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Dreaming beside my Prince. My heart fills with longing To know you, dear Prince. Its sorrowful melody, which is played on traditional Chinese instruments such as Pipa and Guzheng 2 , keeps echoing in the palace.

However, Feng Xiao-gang also uses a modern song with a popular melody to summarize the tragedies at the end of the film, as most of TV dramas do. He uses traditional Tibetan music from monasteries, such as bass drum and horn, often used for religious rituals, evoking archaic and spiritual spheres. They sound very stirring and exciting with their low and deep voices which reverberate on the Tibetan plateau. The music is lyrical and dynamic, particularly in the love and duel scenes. Besides heavy instruments such as Tibetan drums and trombones, He Xun-tian also uses electronic music, but based on ancient tunes.

Feng Xiao-gang, a typical Beijing citizen born , comes from an ordinary background. He studied stage design and later on became a successful movie director. He has shot more than ten films and TV dramas, mainly comedies about common people, done in a realistic style with witty dialogues. The Banquet is his first adaptation from a classical play. He studied theatre both in China and America. Having lived in the U. And so was his father. Hu is familiar with Western culture and theatre tradition.

He wanted to make a film which nobody had made before, for both Western and Eastern audiences. He deliberately selected Tibet as the location, a place where spiritual needs still seem more important than material ones. Prince of the Himalayas is his fourth film 3.

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He directed it, but also wrote and produced it. Both of them considerably changed the story, particularly when it comes to the question of justice and revenge. Both films are essentially psychological studies. The Banquet puts the emphasis on the negative feelings and tempting power, whereas Prince of the Himalayas eventually overcomes hatred and teaches love.

They introduce us to a foreign world, full of colours, exotic details and mysteries. The Banquet resembles a classical Chinese poem; notably when Prince Wu Luan sings his Yue Ren Song in a bamboo forest, slowly dancing in a white robe and mask.

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Prince of the Himalayas seems more like a national epic with grand narration and heroic myths. Both films had a big budget — fourteen and twenty million U. Both films clearly reflect Chinese moral philosophy and Confucian principles. For example, in Chinese tradition as in Europe , it is unthinkable that a son should openly fall in love with his mother, or a man with his sister-in-law. Therefore, the authors and directors had to find other explanations for the strange behaviour of the protagonists.

Director Feng, for example, deliberately chose a woman as the leading character to tell the story from an unusual perspective. In feudal society, women hardly ever gained power or got involved in political matters. The Eastern concept of afterlife, deeply influenced by Buddhist philosophy, is different.

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No matter who dies — there is always hope that he or she might return in another form. For example, Lhamoklodam, the Himalayan Hamlet, decides to die instead of obeying the will of the dead king. In return, the baby prince is born, the son of Lhamoklodam and his mistress. A typical Eastern concept of tragedy: instead of ultimate death, we see rebirth, hope and the return of life.

In the Himalaya, his son is born, life is an endless circle, and love is eternal. Romans King James Version " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?

But in our circumstance and course of thought, 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd for his passage? Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent: When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed; At gaming, swearing, or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't; Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes. After killing Polonius, whom he mistook for Claudius, Hamlet seems to think he is the " scourge and minister " of God: HAMLET 3,4, I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so, To punish me with this and this with me; That I must be their scourge and minister.

But was Hamlet following a commandment from heaven - or hell? See An Honest Ghost? If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes? Fortinbras's father was killed by Hamlet's father 30 years earlier. Fortinbras is an evil coward who didn't try to recover the lost lands until after Hamlet Sr died. If Fortinbras had attacked while old King Hamlet was still alive, the old King might have challenged young Fortinbras to a personal duel.

But young Fortinbras was a coward who preferred to send thousand of commoners to die for his rotten royal "honour.

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In Poland, Fortinbras sent 10, men to their graves for a worthless piece of land. Laertes, when he thought King Claudius had killed his father, immediately confronted the King - but with a mob to back him up and possibly to die for his cause. After hearing Claudius side of the story, Laertes immediately began plotting with Claudius to kill Hamlet by treachery. He didn't care about right or wrong, he just wanted revenge, even if it meant cutting Hamlet's throat in a church. He didn't bother to hear Hamlet's side of the story.

However, just before the duel Laertes did finally hear Hamlet's apology which he would have accepted but he foolishly deferred to the opinions of "elder masters" - meaning Claudius - and continued the duel against his conscious. Laertes's father had warned him Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

But Laertes ignored that advice. When planning to revenge his father's death, Laertes said "for my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far with little. In a sense, he was killed because of borrowing and lending of swords the accidental switch between swords, one poisoned and that loan lost "both itself and friend both Laertes and Hamlet, who was his friend at the end. However, before he died Laertes and Hamlet exchanged forgiveness and thus saved both their souls. Hamlet wasn't naturally vengeful, but he was loyal to his father so he swore an oath to his father to seek revenge.

But Hamlet didn't want to endanger his friends in the dangerous mission of seeking revenge against a sitting King, so he urged his friends to "shake hands and part.

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Hamlet was very concerned about right and wrong. Not sure that the ghost was really his father rather than a deceitful demon, he staged the Mousetrap to verify Claudius' guilt. In the last act, Hamlet realized that, in pursuing revenge, he had been untrue to himself - had written his father's command to live all alone in his brain. He had from himself been taken away and that was madness. A common theory of madness was that it was caused by demonic possession.

At least psychologically and metaphorically, Hamlet had been possessed by his father's spirit. However, Hamlet recovered his true self by the end and saved his soul, but not his life. Since kings cause thousands of deaths by fighting wars over land, Hamlet equated his own birth and that of any future son with death and equated wombs with graves and land with graveyards. Horatio Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Hamlet For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?

Lord Polonius I have, my lord. Hamlet Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to 't. Lord Polonius Will you walk out of the air, my lord? Lord Polonius Indeed, that is out o' the air. Hamlet Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

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Hamlet I mean, my head upon your lap? Ophelia Ay, my lord. Hamlet Do you think I meant country matters? They say the owl was a baker's daughter. God be at your table! Don, Doff. Young men will do't, if they come to't; By cock, they are to blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled me, You promised me to wed. So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, An thou hadst not come to my bed.

Queen Gertrude Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

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Scattering flowers I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave. Hamlet [speaking of a grave] 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. First Clown 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to you. Hamlet Leaps into the grave Hamlet The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain?

Hamlet [speaking of a skull in a grave] This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land Horatio Our last king Dared to the combat; in which Hamlet [Sr] Did slay this Fortinbras; who Did forfeit Hamlet How long is that since?


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