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Posted: Sun 06 Feb , 2005 8:47 pm
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So I was poking around on IMDB the other day, and since everything on the Internet is to be believed, and moreoever, anything on IMDB the gospel truth, I found something rather hilarious.


One of Orlando Bloom's goals in life is to play Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Granted, I don't know much about his acting existence pre-2001, but Hamlet is a tough gig no matter how talented the actor.
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Poor Orli. Hamlet requires a face that can move.

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Posted: Sun 06 Feb , 2005 10:19 pm
Als u het leven te ernstig neemt, mist u de betekenis.
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Posted: Sun 06 Feb , 2005 10:24 pm
Als u het leven te ernstig neemt, mist u de betekenis.
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must aquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

O it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passage to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant. It out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.

Be not to tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it makes the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. O there be players that I have seen play and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak of it profanely) that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

Go, make you ready."

"Why are we doing this again, I pray thee?"

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Posted: Mon 07 Feb , 2005 12:02 am
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Poor Orlando.

Can you just imagine him in the scene with Getrude. "Frailty, thy name is woman."?

:Q

I recently watched him in Troy. He has two expressions both of which require him to manipulate his eyebrows.

He's good with a bow and arrow though.

Don't think Hamlet is an archer.

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Poor Orlando, so often maligned. ;)

Hamlet is a difficult role by pretty much any measure and the simple fact that most people think so seems to make it the aspiration point for a lot of actors. Can't blame the fellow for having the dream.

I don't think Bloom is a truly bad actor (ignores the snickers). I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt for now and until I see him in an actually serious central role. You may have to ask me again what I think of his skill after Kingdom of Heaven. In any case Orlando Bloom as Hamlet is not something I can't picture seriously. I can't laugh at him for dreaming though. I can't imagine the kind of laughs some of my dreams would get. cough


Now if Hamlet was an archer..... :P


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Posted: Mon 07 Feb , 2005 1:36 am
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Hey, give him a chance. He was hired for LOTR straight out of drama school. The Real World is different from school. He's still learning the craft....

[and if I were still 16 years old, I'd be sw00ning for Lego! :help:


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I swoon for Ron Weasley, and that's illegal. Indulge, Sunsilver. ;)

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Sunsilver wrote:
[and if I were still 16 years old, I'd be sw00ning for Lego! :help:
Oh me too, Sunsilver. Me too. He is verrrry pretty!

I just like 'em a bit older and a bit more masculine. With hair in all of the right places .... like Viggo. *THUD*


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Posted: Mon 07 Feb , 2005 4:46 am
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I just heard something rather horrible: Orlando Bloom has been selected as the next James Bond. How can a squeeky clean, young, G-rated actor play a womanizing, experienced, hard-living, debonaire, egomaniacal, cold-blooded killer? I miss Sean. :nono:

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Posted: Mon 07 Feb , 2005 5:05 am
Als u het leven te ernstig neemt, mist u de betekenis.
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That piece of crap gossip is over a year old.

http://forums.tolkienonline.com/viewtopic2.php?t=79074

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I dug a little further and found a reference on BBC. Isn't that fairly reliable?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/entert ... loom.shtml

And this one from the Times of India:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... 793805.cms

So he's going to play a 13 year old boy. That's better.

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Posted: Mon 07 Feb , 2005 8:39 am
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So he's going to play a 13 year old boy. That's better.
I thought that was Michael Jackson :Q

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Come on! Give the guy a break! You are such a nasty crowd all of you! :rage:

I am sure Orlando is going to be excellent in Hamlet - as Yorick!




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Orlando Bloom would make an excellent Horatio.

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Posted: Mon 21 Feb , 2005 2:57 am
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