"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him..." (Nicholas Cage with junk football helmet)
If you ask people to identify the six most famous words from Hamlet, most might reply, "To be or not to be" (from Act 3, scene 1), but a close contender would probably be, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him" from Act 5, scene 1. [Nicholas Cage in Prisoners of the Ghostland, 2021, directed by Sion Sono. Screen capture image (cropped) from YouTube. Fair use.] In a 2021 horror film, Prisoners of the Ghostland (which received many negative reviews), Nicholas Cage, in the starring role, has a brief Hamlet moment in which he is given a beat-up football helmet from a pile of junk, and he addresses it the way that Prince Hamlet addressed the skull of his beloved court jester in the graveyard in 5.1. You can view the 17-second clip from Youtube at this link < https://youtu.be/FbPZC8V8TnE > or here: What about "Alas, poor Henry VIII! I knew him!"? Earlier this week (on June 28 and June 30), I did two posts related to the allegedly "incest...