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Stoppard Must Be Stark Raving Sane to Turn Hamlet into a Minor Character
I'll confess that Hamlet has never been one of my favorite plays. It's an overwrought tragedy that makes me giggle every bit as much as Romeo and Juliet. I think it's funny when Hamlet and Laertes get into a grief-contest at Ophelia's grave. I think it's funnier still when Hamlet soliloquizes with... Read full review »
They're only mostly dead.
I wasn't going to write an opinion on this movie. Mainly because if you're going to like this movie, you've probably already seen it.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about this movie, and it has been overlooked. (The movie not the misunderstanding)
First off, the main joke of...
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Best when served dry...
Done in a Shakespearian style, this former play is a real challenge. It explores two very minor characters in Will's play, Hamlet.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Who are they? What roles were they really playing in Hamlet's story? What really happened to them? Who's REALLY telling this story anyway?... Read full review »
Questions, questions...
What if you woke up one day and could only remember from that morning? What if you happened to be on your way to see the King of Denmark, for no perceptable reason than that he sent for you? What if you had to live your life based soley on what you could discern from others by the questions you... Read full review »
Death was never so alive
For those High School students still wallowing in the dismal hell that is English class, we all know Shakespeare can be either a blessing or a burden. Sure, the Bard is one of the greatest playwrights ever, but the learning curve can really throw the beginning reader. There are more Thou's,... Read full review »
I'm Rosencrantz, No Guildenstern..
A movie that makes what would be two otherwise minor characters from Shakespears tragedy Hamlet, and gives them the chance (I'm not sure if chance is fair to say) to be somewhat independent from the main play.
I loved this movie absolutly, after 4 weeks of analzying Hamlet in Lit, which is also...
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Up for a bit of wit and humor?
It's always nice to hear two sides of the story; it makes things easier to understand. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" does that very thing - it is Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as seen through the eyes of two minor characters that rarely appear in the play: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I rented... Read full review »
One of the best
This movie is truly a hidden gem. I first saw it as a rental and have since watched it more times than I can count. The plot centers on two of the minor characters from the original Hamlet. In this film, the hamlet story line is still present, but it has become the background to a truly wonderful... Read full review »
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Deal with it.
One of the final lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet tells of the final tragic fate of two nearly insignificant characters from that great tragedy. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." From these two small parts in this major play comes the inspired and fun movie of the same name.
The...
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Stop Drop and Roll on Hamlet
One of the funniest and wittiest movies that I have seen. The dialogue is fabulous and although a little dated compared to many recent films, still head and shoulders above much of what Hollywood churns out.
Richard Dreyfess, in a rather un-Mr. Holland role, is hysterical. His lines on the...
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [dvd New]
Centering on two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, two off-kilter rogues are summoned to the court of the King of Denmark, where they meet a traveling entertainer and attempt to solve a mystery. Based on Tom Stoppard's play, this film won Best Picture at the 1991 Venice Film Festival.
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead DVD
Centering on two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet two off-kilter rogues are summoned to the court of the King of Denmark where they meet a traveling entertainer and attempt to solve a mystery. Based on Tom Stoppard's play this film won Best Picture at the 1991 Venice Film Festival.
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [VHS]
Tom Stoppard's modern stage classic finds a pair of film actors worthy of its verbal japery and existential bewilderment: Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are deliciously locked in as the title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. And yet it remains difficult to tell which one is Rosencrantz and which Guildenstern-- even they seem unsure--a clever part of Stoppard's ingenious design. Focusing on a pair of unremarkable characters from Hamlet, Stoppard sees the great play from their confused perspective. Now and again the action of Hamlet sweeps them up, but most of the time R&G are left wondering where they are, what they have been sent for, and why they can't remember anything that happened before the beginning of the play. Richard Dreyfuss (fittingly grandiloquent) is the Player King, who seems to know more about the ominous workings of fiction and tragedy than the heroes do. Stoppard's first outing as a film director is handsomely shot but uncertainly paced--although any time Oldman and Roth go into one of their tennis-match debates on probability, identity, or death, the movie crackles. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be the "indifferent children of the earth," but for this brief moment they deserve center stage. --Robert Horton
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