Fortinbras

because of the poetry manipulating your emotions.

One example, Hamlet hands the keys of the kingdom of Denmark, the kingdom he reduced to rubble, to a man named Fortinbras, the warlord, the monster, the bloodthirsty Norwegian, the Viking, who had marched through Denmark to Poland early in the play to murder 20,000 for a piece of ground.

an insignificant patch of land that is, quote, not large enough to serve as a graveyard for the soldiers who die fighting over it.

Fortinbras means strong arm, and Hamlet was possessed.

And it's considered the greatest play of all time.

And Hamlet has our sympathy.

Prince Hamlet of Denmark is devastated.

his father the king dies and his mother queen gertrude hastily marries his uncle claudius as you do who seizes the throne uh hamlet's ghost uh the fire hamlet's father's ghost appears reveals claudius murdered him hamlet feigns madness and struggles with deep indecision as he plots his revenge uh is a huge trigger of a chain of events including the killing of polonius the mental breakdown and death of his girlfriend ophelia the And then the fencing duel in which Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius, and Hamlet all perish, leaving just Fortinbras to take the Danish crown.

Ah, thrilling.

Yeah.

Laertes, his father dies violently.

Fortinbras, whose father was killed by Hamlet's father.

Three young men without parental guidance, without a father to guide them.

And they, through that lack of guidance, are self-destructive.

And then I saw a film production when I was 18 with Anthony Hopkins and Marianne Faithfull, and it was just, it knocked me out.

So I was already really in love with it.

And I didn't make the connection, oh, wait a minute, I'm sort of just like Hamlet and Fortinbras and Laertes.

That came fairly recently.

Hamlor.

So like, oh, Fortinbra, when he comes with his army, they had actually been fighting Godzilla the whole time? Wow.

I think

Hamlet would have taken off.

But I think you're right.

I think there is that feeling of, is it wise to just trust that Fortinbras will should be allowed to come through the kingdom.

I don't know that we can make much of it, but I had the same curiosity about it as you did.

Randy and I were talking again this afternoon about what is that speech, what does that speech give to the play? What's the importance of that Voltemont speech? Does anybody have any notions on that?

Oh, yes.

I think that that's definitely part of it is that.

What it does for us is to know that we're going to see Fortinbras again or we might see Fortinbras again.

The seed has been planted that he is going to go through Denmark.

Our last king, whose image even but now appeared to us.

was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, thereto pricked on by a most emulate pride, dared to the combat, in which our valiant Hamlet, for so this side of the known world esteemed him, did slay this Fortinbras, who, by a sealed compact, well ratified by law and heraldry, did forfeit with his life all those his lands which he stood seized on to the conqueror.

against the which a moiety competent was gauged by our king, which had returned to the inheritance of Fortinbras had he been vanquisher, as by the same covenant and carriage of the article design his fell to Hamlet.

Now, sir, young Fortinbras of unimproved mettle, hot and full hath in the skirts of Norway here and there, sharked up a list of landless resolutes for food and diet to some enterprise that hath a stomach in it, which is no other, and it doth well appear unto our state, but to recover of us by strong hand and terms compulsive those foresaid lands so by his father lost.

And this, I take it, is the main motive of our preparations.

the source of this our watch, and the chief head of this post-haste and romage in the land.

Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, the imperial jointress of this warlike state, have we, as twere, with a defeated joy, with one auspicious and one drooping eye, with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole, taken to wife.

nor have we herein barred your better wisdoms, which have freely gone with this affair along, for all our thanks.

He was there.

Fortinbras is the one that comes in and is like...

Oh, that's right.

That's right.

fuck

just happened? That's right.

Fortinbras is

like, I came to declare war on you all, but, um... looks like you took care of that so i'll be king of denmark now problem solved

That can I, at least the whisper goes so.

Our last king, whose image even now appeared to us, was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, thereto pricked on my most emulant pride, dared to the combat, in which our valiant Hamlet, for so this side of our known world esteemed him, did slay this Fortinbras, who by a sealed compact, well ratified by law and heraldry, did forfeit with his life all those his lands which he stood seized on to the conqueror, against the which a moiety competent was gauged by our king, which had returned to the inheritance of Fortinbras, had he been vanquisher, as by the same covenant and carriage of the article designed, his fell to Hamlet.

Now, sir, young Fortinbras, of unimproved metal, hot and full, hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, shart up a list of landless resolutes for food and diet, to some enterprise that hath a stomach int, which is no other, as it doth well appear unto our state, but to recover of us by strong hand and terms compulsited those foresaid lands so by his father lost.

And this, I take it, is the main motive of our preparations, the source of this our watch, and the chief head of this post-haste and romage in the land.

But soft! Behold! Lo, where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me.

You know, because the description is of a battle between two very prominent leaders.

And it happens to be the king of Norway.

Old Hamlet is not king yet, but Fortinbras is.