also one of my favorite things abt the 2009 movie is how laertes is actively breaking down crying as he says "therefore i forbid my tears" after hearing abt ophelia's death. he is hamlet's opposite in that he's decisive and determined in his resolve to avenge his father and later his sister, but it's not that he's somehow "stronger" or more heroic than hamlet for this. he's just this broken person who's now lost his whole family and doesn't care what happens to him in either life or death

yeah i do wish i had some kind of time machine to go back to 2008 and see david tennant perform as hamlet live on stage despite there already being a movie version i've watched a billion times, and this is not just because ooga booga theater braincell and i think the text will always be best conveyed on the stage but also because i read a review that mentioned how during the too too sullied flesh soliloquy he claws at his face like he's trying to imagine ripping it off and this has fucking haunted me

hello tedx talk about the concept of female actors playing hamlet from 4 years ago i wish you would not include funny haha gender essentialism in your points about how a woman would fit the character (because the concept that women take forever to make a decision is, in fact, a product of the sexist status quo you are trying to criticize) and instead consider that hamlet is someone that is constantly being made aware of their wrongness and inability to conform to nearly every standard set upon them, including gender, and so much of their inner conflict and self-hatred comes from that. yes a hamlet who is socialized as a woman would be extremely interesting but it's not just because girls deserve representation of a morally gray character w depression but because hamlet faces this expectation of docility in the face of an injustice that only they perceive, and they are made so aware abt how they're near constantly being watched, and they are so intelligent and talks circles around ppl yet they have so few ppl who they can trust who will actually listen to them and this all gains a layer of deeper meaning if it is made abundantly clear that this is all a direct result of misogyny

compilation of some of my personal favorite hamlet reviews on letterboxd

forgiving your past self ☀️

Do you think, in Journey’s End, when Martha threatens to blow up the Earth to stop the Daleks, the Tenth Doctor has a flashback to him destroying Gallifrey?

And how Davros says The Doctor turns ordinary people into soldiers, he realizes it’s true. Because The Doctor was an ordinary person turned into a soldier and he did destroy is own planet to stop the Daleks. And Martha was going to follow in his path. A path he created first.

Do you think he saw himself in Martha? And all the things he’s ever done? All the deaths he caused? How, the only other planet he’s ever called home, was going to be destroyed by him, again?

How it was going to happen all over again, all because of him?

Cause I do.

casanova

Some Rose doodles, trying a looser style 🌹

Dev Patel on the transgender representation, including the hijra community, in Monkey Man (2024).

Percy De Rolo summarised by textposts I’ve collected on Pinterest or something

*eminem voice* *falls into a hole in a sewer grate before saying anything*

Kiki✨️🌿🍁🍂

The goofiness of the early campaign really does lead you into a false sense of security. I almost tell for it again too.

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

NewWho Companion Mix ‘n Match: Twelfth Doctor Edition

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