Haider (2014) Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj

Haider (2014) dir. Vishal Bhardwaj

“Mercutio and Benvolio were gay as fuck for each other,“ I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.

“He’s right, you know.” I look for the owner of the voice. There in the 5th row stands: William Shakespeare himself.

🚨important context is missing!!! the argument hamlet is making is whether it’s better to live and suffer [the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune] or to take arms against these troubles and by opposing end them (for who would bear the whips and scorns of time… when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?) - a bodkin - a knife or a dagger - guys!!! no!!! noooooooooo!! you’ve voted for suicide!!!

Today has been A Day so to cheer myself up, magic!Hamlet AU (and also a Faustus crossover because you can’t have magic Wittenberg without our favorite Master Doctor Faustus!)

-Wittenberg as a school of magic!!

-Hamlet and Horatio both study there (perhaps taught by a certain John Faustus…?)

-Ros & Guil also study magic but they’re not terribly committed (Ros would make an excellent bard if his parents would let him study that sort of thing)

-Powerful wizard Ham Sr uses the last of his life force to reconjure himself as a ghost

-Ophelia with healing magic who goes mad because she couldn’t get to Polonius in time to save him

-Horatio with healing magic and a history of using too much magic to the point that it’s dangerous for him so Hamlet, dying, realizing that to save his life, Horatio would put himself in danger and uses his last moments shutting him up with a kiss so he can’t say the words necessary for a spell.

-Hamlet and/or postcanon Horatio learning/attempting to learn necromancy (from Faustus??)

-(bonus: Mephistopheles being forced to drag Ham Sr out of purgatory so Hamlet can have a proper goodbye)

Best version of Hamlet

Who is Ophelia???