Zeffirelli's Hamlet Version Response:
The setting is pretty much beneath the castle. It was very little light and other part not so much of lights. The effect is to show what is happening around the surroundings to show why his enthusiastic is so strong in order to achieve his unfinished goal. The director is trying to convey life and death. How it is to be alive and how it is to be dead. I didn't hear no music. But the mood of the set is powerful to me. I like it. The choices that the director make about the lighting is the way he motion the light at a certain point where it should be bright. It does actually reinforce the theme of his speech. The figurative aspects of the speech for me is to show whether he should take action upon the unfinished business because the dead king wants him to take revenge. The symbol that the director uses was the statue. It was outstanding because it symbolized death. The emotion with which the actor repeats the line is "thus conscience does make cowards of us all." Very motivate line. It changes through the scene by showing that fear do control you by giving you lots of thinking. Where cowardliness is being brought into action. They are so many version for you to make so many different comments/opinions. I like the Mil Gibson version more because it really drawn my attention into paying more attention to what is going on and why it is happening.
I do agree with you on the life and death part, but when it comes to the speech it self. I do think it also talks about life and death not wether or not he will kill claudius.
ReplyDeletewill it did mention that there is a revenge of killing his father it still refers to the life and death you know :)
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