The HAMLET Page

SOON TO COME! - my meeting with Kenneth Branagh during the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the filming of the new Paul Gross film "Men With Brooms" today...hopefully I'll be able to go next week and meet the Hamlet of Stratford 2000. Anyone with any ideas about who I should stalk next, feel free to email me!

My Favorite Hamlet Quotes (or Life Lessons from the Bard)

• Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping?
• (Of Horatio) A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards hast ta'en with equal thanks.
• What should a man do but be merry?
• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
• We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and you lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to one table. That's the end.
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rought-hew them how we will.
• The readiness is all...Let be.
• Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile and smile and be a villain.
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet Performances...

• Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet - A must see for any Hamlet fan....Stays true to the original play, with great acting, beautiful scenery, and some fun cameos (i.e. Robin Willaims, Billy Crystal)
• Mel Gibson's Hamlet - Pretty good. Watchable if the Branagh version is unavailable.
• Paul Gross at Stratford Festival (2000) - A little too weepy for my liking...although there was an element of humour he managed to bring to the role, which i liked a lot. Being good looking and Canadian are a definite plus. ; )
• Ethan Hawke's (2000) Hamlet - Ethan Hawke isn't my first choice for a modern day Hamlet. Too little manic and too much depression. Worth a try though, some of the updated scenes are quite clever.