Splicing point

Katlyn 2022-01-13 08:01:54

A good Hamlet is lined up from another point of view, which is not finished, nor is it new; it is more interesting to break it up from another point of view, break it up and put it together again. Where did it break? All the uncertain things—those ambiguous sentences, interchangeable names, scenes and characters both in and out of the play, spaces with irregular degrees of freedom—the edges of all those deterministic fragments.

A series of questions is not only its own meaning, but also a part of the game. Two dragons, big R and big G, no one knows who is who. In a troupe, the rehearsal is also a performance, and the performance is also a preview. An old man, both the troupe master and the ghost of the king, told them: We only play pantomimes because the words are full of ambiguities. Just like R said to G at the beginning, we only have words, but the two of them desperately caught them, and there is no need to doubt that they did not catch anything. But who would have thought that what was distorted was not only words, but also time and space-the corridor where Big G couldn't go out, the sound hit the border and bounced back, Big R's paper airplane flew around and returned to the original place. From the place where these uncertainties overflowed, it was broken, and each fragment was twisted, displaced, and spliced. So a complete and comfortable classical vase becomes a modern artwork, and the classic interpretation becomes absurd.

But some things are definite and unchanging, and things that are definite and unchanging are definite and unchanging. No matter what those things are, from the perspective of probability, they should change so much. A hundred coin flips are all headshots. Big G said to Big R, at least equal opportunities. If six monkeys...he paused for a while, he just couldn't catch the word "Shakespeare", so what? Even if there are countless opportunities, the slightest effort is lost. Big R can be Big G, Big G can also be Big R, but he is sure it is not Newton, Watt, Archimedes, Galileo, Wright Brothers or Uncle McDonald's. There is always something to tell him that it's not, it's not, it's wrong. Nobody is sure it's just Nobody. Of course, their hanging is also certain. Eight people died, not six. This is also the part that cannot be changed. Polonius was assassinated, Ophelia drowned, Leotis and Hamlet were poisoned with swords, Claudius was killed, Gertrude drank the wine. And Shakespeare also wrote "Rosencrantz and Gildenston are dead". Because mortals are mortal, otherwise it is not finished. This was guaranteed by the troupe's troupe, God's grandfather, and George R.R. Martin.

Generally speaking, this is a very, very delicate drama. I am not particularly satisfied with it. If a play is so sophisticated, and a playwright is so smart, the audience will inevitably expect something more, or feel that something is missing. On the other hand, the scripting has little appeal to the audience, and there is no time for him to take care of them. They are in High...

Fortunately, there are some expectations that will not fail, such as Sirius and 1900 taking turns selling cute... There can always be more. These two can be brought into the personalities of Van Gogh and Gauguin in "Longing for Life".

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Extended Reading
  • Vita 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    I should watch this new Shakespeare drama with reverence, but in fact, half of the time I saw it, I was already attracted by the little Ultraman daughter-in-law who is always acting cute and the screw slut who has been playing handsome boss. Nope, I just can't control the slut who wants to hit five stars~~~~~~

  • Damion 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Absurdity is also reality, and reality is tragedy. We have to let everyone who is doomed die. We play a tragedy, the trajectory has been set, there is no choice, in the end the bad guys are unhappy and the good guys are unlucky. This is tragedy.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quotes

  • Guildenstern: Where's Hamlet?

    Rosencrantz: Gone!

    Guildenstern: Gone, where?

    Rosencrantz: The pirates took him.

    Guildenstern: But they can't! We're supposed to be... We've got a letter which says... The whole thing's pointless without him. We need Hamlet for our release!

    Rosencrantz: I'll pretend to be... *You* pretend to be him, and... Right.

    [pauses]

    Rosencrantz: I suppose we just go on.

    Guildenstern: Go where?

    Rosencrantz: England?

    Guildenstern: England. I don't believe it!

    Rosencrantz: What, just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?

    Guildenstern: [grabs Rosencrantz] I *mean* I don't believe it! And even if it's true, what do we say?

    Rosencrantz: We say, "We've arrived!"

    The Player: [as King of England] Who are you?

    Rosencrantz: We are Guildenstern & Rosencrantz.

    The Player: [as King] Which is which?

    Rosencrantz: Well, I'm Guildenstern.

    Guildenstern: And he's Rosencrantz.

    Rosencrantz: Exactly.

    The Player: [as King] What does this have to do with me? You turn up out of the blue with some cock-and-bull story...

    Guildenstern: We have a letter.

    [presents letter]

    The Player: [as King] A letter?

    [chuckles, takes letter]

    The Player: Hm.

    [reading]

    The Player: As England is Denmark's faithful tributary. As love between them, like the palm might flourish, et cetera, that on the knowing of these contents, without delay of any kind, should those bearers, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, put to sudden death.

    Rosencrantz: Not that letter. Give him the other one.

    Guildenstern: I haven't got another one.

    The Player: [shrugs, then yells to Tragedians] They're gone! It's all over!

    Guildenstern: Where we went wrong, was getting on a boat.

  • Rosencrantz: We were sent for. That's why we're here. Traveling a matter of extreme urgency, a royal summons, his very words, official business no questions asked, up we get and off at the gallop, fearful lest we come too late!

    Guildenstern: Too late for what?

    Rosencrantz: How would I know? We haven't got there yet.