Talk:Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (film)

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Roles Transposed
I'm a Wikipedia reader, not an editor. I have noticed, however, that the lead paragraph cites Tim Roth in the role of Rosencrantz and Gary Oldman in that of Guildenstern.In the "Cast" section, Oldman is cited as Rosencrantz and Roth as Guildenstern. For the record, Roth was Guildenstern (all confusion within the film aside).207.6.223.31 (talk) 16:42, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Ophelia
Should the cast list include Ophelia, who I believe was played by Joanna Roth? --Hors-la-loi (talk) 23:31, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

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Free will vs. Determinism
As in the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are expressed as not having control over their circumstances. They are consistently taken from place to place or put in situations without their control and occasionally even without their knowledge (the boat scene). Similarly, they are unable to control where their lives are taking them, specifically towards their deaths.

Discovery vs. Invention
During the film, Rosencrantz has a series of amusing missed discoveries of physical principles. Examples include where he plays with a series of clay jugs hung from the ceiling and discovers that bouncing the end jug into the next one causes the jug at the opposite end to bounce like a Newton's cradle. But when he demonstrates this intriguing device to Guildenstern, he draws the end jug back too far and it merely breaks, spilling its contents. Other examples include his almost discovering the ancient Greek principle of steam power (the Hero or Heronas archetype of steam blowing against a pinwheel), a scientific experiment in which a bowling pin falls far more quickly than a feather (Newton's law of universal gravitation), and when he is accidentally hit on the head by a falling apple (erroneously supposed to have happened to Newton as a child), and almost having a Eureka moment in the bath when he notices that a toy boat moves up when he displaces water in the tub, but he is distracted by the naked backside of a woman, which then turns out to be that of a man.

Besides his experiments in physics, in an early scene Rosencrantz also seems to invent the hamburger, indeed a multi-layered Big Mac-like sandwich, when the pair stop to eat while still travelling to Elsinore; Guildenstern tells him to stop playing with his food. He also, after making a traditional paper plane, folds one in the shape of a more modern biplane; Guildenstern crumples it up in frustration. There may even be a reference to general relativity when Rosencrantz talks about death and a-priori concepts: "With the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there is only one direction and time is its only measure."
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