He comes back to life during the performance, much to the annoyance of the actor playing Hamlet. Played for laughs in Galaxy Quest when Sarris reveals what happened to his former lieutenant who failed to raise the ship's shields in time. Subverted in Apocalypse Now. At one point, the severed head of one of Willard's men lands in his lap while he's tied to a cage, causing him to panic and throw it away.
His reaction was most likely at least partially due to shock, as he had not been aware of the man's death prior to that moment, combined with his current mental state. In Another Country , Rupert Everett's character contemplates the empty bed of a character that committed suicide a few scenes earlier, then sighs "Poor Martineau! In the first few minutes of the movie his character also uses the Band of Brothers quote from Henry V , so the Shakespearean allusion seems very much deliberate.
This happens in Transformers: The Last Knight , when Megatron comes across the severed head of Starscream — his long-deceased second-in command who was killed in Dark of the Moon — in the scene where the Decepticons attack the junkyard.
Before he battles Hound , Megatron picks it up and takes a moment to talk to it. While he does condescend Starscream, he also wistfully calls him his friend; suggesting that Megatron may have had some affection for his former right-hand man after all. Megatron: The end is near, my old treacherous friend. What a shame you'll be unable to see it. Not as squicky as other examples, as the dragon has been dead for so long that only bones are left.
Oreg is the only one who knew the dragon well , the others are just sad that such a majestic, beautiful creature was killed. Dragons are sentient in that setting. She doesn't remember feeling any pain. It went completely dark and there must have been screaming everywhere and it would have been a while before she could see anything at all. After that, all she remembers Emily: Where was he? Ben: She was holding his head in her hands. Emily: [thinking] Well, that's a romantic image.
Two lovers. He's lying in her lap. She's cradling him as he dies Ben: Not him She was holding his head. Just his head. A bomb You've no idea Live-Action TV.
Black Adder features this in the first episode when Edmund kills Richard III not knowing who he is and picks up his head, only to realize who he just beheaded. When not in use, Geoffrey keeps it on his desk as an After Eight dispenser. This example also fulfills the "slightly crazy" criteria: Geoffrey has a history of fairly serious mental illness, and is currently being haunted by Oliver's ghost. This doesn't stop the whole thing from being incredibly funny.
Then Oliver's ghost has to remind Geoffrey to get the skull to the theatre — just in time to be used in the performance.
Eko cradles his brother Yemi's decomposed remains in the Lost episode "The 23rd Psalm. The premise is that Alton is being given an invitation to enter a sophisticated culinary institute to fill an opening created by the untimely death of a member named Mr. Alton: Alas Member: You knew him? Alton: Not that well. Parodied by David Bowie : When he performed "Cracked Actor" on tour in , he was dressed as a hybrid of Hollywood star and Hamlet, being "filmed" as he sang to a prop skull.
It was bad enough that the song's bawdy to begin with, but the segment climaxed with him French-kissing the skull. See Mythology, below. Music Videos.
Roboto" with the Roboto mask he was wearing earlier. The Irish legend cycle reinforces the historical truth that the head was regarded as sacred in Celtic society.
A victorious warrior would collect the heads of those he killed as trophies, to be displayed in a prominent place in the hall; the legends recount several examples of great chiefs and warriors who would talk to the heads of vanquished foes, reliving old battles, treating them almost as living allies, asking their advice in times of trial.
Puppet Shows. Sesame Street : Patrick Stewart holds the letter B in this style when he makes a soliloquy to it. Done in Survival of the Fittest version three, where Alice takes the severed head of Guy Rapide and starts talking to it as if Guy were still alive. She then stuffs the head in her daypack.
Trope name comes from Prince Hamlet 's lament upon encountering the alleged skull of Yorick, the court jester during his childhood. Done in The Revenger's Tragedy , which is a parody of Hamlet. Vindici carries around the skull of his wife, who was poisoned by the villain. He later tricks the villain into kissing the skull, which still carries traces of poison.
It's a strange play. Salome by Oscar Wilde , with a helping of necrophilia, too. In Bill Cain's Equivocation , right after Gunpowder conspirator Thomas Wintour is executed, his severed head delivers a Wham Line , causing the man who sent him to his death to drop the cranium. Shag catches it and cradles it, looking horrified and speechless as the lights black out and Intermission begins.
In George Whetstone's play, Promos and Cassandra on which, in part, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is based , Cassandra the analogue of Shakespeare's Isabella cradles and kisses the severed head that she thinks is that of her brother, Andrugio Claudio. Theme Parks. John: Friend of yours? Terminator: He was my college roommate. Video Games. In Planescape: Torment , Morte , the floating skull, says this if Dak'kon , the most somber and unfunny character in the game, dies.
An inversion considering who is saying it. He promptly snaps and goes looking for 'the real killer'. In the remake of Resident Evil , Lisa Trevor picks up and cradles her mother's skull before committing suicide by jumping into a pit.
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! His merriment used to make the whole table roar with laughter. Yorick would have been the first to mock such an expression in the face of another, but he cannot do so now.
No amount of makeup will save her. In the recent RSC production of Hamlet starring David Tennant in the lead role, it was none other than Tchaikowsky playing the role of Yorick — or, to be more specific, his skull. Even confronted by the mortality in the shape of the skull of his childhood friend, Hamlet cannot shed his misogynist obsessions.
A poor woman cannot make the most of her appearance and try to give pleasure to others thereby without incurring his puritanical censure. Melvin Bragg. Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. They used to play and frolic in an intimate but innocent way. Now that Yorick is a stinking corpse the memory of touching him seems revolting and makes Hamlet feel ill.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
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