Word: polonius
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...match for one another is because they are equally petulant. Hamlet does not represent "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye," just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully, the two are saved by the supporting cast. Bill Murray as Polonius injects significant pathos into Polonius' foppish politicking and Liev Schriber demonstrates some exceptionally tender moments before he departs in the opening act. In their short time together, this father-son duo exudes great paternal chemistry, which ends up more compelling than the shallow animosity between Claudius and Hamlet. The film improves...
...characteristic self-berating monologue, Hawke scrutinizes James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, asking, "What would he do?"-something which nicely crystallizes Hamlet's vacillation. Hamlet screaming at Gertrude to "Leave wringing of your hands" as she dives for a telephone, and placing a recording wire on Ophelia so Polonius can eavesdrop on her conversation with Hamlet are all commendable directorial choices, but the work becomes spoiled with major misinterpretation. As the play was origianlly written, Hamlet chooses not to kill Claudius in act III, scene iii, because he discovers Claudius praying and repenting in the chapel...
...terms of actors, were there certain people that came to mind? Bill Murray, for example is one actor that fits well in his role as Polonius...
According to Polonius, the highest loyalty is to oneself, but it helps to remember that Polonius was an idiot. We are not even capable of being true to who we are, and many of us would be better off as someone else. Auden had it right in the poem "Lullaby": "Lay your sleeping head, my love/ Human on my faithless arm." Ah, humans...