"Now, what are we gonna do about Rachel? I say we go 'full-force swat team' and break up Caitlyn and Tony." In Revenge of The Bridesmaids, two women, Abbigail and Parker, try to sabotage their former friend's wedding by becoming her bridesmaids. Their motive is revenge, since the bride, Caitlyn, stole their other friend's boyfriend. This relates to Hamlet in multiple ways for example, neither characters in Hamlet nor this film are okay with who someone close to them is getting married to. Although Hamlet's mother marrying Hamlet's uncle has bothered Hamlet quite a lot, we see later on that that is not the true reasoning behind his craziness however, everyone believes that it is because of that and the fact that Hamlet's father died. "What it should be, More than his father’s death, that thus hath put him" (2.2.7-8). Hamlet's reasoning behind going "crazy" is a lot more complex than what others around him are seeing. This similar situation is also happening in the movie, Revenge of The Bridesmaids. Throughout the film, the audience believes that the main characters are plotting their revenge because their former friend stole their other friend's boyfriend however, as you watch the film you realize that there has been a hatred against this "friend" of there's since they were children and her stealing their friend's boyfriend is just one of the small reasons for getting revenge against her since she did so many things to them throughout the years. Friends plotting against friends is also seen in Act II of Hamlet. Cladius is trying to figure out why Hamlet is acting so strange and to do this, he gets some of Hamlet's old friends to spy on him. "And since so neighbored to his youth and 'havior, That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures and to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus that, opened, lies within our remedy." (2.2.8-14) Another thing both sets of characters share in the film and the play is acting. In the film, the two main characters, Abbigail and Parker are acting like they are Caitlyn's friends in order to ruin her wedding and get their revenge. In the play, Hamlet himself is acting like he is crazy so he doesn't appear a threat to his father's murderer, "I will be brief: your noble son is mad. Mad call I it, for, to define true madness, What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?" (2.2.92-96) Hamlet has even taken it to the extent of professing his love to Ophelia so he appears even crazier, "Mad for thy love? My lord, I do not know. But truly, I do fear it." (2.1.86-87) One last thing the film and the play both share in common is spying. Throughout the film, Abbigail and Parker spied on their "friend" Caitlyn in order to find things of hers to ruin so she would have a horrible wedding and they could get their revenge on her. In the play, Cladius has many different people spying on other people, countries etc. Towards the beginning of scene 2 you see why Cladius has so many spies and how they basically help save his life, "Upon our first, he sent out to suppress His nephew’s levies, which to him appeared To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack, But, better looked into, he truly found It was against your highness." (2.2.61-65)
At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him.
(to CLAUDIUS) Be you and I behind an arras then,
Mark the encounter. If he love her not
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state
But keep a farm and carters. (2.2.154-159)
Polonius' plan to figure out if Hamlet is truly crazy or not.
"Now, what are we gonna do about Rachel? I say we go 'full-force swat team' and break up Caitlyn and Tony." Abbigail and Parker's plan to get revenge on Caitlyn.
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