they are, but I hate how it was performed. I LOVE this version.

[@Evan8787]

Well of course he's mad, he's Mad Max

[@prodBishopA1]

Mad Mel

[@ZaCornell]

I love Ophelia she's cute like that

[@BeatrixNightmare]

Amazing, just amazing. My god.

[@zenpaganwarrior]

Gibson's stellar performance here is by far the richest, most sanguine, and emotionally true as the Prince of Denmark. Who'll argue with that?

[@adriang6259]

He's so good.

[@justinyu7124]

Why did the director take out Hamets "get thee to a nunnery" line?

[@theresajohnson4038]

He tells her to go to a nunnery in a later scene

[@79eyre]

it is not taken out...it is in another scene

[@jrpipik]

@@79eyre Not in the play.

[@andrewsmactips]

It's a Catholic thing

[@stevenmoreno2888]

@@andrewsmactips Hamlet is ironic. Nunnery means wh*r*h**s*

[@lonelygnome1]

You should not have believed me, I LOVED THEE NOT. My favorite part.

[@natalieanderson4340]

"You made me believe so" - Ophelia

[@yallowrosa]

director Zeffirelli actually shows that Gibson (mainly selected for commercial reasons) may be a good actor ...

[@alaza61]

Yea he's a great actor. Even in his action films, he brings a dramatic element that most don't bring. He was very good in Ransom also.

[@yallowrosa]

+wm young in the italian version of Hamlet, Mel is dubbed by Giannini (a good actor, with a nice voice) however, the recitation of Mel and his vocal tone are superior ... this rarely happens

[@bpg9992]

WHAT HELENA BONHAM CARTER WAS IN MY TOWN AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT DAMNATION

[@laylee8244]

Lucky....

[@cesarsmith7688]

Deliciosas palabras para una intensa escena que viste de cuestionamientos el poder de la realidad bajo el velo mental y el fuego del alma humana.

[@ProdSangreNueva]

For me, this is the best cinematic version acting wise.

[@Falconlibrary]

I want to see this play performed by actors with Southern accents.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

Jersey accents first! ;-)

[@agnesmoorehead69]

Originally from Georgia, and I played Ophelia. :)

[@STOCKHOLM07]

From Texas, I agree.

[@charlesmichaelschmitt6412]

@@michaelbarnhart2593 please don't confuse out of state Joisey with what as a person who grew up in Trenton, now living in Germany for 21 years. My accent is mid Atlantic, 🤔 something close to Wessics in England I have been told.

[@mojo500100]

You’ve got a wacky sense of humor, man. 😆

[@annabrown7302]

THIS IS THE BEST HAMLET❤️

[@danielavcp]

by far my favorite part!

[@Persianzvictory]

Speechless.....

[@realmatic10]

Loved Aaron Rodgers as Hamlet.

[@rindhirad]

She is beautiful

[@SmoothANI]

And she lived up to be a mage and changed her name to Bellatrix Lestrange and swore allegiance to the Dark Lord..

[@user-nq7eg9in8g]

but she stayed mad, which explains a lot 😁

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

2:26 notice how he turns his head to the side. He KNOWS that someone is spying on him so he checks to make sure they're still there. Everything he's telling her is an act he's putting up to appear crazy.

[@MollinatorRed]

I really don't like the cutting of this movie, but the acting is awesome! Mel Gibson was a very good Hamlet, and Helena Bonham Carter was inspired during the "crazy" scene.

[@caitlinfalconer9739]

I was cracking up at this!

[@samosullivan1744]

If only Franco Zeffirelli had let Helena do Ophelia’s brilliant “Oh, what a noble mind is here o’er thrown” speech. It was the same thing with Alan Bates and Pete Postlethwaite, they were denied their chances to really shine, just so Mel Gibson could have yet another speech.

[@CF1975]

@toReasonWhy : I am not a fan of Gibson at all, but I absolutely agree with everything you say. Most of his movies do not appeal to me, but this shows he is a very talented actor. He did an execellent job and he deserves credit for that.

[@fabioguerrero1428]

He sure is talented I'm actually doing, the play

[@swastikausa]

and to think five years after this hbc fell in love with other hamlet sir ken.

[@Fairy206]

HBC is so....simple-looking and young. So refreshing. I do like her version of Ophelia. Her portrayal would make more sense with Hamlet, as a couple. Gibson....tried. Bless him for trying.

[@sophiehanssel2017]

Every time I think of this scene, I feel like I wanna do the same to my friends, including those I hate, but I know it's not right. I hate my life. I wish it were better.

[@79eyre]

+Sophie Hanssel I am sure you are great person though I do not know you but believe me every person has its treasure and high value deep within. Others people malice and rage is not your problem. They are already punished enough by having these feelings.

[@sophiehanssel2017]

It is now.

[@79eyre]

+Sophie Hanssel Just live your live as happily as possible because you fully deserve it

[@sophiehanssel2017]

ok

[@lilsweetmami18]

Where is the GET THEE TO A NUNNERY?!

[@heybubsportzdad1960]

i am looking for it too

[@Appokalis]

Omitted from that scene.

[@barbados3592]

hmm, he seems quite sane to me

[@marissaflores418]

0:29 Ophelia: (to Hamlet) My lord. How does your honor for this many a day?

[@mariogallaman6072]

Great Hamlet, great Gibson, great Zeffirelli, but movie underrated by the critics.

[@kimberlykozar6671]

Thank you!

[@darebear4058]

That throw tho

[@allotherlightsgoout]

The 'to a nunnery go' was put later in the movie...after the actors do the play about Hamlet's father's murder.

[@kelseyweber7188]

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HER!

[@jameslippincott7440]

He knows he has a responsibility to his father and sacrifices his relationship with Ophelia.

[@tompalmer5986]

There are strong indications in both this scene and other places in the play that Hamlet has gotten Ophelia pregnant. When he refers to her as a "nymph" he means she isn't a virgin. Sadly, this is the way a young man of Hamlet's time would treat a woman he had conquered.

[@margaridabastos2179]

Well I think you are wrong. Yes there might be indications that Ophelia is no longer a vigin but there are no indications that Ophelia is pregnant. "Are you honest?" Has two meanings, he both refers to her virginity and the fact that she isn't being sincere and fair with him. Hamlet knows what Ophelia is trying to do by returning the letters he sent her, she is trying to trick him, she is being used by Polonius and Cladius to see the cause of Hamlet's "madness". During this scene Hamlet realizes that outward beauty has nothing to do with the interior of someone. Although I must say this movie is not the one with the best dramaturgy. For me the best one is the 1996 Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, go watch it if you didn't. :)

[@tompalmer5986]

Read Ophelia's comments when she is mad. Also, Hamlet telling Polonius - "Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter might conceive - look to it." There are several strong indications that Hamlet has gotten Ophelia pregnant. It is highly probable that she is.

[@margaridabastos2179]

Oh believe me I've read Ophelia comments when she is mad a hundred times and it gives no indication whatsoever that she is pregnant. The reason Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery ("Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?") is that at that moment the solution he finds for the world to become right again is that women stop giving birth to "sinners" as he puts it, it's kind of a drastic measure but at the time that's what he means by telling Ophelia to go to a nunnery. But really I don't think Ophelia being pregnant is even a possibility here, it might be an intrepretation but I don't think it is even implied in the text much less in this scene here.

[@tompalmer5986]

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be" - that is a small indication. And what about the little dittie - "He let in a maid that out a maid never departed more." Another indication. Also, it would give impetus to Ophelia's suicide if she was pregnant. They didn't have birth control back then, so if Hamlet had sex with her it was very likely she was pregnant. Hamlet's comment - "Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter might conceive. Look to it ... " There are other indications too.

[@LadyGlenmore86]

There's also the fact that when she is mad she mentions Rue which is called herb of grace and was used to induce abortion.

[@toReasonWhy]

@Fairy206 "Bless him for trying", how cleverly un-subtle you are with your elitism. Gibson's Hamlet was the best put to film, and I am not saying this as a fan of Gibson. Hamlet was young and brash, yet more wise and honest than all the knowing elders around him. It is extremely hard to be convincing as the Dane who's been done endlessly. Gibson's was the only one whose stance toward the universe I truly questioned, whose treatment of Hamlet's brilliant cynicism/humor I actually believed.

[@arnoldstollar5375]

Great.

[@jacklowe3429]

I love Helena Bonham Carter!

[@fCLEF007]

best

[@FrankBarnwell-xi8my]

Love

[@RowanIvy]

this comes when they watch the play later in the movie

[@CF1975]

@Daniloveschoir : Indeed, I went to perhaps six or seven clips of this movie and this is the first one without (mostly crappy) music or dubbing in another language. It would save people a lot of time and irritation when (after they search on YT for something specific) posters of videos would mention in the title when they have added music, or when it's dubbed or anything else that is relevant to know.

[@2degucitas]

Poor Ophelia. She doesn't know why he's rejecting her. She doesn't deserve it. No wonder she went mad and drowned herself.

[@Choices2aa]

Helena Bonham Carter has to do a movie with Kate Winslet

[@loripotter9858]

Why isn't this on dvd

[@candycrush7653]

HAMLET The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd. OPHELIA Good my lord, 90 How does your honour for this many a day? HAMLET I humbly thank you; well, well, well. OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them. HAMLET No, not I; I never gave you aught. OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich: their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind 100 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord. HAMLET Ha, ha! are you honest? OPHELIA My lord? HAMLET Are you fair? OPHELIA What means your lordship? HAMLET That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. OPHELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? 110 HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. OPHELIA Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so. HAMLET You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not. OPHELIA I was the more deceived. 120 HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? 130 OPHELIA At home, my lord. HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house. Farewell. OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens! HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell. 140 OPHELIA O heavenly powers, restore him! HAMLET I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages: those that are married already, all but one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are.

[@Rythm.100]

Thanks man

[@kurumais]

this was an interesting version but it dont support what happen when ophelia cracks later in the play

[@Shewib]

To those who think this is better than Branagh/Winslet, it's much easier to act a pared down version of Shakespeare than a fuller version with all its complexity.

[@theyluvvkiesha]

no nunnery?

[@richardcolinames4834]

This is how I feel about marriage.

[@WizardOfHumor1989]

I really wanna see Andrew Garfield play Hamlet!

[@nienna24]

Helena Bonham Carter!

[@jasminecrawford42]

Poor Ophelia

[@slavenkat2927]

You should read "Philosophy in Hamlet" to understand Shakespeare's Hamlet.

[@A-G-A-G]

I wish Helena would go back to her roots As much as I love her quirky characters like bellatrix, she is just as great in period dramas. So versatile

[@BerylGhermez]

Bellatrix is not a 'quirky character'. She's incredibly complex.

[@nickdryad]

Don’t you hate it when a girlfriend gives you your presents back while their breaking up with you. Especially when they don’t want you to break up with them.

[@Free411]

someones on drugs. *cough* carzy necklace throwin dude *cough* no im just kidding

[@TheSaltydog07]

Hamlet is a bully. He bullies Ophelia and her father, his mother, his friends, and Osric -- everyone except the man who murdered his father.

[@IzayoiArwena]

2:26 press chubbies!!!!!

[@drkproductions6830]

Hamlet skipped WAY too many lines in this!

[@pabllito15]

mucho ICKY!!

[@At0mmic]

Branagh pwns this.

[@FonkayMonkay66]

i like the branagh version better

[@sorrenpeak4870]

2:36 It has made me mad! I can not take him seriously.

[@laylee8244]

This made me hate him...

[@iwpoe]

These actors are lost. Where are they now?

[@imgonnakillyoo]

Well Helena is doing pretty well for herself, but for Mel Gibson I cannot say the same.

[@iwpoe]

I mean in the scene.

[@swastikausa]

hbc looks like an elf version of keira knightly

[@bobdebicker]

@MrPlanetMarrs Seriously? Almost all performances have Hamlet abuse her in some way.

[@lauren59231]

And that's what you get for killing dobby

[@laylee8244]

She didnt mean to she meant to hit harry for lords sake

[@tayluvofficial]

She was so young here omg

[@jamesduggan7200]

She's a relatively plain Ophelia. It works. It works with a gorgeous Ophelia, with a worldly Ophelia, with a wacky one, etc. The most valuable thing is highlighting that the girl who (apparently) commits suicide has a relationship with the guy who seems obsessed with suicide, murder, and death in general. I'm not sure that the lack of chemistry here works well with the grave scene tho.

[@454ffv]

thats what u get for killing dobby

[@tyombarrett9794]

this is an ok version of hamlet, I personally do not like it but that is my opinion.

[@allys744]

I wonder what Mel’s telephone rants would sound like in the Shakespearean language

[@radioheadtv3131]

To me she reminds me a lot like a female Johnny Depp

[@kotomi6286]

kings kills K-POP KONISHIKI.

[@petew.7870]

#HBCVsKate

[@BerylGhermez]

HBC, easy.

[@sifugurusensei]

I understood this play, not.

[@zobly]

@doctorpapaya please, gtfo

[@naly202]

Helena is not the Ophelia type. She could play an excellent Lady Macbeth, but not the delicate girl who goes mad after H kills her father. Ophelia is a fabulous character, but you need a certain sensitivity to play it. HBC is a bit too tough and crafty for that. Or maybe it's because I asociate her too much with Belatrix and Mrs Lovett

[@BerylGhermez]

She did play an excellent Ophelia lol. It's so silly to put her in a box. She's a great actress and very versatile. She is great at playing vulnerable 'English Rose' characters and was even unfortunately typecast as that.

[@user-jy2ux5zu4e]

Офелия больно бОрзая.

[@biln2]

he had made a bond with her and that necklace should have been her surety against the wayward and foolish advice of Polonius. Ophelia deferred to the filial invocations of her father Polonius. she and Hamlet both were so Christian in orientation, that there was no choice for either of them. this is said to be a Christian play. the fallen king, Hamlet's father, represents fallen pride and unrepentant sin. the remarried queen represents defiling of family names and taint of ancient bloodlines. the usurping brother represents the Satan and the only married person who shall not live.