Tuesday, April 24, 2012

To be or Not to be!

In Hamlet soliloquy I think he is showing sorrow and he seemed confused and troubled. In the Branaugh verison he portrayed Hamlet as being confuse and frustrated. He used a knife to show how much is welling to kill himself. The way Branaugh toke out his knife and pointed at himself in the mirror built  such a suspense, Hamlet's uncle got scared even though he was on the other side of a two way mirror. In the Mel Gibson version I think he played the part very well. The setting they used I think was the best choice because it was in a catacomb. It was plain dark  with a glimpse of light shinnying upon his father's grave. And Gibson was looking towards the light it seem that he looking at god for answers. 
Compared to the modern version, Hamlet is in Blockbuster looking for a movie while the store is empty. So he is talking to himself in public but not really near anyone. To me I think the modern day Hamlet did not show any emotion towards anything he was saying. But he did use props that was very interesting like when he talks about death he would look at the movies that had death involve. In the background the television was showing flames and explosions when he was getting a little angry. Over all these three version did very good in this scene they used music and props that showed Hamlet emotion towards life and I thought that was great how they did that.

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