Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an excellent script with some really fantastic acting however it doesn’t work entirely right on film. He also becomes aware of the concepts of gravity and volume displacement, but as soon as Rosencrantz is on the edge of epiphany, he’s distracted by events unfolding around him.
Rosencrantz keeps stumbling into inventions and scientific discoveries like the sandwich and the paper airplane. Eventually, they suffer a crisis of identity, unsure which of them is Rosencrantz or Guildenstern with the denizens of Elsinore making the same errors. Now that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are with their old school pal Hamlet they play their small part that is familiar in the play, but once they are not needed, we follow them as they wander around the castle, killing time. But it’s through this performance that the pair finds themselves immediately transported into the middle of the court drama in Elsinore. It’s during this rest they encounter the theater troupe that will help Hamlet “catch the conscience of the King.” The lead Player (Richard Dreyfuss) has his group go through a litany of styles and offerings, including prostitution, that the troupe can offer the two men. For over 150 flips, it always ends up on heads causing the pair to take a rest and wax philosophical about the nature of fate, and if the reality they exist within is broken and manipulated.
The duo discovers a gold coin on the side of the road that Rosencrantz begins flipping. In Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of his own play, we find Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Roth) on horseback to Elsinore. They just sort of bumble about and then die. It can be argued that these two supporting characters navigate the narrative in complete ignorance as to the greater agendas at work in Castle Elsinore. Hamlet discovers the letter and rewrites it so that upon arrival, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the ones hung. They ultimately agree to take Hamlet to England after he murders Polonius, unaware that Claudius’ letter to the monarchy calls for Hamlet to be killed. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are schoolmates of the title character as well as sycophants for King Claudius in his machinations to eliminate his nephew as a problem. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
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