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Article: Stoppard's space men: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on film.(Tom Stoppard)(Critical essay)
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- Literature-Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Reviewers and critics of the film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead note the difference between the play's stasis and the film's constant movement (Seidenberg; Sheidley 105). In the play, Rosencrantz (Ros) and Guildenstern (Guil), not unlike Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, wait passively for the action of Hamlet to come to them, but in the film, Ros and Guil scurry up and down staircases and through the dark corridors of Claudius's castle. Likewise, critics and reviewers mark Stoppard's deletion of long philosophical speeches and his substitution of sight-gags through which the dim Ros intuits--almost--the principles of classical physics: from the simple ...
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