Hamlet Mash Up (2013) (by Geoff Klock)
198 movies and TV shows quoting Hamlet in less than 15 minutes…
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, man friend.
HAMLET
These days, if I’m not working, eating or sleeping, I’m LNWCing. I miss painting and uploading stuff, so I’m copping out and uploading some old ones that I haven’t put on tumblr yet… just for the pathetic rush of clicking “create post”.
I fucking love Hamlet.
So Essie and I were talking about what classical literature the creators of Lizzie Bennet Diaries could turn into vlogs next
and we were saying we need a main character who would vlog all about their life OF THEIR OWN ACCORD
and I was like
HAMLET
HAMLET TOTALLY WOULD
and now Essie and I need this like burning. IT WOULD BE A MILLION UNWATCHABLE EPISODES OF HAMLET ANGSTING AT THE INTERNET AND IT WOULD BE SHEER BRILLIANCE
we weren’t sure how the final scene where everyone dies would go
BUT THEN WE REALISED THAT HE TOTALLY MAKES HIS BRO HORATIO FILM THE WHOLE THING because Hamlet needs his epic duel with Laertes to be on the INTERWEBZ
and then shit goes down and WITH HIS DYING WORDS HAMLET TELLS HORATIO TO POST. THE ENTIRE. THING.
“So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.”(PS ESSIE AND I ARE DYING OF LAUGHTER WHILE TYPING THIS WHOLE THING BECAUSE THIS WORK OF BRILLIANCE NEEDS TO EXIST SO BADLY)
“Alas sweet lady, what imports this song?” - Understanding Ophelia’s Journey to Insanity
This is a paper I wrote for a literature class back in the day. Waaaaay back in the day. (1998). My professor liked it (97/100 points, and he gave me some encouraging feedback). And since last week there was a post about Ophelia floating around here on Tumblr, I got the urge to hunt this down. And, what the heck, why not post it? (Potential embarrassment and scorn might be two reasons not to, but whatever).
I will preface this by stating I have reproduced this unedited, which was difficult - my fingers ITCHED to fix a great many grammar and style things (including using different language to talk about mental illness. Very different language). More than that, if I were to write this now I would probably choose a somewhat different argument. (Probably to examine more closely her actual state of mind, and possibly even to argue she wasn’t insane at all, but that her decision to end her life came from a very sane place of realizing she was miserable and there was really no way for her life to improve in the future). Then again, it’s been 15 years since I read the play, so maybe I would argue other things entirely if I were to revisit it now. BUT since I have no interest in completely revamping it, I thought it would be best to leave it in all its original “glory.”
In any case, for your enjoyment and/or mockery, have a paper about Ophelia’s descent into “madness.”
TL;DR summary: Ophelia is the only truly innocent character in Hamlet to which horrible things happen, therefore a mirror by which other tragedies can be judged. She is driven to madness by a series of events, including: her father’s insistence she end her relationship with the man she loves; her belief that she is responsible for Hamlet’s subsequent insanity, Hamlet’s cruel treatment of her (when she is used an an unknowing pawn by her father and Hamlet both in the “nunnery” scene); her father’s death at the hands of her former lover; and (the straw that broke the camel’s back) the discovery she is pregnant with Hamlet’s child, at a time when there is no possible way she could reconcile with him.
It is written by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics and Adventure Time, duh) and I have it on good authority that it is the best book ever (the authority is that I have read parts of it). It has almost reached $400k in funding on Kickstarter, which is batshit bananas crazy. I am drawing one of the endings you can get when you read through it! How neat is that? It is neat because I am Danish and Hamlet is Danish, ALSO.
COINCIDENCE?
Anyway check it out and maybe contribute? I am pretty excited and every artist I love almost is participating. It is going to be a full-colour beast of unparalleled beauty.
The Hamlet paperchild is done!
I included his legs in case anyone wanted to print him out,
but that’s sort of doubtful.Obviously, you will have to adjust the size on his lower half.
Now you too can become the proud owner of your very own clinically depressed prince. At long last.
i used to piss off my english teacher by making stupid csi puns every time a character died in hamlet
like we got to the part where ophelia died and i borrowed a kid’s sunglasses and i was like “looks like ophelia…was drowning her sorrows”
i almost got kicked out every day but it was worth it
#looks like laertes….got the point #looks like it’s curtains…..for polonius #looks like king hamlet….got an earful
To Be Or Not To Be: That is the Adventure! Support this choose your own adventure version of Hamlet on Kickstarter! Play as Hamlet, Ophelia or King Hamlet.
Written by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics, and featuring illustrated versions of all 110 possible deaths from well known web comic artists, all proceeds from this book will go to the Canadian Cancer Society.
What’s not to love?
