Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanimously approved. This marked the only time during the afternoon that the 30 students exercised their rights of suffrage, but it had the effect of infusing them, at an early stage, with a "sense of belonging." Next on the program was Mr. Ford in an enthusiastic but factual soliloquy entitled "The Treasurer's Report." Mr. Ford prefaced his remarks with a comment that Mr. Cole has never yet missed an annual meeting, which was the cause of some laughter among the five oldish directors...
...process of cutting a 4½-hour play to 2½ hours' playing time, the editing has also been very drastic in places. The soliloquy 0 what a rogue and peasant slave am I, which is cut in the film, is about as happily dispensed with as half the forebrain, for in it Hamlet tries more desperately than at any other time to come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor...
...hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition, and to the manner of playing, the possibility of Ophelia's madness is planted early, its causes are enriched, and Hamlet soars to his soliloquy with acute, immediate reasons for contemplating suicide...
...play's the thing, he verges on hollow flamboyance; and he may fall to the floor once too often. But such excesses are rare and disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude and levelness, but the subtler possibilities are not very clearly realized...
Ozzie lords it over his four writers and hammers the program together himself, down to the musical bridges, which he whistles over the telephone to his bandleader. He dramatizes the final script in a last-minute soliloquy at home, supplying chuckles and belly laughs which are supposed to come from the audience. Says Harriet: "It's quite a sight to hear...