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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-06-29 12:00 pm
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[identity profile] alitheapipkin.livejournal.com 2012-06-29 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
At the end of the play, there is a big philosophical discussion about life and death and they just disappear, making a point about the nature of existence etc (sorry, not an English lit student) and also fitting in with the fact we don't see them die in Hamlet, their deaths are just announced at the end (I don't know how familiar you are with the play but the entire point is the characters don't know any more than we do from seeing them in Hamlet, they aren't even sure which of them is which). But in the film (which is otherwise very good, Tim Roth is great) they are shown being hanged at the end, and I think the philosophical discussion with The Player is missed out too but I could be wrong, haven't watched it in years.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2012-06-29 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see the difference, but I don't think it's one caused by misunderstanding, as the original playwright both wrote and directed the movie version.

[identity profile] alitheapipkin.livejournal.com 2012-06-29 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Did he? I didn't realise that (obviously!). Huh. Well, I thought it rather ruined the film anyway.

ETA: deleted comment below because it became rather redundant, I was trying to explain my point further having looked up what they actually say before they die.
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[identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com 2012-06-30 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
In the staged version of Ros and Guil I saw, they were hanged as well--more so than in the movie version, as they not only had the nooses around their neck but jumped into trapdoors to boot. I'd argue the movie ending is ambiguous; they're standing there with the nooses but not in any particular context (i.e. surrounded by people clamoring for their death; were they even on a gallows? I'm not sure), and close their eyes. I'd argue that they could be symbolic nooses in the movie as opposed to litral ones without much difficulty.

...I can't convince myself that "nooses" is a real word, but will post this all the same.
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