选自1948年电影
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To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to; ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin; who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
以下豆瓣影人介绍:
劳伦斯·奥利维尔,奥利维尔男爵(Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM,1907年5月22日-1989年7月11日),英国电影演员、导演和制片人,奥斯卡奖得主,三次获得金球奖和英国电影和电视艺术学院奖,两次获得奥斯卡终身成就奖,五次获得艾美奖。和他的同代人约翰·吉尔古德、佩吉·阿什克罗夫特和拉尔夫·理查森一样,劳伦斯·奥利维尔是20世纪最著名和最受尊崇的演员。
他在舞台和银幕上诠释了从希腊悲剧到莎士比亚戏剧、到文艺复兴喜剧、再到现代英美戏剧的诸多角色。他是以他的名字命名其主舞台的大不列颠国家剧院的第一艺术指导。同时,他被认为是20世纪最伟大的戏剧演员,就如同大卫·加里特、理查德·伯比奇、爱德蒙·基恩和亨利·欧文分别是他们的世纪的表演大师。而在电影表演方面,他则得到了美国电影艺术科学院的高度承认——一生共获得14次奥斯卡提名,并凭借1948年的影片《哈姆雷特》获得最佳男主角奖和最佳影片奖,两次获得终身成就奖。另外,他还获得9次艾美奖提名并5次获奖。