Clearly the Danish can just wangst better than the rest of us
I am currently on a major, major Hamlet kick, and it's resulting in all sorts of inane doodles popping up, among other things. Again, this is mostly the fault of blinkidybah's Shakespeare class, but HOMG, Hamlet. <3 <3 You are so wangsty, yet so goddamn funny at the saaammee tiiiime. Once Scone gets in on Friday, we have plans to watch Kenneth Branagh's version (much love), Ethan Hawke's "version," (Ughhhhhggblugh. She has to watch it for class, and it's really a shame that the movie has good good moments but is completely overshadowed by the lead sucking so goddamn badly), and an older BBC production that I've never seen in which Derek Jacobi is Hamlet (gawd, he looks so young) and Lalla Ward (Romana II) is Ophie.
Of course, I still want to see Ingmar Bergman's 1986 theater production like nobody's fucking business. Srsly, guys. Srsly. The final scene where Fortinbras's men storm in, firing machine guns and throwing grenades? Where they drag Horatio offstage and execute him, before Fortinbras delivers the final speech about recording history and 'how it happened' now that everyone is dead?? WHAT. WHAT. I don't care that the whole thing is in Swedish, I want to see it naoz. I am having zero luck finding a recording though, although apparently they had special showings after Bergman's death, so the goddamn thing exists somewhere. Waaauauuughhghghgg. It'd probably help if I could search in Swedish though.
ETA: Just bitched about this to my sister, who responded by searching across some nationwide university library system called Worldcat. Where it does not exist. She's also suggested that they might just be restricting it to film festivals and showings, since clearly people need to be artsy snobs about this kind of shit. Ugh.
Also, in Reganland, Viola of Twelfth Night is a hottie.
Man. I really want a Hamlet icon now too. Add that to the damn list. And because I'm sure all of you love hearing me blab about Hamlet, here's an unrelated meme:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO googling/using IMDb search functions. I made these pretty obvious IMO, anyway XP
1) "Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?" Back to the Future II - soopagrrl
2) "Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to." Watership Down - blinkidybah
3) "In heaven: send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him in the other place yourself.- But if, indeed, you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby" Hamlet - blinkidybah
4) "You don't remember your name?"
"No, but for some reason I remember yours." Spirited Away - foenixfyre
5) "Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much!" The Incredibles - blinkidybah
6) "We'll find out everything there is to know about the D man: his dreams, his desires, his most intimates of intimates, and from what I'm looking at, "intimate" is the stud muffin's middle name. So tell me my man, are you nervous in the service?" The Fifth Element - blinkidybah
7) "It's a crystal. Nothing more. But if you turn it this way and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this is not a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby." Labyrinth - elendraug
8) "All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
"No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that." Hitchhiker's Guide - elendraug
9) "Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." Back to the Future I - x_los
10) "Ladies and gentlemen, you are such a wonderful crowd, we'd like to play a little tune for you. It's one of my personal favorites and I'd like to dedicate it to a young man who doesn't think he's seen anything good today" Ferris Bueller's Day Off - foenixfyre
Of course, I still want to see Ingmar Bergman's 1986 theater production like nobody's fucking business. Srsly, guys. Srsly. The final scene where Fortinbras's men storm in, firing machine guns and throwing grenades? Where they drag Horatio offstage and execute him, before Fortinbras delivers the final speech about recording history and 'how it happened' now that everyone is dead?? WHAT. WHAT. I don't care that the whole thing is in Swedish, I want to see it naoz. I am having zero luck finding a recording though, although apparently they had special showings after Bergman's death, so the goddamn thing exists somewhere. Waaauauuughhghghgg. It'd probably help if I could search in Swedish though.
ETA: Just bitched about this to my sister, who responded by searching across some nationwide university library system called Worldcat. Where it does not exist. She's also suggested that they might just be restricting it to film festivals and showings, since clearly people need to be artsy snobs about this kind of shit. Ugh.
Also, in Reganland, Viola of Twelfth Night is a hottie.
Man. I really want a Hamlet icon now too. Add that to the damn list. And because I'm sure all of you love hearing me blab about Hamlet, here's an unrelated meme:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO googling/using IMDb search functions. I made these pretty obvious IMO, anyway XP
1) "Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?" Back to the Future II - soopagrrl
2) "Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to." Watership Down - blinkidybah
3) "In heaven: send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him in the other place yourself.- But if, indeed, you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby" Hamlet - blinkidybah
4) "You don't remember your name?"
"No, but for some reason I remember yours." Spirited Away - foenixfyre
5) "Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much!" The Incredibles - blinkidybah
6) "We'll find out everything there is to know about the D man: his dreams, his desires, his most intimates of intimates, and from what I'm looking at, "intimate" is the stud muffin's middle name. So tell me my man, are you nervous in the service?" The Fifth Element - blinkidybah
7) "It's a crystal. Nothing more. But if you turn it this way and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this is not a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby." Labyrinth - elendraug
8) "All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
"No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that." Hitchhiker's Guide - elendraug
9) "Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain." Back to the Future I - x_los
10) "Ladies and gentlemen, you are such a wonderful crowd, we'd like to play a little tune for you. It's one of my personal favorites and I'd like to dedicate it to a young man who doesn't think he's seen anything good today" Ferris Bueller's Day Off - foenixfyre