Besides a business, would could a modern Hamlet replace the kingdom with?
a child
i am not familiar with this hamlet of which you speak
An empire
>>71712025
Excuse me?
>>71712098
An empire and a kingdom is the same thing.
a literal hamlet
In the south lots of times certain families run EVERYTHING because they are rich as fuck and usually own a mill or a plant or something that most people work for and their family ends up being the mayor, sheriff, etc.
>>71713288
Are you proposing Hamlet with slaveowners?
An African savanna. All characters are now lions.
Why didn't Hamlet challenge his uncle from the beginning? Why did he procrastinate?
>>71711995
a safe space on a college campus
>>71712882
custody of a retarded child
it could work.
>>71713433
What if his dad's ghost was a demon from hell? What if Claudius was innocent?
Remember, anon, the play's the thing.
>>71711995
A brewery
>>71713464
I don't see how.
a pronoun of choice
>>71713386
I'm talking modern times. There are still towns where one or two families own everything in certain towns and hold all of the positions of power. It's basically a kingdom to them
>Captain's Log Stardate 51252.8, after Jean-Luc accidentally drowned in his chocolat chaud, I have assumed control of The Enterprise, my first act as captain will be to officiate at my own marriage to Counsellor Troi.
>Mr. Worf, would you join me on the bridge, and bring the leather trombone.
I found this interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
>>71713592
>There are still towns where one or two families own everything in certain towns and hold all of the positions of power.
Seriously? That does sound interesting for a Hamlet adaptation, but it's not something I'd be able to do.
A queendom
>>71713516
I could see it working. Hamlet was supposed to inherit a craft-beer brewery, but his Black Uncle gets it instead and Hamlet is forced to watch his mom take BBC every night until eventually Hamlet fights his, but Hamlet ultimately succumbs to BBC and ends up sucking off his Uncle.
>>71713539
Hamlet has a retarded brother. Their Dad dies, and Hamlet is due to look after his brother, but then Uncle Claudius appears and proves that the son Hamlet is underage because he faked his passport and birth certificate; and therefore can not look after the brotherthe brother has some sort of asset uncle claudius wants obviously
>tfw I'm so lonely that I talk to myself constantly and perform voices
>tfw tried learning the nunnery scene (ain't never read no shakespeare out of HS)
>memorized the nunnery scene perfectly, think about what it would be like to recite it with an audience.
>tfw so lonely that I have mastered the contemplative and emotional performance of these few paragraphs, with no nymph of my orisons so serenade.
A Brony convention
>>71713707
That was a joke. There already is a brewery Hamlet movie with John Candy.
>>71713806
>the contemplative and emotional performance of these few paragraphs
The nunnery scene is just a ragequit for Hamlet, and is worthless without anyone to play it opposite. Of all the Hamlet monologues, that was the one that spoke to you?
>>71713592
I'm in one of these towns, where one of these good old boys (in his 50s) was caught in bed with a 16 year old girl by her father, but made the father a millionaire with a few lucrative "scoops" and the whole thing never saw a cop.
>>71713767
Uncle Claudius, the family predator
>>71713806
record it and upload it to youtube dumbass
>>71711995
Can someone rearrange the letters in OP's pic to spell manlet?
>>71713922
it's the most quoted phrase ever, and I knew that it was mostly misused. I wanted to understand it.
I specifically meant the Soliloquy btw.
>>71713990
K just let me get my joker makeup on.
>>71713433
Why do you procrastinate? Why don't you do all those things you keep meaning to do? Why do you keep choosing the easy option rather than the hard choice that will get you where you want to be?
>>71714066
You like the joker, dude?
>>71714066
If you liked the nunnery scene, you should check out the other soliloquies. There's much better stuff elsewhere in the play, and if you want to try and practice acting with it there's more interesting bits to try out. The "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" speech for one is great.
Omelette du fromage!
Set it in an anime convention
>social insecurities abound
>superficially happy setting conceals underlying tensions
>fucked up sexual politics
>>71713994
I tried, but I'm a manlet so it's not that great.
>>71714393
Why didn't Manlet ever learn?
>>71714503
>>71714503
guys under 6'2 have been triggered
A drug cartel.
>>71713937
So a story where nothing bad or wrong occurred.
>>71714503
jerk
>>71714721
I considered that but
>A child inheriting his father's drug empire
>>71711995
The state of Denmark.
>>71714827
What's wrong with that? Child is groomed for power, friends with his underlings and friendly rivalry with other dealers. Betrayed by uncle/whoever.
a malaysian cartoon based chat room
>>71711995
North Korea
>>71714885
Maaaaaaaaaaybe. Would it really happen like that though? Would a drug dealer encourage his child to be a drug dealer too?
>>71715081
Depends on the drug dealer, I guess.
>>71715205
I can see it happening. I was going to make the kingdom in my movie a drug empire, but I changed it to business.
You got me interested in drugs again though, it could be really good and I think it would carry really good themes.
>>71715365
Bitch, don't steal my idea.
>>71715467
It was my idea first.
I'm kind of attached to the business idea now anyway, even if it is harder to shoot, and I'm not REALLY interested in it.
There's just certain scenes I want that I couldn't do with a drug dealing Hamlet movie.
>>71714827
>Hamlet
>A child.
Fucker was, like, 35 and still loafing around the university.
>>71715607
Shakespeare's original Hamlet is 9
>>71715681
His dead kid, not the character in the play, ya dingus
>>71713433
as a kid i always thought it was obvious that hamlet fails to act in a timely manner because he wants the perfect revenge. *he* wants to be the one to fuck over claudius, so he doesn't let anybody else in on what's going on, and it's reinforced when he has a chance to kill claudius and doesn't because he's not sure claudius will go to hell. i always read hamlet as about how hamlet is an asshole who cares more about revenge making him feel better than actually bringing justice to his father/family/kingdom.
>>71715681
You have to inflate his age for the modern ages. Back in those days a 9 year old was already having kids and bitching about taxes.
>>71716050
His dad's ghost comes to him and says he wont be able to rest unless he gets revenge. Hamlet was also kind of crazy, so you can't expect perfectly sane behavior.
>>71716050
Basically this. Everyone in the kingdom says they like Claudius, and Hamlet won't do it unless he can expose him as a murderer.