Post #15 Hamlet Act 3

Soliloquy   

Hamlets Perspective: Is it worth it for my mind to suffer even more than it already has from my fathers death? I don’t want to leave a bad mark on my name or make my mother suffer. Life has so much beauty, but right now everything is so corrupt about my fathers death that its so hard to know what is right. I want to avenge his death, but that goes against all of my morals.If I just take my own life I can just go into a peaceful sleep. The only thing I worry about is life after death. My conscience is really getting the better of me.  

Mis En Scene 

The 1996 Keneth Bronagh version of the scene does not do it any justice.  The actor playing Hamlet overacts and over pronunciates everything making it very uncomfortable to watch. Also the scene starts with a medium shot while hamlet is whispering which doesn’t portrey the dramatic effect the scene is supposed to have. The very old scene did the scene more of a justice because of the extreme close up. The scene that truly made this video unique was when an image of Hamlets brain was displayed transparent over the ocean as he poured out his "To be or not to be" speech. My favorite scene that truly expresses the debate Hamlet is having about dieing or not is scene with  Mel Gibson. The atmosphere of the scene was a dungeon type basement where some where taken to be killed and stone statues were made. This gave off an earie death like vibe that non of the other scenes were able to accomplish. In addition Mel Gibson was the most convincing as Hamlet. He didn’t over act and his facial expressions truly came across the screen and you can feel the argument that Hamlet is having with himself. For the majority of the scene it was a close up except for when Gibson walked towards the light at the top of the staircase. I believe the light at the end of the staircase was a symbol of  reassurance from Hamlets father. There for my ranking in order from my favorite version of hamlet to least favorite version is 
1.Mel Gibson 

2.Olivers version 

3.Bronagh