ALSO, I haz a vid!

[quinara]

I know, I know, I should spread my content out, but it feels like I've been working on this for an age and I want to show people! (Though I suppose it can't have been that long; I've only had the DVD since January...)

I did a Hamlet vid!! With the David Tennant RSC version! stultiloquentia was very patient with me and gave many fabulous beta comments along the way, so thank you to her!

Triceratops.

Hamlet doesn't like being watched.

Ophelia doesn't have a choice in the matter.

[Hamlet (RSC 2009) + HEALTH 'Triceratops' (CFCF Remix)]
[To the download link!]

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Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Have watched three times. Like! Am cud-chewing. Back later.

[quinara]

Oh, faboo! I am conscious that the bits that are different are perhaps not the bits you were expecting to be different. :D

[hazelk]

This is your first vid? I hate you.

It’s a very challenging source with all the staginess and all talking and you take all that and shamelessly make it a feature. Hamlet just won’t shut up. It’s not what he says but that he never stops and all the jump cuts and ghosts and repeats take their cue from the rhythm of his constant jabber. And at some point you completely turn it around and make the vid Ophelia’s, so every move he made becomes mere foreshadowing for what she has to say, the cracked mirror is hers, it always was and the ending finally silences him, desaturates him, makes him the ghost trapped in the viewscreen.

Is it OK if I rec it?

[quinara]

Hahahaha... Technically I think my first vid was the awful bit of terribly dull I sent Stulti, but she was kind enough to point out how incredibly boring the vast majority of it was. :)

And ooh, that's so cool that that's what you got out of it! Thanks for telling me. I remember reading around some vidding meta and seeing someone say that they never use clips with talking, and laughing to myself because I knew that was never going to happen with Hamlet. There's so much dialogue, all the time...

I would love for you to rec it! I'm not sure it's really pertinent to my flist's interests, so anything that punts it in the direction of (potentially) interested parties would be lovely!

[stultiloquentia]

I continue to love the transition with H lunging up at the camera followed by him standing back as the court enters and seats itself to watch the play. His attempt to become the director of the show instead of the one on display.

So he tries to force others onto stage center: Claudius, briefly, but mostly Gertrude and then Ophelia (issues with women? who him?). But Ophelia doesn't want to and cannot tell the story he desires out of her; she has to tell her story, and Hamlet gets angrier and angrier as he fails to make her play the scene he wants (fails to direct events. takes it out on the women.). He simultaneously can't stand to be on camera, and can't stand it when it's NOT All About Him.

He forces them onstage, and then he kills their stories, which kills them, and then (surprise, buddy) in the last shot he's alone, and guess what: he's still being watched, and all he's done is shown the audience his own monstrosity.

HELL of a vid, Quin. Wow. *salutes*

[quinara]

*bows* Oh, thank you - for the praise and also for the beautifully articulated thoughts! I feel slightly bad, because I love Hamlet and think he's amazing - but he is so nasty when it comes to Ophelia and Gertrude, in a way that he never really is to Claudius. (Is he as cruel to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Maybe.)

[stultiloquentia]

Still haven't seen this production, but I've seen others where he definitely is cruel to his friends.

[quinara]

I suppose he comes off as somewhat cruel in this one (though not to Horatio, whom he obviously adores) - impatient, certainly. But R&G are presented as such spineless suck-ups to Claudius and Gertrude that I suppose it doesn't seem quite so unjustified (apart from the killing them bit, obvs, but I can't actually remember if they leave that in explicitly...).