Three Hamlets - To be or not to be / Scott & Cumberbatch & Tennant

Hamlet - To be or not to be
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Andrew Scott + Benedict Cumberbatch + David Tennant = Hamlet
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A vid made from scenes performed by 3 different actors for the same role. I hope that you like it.
31.01.2021 - check my latest Vid with Yorick scene - • Two Hamlets - Alas, po...
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[@patperrier9640]

David Tennant shines. He always will. Benedict - I wish the audio was better. He does visible crazy quite well. Andrew Scott's "conversational" style is amazing, and he's got the "hidden crazy" down to a scary, visceral tee. I mean, it's NOT hidden, but the conversational style sort of masks it. Maybe. But you know it's there.

[@samaeldeul572]

Al these three are just me in stages of the night. Tennant is around 11 o'clock when I slowly lose sense of time and actual life. Ben is the next around 1 when I'm just one big bowl of emotional shit and Andrew is around 4 when I just fucking lost my mind 😂😂

[@VerseNaberrie]

Wow, i have never thought about them in that way XD

[@katyonoook1665]

i feels like three stages of acceptance: cumberbatch represents denial and anger, tennat depression and scott madness i love the difference between them and how they act as they understood the character in their own manner. personally, scott’s is the most interesting one now i study hamlet at the university and it’s really fascinating to dive into this world

[@VerseNaberrie]

:O that is interesting

[@shaicontrol]

while the other two show far much visible emotion, i feel andrew scott’s actually feels like someone talking to themselves, the words coming out of their own mind rather than being written and memorized

[@Wienerblutable]

Well the other 2 were on stage, u can’t talk that silence and don’t move on stage u have to over act.

[@pippipster6767]

The overacting and the ham was on another level. All three in their own way, missed the spot. You need the levels of Olivier, Burton and Hopkins for this.

[@janel342]

⁠@@Wienerblutable You’re right. But in Professional terms it’s easier to shoot a soliloquy in close up- it melds perfectly with the intimate nature of the ‘sonnet’ - like language structure. But to keep that intimacy and ‘share’ it with an audience of 2,000- now THAT is where real brilliance lies. This wasn’t written for close ups! So however well the Hamlet does, ultimately it’s a hybrid. Keeping it small enough for the scrutiny of the camera - but enabling the back row of the dress circle to hear. An actor

[@ananyasharma457]

David Tennant's portrayal is haunting , it crippled my emotions , that i started crying and i didn't even know , it's so good that halfway in his performance i wanted to hold him and say it's just life ,it's okay.

[@kelanguy671]

Love that Andrew Scott and Robert Icke just said “fuck the Iambic pentameter, let’s try something different”. Given the actor slightly more freedom of interpretation to make him stand out

[@VerseNaberrie]

I agree, he is the most original

[@BabaaYaga888]

I love Scott's one the most, the silence is haunting, the humanness of it. It stops being just a play and becomes so much more.

[@VerseNaberrie]

I agree, but i must say that I prefer David more, i just feel the pain. However in overall i like version with Scott 😉

[@zoefang4563]

Can you have these three doing the "Get Thee To a Nunnery" speech?!!! I'll tell you AGAIN. David Tennant delivered it the most powerfully...JUST BRILLIANT.

[@VerseNaberrie]

I will do it in february :)

[@VerseNaberrie]

I made it :)

[@zoefang4563]

@@VerseNaberrie Can I have the link please?

[@VerseNaberrie]

@@zoefang4563 please see kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWWZdHmbaNSfqqc

[@VerseNaberrie]

@@zoefang4563 i sent it, or please to to my profile, it is in last 10 made vids

[@doryannedemille3961]

I really enjoyed all three interpretations.

[@robertovasani]

An Irishman, a Scot and an Englishman haha! But kidding aside, three incredible actors. Scott is my pick.

[@amandasaunders2503]

Andrew Scott is my favourite. I hate it when people over -act and people tend to do that with Shakespeare. I love how real and conversational Andrew is with it. Everyone else feels like they are just saying lines, his version you feel it.

[@zaneclone]

In my opinion, no-one has quite captured my own interpretation of this speech... However, Tennent is on the right track....

[@ria-zul-zannah7100]

Tennant is the best here! Love Andrew's version too. Benedict was too speedy.

[@vidyam2666]

What a compilation.. Probably Hamlet was all of these emotions and tones and nuances

[@VerseNaberrie]

Thx :) yes, hamlet is that and probably more ;)

[@ironvlogger9712]

Tennant and Cumberbun win this one😍😭🤤

[@VerseNaberrie]

I agree :) they are very emotional and thanks to this they get extra points

[@codesterlalit]

Andrew gives me chills

[@Courfeyracc]

I saw all three live and Andrew Scott's performance was the best imo. He felt more like he was constantly in the moment where the other two were like "here is the big moment" and it felt forced. I do like David Tennet but with the exception of Much Ado About Nothing, I haven't liked any of his other Shakespeare performances, sorry. And I like Ben too but that production of Hamlet was really boring and I hated the way they decided to edit the text. Andrew's Hamlet was one of the best productions I have seen of the play. The director is one of my favourites and I just loved how fresh he made it and how he filled out a lot of the character connections, especially between Hamlet and Ophelia.

[@VerseNaberrie]

yes, in Scott's Hamlet, the character connections between Hamlet and Ophelia was great. I must say that it was the first one where I really saw that he loved her. (there even was some kind of happy ending) But i must say that for this particular scene I prefer David and Ben :)

[@master49er]

These comments are saving my assignment.

[@theavandenberg6876]

All good ofcourse. But Andrew Scott absolutely rules

[@felixVanDiemen]

Marvellous! Thanks for posting

[@vic-imelloyd-white5473]

Cumberbatch, Tennant, Scott in that order for me. Thanks for uploading. 👍🏾

[@VerseNaberrie]

thank you, I also made a new vid, just yesterday :)

[@marie-ellenheyroth7116]

Got to love the algorythm for recomending you ❤

[@VerseNaberrie]

There are also other hamlet Vids :)

[@civlwrbuf]

There is another Scott missing from this montage, Campbell Scott's is up there with these blokes, and lets not forget Branagh as well . Having said that Andrew's performance is as others have said more natural and human. It is someone doing Shakespeare without doing Shakespeare.

[@seriesscratchx9807]

Tennant!!!

[@VerseNaberrie]

I think for this scene he is the best, see also my new vid with other comparing of actors :)

[@zoefang4563]

@@VerseNaberrie This scene AND "Get Thee To a Nunnery"

[@VerseNaberrie]

@@zoefang4563 i may make comparision vid on February :)

[@talia77us]

I know that Scott wanted to be different, and I can admire it, but for me, I feel it so much more from Tennant and Cumberbatch.

[@VerseNaberrie]

I think for this scene Tennant is the best, much more emotions, see also my new vid with other comparing of actors :)

[@ZeRo-yc7zf]

I agree, but check out Scotts performance on Soliloquy 1 (act 1 scene 2) I thought he nailed that one in his style

[@zoefang4563]

@@VerseNaberrie YESSSSSSSSS

[@tamaramarkovic6774]

This is awesome!!!

[@VerseNaberrie]

thank you :)

[@thoukisth]

TENNANT

[@teresaanderson5702]

David Tennet was BREATHTAKING …WOW

[@Kenoi_]

I feel David gets it just right. The others are either too emotional or too emotionless.

[@stephenturner4715]

Cumberbatch overcooks it.

[@annmariebyrnes7847]

This is great. I'll use it with my students. Thanks!

[@VerseNaberrie]

I glad that you like it and I hope it will serve well 😊

[@cgm530]

i really dislike tennant's hamlet, but have to admit he does this scene very well. i actually think scott's is excellent. it's clearly a bit jarring, but hamlet has been performed so many times it's nice to see someone attempting a very different interpretation, and he pulls it off pretty well. cumberbatch's is just way too melodramatic. he gets so caught up in making his voice break every three seconds that i don't even get a sense of him as hamlet anymore. overall tennant (in this scene only) > scott > cumberbatch, but have to admit none of them are my favourite interpretations.

[@VerseNaberrie]

somehow I prefer a more desperate / frustrated Hamlet , the more he cries the best :D Scott was too calm for me, but I agree he was very unique and different

[@jimduncan5860]

@@VerseNaberrie I'll add my two pence. Shakespeare is universal, with as much for the present as the past. It's that for which I appreciate Scott's version--it's more modern, with a repressed angst and frustration that shows in the tension of his gestures.

[@joanie-music]

Which are your favorite interpretations?

[@scottishgirl0918]

I love them all but David Tennant's version just hits different

[@Echiya]

Love them all but its Branaugh.

[@WhomerlockwoodsChannel]

1. Cumberbatch 2. Tennant 3. Scott Tbh I've never watched a good performance of Shakespeare's work by Andrew Scott. It feels like he doesn't really get it. It's Shakespeare, dammit! You have to show emotions! Even overact! Tennant manages it to show these emotions in that scene with a calm voice, but you still get those vibes. Idk, maybe Scott is making a "modern" approach or so... Cumberbatch is great like always. (Tho the best actor in Shakespearen plays will always be Patrick Stewart to me xD)

[@VerseNaberrie]

yes, I think Scott just wanted to show sth different, and he did and it is interesting. But in comparison to two other actors, he seems too calm and he almost 'vanishes'. (I think that my favourite Hamlet is Tennant :) )

[@linnea.p3777]

I get what you mean, personally I prefer Scott’s because he says the words realistically like they’ve just entered his mind. It’s less dramatic but it has more impact, it’s like he’s exploring their meaning for the first time which must be really difficult because their hundreds of years old and they’ve been analyzed so much. To say them genuinely like their your own is really impressive

[@zoefang4563]

@ Whomerlockwockwood's Channel: Haha for me personally its 1. TENNANT 2. Cumberbatch 3. Scott

[@JosemariaIsabelmaria]

Me encantaría poder ver las tres representaciones completas, ¿ dónde podría encontrarlas?

[@anyawx6812]

For me: Andrew David Ben

[@VerseNaberrie]

for this particular scene, I have Ben and David at 1st place and Andrew for 2nd ;)

[@altheacain2942]

Where can I watch these?

[@kuoarnold8638]

David Tennant got it right

[@coleteit]

David best

[@chelellis1049]

Patrik Stewart

[@oldscribe6153]

Scott 1 out of 10. Cumerbatch 0 out of 10. Tennant 10 out of 10.

[@VerseNaberrie]

XD

[@BetterThanSinatra]

They are not ready to do Hamlet. they all need more time to learn about over-acting. "suit the action to the word, the word to the action." Watch Garen Garson doing this snd you will learn how to do it.

[@sobesednik4734]

Andrew Scott I like the least here, to me he's not believable.

[@VerseNaberrie]

I like David:)

[@sobesednik4734]

Me too )