In Shakespeare Hamlet, there is a scene where Hamlet is approached by his friends, Horatio and Marcellus, They approach him with the thought that his father ghost is walking around, they clam that it wants to talk to someone and they think that someone is Hamlet. When Hamlet and the ghost of his father is alone his father explains to him how his own brother, Hamlets uncle, killed him by pouring poison in his ear while he was sleeping. In our class we watched different versions of this scene, each very different from the last.
The first video we watched was directed by (Franco) Zeffirell. This director decided to cast Mel Gibson as Hamlet. Gibson portrays the Hamlet in this scene as being mad and the actor that portrayed the ghost of
Hamlets father was sad, which you can understand being he was killed without confessing his sins. Also the Ghost of Hamlet father wasn't wearing any armer as he was in the play. Their was no music playing but you can hear the wind making the scene seem kindof scary. The director didnt use any visual elements such as flashbacks.
The second movie we watched was directed by Kenneth Branagh. This was more of a mordern portray of Hamlet. The actor was Branagh who played Hamlet, he protrayed him as being scared and he also didn't rreally let use fully capture and understand each word. There was music playing in the background, which made the scene more creepy and evil. The lighting was the moon since this scene was outside the castle. The special effects was the shaking of the floor as if the devil is coming out of it. The director used flashback to the scene where Hamlets uncle pours poison in his father ear, to be honest this confused me because the scene in the movie was Hamlets father was sleeping outside and was able to see his brother kill him. This was different from the book because his father died peacefully in bed.
The last movie we watched was directed by Michael Almereyda. This was more of a mordern portary of Hamlet. The actor Ethan Hawke protrayed Hamlet as being scared, confused and surprised at seeing his father. Hawke also delivered the lines in a way where I understand it more clearly. The Ghost of Hamlets Father was also interesting because he kept wiping his ear as if he is wiping the poison. This movies was more intense then the other.
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I agree with Jasmine, the third version was interesting because he kept wiping his ear as if he was wiping the poision. It caused confusion at first but then it was east to understand. THe third version was the most intenst and it was not as sad as the first onr.
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