(light music) (film reel clicking)
(dramatic music)
(tense music)
(film reel clicking)
(ethereal music)
(birds chirping)
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ♪
[Ophelia] You may think you know my story.
Many have told it.
It has long passed into history, into myth.
♪ The stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never ♪
[Ophelia] I have seen more of heaven and hell
than most people dream of.
♪ That the stars are fire ♪
[Ophelia] But I was always a willful girl
and followed my heart and spoke my mind.
And it is high time
I should tell you my story myself.
[Peasant Woman] Mind out below!
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
[Polonius] Ophelia, careful.
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun ♪
[Nurse] Is that a mouse in your pocket again?
[Tutor] Be quiet!
[Ophelia] Laertes, I'm coming with you!
[Laertes] Don't!
Go back, Ophelia!
[Ophelia] But think of all the books!
[Nurse] So, students as well.
Very sweet.
I'll teach you later.
[Tutor] Hush now, make ready for your studies.
(tense music)
(children laughing)
[Neville] Watch out for dragons!
- Dragons? - Oh, Neville.
[Neville] It's a shortcut.
[Merchant] Brace of rabbits for skinning.
Ooh, little rascal!
Oi!
[Laertes] Ophelia!
(guests chattering) (cheerful music)
- Don't! - Leave me.
I want to see.
(guests applauding)
To Prince Hamlet!
Leaving us for the great University of Wittenberg.
15 years old today, little more than a boy,
little less than a man.
He insults the prince?
That's his uncle, the king's brother.
Apple of his mother's eye.
Of course, it was an apple that tempted a woman
in the Garden of Eden.
[Gertrude] I had always thought it was a snake.
[Claudius] It was an apple of knowledge,
and knowledge kills innocence as surely
as winter snow kills summer blooms.
Ophelia!
Then I fear for my son at university
where they will fill him with knowledge.
(Jester babbling)
To the prince!
[All] To the prince!
May he someday rise from his mother's lap.
I think the apple was quite innocent in the matter.
Ophelia!
(jester gasps)
[Gertrude] What is an Ophelia?
Your Majesty, it is a child
very much like a snake's tooth
and a true snake she is, in the garden of my duty.
She?
The exact copy and very picture
of her departed and much lamented mother.
My Ophelia, my daughter, my treasure.
(gentle music)
[Gertrude] A treasure most in want of polishing.
[Polonius] This is ladies' work to polish such a treasure,
and alas, I am no lady.
Alas indeed.
I may be a lass, but there is no call for such alas-ing.
I would not want to be a lad.
Then she shall be one of my ladies,
and we shall see to the raising of her.
(guests murmuring)
(dramatic music)
- Let me go! - Hold still, stop moving.
(Ophelia gasps)
[Lady In Blue] Hold still.
Absolutely tragic.
Oh, dear.
Stop!
(light music)
(men chuckling)
[Onlooker] She's fair for you.
[Onlooker] Ah, nonsense.
You dance like a goat, Ophelia, baa.
(birds chirping)
(Ophelia humming) (ethereal music)
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
[Cristiana] Her father's a flatterer.
He wormed his way in through dirt.
Have you seen how she wears flowers,
never jewels, in her hair?
[Woman In Blue Dress] I thought she'd been
rolling in the dirt.
She smells of garden soil.
(Cristiana laughs)
Her father can't afford jewels.
She is common.
[Woman In Blue Dress] Whatever does she see in her?
There you are, Ophelia.
What took you so long this time?
Watch yourself.
[All] My Lady.
My Lady, quick, before the water cools.
[Gertrude] What do I smell?
Like a garden.
(ladies in waiting chuckling)
Petals for my bath?
Go ahead.
What a lovely idea, girls, thank you.
You are most welcome, My Lady.
Goodnight.
Take the candles, my eyes are too weary to read.
I could read to you, My Lady.
(ladies in waiting chuckling)
A girl who knows how to read?
My brother teaches me.
Goodnight, my queen.
[Woman In Blue Dress] Sleep well, My Lady.
[Woman In Pigtails] My Lady.
Shut the door behind you.
Have you seen how the hens in the yard peck at each other?
Each choosing the one just weaker.
Why do the ladies peck at you?
I'm not noble, My Lady.
(Gertrude sighs)
Did you know I was not raised at court?
My sister and I were sent as girls to a convent in France.
But even there, there were hens and they pecked.
Even the nuns?
But I had my sister to defend me.
Read to me then.
If you really can.
"A woman of Alencon having married for her profit
"found a gentleman who offered her pleasure."
This is no devotional book.
Something much more important than prayer.
Read on.
(upbeat music)
"The gentleman caused her to find herself
"alone with him in an orchard.
"Here he said unto her,
"'Madam, my heart belongs to you.'
"She protested that he loved her rank alone.
"And he replied, 'Madam, nothing could add to your graces,
"'except the one thing that can make a face more beautiful,
"'which is transformation in ecstasy.'
"'My Lord gratifies me so much, ' replied she.
"'I do not ask for any other thing.'
"'Have mercy, good lady, ' cried he,
"'for I am gone mad with love.'
"At this, the lady did swoon.
"Then the gentleman, seeing her half-conquered.
"plied her to good purpose with his long-concealed passion."
(crowd cheering)
[Citizen] The prince, the prince, he comes!
[Citizen] My lord!
[Gertrude] Here he is!
[Hamlet] Look at this, Horatio.
I told you we'd have a welcome.
Oh, and so handsome, so grown.
Every inch a king.
(peaceful music)
[Gertrude] My dear son!
(Gertrude laughing) - Mm!
It's good to be home.
Yes.
[Hamlet] Come, Horatio.
Don't wanna lose you at the end of the journey.
Now, we feast.
(tense music)
I remember this as an excellent place to fish.
Come away, Hamlet, let's try farther down.
(Hamlet chuckles)
A wondrous fish indeed, inhabits the grove.
[Ophelia] The fish would like to come ashore.
The fish is very welcome.
No fish comes willing to the fisherman.
My Lord, it's one of the Queen's ladies in waiting.
Then she will not mind waiting till I catch a fish.
Of all of the ladies, I'm least fond of waiting.
There are two sides struggling in you.
One is baser, one better.
She tells my fortune, Horatio.
My Lord, it is your misfortune.
Come away, Hamlet.
Whoa!
(Hamlet and Horatio grunting)
(Hamlet and Horatio laughing)
[Hamlet] 'Tis a quick fish, Horatio!
Get me my net!
[Gertrude] Such lovely shades and so lifelike.
(ladies in waiting giggling)
And these threads.
Oh, for a moment alone in the forest.
(ladies in waiting giggling)
And almost naked.
[Lady In Waiting] Who do you suppose she'll meet
under that greenwood tree?
[Lady In Waiting] Well, perhaps she has
a rendezvous with some satyr.
[Lady In Waiting] Yes!
[Lady In Waiting] Have you ever ventured
into the woods outside the castle walls?
[Lady In Waiting] I do not like the woods myself.
[Lady In Waiting] Oh, I would not dare.
Unaccompanied, indeed.
Hamlet, come.
Do you like it?
Most lifelike.
When I am finished, it will be truer than life.
But where's the hunter?
See, he has left his arrows there.
Those are her arrows.
Go on, Ophelia.
She is Diana, goddess of the hunt.
She made her home in the forest.
She knew no man until the hunter Actaeon came upon her.
A hunter, not a fisherman?
He hid and watched her bathe.
[Hamlet] Was he punished for this trespass?
Mercilessly.
Diana turned him into a stag
and his own hounds tore him apart.
And do you ladies think this punishment was fit?
Hasn't that ever been the story?
Beauty turns men to beasts.
(Hamlet and ladies in waiting chuckle)
I'd always pictured the goddess as a girl.
You know, youthful, impulsive.
Diana is too aged in this weaving.
[Weaver] She is depicted as the queen,
your mother, My Lord.
(Gertrude sighs)
It's a wretched likeness.
Unpick your threads and begin again.
[Cristiana] Fetch her tonic.
Quickly, after the queen.
(Gertrude crying)
[Lady In Waiting] Where could she be?
I hope she's gone to her chambers.
(ladies in waiting chattering)
[Lady In Waiting] How did you lose sight of her?
[Lady In Waiting] Perhaps, she's retired to her chamber.
- Come quickly, now. - I mean, really, it's fine.
[Lady In Waiting] Well, she doesn't look aged at all.
(birds chirping)
[Claudius] Have you lost your way?
(Gertrude sighs)
I've lived plenty long enough to know my way
and not yet long enough to forget it.
Your son has returned, you should be all joy,
and yet, I think you pine.
(Gertrude sighs)
It is difficult for a mother
when her boy becomes a man and no longer hers.
If I were your son, I would not soon forget you.
And yet you are not my son, but my brother.
In law, I am your brother.
But I've never much loved the law.
(gentle music)
The gossips say there are many other things you love.
The gossips are mistaken.
There's only the one thing.
(tense music)
It's very close in here.
Perhaps, I need some air.
I often feel as you do at night.
I take my air on the parapets.
You will find me there.
No, I will not.
How now, Ophelia?
(Ophelia gasps)
For a flash, I thought you were a ghost.
At school, we dissected a corpse into his parts.
There was no room for his ghost.
I shall have to take your word for it, My Lord.
I know nothing of the parts of men.
(birds chirping) (gentle music)
You stop my heart.
If your heart stopped, you would die.
I seem to be quite alive.
Appearances deceive.
See this.
An innocent flower.
And yet it is belladonna, the most deadly nightshade.
Belladonna means beautiful woman.
And you say it is poison.
(bell ringing)
Will you promise to dance with me someday?
I'm afraid I dance like a goat.
(Hamlet sighs)
(swords clanging)
(swordsman grunting)
[Swordsman] You excel today, My Lord.
(swords clanging)
[Claudius] Nephew, come, try your learning.
[Hamlet] I would not want to wound you.
[Claudius] Nor I you.
We'll fight in fun.
I find no fun in fighting.
[Gertrude] The winning knight shall wear my colors.
Rogue, seems you wear a lady's colors already.
And you've chosen well if the girl's as bawdy as her colors.
(men laughing)
[Hamlet] You watch yourself.
Ah, there's hot blood in the boy after all.
(swords clanging)
(courtiers clapping)
[Gertrude] Magnificent!
[Courtier] Rough and tumble.
Hamlet!
You debate what to do next,
and meanwhile, you do next to nothing.
[Courtier] Your sword, My Lord.
Here you are.
(metal clanging)
(courtiers clapping) (Hamlet panting)
It seems I was mistaken.
You have much to learn.
I prefer not to learn at the point of a sword.
My sharpness is within.
(tense music)
(courtiers clapping)
(upbeat music)
[Dancer] Marvelous creature!
(Gertrude and Claudius laughing)
[Dancer] (laughs) A dragonfly!
Do not play with me.
[Dancer] Oh, beautiful!
(Cristiana laughing)
(Gertrude laughing)
(Claudius laughing)
(guests chattering)
(Ophelia sighing)
(tense music)
Little fish needs water?
Not water.
Wine?
Some would say that's a pledge,
to drink wine from the same cup.
(guests chattering)
(Ophelia sighs)
I will be missed.
I feel like a lance has gone in between my ears.
I don't think I've ever felt like this before, Horatio.
I hope you haven't.
Morning, My Lady.
Did you enjoy the dancing?
I enjoyed the evening.
[Horatio] It's difficult to enjoy
both the evening and the morning after.
Ah, thank God this summer is over.
My studies hurt my head a little less than my leisure.
You're returning to your studies?
We go to Wittenberg today.
[Kitchen Worker] My Lord.
[Kitchen Worker] Leave it all for the pigs.
[Kitchen Worker] There was a young prince
from the Netherlands who decided to seek out the treasury.
(Ophelia sighing)
Ophelia.
I always meant to say goodbye.
Goodbye.
Last night, Ophelia, it was...
You'll foul your breeches, My Lord.
Well, then, goodbye.
(Ophelia sighs)
(tense music)
Try to understand.
I am trying.
My father would never allow it.
He wishes me someday to take his throne.
And I am low.
No, Ophelia.
I was deceived in you.
I see now that you are but a prince.
Goodbye.
(melancholy music)
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
[Hamlet] Farewell, father.
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
[Hamlet] Mother.
Goodbye, mother.
I'll miss you.
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[Gertrude] Godspeed, my son.
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
[Gertrude] Do you know the wood beneath the castle?
I used to play at its edge.
In the wood, lives a woman.
Go to her tomorrow and get me more of what I need.
Make sure you're not followed.
No one must know.
And whatever you do, do not look upon her face.
Because she is a witch?
(Gertrude sighs)
She's a healer.
Her name is Mechtild.
(melancholy music)
(church bell ringing)
(birds squawking)
(frogs croaking)
(dramatic music)
(tense music)
[Ophelia] Hello?
What do you want? (Ophelia gasps)
I was sent by the queen.
[Mechtild] What for?
For what she needs.
(Mechtild sighs)
[Mechtild] And what does she need?
She needs her youth again.
Rest from her desires.
A night's sleep without dreams.
And a husband who mulls love, not war.
But what she wants is two ounces of my tonic.
Don't touch that!
[Ophelia] I can't feel my fingertips.
It's a snake's poison from the New World.
(tense music)
A touch of it makes the flesh numb.
Too much of it will kill.
Could I learn such secrets?
[Mechtild] You're a lady in waiting.
Learn to wait.
For what?
A husband, little girl, what else?
(melancholy music)
[King Hamlet] These are fragile times,
and there's no time for my brother's games.
Norway threatens invasion.
Every day is a struggle for peace.
[Gertrude] It was all in play.
[King Hamlet] He plays the fool,
while we're on the brink of war with our neighbors.
[Gertrude] Do not speak ill of your brother.
Claudius shares my name,
but the blood in his veins is impure.
[Gertrude] We've all heard that story.
There's no cause to believe it.
[King Hamlet] Well, he's his mother's son, all right,
but there is nothing of my father in him.
Now, you insult your mother?
She's no worse than any other woman.
(glass clatters) (dramatic music)
Remember yourself, my queen.
Stay with me, talk to me.
I have become invisible to you.
[King Hamlet] You're more visible than you realize.
All eyes are on you.
Can you not feel them?
(Gertrude sobs)
My kingdom needs me.
(tense music)
(Gertrude screams)
(wind howling)
(Ophelia gasping) (dramatic music)
Give yourself a bit of a fright, did you?
I saw something.
A specter.
(guard chuckling)
Past your bedtime, eh?
And up here's not a place for a girl.
Tell me, brother, how do they know
what is inside a person?
There are men who steal corpses
from the graveyard for study.
What I really wonder is, where does love reside?
Where truth, or madness?
The only answers are from science.
I did hear the prince's friend, Horatio,
he bribed the gravediggers to dig up a corpse.
(bells ringing) - The King has fallen!
He is dead!
[Laertes] Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, what's happened?
The king, long live the king!
(soldiers chattering)
[Soldier] Get to your posts!
(Gertrude screams)
The king.
Bitten by a poisonous snake in his own garden.
He's sick?
He is dead.
(Gertrude sobbing)
(singing in foreign language)
(thunder rumbling)
(Cristiana scoffs)
(speaking in foreign language)
Father wrote to Hamlet.
He should be here.
On a day such as this?
He should be far away.
(trumpets blaring)
Long live King Claudius!
Duly elected, brave and sober majesty.
[Courtier] Long live the king.
♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ♪
[Courtier] Your Majesty.
[Courtier] Your Majesty, honor on this day.
[Gertrude] They're lovely, thank you.
[Courtier] Your Majesty.
[Gertrude] Here, take these.
Look at you.
You will be one of my ladies.
Today the queen loves me above the rest.
But she is fickle and another day,
you might be back in favor.
Say not she is fickle.
It is too much said.
A kingdom needs a king and a king needs a wife.
Why should she be anything else?
She was already a king's wife.
♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪
[Polonius] Oh!
[Hamlet] Is my father buried?
[Polonius] Long since, My Lord.
Hamlet!
You were so long returning.
So long that the funeral wreaths are already taken down?
[Claudius] Welcome, Hamlet.
We are most happy you are returned.
Too late, it seems.
[Claudius] Too late to honor your late father.
Seems my father's honor is much besmirched.
He grieves, commendably, as every son who loses a father.
(tense music)
His father lost a father once, who was my father also.
We were ever men about it.
Man indeed to seduce a woman to take a crown.
- Hamlet. - You forget yourself.
The nobles held their election.
I seem to be the only one present who does not forget.
You forget how to greet a king!
(Hamlet chuckles)
I am
your king.
Come, Gertrude.
Let us eat.
(Hamlet sniffles)
(Gertrude sighs)
[Ruffian] Hey!
Give it back.
(ruffians laughing)
Stop it.
(Viola gasping)
[Ruffian] Look what I've caught, a pheasant.
[Ophelia] Get off her!
Or what?
Well. (laughs)
Let me loose, you'll pay for this.
What, you want me to pay for it?
She wants me to pay for it!
Let the maiden go.
This one really is a whore!
(ruffians laughing)
[Ruffian] Do you hear that?
The air smells very ripe.
Perhaps a bath is in order.
[Ruffians] Ooh! (chuckling)
[Ruffian] What'd you say to me, huh?
[Hamlet] Let her be!
[Ruffian] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Ophelia] Come.
[Ruffian] Mastered by a maiden I see!
[Ophelia] Come away, Hamlet, no, come away.
(dramatic music)
Thank you, Your Highness, but I had no need of saving.
You speak of need.
In need I sought you.
I have missed you, Ophelia.
I should apologize for my behavior to you last summer.
You should?
I do.
It is forgotten.
Forgotten but not forgiven.
Both.
I have never forgotten you.
You'll forgive me if I doubt it.
(ladies in waiting chattering)
[Gertrude] Where is the water, Ophelia?
- Cover the queen. - Hamlet.
What is the matter?
What forgetting is here?
[Gertrude] Hamlet?
(singing in foreign language)
It is only a filthy bit of ribbon.
[Gertrude] My tonic, please.
Again.
(Ophelia humming)
Farewell, sister.
I'm to continue my education in France.
You're leaving?
These are strange times in this castle.
Strange indeed.
Rumors abound of all shapes and sizes.
All of them frighten me.
They are saying the prince no longer sees you as a child.
I am no longer a child.
Ophelia, be afraid,
afraid of all he can take from you.
You will only be safe if you are afraid.
Tend to your own honor and I will tend to mine.
Laertes, hurry!
Time and tide wait for no man.
Now my blessing on you, son.
Now, remember, keep your own counsel.
Don't be familiar or vulgar.
And don't fight, or if you do, win.
Dress well, but don't spend too much.
Don't borrow any money or lend it.
And above all, be true to yourself.
Farewell, father.
And take care, Ophelia.
Remember what I said.
What did he say?
Something about Lord Hamlet.
Ah, yes, Hamlet.
They say he ran into the queen's chamber
and stared at you and spoke very strangely.
I saw it, yes.
Did he bestow on you some sign of love?
No.
[Polonius] Are you lying to me, daughter?
Yes.
A lying yes is equal to a no.
No.
So, yes?
This could prove very advantageous for us.
I want nothing to do with him, father.
You're a very bad girl to be so good.
(door slams)
Ophelia, come in.
Girls are not allowed in the library
unless they're in the books.
Yet I think you have been in here before, come in.
I wish someday to be a healer.
There are many different kinds of healer.
A doctor then, a man of science.
You know graves are robbed for such science?
Hamlet is much distressed.
He behaves wildly towards me.
But there is a method in his madness, trust me.
Go to him, please.
(birds chirping)
Where?
The ramparts at midnight.
Stay away from my grave when I am dead.
Ophelia, do not be so morbid.
I have no interest in becoming some man's anatomy lesson.
(wind howling)
(Ophelia gasps)
[Hamlet] You tremble, Ophelia.
You frightened me, My Lord.
They are saying in the court there is a ghost up here.
I thought I saw it once myself.
They say it is my father's unquiet spirit.
(door bangs)
Careful, the sentinel comes.
(solemn music)
They say of all the queen's ladies,
you are the one who knows her secrets.
To say you know a secret is to tell the secret.
Tell me only this, Ophelia.
Was my mother true to my father, her husband, the king?
I cannot tell you.
And yet you cannot lie.
Fickle.
My mother is like all women.
Fickle, frail.
My Lord, you are most unjust.
Frailty in love is not a habit of my sex.
Perhaps it runs in families.
Forgive me.
I see now what people are and only you are not.
Not you, Ophelia.
Be comforted, My Lord.
♪ The stars are fire ♪
Ophelia,
my true love.
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
(birds squawking)
(ominous music)
(Ophelia gasping)
(snake hissing)
The queen.
She wants her tonic.
Oh, she wants, she wants, she gets what she wants.
[Ophelia] She fears to feel.
And you?
What do you think you know?
You pretend you have a broken heart,
that you are innocent and wounded,
but you cannot hide your true self under ladies' clothes.
You are wild and full of desire.
They will strip you, they will judge you
and they will find you wanting death.
They will cast you to the fire.
Do you know why they call me a witch?
At 19, I was with child by a man who swore he'd marry me.
When my baby died inside me,
rumors spread it was the devil's work.
The righteous came to cast the devil out.
(tense music)
[Villager] Burn her!
But they didn't know I knew my poisons.
Three drops on the tongue,
the venom mimics death but mocks it.
They thought me dead.
You drank the venom but didn't die?
(villagers yelling) - They found my corpse,
threw me away and declared the devil vanquished.
I had my remedy laid by and so I lived.
But without my son.
And what of his father?
He was quite recently married.
(rain pattering) (thunder rumbling)
(church bell ringing)
Ophelia.
Confess to me, the keeper of your soul.
Do you love another?
I love only you.
Then meet me tomorrow at the old chapel by the lake.
Disguise yourself as a country lass.
And you a shepherd?
There will be talk.
I fear there is already.
Let them talk.
Ophelia.
I want to marry you.
(both laughing)
They will never allow it!
Ophelia, they will not know.
But all of Denmark should be yours.
If you were beside me,
I would take grass over Denmark's gilded throne.
When the time comes, we will go away from here.
(tense music)
(light music)
[Priest] "My beloved spake, and said unto me
"'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
"'Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth
"'for his love is better than wine.
"'My beloved is mine and I am his.
"'Behold, thou art fair, my love, thou hast doves' eyes.
"'Behold thou art fair, my beloved
"'and also our bed is green.
"'For, Io, the winter is past,
"'and the rain is over and gone.
"'Flowers appear on the earth.
"'Set me as a seal on your heart
"'for love is stronger than death.'"
(romantic music)
♪ Ah ah ♪
(church bell ringing)
(door creaking)
[Ophelia] Good morning, My Lady.
You're up early.
(Gertrude sighs)
Or were you up all night?
I'm told you spend your days
in the country with a common boy
dressed like a farmer's daughter.
You don't deny it?
You repay my kindness by disgracing yourself?
No need to make yourself lower than you already are.
(tense music)
There you are.
[Claudius] Good morning.
[Gertrude] Do you have what I need?
I do.
Why do you stare?
You look like you've seen a ghost.
Leave us, Ophelia.
[Claudius] What keeps you?
(Ophelia gasping)
Your cloak is torn, Your Majesty.
Perhaps I could mend it for you?
Are you fast?
You mean my stitches, Your Majesty?
I think you know what I mean, Ophelia.
My nephew has been very strange of late.
He haunts the corridors at night.
Do you know the cause of that?
Maybe you know the cure.
Perhaps, you are the cause and the cure.
Your father says that my nephew is in love with you.
Is it so?
Hmm, my father told me it could not be so.
Has he said he loves you?
Never, Your Majesty.
Has he given you a token of his love?
Never.
(dramatic music)
It was all done in innocence, Your Majesty.
If I know what I know, they're just children at play!
[Claudius] You said something quite different before.
[Polonius] I have re-thought myself, and other things.
I have been worried about Hamlet's state of mind.
Here is the bait for him.
Now, we shall see.
(Ophelia panting)
(melancholy music)
Nymph!
Where is your water?
My Lord, there is much I need to tell you.
What way is that to greet your husband?
None.
Are you not my wife?
These games you play, My Lord,
nothing is ever as it seems.
I have a remembrance I wish to return to you.
I gave you nothing, I took...
Your father was poisoned, it is true.
I once saw your uncle at a place where poisons are made.
I did not recognize him then but I saw him again
on the ramparts, disguised the very day your father,
the king, was stung.
So, it was no snake but Claudius.
I must repulse your attentions, My Lord,
they have been forbidden.
Are you sure what you say is true?
I found the poison in his cloak this very morning.
Then he has stolen my crown from me.
You said you did not want the crown.
You forswore it when you married me.
I did not know it had been stolen.
Cry out as if I frighten you.
[Ophelia] God help me, merciful Lord!
[Hamlet] They say I am mad!
[Ophelia] Mad with love, they say, of me.
Then I will be mad!
And they will not see me coming.
I don't understand your meaning.
You should not know what I mean.
Remain innocent as snow.
Cry out.
God help you, sir.
The danger for you is very great.
We must get you away from here.
There is a convent in St. Emilion
where my mother lived as a girl.
You will be safe among the nuns.
Hamlet, you cannot do this!
Go to the nunnery!
Go!
(tense music)
He seems mad.
I think your daughter's dangerous.
She should be married as soon as possible.
I know a guard who will do my will.
[Guard] Greetings, Lord Hamlet.
(guard whistles)
Who are you greeting, my love?
[Nobleman] Lord Hamlet!
Please, come in!
- Hey! - Everyone, come in.
(cheerful music)
[Hamlet] This will settle it, Horatio.
Adultery, murder, treachery!
These are his crimes!
No, My Lord, you can't go...
[Hamlet] She should not be here!
There he is!
He has come to sell me a fish!
I am no fish-seller, Lord.
But what a lovely fish it is.
[Gertrude] Hamlet, come sit by me.
What if there was someone prettier, mother,
who I would rather sit on?
Do not lie there, My Lord, get up.
Well, where can I lie?
Can I lie in your lap?
No, My Lord.
I mean, my head in your lap.
You are merry, My Lord.
Married?
Indeed, you should know!
My mother was married, and she was widowed only hours ago.
Hold your tongue and master this madness.
They want me to marry another.
If you must marry, marry a fool.
I knew a fool once.
His name was Yorick.
He made a fool of the king's brother.
I saw him once.
He made the king laugh.
And paid with his life that very same night.
'Tis a very sad story indeed.
I know a sadder one, Ophelia.
It starts now.
(guests gasping)
(soft music)
(guests whispering)
[All] Aw.
(ladies in waiting giggling)
I told you to get to the nunnery.
(snake hissing)
(tense music)
(snake rattling)
A light.
A light!
Let there be light!
It is a mere spectacle!
You end this now, or I will end it myself!
You are making us the spectacle!
You take them all out and have them hanged!
I am
your king!
The king knows the play is true.
Vengeance is mine.
Swift, now.
Hamlet!
No.
(Hamlet panting)
(tense music)
'Tis treason
to draw on the king.
[Nobleman] Call the guards!
Take them to the gallows!
(actors yelling)
I thought your lover was too low,
but I see he's too high.
You are first among those who might understand.
I was a mother to you, and you turned my son against me.
Forgive me.
My Lady, you raised me.
I think you protest too much.
You cannot know what it is to love a son.
I know what it is to love yours.
(Gertrude yells)
You stay away from him.
And stay out of my sight!
(dramatic music)
(Ophelia panting)
We are ruined!
The queen has dismissed you, and I will probably follow.
If we can still get you married, you'll be less of a threat.
What?
Tomorrow and not soon enough.
[Ophelia] Please, no, I cannot bear it.
Our new king is baying for blood.
I am just trying to survive.
Survival isn't enough.
You are so like your mother.
No arrangement there, you loved her.
I will speak to the queen and I will beg her forgiveness.
(thunder rumbling)
(tense music)
(door creaking)
Father?
Horatio, you look fraught.
What are you doing here?
Is it Hamlet?
No, Hamlet lives.
Your father was killed.
Not mine, Hamlet's.
No, yours, my Lord Polonius.
Forgive me!
Forgive me, Ophelia!
Hamlet is mad indeed!
He thought it was his uncle.
He drew his sword before I could say
who was hidden.
It was an accident, not Hamlet's fault, but mine.
(tense music)
(singing in foreign language)
(speaking in foreign language)
Where is Hamlet?
Gone.
[Ophelia] Gone?
To England.
With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
King's orders.
For his own safety.
It's good of the king to think of his safety.
To hurt you, Ophelia.
You cannot imagine his anguish.
[Laertes] Where is my father?
[Guard Captain] Man the gates!
Where is he?
Who murdered my father?
[Guard Captain] Get back!
- I will have justice. - Double the guard
on the gate!
An eye for an eye.
An eye for an eye!
(crowd yelling) Who murdered my father?
Be calm.
It is right and good to want to avenge his killing,
but he did not die by my hand.
Then whose?
Hamlet.
(dramatic music)
Then Hamlet will die at my hand.
No, Laertes.
It was all a mistake.
You must think of your sister now.
Take me to her.
[Gertrude] I will send for her.
[Guard Captain] Open the gate!
[Gertrude] Come, there is much to tell you.
Good thing you are getting married today.
You're already fat as a cow.
You're lucky to find a husband at all with no fortune,
no family and no virtue left.
I hope you're not still keeping a candle lit
for your lover, the prince.
One candle would not be enough.
Even if he ceased to be at all?
He dies then I die as well.
Seem alive to me.
Alive but married.
To Hamlet?
Then you are a widow.
Hamlet is dead already.
My Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent with him.
They did not like their orders, but they obeyed the king.
(dramatic music)
What did the king tell them to do?
I will not tell!
Tell me.
(Ophelia and Cristiana grunting)
[Lady In Waiting] Get her away, she's mad!
Tell me or I swear.
The minute the ship left port,
they were to throw him overboard.
(Ophelia panting)
And they sailed last night.
(tense music)
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
(dramatic music)
♪ Doubt the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
Ophelia.
Hamlet is dead, Horatio.
Dead?
[Ophelia] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
had orders to betray him when the ship sailed.
The harbor is becalmed, the ship still rests there.
It has not left.
(tense music)
Then he lives?
Horatio, we can still save him.
- I... - Horatio.
The king requires you.
Have you seen my bride, Ophelia?
[Horatio] No, not of late.
[Edmund] The whole castle searches for her.
The king bade them lock the gates.
The last of I saw of her, she was unwell.
[Edmund] The king has ordered that no one leave or enter.
(Ophelia panting)
(gate rattling)
You see, the queen thinks that you've lost your wits
but I think your wits are the one thing
you still have about you.
[Ophelia] No!
No one is going to miss you.
No father, no brother, no husband.
Yes.
We found an old village priest who,
with a little persuasion, had a very strange tale to tell.
He says that you have a husband.
And that he himself made you a wife.
Now, if you were my child.
Your only child died before he drew breath.
Yes, a son.
They called his mother a witch and made to burn her.
But you know so already.
It was you that cried witchcraft.
It was you that turned the village
against the woman who loved you.
My Lord, we heard a cry.
Your bride is more than a handful.
[Edmund] Our wedding is today, Your Majesty.
You will not want to marry a traitor.
(gate rattling) (Ophelia panting)
[Edmund] Leave us.
[Ophelia] You dare not harm me.
The king suspects you of treason.
Punishment for treason is well known.
It is death.
[Edmund] What a waste.
Perhaps you could take me to the woods and leave me there.
The king would never know.
(dramatic music)
(Ophelia grunts) (Edmund groans)
(Ophelia panting)
(tense music)
He was a good man, your father,
but you are twice him, I think.
(Ophelia panting)
(Ophelia screaming)
(Ophelia gasps)
Sing with me, Laertes.
(Ophelia humming)
My sweet sister, come.
Sit, be still.
Here's rosemary, for remembrance.
I hope you remember.
Pansies for your thoughts.
Rue for your regrets and your sister's.
And some for me and mine.
Daisies, the day's eye.
All seeing.
Someone sees you.
I'd give you some violets but they all withered
when my father died.
Faithful Horatio, will you visit my grave?
- Ophelia. - Visit me before I am cold.
(Ophelia sighs)
(Ophelia laughs)
Be sure to dig me up,
and I promise you will get an excellent anatomy lesson.
Here's fennel for you.
And columbines for flattery.
You'll miss it now my father's gone.
Take her.
♪ Stay or else my joys will die ♪
♪ And do no ♪
Take her!
(guests gasping and murmuring)
[Laertes] Unhand her!
Let her be!
The poor thing has gone mad.
Let her be!
(tense music)
Get her out of my sight.
(Ophelia humming)
You follow her.
[Guard] Yes, Sire.
Sit, eat.
I am no longer hungry.
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
(horse whinnying)
Oh, venom, be merciful.
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
[Gertrude] Ophelia!
(melancholy music)
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ♪
(solemn music)
(loud banging)
(Ophelia panting)
Horatio!
Where is Hamlet?
I dug you up as you commanded.
I took a venom that mimics death but mocks it.
(Ophelia groans)
Where is Hamlet?
[Horatio] Swiftly, to his ship before it sails.
I'm not well, Horatio.
(scouts chattering)
[Ophelia] What is that?
(Ophelia panting)
(speaking in foreign language)
[Horatio] There are scouts about.
It's our enemies from Norway.
They're advancing on the castle.
[Ophelia] You must warn the court.
I will not leave you.
You must warn them, Horatio.
Go.
I will go on alone.
Ophelia,
farewell.
(sad music)
(speaking in foreign language)
I am dying, give me the remedy.
[Mechtild] You took the venom?
Too much, I fear.
Please.
The wood is full of soldiers.
Soldiers?
Worse still, drink.
(Ophelia sighs)
Now be gone.
I have kept your secret.
Claudius came to you.
You helped him murder a king.
He helped himself.
I could never deny him.
Why should I?
I didn't care, let them do to each other
whatever they want to up on their hill.
Even now?
Even that you could not deny him?
I did love him once.
And he did love me.
It was he who cried witchcraft when your baby died.
I have witnessed his confession.
It was he who set the mob upon you.
He would have let you burn.
No.
No, not him.
He loves power.
That is all he loves.
He mocked me.
He shall burn.
Hold these.
You are in more trouble than I thought.
(Ophelia panting)
(tense music)
(animals vocalizing) (water gurgling)
(speaking in foreign language)
[Sentry] Halt right there.
Who are you?
A friend.
(Gertrude gasps)
Have mercy, spirit.
God forgive me, Ophelia.
It is not my blood you have on your hands.
[Gertrude] I did not think Claudius meant to kill him.
You gave him reason.
I'd lost my own.
[Ophelia] He brought your sister to ruin.
Claudius?
(solemn music)
You never knew he was the man she loved?
I thought any man but him.
Oh, my sister!
Absolve me.
Take my hand.
You are solid flesh.
And yet I saw my son leap into your grave.
[Ophelia] Hamlet?
He left the ship when word reached him you had died.
I must return to Elsinore.
No, too late.
Laertes challenged Hamlet
in the matter of your father's death.
They are set to fight.
No.
Where is my sister?
She will have counsel.
I cannot wait, Hamlet will heed only me.
Claudius will have you killed.
But I'm already dead.
(tense music)
Is all prepared?
I have anointed your sword.
Just a touch will do.
Where is Hamlet?
Boy, what's your name?
[Osric] Osric, Sire.
[Claudius] Go fetch Hamlet, bid him come
and start the fight.
[Osric] As you wish, Your Majesty.
You have nothing to fear.
(courtiers chattering)
Shall we wager?
I have little appetite for games.
Then I'll take Laertes, by your leave.
Hamlet is far the better swordsman.
The better man does not always win.
[Ophelia] There are two sides struggling in you.
One is baser, one better.
(sullen music)
Ophelia?
In the flesh.
You live?
My love.
You are like a dream I had.
And when I woke, it was true.
You must understand, I seek not this battle.
Laertes does.
And has your own revenge grown cold?
No.
It burns in me still.
I feared as much.
Hamlet, we can escape now.
We will flee to the convent.
Not every story must end with a battle.
[Laertes] Where are you, Hamlet?
Come.
I will, I will.
Now.
I swore vengeance.
You swore to love me and be mine.
I am yours.
Ophelia.
I will follow you, Ophelia.
[Laertes] Hamlet!
Goodbye, my love.
(couriers murmuring) (dramatic music)
[Noble] Hamlet!
[Noble] Let him through, My Lords.
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
(soldiers yelling) ♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt ♪
♪ I love ♪
(tense music)
[Ophelia] You may think you know my story.
You've heard it ends in madness, hearts broken,
blood spilled, a kingdom lost.
That is a story.
But it is not mine.
(sullen music)
I did not lose my way.
I did not lose myself to vengeance.
Instead, I found my way to hope
that one day I would tell my own story.
(child giggling) (hopeful music)
As one day, you, my love,
you will tell yours.
♪ Ah ah ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪ ♪ Ah ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪ ♪ Ah ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Ah ah ah ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
♪ Doubt thou the stars are fire ♪
♪ Doubt that the sun doth move ♪
♪ Doubt truth to be a liar ♪
♪ But never doubt I love ♪
(tense music)
(solemn music)